Web Application Architect, Co-Founder Nooku and one of the original Joomla! Founders. Johan has a wealth of experience working in open source communities. At Joomla! he was Project Manager for 2 years and held a position on the Board of Directors of Open Source Matters, Inc. Johan is the principal architect of the Joomla! Framework and held the role of Lead Developer during the development of Joomla! 1.5. Today, Johan has made nearly 3,500 commits helping to create Joomla! v 1.5, a refactored MVC application architecture. He is hopeful and confident that with Joomla!'s strong and growing community, Joomla! will continue to help more and more people all over the world connect with others. Currently, Johan is working on Nooku Content, a multi-lingual content manager for Joomla!, and Nooku Framework, a rapid extension development framework for Joomla!.