The PostNuke Software Foundation (PNSF) exists as a framework through which the PostNuke project can manage finances, call on legal help and serves a managerial and strategic function, ensuring the project goals and directions remain constant and true to the open source philosophy, quality coding, collaboration, and open standards. It is the Foundation's responsibility to ensure the stability and longevity of the project is maintained.
To this end, the PNSF has appointed a Steering Committee, to oversee the day to day running of the PostNuke CMS project. The members of both the Foundation and the Steering Committee are named below.
PostNuke Foundation
Board of Directors
The Board of Directors serve a managerial and strategic function, ensuring PostNuke remains constant and true to the open source philosophy, quality coding, collaboration, and open standards. The following people and organizations serve as initial members of the foundation:
Fizbin, LLC (aka Harry Zink)
One of the original founders of the project, Harry has been a constant, continued project supporter. He works as a systems administrator for a large entertainment corporation and lives in Los Angeles, California. He has a Ph.D. in psychology and loves to travel to Thailand for the food.
Vanessa Haakenson, M.A. [aka vworld]
Is co-founder of Distance-Educator.com and has been an active participant in PostNuke since July 2001 consulting on usability issues and acting as a PN evangelist to the educational community. In November of 2001 she started the site Designs4Nuke.com to consolidate and share all the information and resources regarding theme design for PostNuke. With a Master's Degree in Educational Technology she brings a unique perspective to the project having developed web based products focusing on usability, standards, documentation and community. Over the years she has presented at conferences about PostNuke and has authored articles on effective information design. She recently moved with her son from San Diego, California to a small mountain town in Colorado.
HostNuke [Drak]
Drak has been with the project since July 2001 and was the first to create hosting accounts with PostNuke preinstalled as a way of making it easy for new users to get started. He has 19 years experience in the computer industry and devotes most of his time working for a humanitarian charity. He is a core-developer and donates equipment and colocation to the project and is responsible for all server level security and administration.
Mark West, Lead Developer
Works as the computing officer for Systems and Operations for Kingston University and lives in South West London, UK. He specializes in directory enabled enterprise computing, he's taught programming; techniques, data structures and algorithms to first year undergrads at Kingston University and adheres to a strict style of programming - heavy on layout, consistency and style. Believing the benefits of this strict, consistent and academic approach to coding is a stronger, more stable and bug free end product. He has been using PostNuke from the .70x series and is the lead developer.
German PostNuke Foundation (Represented by Andreas Krapohl)
Andreas Krapohl [aka larsneo] is President of the German PostNuke e.V. foundation and is the head of IT for a local newspaper in southern Germany. Has been with PostNuke since almost the beginning - at first with the German translation team, then as module author (phpBB_14) and since early 2002 as a core developer. Main focus is security, usability and accessibility. He believes a solution should be simple and elegant.
Steering Committee
Simon Birtwistle [aka HammerHead]
Simon has been working with PostNuke for four years. Originally using PostNuke for a simple, personal website running on the .722 release Simon now runs a number of PostNuke websites for different organizations including the Scout Association. His personal website itbegins.co.uk, publishes much of his PostNuke work, including the module aiUserPages, core documentation and other miscellaneous projects. In life, Simon is a student, fortunately leaving ample time for his volunteer work with PostNuke. Focusing on the pnForums and documentation, most prominently in the pnGuide. In the Steering Committee, Simon acts as the support team leader. He has been a team member since the summer of 2003.
Frank Schummertz [aka landseer]
Frank started with PostNuke more than two and a half years ago when working on the shopping cart module pnCommerce. In the meantime his portfolio has expanded to include Formicula, MultiHook, pnMenu and last but not least pnForum and four PostNuke hook modules (pn_bbclick, pn_bbcode, pn_bbsmile and pn_highlight). Frank has been part of the Development team since 2004.
Franz Skaaning [aka franz.skaaning]
Franz originally started working with PostNuke around the time of the .723 release. Since then, he has started a number of PostNuke related projects including the xFPDF and xRSS modules and his themes, releasing more than 13. His presonal site, lexebus.net has over 100 visitors a day looking for support and downloads. Franz joined the PostNuke team a year ago to focusing on communications, but outside of his volunteer work with the project provides both PostNuke related and other services.
Franky Chestnut [aka chestnut]
Franky Chestnut has been using PostNuke since the 0.6x series and getting more involved in the 0.7x series. Along with pnConcept.com, his personal blog and development site, he also adminsters the official French website: PostNuke-France.org. In life, Franky is working as a developer for a family-owned business creating software solutions for music publishers. He has been part of the Core Development Team since July 2004.
Anecdote: Although not his real name, Franky added the "y" to the Frank because there were too many Franks in the PostNuke community when he got hooked on the project.
Robert Gasch [aka rgasch]
Robert has a computer science background and has been working on large-scale systems for more than 10 years. He considers himself a pragmatic open-source believer for both practical as well as philosophical reasons who brings with him tangible experience using 10+ programming languages on various platforms in a variety of settings.
Professionally, he has filled diverse roles ranging from being a Unix software engineer for a major RDBMS vendor to an ERP technical & performance specialist for a major ERP vendor to being lead-consultant on multi-million Dollars/Euros eBusiness enterprise implementations utilizing technologies such as Java and WebLogic/WebSphere. Robert has been working with PostNuke for 3 years and is the driving force behind the http://openstar.postnuke.com development effort.
Jörg Napp [aka jn]
Jörg started using PostNuke more than 3 years ago when looking for an elegant Content Management System. He has developed several modules including EZComments,the Title Hack and some other hacks. He also adopted the Static_Docs module.