Matt Hamilton elected as President of the Plone Foundation
Matt Hamilton, Technical Director at Netsight has been named President of the Plone Foundation for the coming year. Matt has already served time on the Plone Foundation board and this is his 5th term as an officer for the foundation. He served on the Plone Foundation Board in 2004, 2009, and 2010 before becoming Vice President of the Board in 2011. Officers are elected by the seven board members.
Matt is responsible for the technical consulting and training that Netsight undertakes. He was the technical consultant for various large commercial intranet projects, and specialises in integration, authentication and performance optimisation.
Matt has been active in the Zope community since 2000 and in the Plone community since 2003. He has been involved in various aspects of Plone's technology, as a developer, bug fixer, and integrator. He also has actively marketed Plone and has introduced it to many organizations that traditionally have not considered Open Source an option.
Following his election as President of the foundation Matt spoke about some of the future plans for Plone and what he hopes to achieve this year:
"I am very excited to be working with the most diverse Plone Foundation board we have ever had, with members from six different countries over three continents. Plone has just turned 10 this year and has proved itself to be one of the most enduring, and capable content management systems out there.
This year I really want to push forward building on the work of the previous board in terms of marketing Plone and building stronger relationships with the wider Python, Open Source, and Content Management communities. We have an exciting year ahead with the landing of several major and exciting technologies in the 4.x and 5.x roadmap.
Diazo, the new theming engine for Plone has made Plone once again one of the easiest CMS in the world to theme; Dexterity is moving content type creation away from being solely a developer task to that of a power user; and Deco is redefining how we think of a 'page' and how we manage content.
The Plone community is expanding ever more with a record number of new contributors in the past year. I'm looking forward to being a part of Plone as is goes into its second decade!"
The other officers nominated onto the Plone Foundation board are, Vice-President - Carol Ganz from Six Feet Up, Secretary - Paul Roeland currently working for the Clean Clothes Campaign in Amsterdam and Treasurer - Jen Myers also from Six Feet Up in the US.
