Luis Galárraga

I am 24 years old and have a Bachelor Degree in Computer Engineering at ESPOL university. I live in Saarbrücken, Germany as I am studying a Master in Computer Science at Saarland University. I am from Guayaquil, Ecuador. My academic interests cover Open Source Software Engineering, Internet Technologies (Web and Distributed Systems), and Multimedia. My academic and job experiences include development in Java (Java RMI, Processing), OpenGL, OpenCV, PHP, Python, XML family, and Joomla 1.5.

I enjoy developing software and doing research in those fields. I am also a daily user and fan of the GNU/Linux OS. My hobbies are reading (literature in general: essays, historic novels, dramas), listening to music (Latin American pop-rock) and going to the cinema. I also enjoy traveling.

I developed J!Research as part of Google Summer of Code 2008 program and have continued its development thanks to the high interest expressed by the community.

Florian Prinz

I am 22 years old (birthday on 24th of August) and studying information technology at the University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt in Austria. In the summer of 2009, I (hope) to graduate with a Bachelors Degree in Applied Sciences. My interest in web development (especially PHP, as well as ASP/ASP.NET) began in the year of 2002. After collecting many experiences in development of web projects; I started working with Joomla and Symfony.

I have some "normal" hobbies; like meeting friends, listening to music (mostly trance, house, progressive...etc.) and strength training.

At first, I reported some issues to Luis for the latest stable release and after some modifications of the component. I then spoke ith Luis about joining the development team. Now I'm a part of the J!Research team ;-). I started development on J!Research project at the end of 2008.

Carlos M. Cámara

I am a 29-year-old Telecommunication Engineer (specialty in Signal Processing). I live in Seville (Spain), where I work as Research Fellow at the Interdisciplinary Physics Group (Grupo de Física Interdisciplinar (GFI), GFI) of the University. I have been involved in web development since 2002. My academic and job experiences include XHTML, CSS, PHP and the use and customization of several Content Management Systems (CMS) such as  SPIP, Moodle, SMF or Joomla!. Since the release of Joomla! 1.5 I have been centered in the study of this CMS and giving feedback to the Community through the Gnumla! website. I also contribute as translator coordinator at the Grisbi project since the 0.5.8 version and as an active member of the Joomla! forum and other web communities.

I love racquet sports like tennis or paddle and I am really interested in literature and in learning about the pre-Columbian era.

As I discover J!Research, I get caught by its usability and I thought that I could contribute with Luis and Florian to make a better Joomla! extension, so I asked them to be part of the Team, and I have been involved in the project since December of 2008.