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The Joomla User Group team is a multi-cultural, multi-national team from around the world.  We process all the JUG registrations and generally help User Groups to thrive.

==Team Members==

=== Team Lead - Liam Mandville ===
English

=== Community Leadership Team Liaison - Ruth Cheesley === 
[[File:Ruth50.jpg|thumbnail|right|Ruth Cheesley]]
Ruth has always been a passionate supporter of free and open source software, and came across Joomla! in the early days when asked to design a website during her time as IT Technician at a school, and the rest, as they say, is history! 

She now runs a joint venture with a Dutch firm - [http://www.viryagroup.com Virya Group] - which is a marketing and development agency focused on Open Source technologies. Her personal area of interest lies within search engine optimisation and helping websites to recover from poor SEO practices. Ruth also founded [http://www.joomlasuffolk.co.uk Joomla! User Group Suffolk], regularly contributes to the Joomla Community Magazine, and is on the team for [http://www.joomladay.co.uk JoomlaDay UK] events.

Ruth joined the Community Leadership Team in March 2013 and works closely with the Joomla User Group team promoting Joomla in local communities around the world. 

You can follow Ruth on Twitter [http://www.twitter.com/RCheesley @RCheesley] and Google+ at [http://google.com/+RuthCheesley google.com/+RuthCheesley]

Ruth speaks English, and basic level French.

=== Trademark Team Liaison - Michelle Bisson ===

=== Son Koral ===

=== Saurabh Shah ===
[[File:Saurabh.jpg|thumbnail|right|Saurabh Shah]]
Saurabh is a Joomlaholic and very passionate about Open Source. Saurabh lives in Pune, India and is currently a front end developer at CloudAccess.net. He is knowledgeable with many coding languages and database applications and you can usually find him busy coding Joomla! templates and themes, styling Joomla! extensions, and keeping up-to-date with web technologies.

In addition to being an OSM Board Member, Saurabh is a member of the Joomla! Events Team, Joomla! User Group Team (JUG), and Joomla! Social Media Team. He is a frequent speaker at JoomlaDay events around the world and an organizer of JoomlaDay India.

Apart from Joomla!, Saurabh is a Regional Mozilla Representative (ReMo) and coordinates and speaks at Mozilla events.

You can follow Saurabh on Twitter [http://www.twitter.com/saurabhshah @SaurabhShah].

=== Guillermo Bravo [Spanish, English] ===

=== Alejandro Pascoli [Spanish, English] ===
[[File:AlePascoli.jpg|thumbnail|right|Alejandro Pascoli]]

=== Helvecio da Silva [Spanish, English] ===

=== Jan van Kuijk [Dutch, English, German] ===
[[File:JanVanKuijk2014.jpg|thumbnail|right|Jan van Kuijk]]
"Joomla is my profession", says Jan van Kuijk.

Jan van Kuijk is a true Joomla fanatic. Starting in 2006 with the construction of its own Joomla 1.0 portal with news from Hungary in Dutch, Joomla became a daily activity and a profession. Each year approximately 100 sites come under his care, where the activities range from installing a plugin, module or component to build complex sites and shops.
The continuity of the business is in the daily maintenance of sites for his customers.

Two years ago he was the initiator and stil organizer of the Joomla User Group in Breda, the south west of The Netherlands. The group has meetings every month with about 10 to 20 attendees. Recently he was the initiator of the Joomla User Group in Eindhoven in the south east of The Netherlands.

Besides the JUG in The Netherlands he wants to get involved in the Joomla User Groups in Hungary.

Jan has two home countries: his motherland The Netherlands and his passion-country Hungary.

The nature of its service does not depend on the place on earth where Jan is. A connection to the internet and a cell phone is enough to provide maximum service.

=== Max Lynham [English] ===

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