Community stars

Sometimes when you are given points, you are assigned a role in relation to the points you receive:

Helpful soul

Helpful souls are members who are generally helpful around the community.

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Support expert

Support experts are members known for giving out great technical support.

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Programming god

Programming gods are members known for contributing excellent code or coding advice to Composr or the community (e.g. Addons or core development).

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Themeing genius

Themeing geniuses are members known for making great Composr themes or offering great themeing advice.

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Community ambassador

Community ambassadors are members with charisma who help build and strengthen the Composr community.

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Tracker master

Tracker master are members who regularly use the tracker to report and/or resolve bugs and feature requests.

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Translator saviour

Translator saviours are members who contributed towards translating Composr in different languages.

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Special mentions for core developers

Over a dozen developers have contributed to ocPortal / Composr CMS in an official (core) capacity. Key contributors over the history of the software include the following:

Original Development Team

Name Photograph Title / Role Contributions / Notes
Robert Goacher Image Founder

Ran some of the early websites where ocPortal came from

Technically the original developer of ocPortal, in that he wrote the first few lines of code

Heavily involved in the feature design process

Hosted some of our early meet-ups

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Philip Withnall Early Developer

Coded the chatroom, blogging support, the analytics system, and OcCLE (now Commandr)

Masters Degree in Computer Science degree from The University Of Cambridge

Other work has included helping out with Firefox, and ongoing work on GNOME

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Chris Graham Image Founder

Original developer of ocPortal, former lead developer of Composr CMS

Masters degree in Computer Science from The University Of Sheffield

Undertaken work for over 15 FTSE-100 companies, as well as many small and mid-sized organisations. Includes a number of banks and major brands.

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Allen Ellis Image Founder

Original designer for ocPortal

Also conceived and coded the Theme Wizard and Point Store

Son of one of the early inventors of Internet protocols (Usenet, aka Internet newsgroups)

Token non-brit

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Active Core Developers

Name Photograph Title / Role Contributions / Notes
Patrick Schmalstig Image Lead Developer

Joined Chris Graham behind the scenes in the development of Composr CMS in 2016.

Took on the lead developer role in 2023 when Chris Graham stepped back to attend to his new lifestyle changes.

Spearheaded the development of Composr CMS v11 and the new website, Composr.app.

Formed the company PDStig, LLC to take on professional support and development for Composr CMS users especially after the discontinuation of ocProducts, Ltd.

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Inactive Core Developers