Community stars

Each time you are give points in our community, you are assigned a role in relation to the points you receive:

Helpful soul – For those who are generally helpful
Support expert – For those who help give out technical support
Programming god – For those who are great addon coders, or coding advice
Themeing genius – For those that put out great themes, or themeing advice
Community ambassador – For those that work inside and outside our community to strengthen us all
Tracker master – For those that report bugs or feature suggestions on the tracker
Translator saviour – For those that work on translations

This page honours the top 'stars' for each of these 7 roles. That means:

If you show up here then it's something really special, and worth putting on your CV/Résumé.
If you've received a lot of help, and the people have put PayPal donation details in their bio, consider donating.

Helpful soul

Avatar	Details	Bio
	Username : Chris Graham Role Points : 2,070 Rank : Administrators
	Username : Adam Edington Role Points : 1,526 Rank : Super-moderators
	Username : Patrick Schmalstig Role Points : 500 Rank : Administrators	Hello! I am the lead developer for Composr CMS v10 and v11! I began work on Composr CMS with Chris Graham behind the scenes in 2016. In 2023, Chris stepped back to attend to his new life events, and I took on a more active role in the community and in Composr development. If you like what I do and want me to work on your Composr site, please consider contracting me through PDStig, LLC. It really helps. And your funding through those services helps me afford to work on Composr development.
	Username : Malatesa Role Points : 250 Rank : Well-settled
	Username : Joey Role Points : 250 Rank : Honoured member
	Username : SoccerDad Role Points : 200 Rank : Community saint
	Username : sholzy Role Points : 200 Rank : Community saint
	Username : Jason Verhagen Role Points : 56 Rank : Community saint
	Username : Finncat Role Points : 50 Rank : Fan in action
	Username : mythus Role Points : 50 Rank : Community saint	I am a writer and computer tech who happens to be a linux nerd . I am also happily married with two wonderful kids ( to all those who thought that wouldn't happen) and have already traveled across the entire country.. twice!

Support expert

Avatar	Details	Bio
	Username : Chris Graham Role Points : 1,012 Rank : Administrators
	Username : Adam Edington Role Points : 201 Rank : Super-moderators
	Username : Patrick Schmalstig Role Points : 200 Rank : Administrators	Hello! I am the lead developer for Composr CMS v10 and v11! I began work on Composr CMS with Chris Graham behind the scenes in 2016. In 2023, Chris stepped back to attend to his new life events, and I took on a more active role in the community and in Composr development. If you like what I do and want me to work on your Composr site, please consider contracting me through PDStig, LLC. It really helps. And your funding through those services helps me afford to work on Composr development.

Programming god

Avatar	Details	Bio
	Username : Chris Graham Role Points : 5,225 Rank : Administrators
	Username : Patrick Schmalstig Role Points : 200 Rank : Administrators	Hello! I am the lead developer for Composr CMS v10 and v11! I began work on Composr CMS with Chris Graham behind the scenes in 2016. In 2023, Chris stepped back to attend to his new life events, and I took on a more active role in the community and in Composr development. If you like what I do and want me to work on your Composr site, please consider contracting me through PDStig, LLC. It really helps. And your funding through those services helps me afford to work on Composr development.

Themeing genius

Avatar	Details	Bio
	Username : ManojSree Role Points : 300 Rank : Community saint
	Username : Paul Flavel Role Points : 50 Rank : Honoured member
	Username : SoccerDad Role Points : 5 Rank : Community saint

Community ambassador

Avatar	Details	Bio
	Username : jacobgkau Role Points : 200 Rank : Well-settled	I run a Composr-powered website called Nerd on the Street, which promotes free & open software.
	Username : Chris Graham Role Points : 25 Rank : Administrators

Tracker master

Avatar	Details	Bio
	Username : Adam Edington Role Points : 625 Rank : Super-moderators
	Username : Master Rat Role Points : 400 Rank : Well-settled
	Username : friendly Role Points : 50 Rank : Community saint	I have always been a naturally artistic person although when I was young I had no idea what that really meant. Even so I recall using art as a way of communicating to others ideas and feelings inside of me. When I was in grade school and should have been listening and learning to what my teachers were trying to teach me, I remember drawing and making pictures for myself and my classmates. I guess even in my grade school days I was taking commissions to draw stuff for my friends. It was a blast and I had fun doing it. There was a certain amount of pride in being able to create something that someone else wanted. Then around age eleven I started using oil paints and fell in love with the process of creating paintings. In high school I became interested in drafting and technical drawing. I say interested but rather it was an obsession. I learned everything about drafting, especially architectural drafting and used that knowledge to create plans for imaginary buildings and outrageous and impractical houses. As a teenager I was 'used' by the high school administrators to prepare several different project plan documents, several of which were built. The first few years after high school were spent learning that I should have been paying more attention to what I was being taught in school. I don't mean the art and architecture subjects because I was getting those subjects down good, but the other academic studies. Paying attention in class might have helped some but I think that discovering the fundamentals of life and getting work you could earn a living with are beyond the scope of most of the books I was instructed to read. Amazingly enough, I was able to get to the next level and was fortunate enough to meet a couple of enterprising businessmen who appreciated my architectural drafting abilities enough to take a chance on me. That chance began a 30 year continuous run working in the architectural industry where designing, drafting and illustrating residential and commercial buildings provided practical ways of using art to earn a living and supporting my family. Then came February of 2010, due to the national economic collapse of 2008, I was laid off from a great job. Fruitless job searching gave me time to think and reevaluate life and my situation. I knew that at my age it was going to be difficult to find a job as good as the one I had in the architecture world again so I began to think of other things I could do with my life. I began to realize that I had never thought of art as away to make a living but only a way to make pictures that perhaps others could enjoy. So, with the encouragement of my wife, family and friends I decided to go for it. Which brings me to today. Now I am a full time working artist using my Washington based business called 'Art and Imagination of David L Friend' as a marketing tool to introduce and sell my artwork to the world. It is here that those those years of independently exploring traditional and contemporary art can be applied unfettered within the framework my company to express my personal style, using the methodologies and techniques developed over the years to create art. I look for opportunities to meet people and sell my artwork while growing this business as part of my personal artistic expression. I am thankful for the trust and support I have received from many of you in making this move forward possible.
	Username : TQ Role Points : 50 Rank : Well-settled

Translator saviour

Nobody yet – could you be here?

Special mentions for original team

Over a dozen developers have contributed to Composr CMS in an official capacity. However, much of the early development for ocPortal (the precursor to Composr CMS) was done through donated time from the original development team. Key contributors include:

	Name : Chris Graham Founder Mastadon	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.
	Name : Robert Goacher 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
	Name : Allen Ellis 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
	Name : 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

p.s. We all look a lot older now. The above pictures come from our team photoshoot, circa-2007.

We'd also like to thank:

Steve Jarvis (former project manager for ocProducts, written many tutorials via Arvixe)
Haydn Maidment (former project manager for ocProducts)
Chris Warburton (former developer for ocProducts, made some key contributions to ocPortal)
Jim Davidson (written many tutorials via Arvixe)
Arvixe hosting (sponsorship of Composr CMS tutorials)
All 20 or so former developers and managers for ocProducts