Open Source Speaker Series: SilverStripe CMS
Google engEDU
53 min – Aug 1, 2007
Google Tech Talks
August 1, 2007
Learn about New Zealand from two of their biggest open-source developers and evangelists (and who have naturally starred in The Lord Of The Rings.)
Sam Minnee and Sigurd Magnusson are two of the three founders of New-Zealand based "SilverStripe", a company and open source project with ten students participating in this year’s Google Summer of Code.
They will share wisdom learnt managing people in an open source project, share ideas from developing a rich web interface and templating system, and stories from wearing the ring of darkness.
Sigurd has been living and breathing free software since his teens in the 1990s, discovering a 486 with Redhad Linux could run Quake fast enough to frag others at LAN games. His grandma taught him BASIC and C and got him access to a precursor of New Zealand’s first ISPs, which culminated years later with founding SilverStripe, an open source web-development company bent on making fantastic applications to simplify building and managing websites. Having let a dozen others at SilverStripe surpass him at PHP, Sigurd has now been charged with building up the SilverStripe community and producing other things, like daughters.
Sam is the lead architect of SilverStripe and has challenged the manner in which software is constructed ever since he began programming in his teens. Armed with a degree in computer science and philosophy, Sam has been mentoring and guiding the development of a dozen coders, hundreds of websites, and hundreds of thousands of lines of code. He has a firm grasp on intelligently structuring code as well as producing useful, enjoyable system interfaces, particularly helpful in the challenge of making SilverStripe a great tool for building and managing websites.
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