The Zikula Software Foundation exists as an institution through which the Zikula project can manage finances and call on legal help and serves a managerial and strategic function. It ensures the project goals and directions remain constant and true to the open source philosophy, quality coding, collaboration, and open standards. It is the Foundation's responsibility to ensure the stability and longevity of the project is maintained.

To this end, the Foundation has appointed a Steering Committee, to oversee the day to day running of the project. The members of both the Foundation and the Steering Committee are named below.

Zikula Software Foundation

Board of Directors

Vanessa Haakenson, M.A.

Is co-founder of Distance-Educator.com and has been an active participant in Zikula since July 2001 consulting on usability issues and acting as a evangelist to the educational community. In November of 2001 she started the site Designs4Nuke.com to consolidate and share all the information and resources regarding theme design for Zikula. With a Master's Degree in Educational Technology she brings a unique perspective to the project having developed web based products focusing on usability, standards, documentation and community. Over the years she has presented at conferences about Zikula and has authored articles on effective information design. She recently moved with her son from San Diego, California to a small mountain town in Colorado.

K Dordrak

Drak has been with the project since July 2001 and was the first to create hosting accounts with Zikula preinstalled as a way of making it easy for new users to get started. He has 19 years experience in the computer industry and devotes most of his time working for a humanitarian charity. He is a core-developer and donates equipment and colocation to the project and is responsible for all server level security and administration.

Mark West

Works as the computing officer for Systems and Operations for Kingston University and lives in South West London, UK. He specializes in directory enabled enterprise computing, he's taught programming; techniques, data structures and algorithms to first year undergrads at Kingston University and adheres to a strict style of programming - heavy on layout, consistency and style. Believing the benefits of this strict, consistent and academic approach to coding is a stronger, more stable and bug free end product. He has been using Zikula from the .70x series and is the lead developer.

Simon Birtwistle

Simon has been working with Zikula since 2002 and now runs a number of Zikula websites for different organizations. His personal website itbegins.co.uk is a consultancy business specializing in Zikula developments. In life, Simon is a student at the University of Cambridge in the UK, studying Computer Science. Since starting out on the forums, Simon has moved into more of a project management role and tries to contribute in as many areas as possible, unifying the project through a single point.

German Zikula Foundation (Represented by Andreas Krapohl)

Andreas Krapohl [aka larsneo] is President of the German PostNuke e.V. foundation and is the head of IT for a local newspaper in southern Germany. Has been with Zikula since almost the beginning - at first with the German translation team, then as module author (phpBB_14) and since early 2002 as a core developer. Main focus is security, usability and accessibility. He believes a solution should be simple and elegant.

Honorary Member - Harry Zink

Steering Committee

Simon Birtwistle

Simon is also a member of the Steering Comittee.

Steffen Voss

Axel Guckelsberger