Martin Aspeli has been active in the Plone community since 2004
He has contributed a number of new features since then, including the Plone 3 portlets infrastructure and the Content Rule engine. He served on the Framework Team for Plone 3.0, acting as the team's spokesperson.
Outside the Plone core, Martin is responsible for popular third-party products, such as Poi (an issue tracker), RichDocument (a document type with attachments and inline images), and the b-org (a user and group management tool). He also looks after the PloneHelpCenter and PloneSoftwareCenter, which power the Documentation and Products sections on plone.org, respectively.
A frequent attendee at conferences and sprints, Martin has presented several well-received tutorials, such as "Rich Document — Creating Content Types the Plone 2.1 Way", "b-org — Creating Content Types the Plone 2.5 Way", and the "Testing in Plone" manual. Acting as the de facto head of the Plone documentation team for well over a year, he has witnessed an explosive growth in the documentation available for Plone. He frequently answers questions from new users and developers online, and is well aware of the more common stumbling blocks for new Plone developers.
Martin gained an MSc in Analysis, Design, and Management of Information Systems at the London School of Economics in 2005. His thesis was entitled: "Plone — a model of a mature open source project".