Biography
From Sandro Groganz, Open Source Marketing Consultant
A short overview of what I currently do and what I have already done in my professional life.
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Bio
English
Sandro Groganz is an independent open source marketing consultant and founder of InitMarketing, the first global open source marketing consultancy. Prior to founding InitMarketing, he was the VP Marketing at Mindquarry, an open source startup financed by Hasso Plattner Ventures, and the VP Communication at eZ Systems, creator of the open source content management system eZ Publish. Sandro also has a background as a PHP developer, CMS consultant and author contributing to various books and articles covering LAMP programming and CMS technologies. Sandro shares his insights in Open Source marketing as a conference speaker and at his Weblog at http://sandro.groganz.com/weblog.
Positions
Current
Open Source marketing consultant
Founder InitMarketing
Previous
- 2007: VP Marketing at Mindquarry
- 2004-2007: VP Communication at eZ Systems
- 2003-2004: Founder and partner of ZZ/OSS GbR
- 2002: Founder and partner of Know-ING GbR
- 2001: Project Manager at Pallino GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany
- 2000: Freelancer developing PHP-based Web applications
Events
Listing of events and locations where I presented. I also moderated whole events, single tracks and panel discussions various times.
Speaker
- Webinale 2008
- Drupalcon Boston, 2008
- eZ Conference 2005, 2006
- International PHP Conference 2001, 2004
- MySQL Users Conference 2003
- LinuxTag 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008
- OSCOM Conference 2003, 2004
- LOTS (Let's Open The Source) 2004, 2005
- UKUUG (UK Unix User Group) 2003
- SINN (Searchengine Network in the International Natural Science Network) 2003
- CeBit 2003
- Systems 2005
- Guest seminar lesson at Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon, Lyon/France, 2006
(Co-)Organizer/Moderator
- Track "Web 2.0" at LinuxTag 2007
- eZ Conference 2005, 2006
- Track "Information Web" at LinuxTag 2006
- OscomTag during LinuxTag 2005
- Panel Open Innovation during OSCOM Conference 2004
- Thinkathon about Open Source and Open Content at University of Tübingen, 03.2004
Presentations
I presented the following talks.
English
- Marketing Open Source Software, 05.2008 (slides)
- What's new at eZ?, 06.2006 (abstract) (slides)
- Knowledge Management with eZ Publish, 06.2006 (abstract) (slides)
- Creating applications and extensions with eZ publish, 06.2005 (slides)
- Designing eZ publish sites, 06.2005 (slides)
- Open Source Business Models, 03.2005 (slides)
- eZ publish, 02.2005 (slides)
- Build and Installation Tools, 11.2005
- PHP 5 Enterprise Edition?, 09.2005
- OSCOM - The international association for Open Source Content Management, 06.2004
- ZZ/OSS Installer, 06.2004
- Free Software in the Knowledge Society, 02.2004, 07.2003
- CONESYS - the COntent NEtwork SYStem, 09.2003 (slides), 08.2003 (slides), 07.2003
- Software for Open Communities, 08.2003 (slides)
- Managing the Semantic Web, 05.2003
- MySQL in Peer-to-Peer Content Networks, 04.2003
- Peer-to-Peer Content and Knowledge Management with CONESYS, 03.2003
- Open Content meets Open Source OC4-Ware - free Software for the Knowledge Society, 11.2001 (PPT)
German
- Enterprise Content Integration mit eZ publish, 11.2005 (slides)
- eZ publish - Funktionalität und Ausblick (presentation at roadshow "Enterprise Open Source" of eZ Systems, MySQL, Zend), 09.2005
Weblogs
- sandro.groganz.com/weblog: My personal Blog
- O'ReillyGMT: Occasionally, I write for O'Reilly's European Weblog
Books
Some books I contributed to as an author.
English
 Co-author of: MySQL Security Handbook, 09.2003 |
German
 Co-author of: Exploring PHP, 08.2006 |
 Updated PHP für Fortgeschrittene from PHP 4 to PHP 5, 11.2004 |
 Co-author of: PHP im Einsatz - Das Buch zur International PHP Conference 2001 |
Articles
I have written several articles for printed and online media, for example:
English
- Interview: The Future of eZ Development, www.ez.no, 03.2006
- Prospects 2006 by eZ Systems Management, www.ez.no, 02.2006
- PHP 5 Enterprise Edition, International PHP Magazine
- MySQL Administrator, International Linux Magazine, 05.2004
- Package up your App, International PHP Magazine, 01.2004
German
- URL des Lächelns. Transliteration: "friendly" URLs mit PHP, iX, 03.2006, co-authored with Derick Rethans
- Designer-Mode für eZ publish, ezpublish.de, 01.2006
- Barrierefreie Websites mit eZ publish, contentmanager.de, 06.2005
- Wie eZ publish für PHP 5 fit gemacht wird, PHP Magazin, 06.2005
- Planet PHP - Die Weblogs der PHP-Entwickler, PHP Starter (special edition of PHP Magazin), 01.2005
- 10 Jahre - PHP feiert ein Jubiläum, PHP Starter (special edition of PHP Magazin), 01.2005
- MySQL Administrator, German Linux Magazin, April 2004
- Sichere Schiebereien - Transaktionen in MySQL benutzen, iX, 12.2003
- Report about OSCOM conference, Linux Magazin, 08.2003
- Interview with Marten Mickos (CEO MySQL), Linux Magazin, 08.2003
- Report about first MySQL conference, Linux Magazin, 06.2003
Business Networks
View my profile and some of my business contacts on:
Planets
The following blog aggregators consume my feeds:
Memberships
- LinuxTag: Leader of the Web 2.0 program committee
- Fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE)
- Consortium member of tOSSad EU project
Education
Studied political science, history, philosophy 1994-2002 at University of Tübingen, Germany. Dropped out of university because I already worked as a PHP developer since 2000.
Became a Web technologies addict after teaching myself HTML in 1995.
Hobbies
- Playing the electric blues guitar
- Yoga
