Marc-André Lanciault is a Business Management bachelor with specialization in Information Systems. For the last few years, Marc-André has been actively involved in the open-source world, especially in XOOPS open-source content management system.

He is the leader and founder of The SmartFactory (http://smartfactory.ca), a development team that produces high-quality modules for XOOPS. The SmartFactory has acquired a solid reputation among the community for its complex and flexible, yet easy-to-use modules. Thousands of XOOPS webmasters have adopted one or many of the SmartModules, making The SmartFactory the leader in XOOPS modules development.

Marc-André is also the co-founder of Montreal-based INBOX International (http://inboxinternational.com) specializing in personalized web solutions. As Canada's leading expert on XOOPS, INBOX International is providing state-of-the-art expertise to organizations around the globe that have adopted this content management system.

On a more personal level, Marc-André is the lucky father of a handsome little 22-months boy named Félix.

Michael Hokamp's first experience with computing was in 1985, when he tried to figure out how to get his AMIGA to work as intended. During the next ten years he got used to computers driven by Microsoft with Office applications such as Word and Excel. During that time, he took his first steps in the World Wide Web, beginning to explore the virtual world, and creating websites for himself, friends, and family.

He started to work with content management solutions in 2000. In 2002, after experience with some of the available open-source CMS, he began to use XOOPS and dug deeper into CSS and XHTML. As a webmaster, he used tools on servers and webspaces to communicate with clients and visitors.

Michael lives in Germany with his two twin boys and wife, and runs the http://xoopsfactory.com website.