Ercan Özkaya is a Mathematics student at the Selçuk University in Konya, Turkey. He has used Joomla! for two years. Ercan started using Joomla! as a site developer and found that he enjoyed building Joomla! Web sites so much that he wanted to learn how to develop extensions. As a result, he developed, contributed, and maintains two very popular extensions: Title Manager and Author Details. He is a member of the Joomla! Bug Squad where he submits patches and helps with testing. Ercan is excited to participate in the GSoC program.

Mentor: Jason Kendall started his journey in the computing industry with Pong, moving next to Commodore 64 where he developed utilities in Basic. Then, he turned ten. In school, Jason ran 'The BBS Enterprise', became a regular poster on the Fido Network and was introduced to the Internet. Since then, he's explored VoIP, IPv6, and began developing in PHP in 2000. Professionally, Jason is an Information Security Analyst. He was invited to join the Joomla! Development Team after contributing patches for RSS feeds, LDAP integration and OpenID.