Myself

Roman Joost grew up in Germany and graduated with a Diplom-Informatiker (FH) degree from the University of Applied Sciences in Koethen (Anhalt). Professionally Roman worked for Zope companies such as gocept GmbH & Co. KG and Infrae. He had influence in UI design for each project, as well as programming components in Python for Plone, Silva or Zope3 (Bluebream) based systems.

Roman also started the user documentation for the GNU Image Manipulation Programm (GIMP), helped with the German internationalisation of the program as well as contributing code.

Today he works professionally with Zope for companies in Australia and improves the meta-data editor for GIMP.

Publications

• Technical proofreading for Python Testing - Beginners Guide, Daniel Arbuckle
• Contributor to Web Component Development with Zope3, Philipp von Weitershausen
• "Kleine Schritte vorwärts"-Gimp 2.2, LinuxUser, Ausgabe 02.2005
• "Next Steps" - Gimp 2.2, Linux Magazine issue 52
• "New Brushes Paint Clean" - Gimp 2.0, Linux Magazine issue 44
• "Nur was für Profis?" - Bildbearbeitung mit Gimp 2.0 unter die Usability-Lupe, LinuxUser, Ausgabe 05-2004 (in accociation with Ellen Reitmayr)
• GIMP 2.0 Usability Test - Ellen Reitmayr and Roman Joost, may 2004
• "Neue Pinsel malen gut" - GIMP 2.0, LinuxUser, Ausgabe 05-2004
• "Zukunftsbilder" - Von GIMP 1.2 zu GIMP 2.0, LinuxUser, Ausgabe 11-2003
• Picture - The future; From Gimp 1.2 to Gimp 2.0 - Linux Magazine issue 37

Current Residential Address

Gladstone Rd,
Highgate Hill, QLD, 4101
Australia

German Address

Am Hanfgarten 32
06847 Dessau
Germany

Countries I have visited in the past