Paul S. Owen

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article may not meet the general notability guideline or one of the following specific guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia: Biographies, Books, Companies, Fiction, Music, Neologisms, Numbers, Web content, or several proposals for new guidelines. If you are familiar with the subject matter, please expand or rewrite the article to establish its notability. The best way to address this concern is to reference published, third-party sources about the subject. If notability cannot be established, the article is more likely to be considered for redirection, merge or ultimately deletion, per Wikipedia:Guide to deletion.
This article has been tagged since March 2008.

Paul S. Owen (a.k.a. psoTFX) was a co-project manager and lead developer of the phpBB project. He joined development in December 2000 soon after version 1.0.0 of phpBB was released. Initially, he implemented a number of key changes to the source that he had written for the version of phpBB deployed on his site.

He then went on to develop version 2 of the software, ultimately leading development through the initial release. He subsequently went on to produce the framework for the next major release, version 3.0, codenamed Olympus.

He stepped down as lead developer in 2005, handing that responsibility to Meik Sievertsen (known as Acyd Burn in the community). He then acted as a co-project manager with James Atkinson and as a technical supervisor for phpBB.

In September of the same year, he indefinitely left the phpBB team.