Guilluame Laforge, Groovy project lead
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As the official Groovy Project Manager and Spec Lead of JSR-241 standardizing the Groovy Scripting Language, Guillaume Laforge spends his spare time bringing a versatile and agile environment to the masses and initiated a year ago the seed of Grails, the Groovy & Spring web framework. He is also co-authoring Manning's "Groovy in Action" with Dierk König, one of the passionate Groovy developers.
In his professional life, Guillaume is a software architect and Open Source consultant, working for OCTO Technology, a French consultancy focusing on architecture of software and information systems.