"We are looking for talented software engineers, testers and documentation editors in Leuven (Belgium), Skien (Norway) or possibly in other eZ offices" says Paul Borgermans, head of eZ Labs.

Naming Roland Benedetti, the former Managing Director for eZ Western Europe, as VP Product Management is an important step for the eZ Ecosystem, helping to clearly delineate Project Management from Engineering.

"This new organization is the result of a long internal project", says eZ CTO, Bård Farstad, adding, "We were very much focused on making eZ a profitable company in 2008 but wished we'd been able to invest more in development. eZ Find 2.0 and eZ Publish 4.1 were great accomplishments, but 2009 will be even better. Splitting Product Management and Engineering will improve our communication with our community, our customers, and our markets to deliver a professional road map, as well as optimize the use of our core resources".

eZ Systems welcomes the recent community initiatives which have contributed to the core of eZ Publish. Roland Benedetti comments, "One of the key responsibilities of the Product Management team is to gather all relevant feedback. We are aware that the eZ Publish community is eager to contribute even more. This is perfect timing for us, as we wish to broaden the role of community contributions at eZ Systems. To that end, we are organizing several developer days in April to meet community members and partners to discuss possibilities for community involvement in the eZ Ecosystem".

The next developer days will be held in Paris (April 9th), Dortmund (28th or 29th. of April), Oslo (tba). Also PHP Vikinger wil be held in Leuven, Belgium at the end of May.