James Atkinson is the originator of the open source phpBB Internet forum software, which is based on the PHP scripting language. He started it in 2000 because existing forum software choices were limited, and either too expensive or unattractive. phpBB has been constantly developed and improved since then and evolved into a major part of forum software on the internet. James resigned as phpBB project leader April 30th, 2007. Wikipedia
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Recently, I had the privilege to interview James Atkinson (theFinn), founder and project manager of the phpBB project. www.sitepoint.com/article/james-atkinson-founder-phpbb