Working exclusively with WordPress and an array of other open-source technologies, Justin and Zao have provided creative and effective solutions for a wide variety of companies and associations ranging from Targus to Pitney Bowes to the National Education Association to HTC.

When not managing Zao or enjoying his beautiful wife and lovely one-year-old daughter, Justin can be found enjoying the finest coffee Oregon has to offer.

The story of Group Deals Plugin, the latest premium Plugin from Instinct, is a classic example of the power of the WordPress community. While presenting on WordPress E-Commerce at WordCamp Philadelphia, someone in the audience asked if anyone had made a “Groupon” WordPress plugin.

Now, at WordCampNZ, we’re excited to unveil the first stable release of GroupDeals, soon to be known as the Groupon Killer

Update: 20th Jan Spreets Online Group Buying was sold to Yahoo for $40m. In the same article Anthill notes that Retail Me was also a very large play in the same space.

Tech Crunch quotes “After SEO and email, affiliate type deals/coupons are the most profitable way to get new customers, says WhaleShark.”

Justin is Js_Zao on twitter.

“Sometimes I do the front stuff, most of the time I do the back stuff. At the moment I’m working within the Instinct Crew on their famous WordPress Plugin (Wp-e-Commerce Plugin)
Languages: English, Malay, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, mySQL, and various monkey noises.”

For WordCamp NZ Jeff will be presenting a Tech talk on extending Plugins and advanced plugin development. One of the other sites Jeff has worked on includes Vorn (music) which shows the ecommerce in action.

Darren’s focus is on building usable, good looking websites.

By day, Darren Wood is an interface designer-developer at Marker where he has designed and/or built websites for clients in Australia and New Zealand – including SciBlogs , RoadTube , Real Consulting and many others.  By night, Darren is known as a web geek and/or “Mr Microformats”. At any time you can be sure that he is an advocate of web standards, HTML5, chili and single malt whisky.  You can follow Darren’s online antics at his website Dontcom or on Twitter as @darren.

Liz Quilty works at Rimuhosting.com and is often seen scripting auto installers, fixing permissions, mass update scripts for multiple wordpress installs etc (see blog.rimuhosting.com ) See @RHLiz for her twitter stream.

What is important for server setup, performance choices, upgrading options and permissions. All this and more at WordCampNZ.