About Us

About Us Chapter Three was founded in San Francisco in 2006 by Zack Rosen, Josh Koenig, and Matt Cheney, three friends with a shared interest in social change, mutual expertise in open-source technology and grassroots organizing, and a strong belief in the wealth of networks.

Since then we’ve worked with tech industry leaders like Motorola and Sun Microsystems, enterprising non-profits like Kiva and The Institute For The Future, and even government agencies like PBS and NASA. We’ve also found a few hardy souls to join us along the way.

We believe that the critical component of online success isn’t in technology — good tech is a given; mandatory, but by now largely assumed — but rather in people, in practices, in the right kind of operation. And we believe, wherever possible, that we should walk our talk. So we invite you to get to know our team, and learn a bit more about what makes Chapter Three tick.

Chapter Three Founders

Partner: Matt Cheney

Matt had the good fortune to be trained as a librarian, but spends most of his time with computers instead of books. He's served as a political consultant for several campaigns and causes, and developed online information systems to help connect attorneys in the California Death Penalty defense community. Prior to that, he was a researcher at the National Center for SuperComputing Applications where he developed communities for online learning.

Matt Cheney has a B.A. in Philosophy, History, Religious Studies, and Political Science and a M.S. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Partner: Josh Koenig

Josh was a co-founder of the DeanSpace project on the Howard Dean presidential campaign, and he utilized that technology when he helped to start-up and run Music for America, a national non-profit promoting progressive politics and participation to the Millennial generation. After the 2004 election cycle and before starting Chapter Three he consulted with several campaign organizations and naiscent consultancies, eventually as the leader of a development team. He is also an active contributor to the Drupal open-source community, and founder of the Drupal Dojo.

Josh has a B.F.A. in Drama from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He's been blogging since 2001 at outlandishjosh.com, and is a published author.

Partner: Zack Rosen

Zack started the DeanSpace project in 2003 during his summer break from the University of Illinois. He then left school to take a job at the Howard Dean presidential campaign head-quarters in Burlington, Vermont as a web-developer and technical volunteer coordinator. He was responsible for servicing the web-technology needs of the state campaign offices, constituency groups, and grassroots web developers.

Afterwards he co-founded and directed the CivicSpace project for two years. He is an active business leader in the Drupal open-source community and has freely contributed his expertise to hundreds of grassroots web projects.

Chapter Three Team

Lead Developer: Robert Wohleb

Robert joined Chapter Three in March 2008. He brings a broad range of development experience to the table, from searching for cancer in medical imaging applications and building the next generation of glucose testing devices, to being a Drupal gun-slinger. Beyond his professional work, he is active in the open-source community, explores the applications of technology in the arts, and continues to experiment with the mysteries of the culinary arts.

Web Developer: Jennifer Lampton

Jennifer Lea Lampton founded Jeneration.com, her own web design/development company in 1997, the summer after she graduated from High School. She earned a BS in Math/Computer Science from Sweet Briar College and after a few other jobs returned to web in 2003. Working for PagePoint Web Solutions she caught up on all the advancements in web technology. Jen fell in love when she discovered Drupal as an alternative to a hand coded CMS. She shifted the focus of Jeneration to be a drupal-only venture, and steered Pagepoint's clients towards Drupal whenever the project would benefit. She is an active member in the Drupal community. Jen also brings crazy horseback riding skills, and random bits of random and interesting knowledge to the Chapter Three community.

Web Designer: Kevin Montgomery

Kevin joined Chapter Three in Oct. 2007 as the company's web designer. In the past, he has worked many different web projects and been active in the political arena. While getting his B.A. in politics from Brandeis University in Waltham, MA, he worked with PureVolume.com, helping build version 2 of the popular music social-networking site. He was also involved with John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign and was an activist among the Brandeis student body attempting to focus campus debate around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, culminating with President Jimmy Carter's visit to the University in Jan. 2007. Kevin also brings crazy mountain biking skills, bicycle mechanics, and delicious vegetarian cooking to the Chapter Three community. You can follow his adventures at his casually updated blog.

Project Manager and Quality Assurance: Joshua Lawrence

Joshua joined Chapter Three in March 2008. He hails from Northern California. His Drupal work began about 2 years ago in a small office in Humboldt County. He has a background in customer service that has included roles in project management as well as representing employees for a regional airline. His love for technology has no boundaries much like his ambitions for travel. He has visited over 11 countries in his short life and done community work overseas.

Web Themer: Squiggy Rubio

Squiggy Rubio joined Chapter Three in May 2008 and brings with her three years experience designing pure CSS based websites for faculty, non-profits and local community organizations. She became obsessed with drupal two years ago, using it whenever she can for web projects and experimenting with it in her spare time. She recently graduated with a degree in Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies at Humboldt State University. A recovering artist and musician, she has been involved with campus and local community organizing and keeping a variety of publics informed about struggles in Chiapas and the US-Mexico Borderlands. She is particularly interested in making open source software available to grassroots projects and is constantly learning new ways to implement web based tools to support and enhance community research projects and situated learning communities.

Web Developer and Systems Admin: Jon Skulski

Jon Skulski is armed with a fierce home grown, do-it-yourself ethic which he picked up hacking on open source projects over the past decade. John continues the process of learning by breaking, fixing, and improving code he works on in his personal and professional life. An experienced Drupal engineer with several years of experience, Jon is also interested in exploring the interspaces between the Arts and the Sciences, the interfaces between the Humans and the Machines, and in the inner-places of the old growth Redwood forests.

Liaison for Excellence: Rachael Boggan

Rachael joined Chapter Three in June 2008. She earned a BFA in Printmaking, Painting and Drawing from the California College of the Arts in 2006. Since graduation she has been working in theater and the non-profit world, and continues to create her own artwork. Her background in creative problem solving will help to bring a new level of excellence to Chapter Three.

Financials: Dan Finnerty

Daniel came on board in 2007 to help with all things financially related at Chapter Three. As a contractor, he takes care of the books and provides some external perspective and best practices for money and financial management. While he isn't keeping track of financial records, he is busy pressing up vinyl ones under the moniker Spinnerty. Left brain - Right brain in full effect!