Taylor Copeland

At fourteen years old in 2010, Taylor Malcolm Copeland finally pushed himself to take on basic web development. He had already known the methods behind web development for some time, and had been in the world of technology since he was six years old.

In the Spring of 2010, Taylor decided to move away from web development so that he could learn the ways of desktop-application development. He was at a loss to understand the concept of object-oriented programming for some time; however, one day, the concept was suddenly understood to him. In the summer of 2011, he picked up the basics of the Java programming language; he did not have the option to take the Java programming course at his high school due to academic reasons pertaining to his performance during his freshman year of high school.

Recently, Taylor has re-entered the field of web-development and has begun development on an organization and content-management system for his school, as an alternative to the dated and feature-lacking Moodle CMS. When complete, the application will be web-based with iPhone and Android applications for easy access among students.

Taylor has long been an advocate for free and open-source software, and is in the process of writing a report for developers and how they should decide on how they license their software.