Dave Hansen-Lange has been developing websites since 2003 when he needed a web presence for the record label that he founded with several fellow musicians. In 2004, he became the lead web developer for the Green Party of Alberta (Canada). In his search for a better web platform he found CivicSpace (The platform contributed to largely by other Advomatic developers and which evolved from DeanSpace - the platform used for the Howard Dean campaign in 2004). In 2005 Dave left his first career in music and started developing full time. Dave has also been a member of the CiviCRM development community since CiviCRM 0.8 (2005).