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Decision Maker

Come for the software, stay for the community - how Drupal improves and evolves

Gábor Hojtsy 13 May 2010
Type:  Session in official program

Are you new to Drupal, experienced in the software but lack an overview of how all the pieces fit together in the community? In this session I intend to provide a brief overview of what Drupal is and instead of delving into technical details, focus more on how the different avenues to improve Drupal work. Systems like distributions, localizations, issue queues, the core and contributed modules repositories, the security team, automated testing and so on. How can you collaborate with the community and make money on the way?

Ben Finklea

13 May 2010
Ben Finklea
Local team/staff
Personal information
Volacci
United States
Language (Primary) English
Social information
Volacci
46676
benfinklea
volacci

Ben Finklea is the founder and CEO of the Drupal SEO company Volacci. In September 2009, his first book entitled Drupal 6 Search Engine Optimization was published by Packt Publishing. He is active in the Drupal community and contributed the Drupal SEO Checklist module. As an internationally-known consultant, speaker, trainer, and expert witness on topics related to SEO, Drupal, and building successful high-tech businesses, Ben’s dynamic and engaging style appeals to audiences of all technical levels.

Jon Skulski

13 May 2010
Jon Skulski
Local team/staff
Personal information
Chapter Three
United States
Language (Primary) English
Social information
jonskulski
282537
jonskulski
jonskulski

I am currently Lead Developer/Drupal Architect at Chapter Three in San Francisco.

I have been working with Drupal for two and half years and have build over 30 sites.

Currently, I have been working a lot with Features and Panels. I also love developing site building blue prints.

Jennifer Lea Lampton

12 May 2010
JenLampton
Local team/staff
Personal information
Chapter Three LLC
United States
Language (Primary) English
Social information
jenlampton
85586
http://twitter.com/jenlampton
jenlampton

Jennifer Lea Lampton is a developer and the Director of Druapl Training for Chapter Three LLC in San Francisco, CA. Jen has been actively working with Drupal since 2006, and started writing modules for Drupal 4.7. Jen is an active member in the Drupal community. She helps out on IRC and maintains several modules on drupal.org. Jen is a coordinator for Bay Area Drupal camp events, and was an organizer for DrupalCon San Francisco.

DCCPH Tester

12 May 2010
Local team/staff
Personal information
Drupal Danmark
Denmark
Language (Primary) Danish
Language (Secondary) English
Social information
DccphTestUser
806284

Kristian Borgstedt

12 May 2010
Kristian Borgstedt
Local team/staff
Personal information
Markaryds kommun
Sweden
Language (Primary) Swedish
Language (Secondary) English
Social information
Sourcery

Owner of Sourcery Studios, a msuic and web production studio, creating web applications at night. Also houses web hosting and a lot of other web services.

Also a Systems engineer at daytime at Markaryds kommun, local municipality in southern Sweden. Responsible for databases, web systems etc. Implements the new municipality web site which runs on Drupal 6.

Ole Toubro

10 May 2010
Ole Toubro
Local team/staff
Staff title:  Support and stuff
Staff description:  I help out where it is needed. Until now that means answering support questions, creating äwesome videos, posting on facebook... and a lot of other stuff :)
Personal information
GearWorks
Denmark
Language (Primary) Danish
Language (Secondary) English
Social information
ofktoubro
157513
ofktoubro
Ole Toubro

Game and Interactive production developer with interests in interactive learning and game theory. I slice things the right way and have a preference for doing things differently. I navigate the sharp contrasts between design, cutting edge technology and wild adventurous ideas. Put simply I "just make things work" - from webpages over viral marketing to online games...

And I'm a part of the DrupalCon Copenhagen team.

Martin Heineberg

10 May 2010
Martin
Local team/staff
Personal information
British Council
United Kingdom
Language (Primary) English
Language (Secondary) Spanish
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mheineberg
235251
mheineberg

Bo Fristed

9 May 2010
Bo Fristed
Local team/staff
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ITK
Denmark
Language (Primary) Danish
Language (Secondary) English
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Fristed

Vimal Atreya Ramaka

9 May 2010
vimal
Local team/staff
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UPEI
Canada
Language (Primary) English
Language (Secondary) Hindi
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Vimal Ramaka
vima1
vimalr