Now don't be shy people ...

Hey there! I'm Brock, also not at the conference, but wishing I was.

But here, with you ;)

This was a great idea. Many thanks to the agitators, instigators and compatriots for the BoF and the group. Let the Drupal Mirror Ball shine!

Hey, gang -- good to meet up at the con. In the Drupalsphere I'm a writer, with some instructional work from traditional publishers (Lynda.com, Peachpit Press) and B2B pieces from Drupal companies (TopNotchThemes, Mediacurrent, Phase2 Technology, Acquia).

I was born in New York, went to college in Ohio, lived briefly in England and The Netherlands, spent most of my adult life (23-40) in San Francisco, and moved to Oberlin, Ohio about a year ago.

Queer cred, FWIW: I was pretty much out as bi in high school in the late '80s. My first book was "Bisexuality: A Reader and Sourcebook" (1990). I was active in that community starting with the 1987 March on Washington and petering out around 1993, around when I named the national bi magazine "Anything That Moves". :) ) I got a bit re-involved in the late '90s, particularly with the gay/bi FTM scene in San Francisco. I believe I started the first mailing list for partners of trans men in 1998.

I'm tgeller on Twitter (which I almost never use), personal blog at http://tgeller.livejournal.com, and in various other places. See you around,

--Tom

It was fantastic meeting people today at the Drupal Queer Lounge BoF. Let's keep that disco ball spinning by staying in touch! I want to invite all of you in town tomorrow to experience quintessential San Francisco and hang out in the great outdoors. Come listen to music, learn about an inspiring urban renewal project, and get dirty at Earth Day at the Urban Farm - 2:30-6:30pm at Hayes Vallley Farm 450 Laguna St. @ Oak. http://www.hayesvalleyfarm.com - Free! If you're staying downtown, it's a quick bus ride down Market to Laguna St, then walk North 6 blocks.

Almost every attempt I make to reply to this thread (and start a new one) is being met with "Your submission has triggered the spam filter and will not be accepted." - once in a while, I get the "Drupal thinks this might be spam" and I get a captcha which lets me actually submit...though the last time that happened, I got a white screen upon submit and my post didn't stick...anyone else having trouble?

hi!

tomorrow (thurs) is my last night in sf. i'll be sprinting all day tomorrow like i have a pony tail and trench coat but would love to get an evening beer with anyone else left over. @bp1101 on twitter and aim and krlucas here. and post-drupalcon #queerdrupal meetups in boston or nyc or montreal or…wherever seem pretty doable for my middling geography.

triple double thanks to webchick for cutting through the druacracy to make this space happen. let's use it.

I actually would have loved to meet the queer folks, the drupal chix -- I was so starry eyed at all of the classes that I didn't make it to anything. I'm based here in the bay area. I work on a Drupal site, and I write for a publication that is hosted on Drupal (http://www.OaklandLocal.com) - And I host a social network for masculine identified women and transmen -- currently on ning (http://beyondstud.ning.com) but I may be moving it over to Drupal upon the news that ning is going to a paid format :(

I didn't really head to any of the evening events, I've been commuting a great deal lately (I don't drive anymore, long story LOL) so I have just been trying to get some time to sit still.

I really enjoyed this conference. I came away with an excited sense of opportunity with the platform. I also publish a blog (http://www.bLaKtivist.com) - It's currently on blogger. As I get more comfortable with working on the system completely independently, I may host my social network and blog from the same domain.

Anywho - grateful to have this forum with you all and I hope that it will prove a great resource for us all.

-Krys

@SLM_krys [work]
@bLaKtivist [personal/prof]
@theDefinition [Social Network]

I am totally new to Drupal, and have been a web designer and trainer for a bunch of years.
This was not only my first DrupalCon, but my introduction to Drupal as a whole.
I tried to grasp as much as I could, and totally feel like a newbie!

I missed the Bof, because I didn't even know what BoF meant until after it was over! I was so focused on the sessions, that I assumed that BoF groups were for developers, and didn't even think to look at the board. Typical Forrest Gump moments here. I'm so sorry I missed the queer connections, and hope to really connect with you guys here on line.

I'm using a new non-profit/ pro bono project for my Drupal first project, and hope to use all the wonderful resources here and those mentioned at DrupalCon to help me get started.

So glad you're all here, and making yourselves known!

Best,
Max

My name's Angie Byron, aka "webchick" here, and I am pretty much obsessed with Drupal and try to do everything possible to make it more awesome and bring more awesome people into the community. :) Currently, my main role is as the co-lead for Drupal 7, the next release of Drupal coming out, uh... sometime... in the next couple of months, hopefully. ;) I'm also on the Drupal Association board, act as a "community manager" of sorts within the Drupal community, develop modules and core patches, blah blah...

I met my now wife on the Chainsaw Records website (Team Dresch, Sleater-Kinney, The Need, etc.), and we've been together for 11 years now. :) And I'm pretty sure she is at least part saint for letting me do Drupal all day without killing me. ;)

Unfortunately, my Drupal life doesn't leave me much time to do anything else, so I'm not very involved in the LGBTQI community at all. :( But it was really great to meet some fellow queers at Drupalcon; hopefully we can do a little get-together like that each conference!

Hi,

I'm Alice from the UK. I'm hoping to get to the Denmark Drupalcon later this year to meet up with some of you lot. I'm a queer poly person currently living in North East England, and together with a few others have been working on building a queer-friendly social network using Drupal for the past few years.

We've gotten rather distracted and ended up setting up a web hosting/development business, but we're still working on qvox.org and are always looking for more developers (particularly people who can help finish making it look pretty, and get it being used). We've also put up a mailing list server, with qvox-discuss being a good place to chat to us.

I'm @kaerast on Twitter, IRC and Skype and kaerast at kaerast dot info on Jabber.

Hi all! Honestly I clicked on this thread not at all expecting to post in it, but after reading all the comments figured what the heck :)

I'm a female who has identified as bisexual since I was 14 and it dawned on me that that's what lusting after both genders probably meant ;) I've also been in polyamorous and/or kink relationships for much of my adult life. I'm from Toronto but my husband and I currently live in Berkeley, CA while I'm attending grad school.

I've never been a part of any LGBQTI community or group, but since Drupal has become such a huge part of my life (4.5 years now, currently co-founder of TopNotchThemes), I thought it might be nice to introduce myself in this context too!

Hi, my name is Sean Robertson.

I was at the BOF, but thought I'd take the opportunity to reintroduce myself here since so many couldn't make it. I am a Drupal designer/developer from Washington, DC. I build web sites for Democratic campaigns using Drupal full time. I built my first Drupal web site in October of 2003, and have been at my current job for just shy of five years now (I've been doing web design in general for twelve years). When Dries asked people whose lives Drupal had changed to stand up, I was one of the first to jump up - that web site six and a half years ago ended up winning an award that was noticed by my current employer and the job of my dreams literally fell into my lap. ;-)

I am 31 years old, am gay (came out ten years ago), and have a boyfriend of three and a half years who lives in Baltimore. I do a lot of volunteer work for gay rights organizations including a couple of Drupal projects for the Human Rights Campaign (Clergy for Marriage and All DC Families). I also do all of the design and development work for the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club and am currently in the process of producing new brand identities for Virginia Partisans (updating the logo I original made for them seven years ago) and National Stonewall Democrats.

If you're interested, I have a much more personal biography posted on my web site:

http://webolutionary.com/content/about

Here are some samples of my recent/better Drupal work:

http://quinnforillinois.com
http://stonewalldemocrats.org
http://rfkcenter.org
http://stringerforny.com
http://davidmillerillinois.com
http://hoyerforcongress.com
http://israelforcongress.com
http://yarmuthforcongress.com
http://israelpolicyforum.org (designed by a coworker but built by me)
http://steindemocrats.org (not Drupal yet, but that's me in orange in the photo next to Who We Are carrying a banner I designed)

Hello all,

I loved meeting everyone at Drupalcon. List me among the relative "newbies" to Drupal. My primary interests lie in the arts community. I have a BFA in Photo-video and am currently pursuing a second BA in Art History. As far as GLBT issues, I have been involved with GLSEN KC a few years back and my girlfriend is a college professor who helps to mentor GLBT students and oversees a GSA at her community college.

I currently work for the Kansas City Art Institute (in KCMO) where I got my degree(s). Last year our website was rebuilt with Drupal by VML (an amazing company based in KC.) I manage the site from the client side and help our staff edit and create content. I also have a small interior site built on Drupal that I want to redo with all the new tips and tools I learned at this conference. Like most everyone else, I'm entirely self-taught in Drupal and all things web design and I have much much more to learn. My drupal goals- besides learning it inside and out- are geared towards exploring Drupal to build student/ artists' communities.

The best thing about the conference, of course, was meeting real live people behind this community. Before this conference, I had been very impressed by the immense scope of Drupal and feeling a bit intimidated about where to dive in. I can say that after meeting people who were in the same pool as I was, all with such a great attitude of optimism and excitement, I am very inspired now to just dive in.

Thanks,
Bronwyn

Thanks @webchick for starting this community. I finally found some time to give a more thorough introduction than my previous shout. I haven't met a lot of Drupal gays yet and I'd love to get in touch with more (especially in the Netherlands).

I'm a Drupal Specialist at Sogeti Netherlands and Board Member of the Dutch Drupal Association. I work with Drupal for over 4 years. First as a themer, and lately more as an overall specialist. Since a year or so I try to bring back some of the knowledge I gained by writing patches for Drupal 7 core and I even started a few projects myself (like Termcase). I co-organized DrupalJam 6 in Amsterdam (an event with over 300 attendees) and attended several Drupal events. Too bad I couldn't make it too DrupalCon SF, but I will be there in Copenhagen!

Before I started working at Sogeti I had my own company which focused on web development for the gay community. It's name was Sixcolored (Straight media design). See http://drupal.org/node/151194 (the site is offline now).

I have a relationship with my boyfriend Niels for almost 10 years now, and I'm now 29 years old.

You can find me online at my blog, Twitter and LinkedIn.

I was at Drupal Con SF but missed the BOF. :( I'm glad to see that there is a community forming here, however, and perhaps there will be future meetups for LGBTIAQ peeps.

I first used Drupal in early 2006, but have really gotten into it in the past two years. Right now most of the Drupal work I do is theme-related, but I do a variety of other web-related work such as usability and information architecture, training and documentation, project management, support, etc. The sessions I attended at Drupal Con, as well as the ones at my local Portland DUG, are helping me to become more comfortable with Drupal's architecture and will ultimately, I hope, help me do more advanced work.

I am jealous of how many of you have partners or significant others. ;) I am single but looking for a BF.

I guess I will "out" myself - not that it's a major secret any more. My long and boring story begins at http://nancywichmann.com/nancys-journeys but it isn't over yet. Put me down for the "T" here.

Thanks so much to hifalutin and edibleoffice for organizing the BoF, to webchick for creating this group, and to everyone who made DrupalCon fantastic!

I’m a Brooklyn-based Drupal and CiviCRM developer and themer who works primarily with nonprofits and political campaigns. I'm mildly obsessed with online communication and usability — blame it on early experiences with Jef Raskin. Over the past 10 years I’ve worked with organizations with a wide range of missions, constituencies, structures and budgets, often collaborating with other web developers and graphic designers (shout out to jackaponte).

The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force's site was my first introduction to Drupal back in 2006 and I had the good fortune of webchick walking me through a site installation at DrupalCampNYC2, for which I'll forever be grateful. I later co-planned and managed the Drupal site, CiviCRM database and online communications of Young People For (YP4), a program of People For the American Way Foundation.

Recent clients include the United ENDA Coalition, the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, Al Fakhoora and the winning One Kalamazoo campaign. I also serve on the board of the National Youth Advocacy Coalition, which will have a new Drupal site someday soon.

On a side note, I'm on national tour with my (queer) band The Shondes, working and writing this from an internet connection in the van. We play Café du Nord in San Francisco tonight and are on the road until June — if you're on the West Coast or in the Midwest, come say hey at a show!

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fureigh.com

...& Thanx Angie 4 this group :—)) My name is Weronika Kami (veriKami). I'm living in Warsaw/Poland... well... rather far away from drupal meetings... :—(

I'm studying gender @ Institute of Applied Social Sciences, University of Warsaw, also providing Gender Studies (drupal ;—) page @: http://www.gender.uw.edu.pl &... BTQ is the subject of my studies... & life...?... who knows

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