introductions

Hi, just noticed and joined this group...

I work from home as a themer in Portsmouth for Advomatic, based in NYC. Always wondered what kinds of Drupal activity is down here in Hampton Roads. I've been theming since Drupal 4.6 (I think), I want to say early 2005.

Recent projects:

tcktcktck
Mozilla QMO
New York State Senate

So I guess that's a brief introduction. Hello!

Holla! I'm really excited and somewhat perplexed that no Drupalista started a group to focus on Drupal for State and Federal agencies / Government. Now that this group has been approved, I'm super excited to meet fellow Drup's who are deploying Drupal at the State and Federal level!

First and foremost, if you are looking to deploy Drupal at a local / municipal level, you should check out < http://groups.drupal.org/local-government >.

Otherwise, let me provide a bit of background on why I decided to form this group. After three years, I once again find myself at the New York State Senate. Unlike last time, I now work for the Senate Majority Leader Malcom A. Smith and in the office of the CIO (aka Andrew Hoppin of Civicspace and Trellon fame). My first task, as the office's inhouse technologist/druaplista, is it to work with an outside vendor to convert our preexisting site into Drupal. As we are less than a month from deployment, I wanted to find other Drupalistas who are working within State / Federal organizations to discuss best practices, collaborative development and shared resources.

When you join this group, please state why you're here and introduce yourself to the rest of the community.

Btw, what do you think of the hash/tag #Drupal4gov?

To develop a bond of friendship between new and old members we need to know something about each other.

Members Introduction

Nick/Name:
Location:
Website/page/social network:
IM/Email: (pls format as user at email dot com to avoid spambots)
OS:
ICT Background:
Interest:
Other Info about yourself:
(company,school,org,fave color, etc. ;) )

Thanks and Mabuhay!

No need to create new thread or discussion topic. Just reply and follow this discussion.

I'm starting this for the benefit of all users and particularly newbies, like myself. The rules are simple...a a few sentences about you, your industry experience and your current position in the industry.

Thanks.

I'd like to plan a workshop / code sprint within the next month in Los Angeles. I have a couple ideas on what we could tackle as a group, but am open to suggestions.

I'd like to accomplish two things in this session

1.    Help mentor new developers teaching Drupal best practices and guidance in establishing/enhancing a good Drupal / LAMP development environments.
2.    Create a new module from scratch - OR - fix a contrib module. 

Hey, folks! :) The Summer of Code start date is approaching rapidly: let's have a round of introductions from each of the students to talk a little about themselves! Who are you? What's your project, and why is it awesome? Where are you from? What's your major and what school do you go to? How'd you come to choose Drupal as your mentoring organization? What do you like to do for fun? And anything else you care to share. :)

Also, if everyone could make sure they have a picture uploaded for themselves, that'd really help put some faces to names. :)

I thought it'd be perhaps good for us to introduce ourselves and see where people are, seeing as there 100+ members of the group.

I'm kelly, live in the midlands, near coventry. I'm reasonably new to drupal, not a developer (as in PHP), but build sites with it and enjoy working with it.

I hang out in the freenode #drupal-support IRC channel quite often, helping if I can.

I'm 29, currently not working, and have a number of interests, including music, science fiction/fantasy, history, reading, computing, gaming and crafts amongst other things.

It would be great if everyone who signed up for this group would briefly introduce yourself here (who are you, where are you from, what do you do for a living, what's your background, etc) and share at least a little bit of what you do with Drupal (or hope to do with it).

I'll start:

I'm Steve,

I am born in India, brought up and schooled in the Middle East, recently moved to India in Late 2006.

I began using Drupal in January 07 and by December started offering Drupal related services.

I currently create themes or enhance current Drupal themes and have proposed the Vertical Tabs solution to node forms which has currently been turned into a contributed module for Drupal 6 by Ximo.

I figured we could start this group with a "virtual" edition of the Drupalchix BoF at Drupalcon Boston. Go around the "circle," as it were, and introduce ourselves, both to get to know each other a bit, but also so that we're aware that there /are/ other women out there in the Drupal community. ;)

So let's do some introductions... who are you, where are you from, what do you do for a living, what's your background, how'd you get into this crazy Drupal stuff, what do you do with Drupal, and whatever other random facts you'd like to share?

I'll kick it off, I guess...