introductions

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...

Hi, all - So, a quick introduction: I'm Ruth Kneale, systems librarian for the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope, a project of the National Solar Observatory. In answer to the inevitable "What's a systems librarian" questions, let me summarize: I'm one of the geeky librarians who lives in the server rooms and keeps the web sites and databases running :-) and if you'd like to know about ATST, visit http://atst.nso.edu/ (not Drupal-driven yet, but soon!).

Hey Austin!

If you want to give a shout out as to what you do and how you're working with Drupal, that would be great!

During our meetups, we really don't have time for attendees to share detailed intros with the group. We tried intros at one of our meetups and, in the process, consumed over an hour when we could have been learning or teaching others about Drupal.

As a result, intros at future meetups will be great if they're no more than 10 seconds long each to provide basics such as your name, your organization, and what you're doing/hoping to do with Drupal, e.g. "Hi, I'm Walt Esquivel, I'm with Wellness Corps, and I'm using Drupal to help me establish a wellness presence primarily through Organic Groups." For everything else intro-related that you want to share with the Austin DUG, please do it online. This page is the place for you to do it! :)

Let me start off by introducing myself and then I would encourage any new subscribers to comment on this post to introduce themselves as well in a similar format.

My name is Jerad Bitner and I live outside of Montoursville in the country. I've been developing in PHP for almost 5 years now and have almost as much experience, if not more, in CSS and javascript. I found Drupal through a friend, whom I hope joins this group, and have been in love ever since. With Drupal, not my friend... ;) He's a bastard.