Where do you live?
I live in Durham, North Carolina.
What's your Drupal.org user name?
JuliaKM
What's your background in Drupal?
According to Drupal.org, I've been using Drupal for one year and 30+ weeks. I started using Drupal at my previous job at a web development company in RTP. I've been a big fan ever since.
What are you doing or hope to do with Drupal?
I work for the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education and am building a large environmental online community for our members. It's still in the planning stages. I also have a bunch of little, personal Drupal projects on the side. One of my side projects is building a bibliography of PubMed articles on the rat whisker system for my husband.
Drupal Sites I've Worked On:
http://www.pickyracer.com/ PickyRacer (personal project)
http://www.juliakm.com/ (personal site)
http://www.philanthropyjournal.org/ (at my previous job)
http://www.nccivitas.org/ (at my previous job)
... And, a few private sites
Topics I Could Present On:
Creating custom themes, Using Views and CCK, Basic Guide to Module Building, Debugging Your Drupal Site, Case Study of PickyRacer.com
Topics I'm Interested In:
Customizing Organic Groups without Losing Your Mind, Integrating Drupal with 3rd Party Applications, Using Object Oriented Programming with Drupal, Other Case Studies, LDAP Integration, How People are Using Drupal...Pretty much anything else.
Are you interested in offering support for other people in the group?
Yes, feel free to email me questions via Drupal.org or Meetup.com. Helping other people has been a great way to learn more about Drupal.
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Hi, I'm Ruby Sinreich
Where do you live?
Chapel Hill, NC.
What's your background in Drupal?
I have used it to build and manage nonprofit and community sites. Am not currently a professional developer, but am a power user, PHP dabbler, and very handy w/ CSS and HTML.
What Drupal sites have you worked on?
Primarily http://OrangePolitics.org
Topics I Could Present On (All levels of experience welcome!)
Community management (eg: roles & trolls), how my site works, local political blogging, network-centric organizing theory
Topics I'm Interested In
Simple tweaks and hacks, awesome modules, wrangling Views & Panels.
Are you interested in offering support for other people in the group?
Not sure I would be very helpful...
Kristy
Where do I live?
Chapel Hill
What's my background in Drupal?
Used at University at Buffalo for 3 sites and 1 intranet. At UB the sites are not actually drupal because the campus server can't handle drupal, so I had drupal installed on an internal server where content is managed and "pushed" to the campus server as flat files and a suite of PHP code reconstructs the site there from the flat files - yes stupid but the only way given the infrastructure.
Now just use it for my personal site. I have a module called sitebrowser and I suck with CVS.
What Drupal sites have I worked on?
Pseudo Drupal:
http://giving.buffalo.edu
http://alumni.buffalo.edu
http://www.ubfoundation.buffalo.edu
Real Drupal:
KristyFrey.com
Topics I Could Present On (All levels of experience welcome!)
PHP coding
Topics I'm Interested In
CCK
Organic Groups
Views
Am I interested in offering support for other people in the group?
I have very little spare time these days - mommy duties
Hi All.
Where do you live?
I live in Raleigh, North Carolina.
What's your Drupal.org user name?
dedellinger
What's your background in Drupal?
I started using Drupal in April of 2008 really by chance and necessity. I
fiddled with Drupal (6.2 at the time) and Joomla 1.5 for about 5 months and have
finally chosen Drupal as the CMS of choice.
What are you doing or hope to do with Drupal?
I use Drupal to build out sites for my company BeachSales.com (in the process of
converting some sites from Joomla to Drupla now). Drupal seems to be a great
platform for quickly deploying content and functionality which mean you can
quickly get an idea or concept online in a stable and flexible way. I hope learn
more about more complicated modules and learn more about custom theming.
Drupal Sites I've Worked On:
All the sites are in Drupal 6.x and all seem to be continual works in progress
http://www.dontdoitthisway.com/
(personal project)
http://www.beachsales.com/
(transitioning to Drupal)
http://www.beachsales.com/realestate/ (Beta Joomla Version)
http://www.beachsalesrealestate.com/ (transitioning to Drupal version,
pre-launch).
http://www.beachsales.tv/ (Beta - One of
the first Drupal sites we did for ourselves)
http://www.beachsales.org/
(transitioning themes now)
http://www.baked-with-love.com/
(just a quick site we threw together for a friend's mom as a surprise for
her birthday, nothing fancy)
http://demiandellinger.com/
(which I am reconstructing over from WordPress)
Topics I Could Present On:
I could probably do complete newbie orientation.
Topics I'm Interested In:
Mulit-site hosting, subdomains, using Views, Organic Groups, Theming and content
placement customization. .
Are you interested in offering support for other people in the group?
Would more than welcome meetings over lunch or afternoons or evenings hunkered
over laptops swapping knowledge and ideas.
Judy Hallman
Where do you live?
Chapel Hill, but in Chatham county.
What's your Drupal.org user name?
hallman
What's your background in Drupal?
I've been learning Drupal for at least two years and 11 weeks (according to drupal.org).
What are you doing or hope to do with Drupal?
I hope that RTPnet will be able to provide Drupal and CiviCRM hosting services for nonprofit organizations. I have not developed a CiviCRM site yet, but I have a few Drupal sites.
Drupal Sites I've Worked On:
http://nccommunities.org/ : A learning space for nonprofits. One of RTPnets goals for NCCommunities is to "Create and nurture an online community to find expertise and help with tools for community building and engagement." There is very little content in the present site. I need groups with forums for this site. No current needs for private groups for this site.
http://test.nccommunities.org/ : Test site for NCCommunities.org. People can use this site to explore CiviCRM sample data — login as demo with password demo. There are instructions for exploring sample data at http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Exploring+Sample+Data.
http://www.ibiblio.org/comphist/ : Information and memories that record the history of computing on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus. I'm using image galleries for this site and I'm using blogs for "Memories." I need one private page for collecting contact information for oral histories.
I've set up a few intranets, mostly for RTPnet board members and advisors who are helping define NCCommunities:
http://ncla.nccommunities.org/ : An information exchange site for literacy agencies across the state of North Carolina. We'd like to have a private group, with forums, for Executive Directors. I've had some problems with privacy.
http://oclc.nccommunities.org/ : An information exchange site for The Orange County Literacy Council volunteers, staff, and board of directors. Just getting started.
http://scrapexchange.nccommunities.org/ : An information exchange site for The Scrap Exchange board of directors, staff, and friends. Just getting started.
http://huntresses.org/ : An information exchange site for members of the Huntress family. I'm using image galleries for this site and blogs for "Current activities."
Topics I Could Present On:
Drupal Intranets
CiviCRM
Topics I'm Interested In:
CiviCRM
Organic groups and og_forum: I'd like to have someone check my setup and see what should be changed.
Image galleries: I'd like to have someone check my setup and see what could be improved.
Taxonomy: Is it of any value on a small intranet? How should we be using it on NCCommunities?
Views: Do I need to learn about Views?
Themes: Is there any reason not to leave my simple sites just using the default theme?
Newsletters: Options for doing them with Drupal.
Are you interested in offering support for other people in the group?
Yes. We could use the NCCommunities site for this, if that would be useful.
Judy Hallman
Leandra Ganko
Where do you live?
Durham, NC
What's your background in Drupal?
Beginner, I am just starting to get my feet wet.
What Drupal sites have you worked on?
None are public yet!
Topics I Could Present On (All levels of experience welcome!)
Will update this when I have a little more experience.
Topics I'm Interested In
Themes
Are you interested in offering support for other people in the group?
Would love to once I know a little more.
leandra.
http://www.legadesigngroup.com
contact us for all your web design needs!
Jim Tarvid
Where do you live?
Independence, VA
What's your background in Drupal?
Always learning. Web 13 yrs. CMS starting with phpNuke 8 years, Drupal 2 years.
What Drupal sites have you worked on?
Partial list at http://drupal.ls.net/
Topics I Could Present On (All levels of experience welcome!)
Installation on Ubuntu/Debian. Drush. Database migration.
Topics I'm Interested In
Engaging the community
Are you interested in offering support for other people in the group?
Yes.
Nancy Shoemaker
Where do you live?
Raleigh address - out in the county between Cary and Garner
What's your Drupal.org user name?
nes49
What's your background in Drupal?
A couple of training classes -- including John Kenyon's 11/2/06 Drupal & CiviCRM class (was it really that long ago?)
What Drupal sites have you worked on?
None. Have been living in the open source world since 1982. Poked at Drupal, Joomla (Mambo, then) and WordPress in mid-2005 - have been using WordPress since (a dozen or so sites; from v1.2 to v2.6). Haven't hit the wall yet, but I know the day will come.
What are you doing or hope to do with Drupal?
I'm the default support for a local organization that needs a revamped website and an easier way to manage its membership data. It may be what gets me to take Drupal for a test drive.
Topics I Could Present On (All levels of experience welcome!)
Someday ...
Topics I'm Interested In
Getting started; how to set things up to make it easier to manage minor changes (css and the rest of the theme, lists of active modules) -- especially changes that may affect a group of similar sites; how to plan for major upgrades
Are you interested in offering support for other people in the group?
Would be glad to help out if folks have questions about Linux user environment or other pieces that don't require much drupal context