I'm Freda Browne, I am a qualified Human Resources Manager with 25 years human resources and recruitment experience. My introduction to Drupal was very coincidental and very exciting. I have 7 years of content management, views and content types experience in Drupal. I feel that I was taught by the very best tutors there are in South Africa.
I'm Riaan, 40-year-old ex teacher, lecturer, nightclubs owner, small business owner and free (libre) software and community advocate. Started using Drupal in version 4 having built own CMSes and tried several others before and switched exclusively to Drupal until the last few years revealed so many great front- and back-end frameworks to compliment Drupal. I hope to continue to contribute to building a local South African Drupal association with national value for all local Drupal users.
I'm Greg, an Entrepreneur/Business Owner and Senior Drupal Developer. I've worked with Drupal since 2006 and built projects for South Africa's corporate businesses and NGO's. As an avid believer in FOSS, I joined the Drupal Association South Africa as Chairman in 2013. Promoting the use of Drupal to the web industry in South Africa is a primary goal of mine, and I hope to build a local community over as many geographic areas as possible.
I am Adam Dunn, a Pigeon Fancier and at the age of 60 decided to learn a language to keep my brain active. So I learned Drupal and now for completeness am learning HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, Drush, Github and C++. What worries me is that at each Drupal Meetup we learn about more cool technologies that I will have to learn but am running out of time. I graduated with a BSc Civil Engineering degree in 1976 from the University of Natal. I was appointed as Head of Strength of Materials at Technikon Natal in the Engineering Faculty where I remained for 11 years before starting a company of my own in Johannesburg. My current project is a modern pigeon website www.pigeonuniverse.co.za. Check it out.
I'm Jason Mathipa Legodi, 27-years old, born in Limpopo studied web and application at Tshwane University of Technology. In 2008 I was voted as the best multimedia student. In my short career as a web developer I started working on several CMS’s (i.e Joomal, Wordpress, Typo3, Sharepoint and cs-cart then I stumbled upon the amazing Drupal in 2012 and it has been playing well with me. I would be happy to serve and add value to the Drupal community at large.
I am Renate Ehlers, a 28 year old qualified chef and I recently started my career as web-designer and -developer. I work for a company that has been designing websites commercially since 2001. As we have had more requests to build sites using a CMS, my search began to find a comprehensive system that has a good balance between functionality and design-ability. We chose to use Drupal as it ticked all the boxes. We decided that the steep learning curve was merely an obstacle to overcome. If we want to use a CMS we would use the best there is. The Drupal community has been inviting and kind. I would like to contribute my time to this wonderful initiative to open the world of Drupal to as many South Africans as possible.