Blog post author Thomas Turnbull is one of the three members of the grants committee, along with Michael Anello and Amye Scavarda. He is a web developer at Google, previously building Drupal sites at Zagat and Sony Music. He has helped to run Drupal Camps and meetups in New York City, and is co-author of Mapping with Drupal.
After each Global Training Day, we like to hear from people who participated to get a sense for how their training went and whether there are lessons learned that can be shared with the community. Here is a great example from France we recently posted on the blog. We would also love to hear from any trainees who attended, to get their perspective.
“I used to believe building an awesome website is rocket science, but drupal proved me wrong”, said one of the student who attended our workshop on Drupal.
Jeremie SCHMIDT is the director of Trained People, a French based company specializing in Drupal training and consulting for more than 6 years. In addition to his Drupal passion, Jeremie is leading an NGO which help kids from third world countries, to get a better future.
The way that a DrupalCon comes together is similar to how releases of Drupal are produced by the community. Passionate experts in their subject matter areas volunteer tirelessly to make each DrupalCon grow and exceed the expectations of the past.
Adam Evertsson is the head honcho behind DrupalCamp Gothenburg two years in a row, member of the Swedish podcast Drupalsnack and always fond of the community, both locally and globally. He really came for the code and stayed for the community.
Every DrupalCon has its own personality. Before we let Portland slip away into the distant past, let’s revisit a few memories that made this Con unique, and a great addition to the storied history of DrupalCons.
The DrupalCon host city is always an important character in the cast and Portland was no exception. The weather turned on a dime from record high temperatures and sunshine at the beginning of the week to record low temperatures, wind and rain. The abrupt switch left visitors scratching their heads, while those who live in Portland simply shrugged, reciting the motto “If you don’t like the weather in Portland, just wait a few minutes.”
Mike Gifford is President of OpenConcept Consulting Inc. and co-founder of Open Source Alliance of Canada.
We did it! The Drupal community raised $5k to bring Vincenzo Rubano to DrupalCon Portland. This is an amazing accomplishment that demonstrates that crowdsourcing to support the Drupal community can work very well. Although it's been an idea that's been brewing for a while, we've been doing all that we could to bring Vincenzo to a DrupalCon.
Open Source software, namely Drupal, can be leveraged to accommodate the technology needs of numerous corporations across a vast spectrum of private and public sectors. The constant collaboration of the Drupal community gives users the freedom to rapidly deploy new innovations in a way that a closed proprietary system does not allow. Here at Achieve we are constantly trying to increase Drupal adoption by developing new solutions to help new stakeholders in new arenas.
Jeremie SCHMIDT is the director of Trained People, a French based company specializing in Drupal training and consulting for more than 6 years. In addition to his Drupal passion, Jeremie is leading an NGO which help kids from third world countries, to get a better future.
Adam Evertsson
