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United StatesCurrent Role(s):
Principal, Chief Learning Officer
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Professional Info
Industries Worked In:
Training, Web Development, Multimedia Museum & Corporate Exhibits, Academic Publishing, Higher Education
Personal Info
Other languages:
English
French
German
Italian
On Drupal.org for 16 years 3 months
Over 100 edits to documentation
Bio:
Kay VanValkenburgh is a Boston-based Drupal shop owner with a strong focus on training and mentorship. His latest venture is OwnSourcing, started in 2010 to deliver hands-on training and project-specific documentation to help organizations do great things with Drupal. Under the same aegis, Kay founded a mentorship program to help budding Drupal developers get their start.
Co-director of the Acquia U pilot, contributing author to The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7, contributor to the launch of the DrupalLadder project and sighted guide to competitive blind sailors, Kay geeks out on usable software, how people learn, world languages, and sailing.
Drupal Contributions:
training designer, support, mentor, evangelist, drupalladder.org co-maintainer, community sprint co-organizer
Areas of Expertise:
Project Director for training & site development .:|. Co-director for Acquia U .:|. Contributing author to "Definitive Guide to Drupal 7" .:|. Training designer & team lead on "Decision Maker Training" at Portland DrupalCon & at NYC Camps 2012 & 2013
Drupal events:
DrupalCon Boston 2008
DrupalCon Chicago 2011
DrupalCon London 2011
DrupalCon Denver 2012
DrupalCon Munich 2012
DrupalCon Portland 2013
DrupalCon Austin 2014
DrupalCon Barcelona 2015
DrupalCon New Orleans 2016
DrupalCon Nashville 2018
Credited on 24 fixed issues
- Mentoring, 4 issues
- Drupal core, 5 issues
- Talking Drupal Podcast, 2 issues
- Drupal.org /community section, 2 issues
- Drupal.org customizations, 1 issue
- Link, 1 issue
- Official Docs, 1 issue
- User Guide, 2 issues
- Drupal.org site moderators, 1 issue
- Field Group, 1 issue
- Slick Carousel, 1 issue
- Drupal core ideas, 1 issue
- Bootstrap Library, 1 issue
- Content Import, 1 issue
Projects maintained
kay_v helps support and grow the Drupal community with the Drupal Association.
My mentors:
9 people list kay_v as a mentor
I contributed Drupal patches
I contributed Drupal installation profiles
I contributed to Drupal issue queues
I contributed Drupal documentation
I contributed Automated tests
I help in the Drupal support forums
I provide Drupal-related services
I give support on IRC
I help mentor new contributors
