Drupal
- Drupal contributions
I am currently the Vice President of Large Scale Drupal at Acquia. I started NowPublic.com in 2004, the first venture backed Drupal based startup company and a top 500 website, which I sold to Examiner.com in 2009. With an amazing team of leading Drupal experts, I re-built Examiner.com from the ground up launching one of the first Drupal 7 sites (6 months before the official D7 release) and the first top 100 Drupal website on the Internet (a quantified top 70 site). NowPublic and Examiner have made significant contributions to Drupal 4.5, 5, 6, and 7 ranging from contributed modules to major core changes. I have been an Advisor to the Board of the Drupal Association since 2008 and served as the Global Chair of the E-Commerce, and Business and Strategy Sessions for DrupalCon Denver.
- Roles in working with Drupal
- executive, cto, architect, product development, project management, drupal association
- I contributed Drupal automated tests
- I provide Drupal-related services
- I attended OSCON 2005 or the off-site Drupal conference at OSCON 2005 (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Europe)
- I attended the Drupal conference colocated with the Open Source CMS and Blogging Tools Summit (Vancouver, Canada)
- I attended DrupalCon Denver 2012
- I will attend DrupalCon Munich 2012
- I attended DrupalCon London 2011
- I will attend DrupalCon São Paulo 2012
- I will attend DrupalCon Portland 2013
- I attended DrupalCon DC 2009
- I attended OSCMS 2007, Sunnyvale
- I attended the Drupal conference 2006 (Brussels, Belgium)
- I attended DrupalCon Boston 2008
- I attended DrupalCon Szeged, Hungary 2008
- I attended DrupalCon Copenhagen 2010
- I attended DrupalCon San Francisco 2010
- I attended DrupalCon Paris 2009
- I attended DrupalCon Chicago 2011
Personal information
- Full name
- Michael E. Meyers
- First or given name
- Michael
- Last name or surname
- Meyers
- Languages spoken
- English
- My website
- http://www.michaelmeyers.com
- Gender
- male
- Country
- United States
- IRC nick
- michaelemeyers
- LinkedIn profile
- http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelemeyers
- Facebook page
- https://www.facebook.com/michaelemeyers
- Twitter url
- https://twitter.com/#!/michaelemeyers
- Google profile URL
- https://plus.google.com/u/0/107888066250024780221/posts
- Bio
Michael E. Meyers is an Emmy-nominated technologist and entrepreneur with over 17 years of experience managing and leading local and globally distributed teams. His most recent startup, RHO Ventures-backed NowPublic.com, pioneered citizen journalism, user-generated content, and crowdsourcing. As CTO of The Clarity Digital Group, which acquired NowPublic in 2009, Michael led Examiner.com’s migration to open source technology, launching the first Drupal-based top-100 Internet property. Previously as a founding member of domain name marketplace Afternic.com, Michael led development efforts from the company’s launch through its acquisition and integration into Register.com in 2000. During his tenure at Register.com, a top 100 site, Michael led web development across all business units and subsidiaries for the second-largest domain name registrar in the world. A passionate open source advocate, Michael currently serves as an advisor to the Drupal Association board, several early-stage startups, and is a regular speaker at industry events.
Work
- Job title
- VP, Large Scale Drupal
- Industries worked in
- Internet, Advertising, Video Games, Web Development, Media, Entertainment, Mobile, Film, Television, CD-ROM, Computer Graphics, Animation, News
- Companies worked for
- Acquia, The Clarity Digital Group, Examiner.com, NowPublic.com, 01101101 Inc., Register.com, TechGrok, Afternic.com, Blue Dingo, eXtraActive, Stir Associates, iNSCAPE, The Judson Rosebush Company, Mast Learning Systems
- Current company or organization
- Acquia.com
History
- Member for
- 7 years 38 weeks
michaelemeyers is an individual member of the Drupal Association, which fosters and supports the Drupal software project, the community and its growth.