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Bert Boerland from Santpoort, The Netherlands, is a long term Drupal user. Bert has been active as a user, handbook writer, tester and evangelist since the Drupal's early days op on drop.org and has a long standing track record in the Drupal community. He donated the Drupal.org domain to the community, organised the DrupalCon Amsterdam 2005 and co-organised the DrupalCon Barcelona 2007. Bert has been a Permanent Member of the Drupal Association since 2007 and a Board Member in 2008. He resigned being a Permanent Member in November 2010. Bert is a co founder of the Dutch Drupal Stichting and member of the board. He also founded the DrupalJam and organised two of these Dutch events, one of them with nearly 300 attendees.

He is a frequent speaker on smaller and bigger conferences in the Netherlands, some of which about Drupal. By promoting Drupal to a broader audience, Bert is partly responsible for making bigger newspapers and other media companies in the Netherlands switch to Drupal. Bert holds a master in Urban Planning and also studied Economics and Philosophy of Science. He lives with his girlfriend, daughter Brecht and son Aart. The first words of both Brecht and Aart were "Drupal" and "Druplicon" followed by "Mom" and "Dad". He apologises for the fact that GPL didn't come before Mom and Dad.

Bert works for Dutch Open Projects, the quality leader for Drupal implementations in the Netherlands.

I contributed Drupal documentation

I contributed Drupal translations

I help in the Drupal support forums

I provide Drupal-related services

I give support on IRC

I attended OSCON 2005 or the off-site Drupal conference at OSCON 2005 (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Europe)

I attended the Drupal conference 2006 (Brussels, Belgium)

I attended DrupalCon Barcelona 2007

I attended DrupalCon Szeged, Hungary 2008

I attended DrupalCon Paris 2009

I attended DrupalCon Copenhagen 2010