rootwork

Drupal

Drupal contributions

I do custom themes for every project I work on. I often intend to turn these into contributed themes, but they're often so content-specific that they become unworkable. That's a lesson for aspiring theme-developers: theme to your content! Generalized d.o themes are great, but your site has a specific purpose and audience and your theme should reflect it.

I did a bunch of work on the Theming Views 2 handbook page at the Drupalcon DC 2009 doc sprint. I'm often on #drupal-support and #drupal-themes to try to help out others. More often than not, I'm on #drupal to ask questions -- I know PHP well enough to theme, and not much beyond that!

My other contribution of sorts has been a particular focus on Drupal as a CMS particularly useful to nonprofits and social change groups. I wrote an article, Drupal for Nonprofits, and made a similar presentation at the 2008 Philly Drupal Camp. I'm on a variety of "nonprofit tech" lists (and I'm the co-organizer of the nptech group Philadelphia NetSquared) and I'm regularly in the role of Drupal evangelist.

I contributed Drupal documentation

I give support on IRC

I help in the Drupal support forums

I provide Drupal-related services

I attended Drupalcon DC 2009

Work

Job title

Creative Director, Online Organizer and Web Developer

Industries worked in

Nonprofit, Foreign Policy, Social Justice, Academic

Companies worked for

Rootwork.org, Genocide Intervention Network, why-war.org, Pendle Hill Peace Network, Exotica Jewelry/ringsforever.com

Personal information

Full name

Ivan Boothe

My Drupal site

http://www.rootwork.org

Interests

nonprofits, nptech, nonprofit technology, social change, social media, online organizing, online advocacy, advocacy, grassroots organizing, netsquared, net2, strategy, implementation, web 2.0, rootwork

Country

United States

IRC nick

rootwork (formerly "quixoticlife")

History

Member for

4 years 17 weeks