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Drupal contributions

Khalid has been a contributer to the Drupal project, and a member of the community since 2003. He is also a permanent member of the General Assembly for the Drupal Association.

As co-founder of 2bits.com, Inc., he provides various Drupal services to clients, including customization, development, performance tuning and consulting for Drupal web sites. Since 2bits.com, Inc. is an active contributor to Drupal, it is listed on the Drupal services section of this web site.

Khalid is one of the most active developers for Drupal, as well in the top 10 contributors to Drupal.

Core features

As a member of the community, Khalid developed the following features which are part of Drupal core.:

Site offline/maintenance feature (also here).
Watchdog hook, and logging and alerts for Drupal 6 and here and here. This caused me to be the maintainer of logging and alerts starting with Drupal 6.
Drupal to work behind reverse proxies, which was written for Drupal.org when it started to run behind a Squid proxy.
Implement an automatic whitelist for path alias lookups to reduce the number of queries that Drupal makes.
Theming of "submitted" for nodes and comments, to make customizing of these author and date/time easier and more consistent.

Other minor core changes and fixes include Separating the forum block for the sake of consistency, adding a subject to contact form, fixing the search box in PHPTemplate-based core themes, delete a user's session when a user is deleted, and fix for wrong SQL arguments, and notices, remove old pre-formAPI text from login page and remove reference to obsolete table name nominated to the most trivial patch of the month.

Community contributions

Khalid, and 2bits.com, maintain several modules that run on drupal.org, as well as the association web site.

These include:

Donation module, for collecting donations via Paypal
Fee module, for those attending the Barcelona 2007 Drupal Conference site to pay the fees
Feature module
Lists module

Google Summer of Code

Khalid has mentored students for Google Summer of Code Drupal projects since the program's inception in 2005. Students from past years have become mentors themselves in subsequent years.

Contributed modules

2bits.com, Inc, has written many modules for clients or for web sites we run, and contributed them to the community.

Here is a list that we occasionally update, and would give you an idea on what 2bits.com, Inc. can do for you.

Presentations and talks

As part of promoting Drupal, the following presentations and talks were conducted:

Drupal performance tuning and optimization for high traffic sites (OpenCraft, Cairo, Egypt, August 2007)
Userpoints module and API (OpenCraft, Cairo, Egypt, August 2007)
Performance tuning and optimization for high traffic Drupal sites (Drupal Camp Toronto May 2007)
Building communities using userpoints module and API (Drupal Camp Toronto May 2007)
Using CCK/Views/Panels to build Drupal web sites (Drupal Camp Toronto May 2007)
Using Drupal to build community web sites (Drupal Camp Toronto May 2006)

Many of the above presentations are available on 2bits.com, Inc. web site.

You can also find many Drupal articles on 2bits, as well as the Drupal section of Khalid's blog.

I contributed Drupal documentation

I contributed Drupal modules

I contributed Drupal themes

I provide Drupal-related services

I help in the Drupal support forums

I attended the Drupal conference colocated with the Open Source CMS and Blogging Tools Summit (Vancouver, Canada)

I attended Drupalcon Boston 2008

I attended Drupalcon DC 2009