Drupal
- Drupal contributions
1st Community-elected Director of The Drupal Association
http://association.drupal.org/I founded the Brighton Area Drupal Association
http://BAD-Ass.org.ukI run the local Drupal User Group for Brighton
where we have regular meetups
http://groups.drupal.org/brightonI organised a Drupal Discovery Day during 2011 Brighton Digital Festival
I organised the first Brighton DrupalCamp, a.k.a. BADCampUK http://BADCampUK.net- My mentors
- tvn, Tezza, YesCT, xjm, BrockBoland
- Roles in working with Drupal
- Consultant
- I contributed Drupal patches
- I contributed Drupal modules
- I contributed to Drupal issue queues
- I contributed to Drupal.org
- I contributed Drupal documentation
- I help in the Drupal support forums
- I provide Drupal-related services
- I give support on IRC
- I help mentor new contributors
- I attended DrupalCon Copenhagen 2010
- I attended DrupalCon Chicago 2011
- I attended DrupalCon Munich 2012
- I attended DrupalCon London 2011
- I attended DrupalCon Denver 2012
Personal information
- Full name
- Steve Purkiss
- First or given name
- Steve
- Last name or surname
- Purkiss
- Languages spoken
- English
- My website
- http://purkiss.com
- Interests
- Freedom, F/LOSS, Drupal, travel, networker, pay it forward. 1st ever community-elected Director of the Drupal Association!
- Gender
- male
- Country
- United Kingdom
- IRC nick
- stevepurkiss
- LinkedIn profile
- http://linkedin.com/in/stevepurkiss
- Twitter url
- http://twitter.com/stevepurkiss
- Bio
Celebrating 30 years since I wrote my first line of code ;) Spent the last 20 of those working in the industry starting at a local IT reseller but quickly moving into programming, initially on IBM AS/400s in RPG. Swiftly moved on to Java J2EE before finally settling on PHP. Have always had a keen interest on the marketing of IT as have had to watch sales people sell stuff they know little about then tell coders they have a couple of weeks to code it in.
Have been lucky enough to work with household names, and am more adept at working on larger scale sites than brochureware. Am an avid networker and am keen to travel as much as I possibly can.
Have 10 years of CMS experience, the last five of those exclusively using Drupal.
1st community-elected Director of the Drupal Association!
Work
- Job title
- Director
- Current company or organization
- open for organisations
- Industries worked in
- Software
- Companies worked for
- open for organisations, WeCanGoDutch.com, European Broadcasting Union, Manchester University (Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change), Cartoon Network, Disney, HolyMoly, Books for Keeps (Children's Book Reviews online), Mazda, ATI, Volkswagen, British Telecom, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Royal Commonwealth Society, B&Q (Kingfisher Group PLC)
History
- Documentation
- At least 1 edit
- Member for
- 7 years 25 weeks
Projects
- Disclaimer Redirect (8 commits)
- Popup message (1 commit)
- Total: 9 commits
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