Drupal

I contributed Drupal patches
I contributed Drupal modules
I contributed Drupal themes
I contributed Drupal documentation
I contributed Drupal automated tests
I help in the Drupal support forums
I provide Drupal-related services
I give support on IRC
I attended DrupalCon Boston 2008
I attended DrupalCon DC 2009
I attended DrupalCon Paris 2009
I attended DrupalCon San Francisco 2010
I will attend DrupalCon Denver 2012

Personal information

Full name
Bevan Rudge
First or given name
Bevan
Last name or surname
Rudge
Languages spoken
English; Spanish
My website
http://drupal.geek.nz/
Interests
Drupal, Usability, Open Source, Programming, Mountain Biking, Snowboarding
Gender
male
Country
New Zealand
IRC nick
Bevan
LinkedIn profile
http://www.linkedin.com/in/bevanr
Twitter url
http://twitter.com/BevanR
Bio

Who?

I am a Drupal geek from NZ and a Drupal consultant at PreviousNext. I am a member of the Drupal Association General Assembly. I am a snowboarder, mountain biker and an advocate of freedom, openness and especially open source software.

What?

I work closely with some amazing Drupal developers and contributors. I contribute code to Drupal core and contrib. I have been involved with the Google Summer of Code, Season of Usability, usability testing at the University of Minnesota and the Drupal Usability team. I snowboard in the Southern Alps and mountain bike in the Port Hills. I advocate open source. I work with local Drupal communities to facilitate networking, meet-ups, local support groups and collaboration between NZ Drupal developers.

How?

At PreviousNext I architect and build web applications and websites with Drupal. And I hack, break, fix and optimise javascript, CSS and images.

Until July 2011 I worked at Palantir.net on internal systems and various public facing websites for interesting clients, including PGA.com.

Before that I worked for 6 months at NowPublic on their own projects, including Examiner.com, a top-80 website.

Before that, I worked for 2.5 years at CivicActions, an excellent Drupal consulting firm with team members in across the globe. My work there included Drupal module development, theming, software engineering, requirement-gathering and client training.

In New Zealand I organised 2 Drupal conferences; DrupalSouth Christchurch November 2008 and DrupalSouth Wellington January 2010. I campaigned avidly against software patents and against corrupt S92a copyright laws in the Internet blackout.

Where?

New Zealand is my home base for now. Dopplr and TripIt are both handy places to find out where I am now and next.

On the web, I tweet on Twitter.com/BevanR and blog at Drupal.geek.nz. You can also find me on Drupal.org, Groups.drupal.org and on IRC as "Bevan".

Why?

Drupal is fun! My peers in the Drupal community are fantastic and my main inspiration. I love writing code. I especially love writing jQuery, javascript and Drupal module code.

Oh! And I need to make a living, eat, pay the rent, get mountain bike parts, lift tickets and snowboard equipment etc. And what better way to do that than doing something I enjoy!

Work

Job title
Drupal Consultant
Industries worked in
education, project management, conservation, travel, ngo, non-profit, web-development, politics, real estate, tourism, government campaign, media, news
Companies worked for
Palantir.net, NowPublic.com, Examiner.com, Clarity Digital Group, CivicActions, Drupal.geek.nz, Evolver.net, RealitySandwich.com, Cagora, Taniwha Solutions, Sparks Interactive, Calmer, Tincan, phplist, Lucion Ltd
Current company or organization
PreviousNext

History

Documentation
Over 10 edits
Member for
5 years 50 weeks

Projects

Drupal Association individual member

Bevan is an individual member of the Drupal Association, which fosters and supports the Drupal software project, the community and its growth.

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