Drupal
- Drupal contributions
As a member of the Drupal.org Redesign Team, I have participated in several sprints held in Europe and North America to implement the new Drupal brand. I am also a member of the Drupal.org Documentation Team. I maintain more than a dozen modules, two themes, and contribute patches and functionality to several more.
Sprints
- Drupal documentation sprint: Toronto (March, 2009)
- Drupal.org redesign sprint: Paris (February, 2009)
- Drupal.org redesign sprint: San Francisco (April, 2009)
- Drupal.org redesign sprint: Boston (June, 2009)
- Drupal.org redesign sprint: Dallas (August, 2009)
- Drupal.org redesign sprint: Paris (September, 2009)
- Drupal.org redesign sprint: Copenhagen (August, 2010)
Events
I have chaired the following DrupalCon tracks:
- DrupalCon Copenhagen 2010: Providing Professional Drupal Services track co-chair
- DrupalCon Chicago 2011: Design/UX track chair
I have spoken at the following DrupalCons and DrupalCamps:
- DrupalCon Paris 2009
- DrupalCon San Francisco 2010
- DrupalCon Copenhagen 2010
- DrupalCon Chicago 2011
- DrupalCon London 2011
- DrupalCamp Copenhagen 2009
- DrupalCamp Finland 2009
- DrupalCamp Stockholm 2009
- Drupal Design Camp Boston 2009
- DrupalCamp Dallas 2009
- DrupalCamp Austin 2009
- Do It with Drupal 2009
- Drupal Design Camp Boston 2010
- DrupalCamp Austin 2010
- Southwest Drupal Summit 2011
- Drupal Design Camp Los Angeles 2011
- DrupalCamp Stockholm 2011
- Drupal Design Camp Boston 2011
- Dallas Drupal Days 2011
- DrupalCamp Los Angeles 2011 (pending)
I also attended the following:
- DrupalCon Boston 2008
- DrupalCon Szeged 2008
- DrupalCon DC 2009
- SandCamp 2011
Each year, Four Kitchens organizes DrupalCamp Austin, one of the largest DrupalCamps in the world:
- DrupalCamp Austin 2009
- DrupalCamp Austin 2010
- DrupalCamp Austin 2011 (scheduled for November 19-20, 2011)
- Roles in working with Drupal
- Designer, Themer, Front-end developer, Developer, Information architect
- I contributed Drupal patches
- I contributed Drupal modules
- I contributed Drupal themes
- I contributed to Drupal issue queues
- I contributed Drupal documentation
- I reviewed Project applications
- I help in the Drupal support forums
- I provide Drupal-related services
- I give support on IRC
- I will attend DrupalCon Denver 2012
- I attended DrupalCon London 2011
- I attended DrupalCon Boston 2008
- I attended DrupalCon DC 2009
- I attended DrupalCon Szeged, Hungary 2008
- I attended DrupalCon Paris 2009
- I attended DrupalCon San Francisco 2010
- I attended DrupalCon Copenhagen 2010
- I attended DrupalCon Chicago 2011
Personal information
- Full name
- Todd Ross Nienkerk
- First or given name
- Todd
- Last name or surname
- Nienkerk
- Languages spoken
- English; German
- My website
- http://fourkitchens.com
- Gender
- male
- Country
- United States
- IRC nick
- toddross
- LinkedIn profile
- http://www.linkedin.com/in/toddross
- Twitter url
- http://twitter.com/toddross
- Bio
Four Kitchens co-founder Todd Ross Nienkerk has been involved in the web design and publishing industries since 1996. Since that time, he has designed and built countless websites and written for, edited, and managed several online and print publications. Although Todd's interests focus primarily on graphic design, his strong background in development and site architecture allows him to contribute to virtually any creative or technical task. As an active member of the Drupal community, Todd regularly speaks at Drupal events and participates in code sprints all over the world. (In the last three years, he has spoken at 16 conferences and attended five code sprints in seven countries.) Todd is a member of the Drupal Documentation Team and recently co-chaired the Professional Drupal Services track for DrupalCon Copenhagen 2010 and chaired the Design/UX track for DrupalCon Chicago 2011. As a member of the Drupal.org Redesign Team, Todd helped spearhead the effort to redesign Drupal.org and communicate a fresher, more effective Drupal brand.
Work
- Job title
- Co-founder, Designer, Developer
- Industries worked in
- Writing, Editing, Publishing, Design, Web design, Web development
- Companies worked for
- Four Kitchens, That Other Paper, University of Texas at Austin
- Current company or organization
History
- Documentation
- Over 10 edits
- Member for
- 5 years 12 weeks
Projects
- Read More Link (Drupal 6 and earlier) (42 commits)
- Block Class (35 commits)
- About This Node (23 commits)
- Permalink (15 commits)
- Author Taxonomy (13 commits)
- Nirvana (8 commits)
- Nirvana Fluid (7 commits)
- Attachment Links (6 commits)
- Recent Comments (4 commits)
- Read More Link (4 commits)
- RobotsTxt (4 commits)
- User Terms (4 commits)
- Mass Change (3 commits)
- Pressflow Buzzworthy (2 commits)
- Pressflow Recent Comments (2 commits)
- Drupal.org customizations (2 commits)
- NineSixty (960 Grid System) (2 commits)
- Dex: Contact Information Manager (2 commits)
- Buzzworthy (2 commits)
- Camaxtli (1 commit)
- Text Formatter (1 commit)
- Tracker 2 (1 commit)
- Feed Path Publisher (1 commit)
- Total: 184 commits
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