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Nominate someone for the Community Spotlight

Posted by lisarex on August 16, 2010 at 11:46pm

Inspired by others in the Drupal community? Nominate and interview the people improving Drupal for the Community Spotlight.

A Community Spotlight can be focused on an individual, a team (e.g. a Drupalcon team or the D7UX team), or any project that extends Drupal (e.g. a module, theme, installation profile etc).

To nominate:

1. Create a complete Community Spotlight in a new forum topic
2. Include
* Full Names for each contributor
* d.o./IRC nicks for each contributor
* At least one image: photo, screenshot, illustration (exact instructions coming soon)

3. Feel free to get creative, while remaining relevant to the Drupal community, but here are some suggestions:
Example questions for individuals:
* How did you get involved with Drupal?
* Do you have any advice to anyone just starting with Drupal?
* Can you explain some of the benefits of getting involved with the community and what you get out of it?

Example questions for teams:
* What are/were your primary challenges?
* What advice would you give if you could do it over again?
* Show us the best examples of your work

4. Be sure to link to some examples of their work, include testimonials, project's usage stats etc.

Community Spotlight: Scott Reynen

Posted by greggles on April 29, 2013 at 8:26pm

Scott Reynen has done some fun things in the Drupal community. Some notable examples:

Coordinated many meetups in Denver ensuring they happen, with interesting topics, and tasty pizza options
Helped to organize several Drupalcamps in Colorado (which will be June 29th/30 in 2013)
Presents on various topics at Drupalcamps
Helps as one of the 3 site maintainers for groups.drupal.org
Is an active Project Application queue reviewer heavily interested in new-contributor-onboarding and project quality
Takes care of abandoned projects and ownership requests in the Webmasters queue
And does a pretty darn good job as the maintainer for modules like @font-your-face.

How did you get involved with Drupal?

About 4 years ago, I took a job as a developer with Aten Design Group, where we do mostly Drupal projects. At the time, I was pretty skeptical of content management systems, after frustrating experiences with both WordPress and Joomla. But I quickly grew to appreciate Drupal’s modular architecture.

What do you do with Drupal these days?

I nominate.... Dmitri Gaskin! and of course.. The Drupal Song!

Posted by all_aliens_are_green on September 8, 2012 at 7:33pm

So.. ive been off making websites for sometime.. mebbe 15 yrs or so due to family commitments etc.. and the highest ever skill's I had was with phpnuke and a big contributer at the time to nukecops with my baby nuke100.com which inevetibly was hacked over and over because I was no good at protectin my lil self against mysql injections.. so alas I became deflated and sacked the whole thing and started to focus more on my proper job with the local council.. hmm.. Im still there too :)

Im now 40 yrs of age and was inspired recently by my 5yr old son whilst me and him stood in the queue at the local shop.. who whilst telling me about a dream he had the night before..

Daniel: Daddy... I had a dream last night..
me: Did you Dan? what was it about?
Daniel: Well.. it was more like a nightmare.. It had aliens in it!
me: Oh ek.. well.. what colour were these aliens Daniel?

to which Daniels face changed into that look of "you nutter"... "Daddy.. all aliens are green.. why did you even ask?"

at which point me and the shopkeeper simply looked at each other in bemusement :D

but I thought a couple of minutes after his story.. what a name for a website!

and so allaliensaregreen.com was born..

Community Spotlight: Moshe Weitzman

Posted by Alex UA on August 24, 2012 at 11:18am

Contact Moshe. He lives in Boston, MA USA.

Community Spotlight: Jess (xjm)

Posted by webchick on December 31, 2011 at 10:47pm

Jess (Drupal.org username xjm) is a Drupal developer, core contributor, module maintainer, and mentor, and just plain all-around awesome! She is a web developer for the University of Wisconsin's Department of Family Medicine. She also volunteers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum.

Jess has made many contributions to Drupal, including roles as:

maintainer of the Taxonomy Access Control and Taxonomy Lineage modules, among others.
co-maintainer of the Taxonomy module in Drupal core.
active participant in the API documentation clean-up sprint happening in Drupal 8, as well as efforts to clean up the entity system.
co-lead of the Clean Up Core community initaitive.
friendly and knowledgeable mentor to new contributors.
organizer of the twice-weekly core office hours to help get new core contributors involved.

Community Spotlight: Klaus Purer (klausi)

Posted by greggles on November 2, 2011 at 11:07pm

Klaus Purer is a member of the Drupal community who has been recently been extremely active with project applications. How active? In the last 30 days he has commented on almost twice as many projects as the next most prolific commenter. Even though he just got involved in the last month, he's tied for most reviews of the most projects in the last 6 months!

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