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

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

By all_aliens_are_green on

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..

⋅ Categories: Drupal 7.x

Community Spotlight: Moshe Weitzman

By Alex UA on

Contact Moshe. He lives in Boston, MA USA.

Community Spotlight: Jess (xjm)

By webchick on

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:

⋅ Categories: Drupal 7.x, Drupal 8.x

Community Spotlight: Klaus Purer (klausi)

By greggles on

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!

Community Spotlight: Melissa Anderson (eliza411)

By rfay on

Despite Melissa Anderson (eliza411)'s low user number on Drupal.org, she was a relatively quiet contributor until about halfway through the Great Git Migration, when she took over as project manager of that huge undertaking. Melissa’s scope, focus, and competence [editor’s note: a dreadful understatement!] continue to amaze everyone, and she is generally accepted as a fundamental reason that the Git Migration was completed on schedule and to such great reception.

Hailing from a small Alaska town with a background in education, Melissa is now officially co-lead of the Git Project with Sam Boyer. Randy Fay, Sam Boyer, and the entire Git migration team have nominated Melissa in honor of her incredible contribution.

To get to know her a little better, we asked Melissa a few questions:

How did you get involved in Drupal? Seems like it was a while ago...

I needed a solution for managing information in a public way. I tried Postnuke, but it was a complete #fail. Some very interesting friends recommended Mambo (now Joomla) and Drupal.

Alan Palazzolo

By arianek on

Name: Alan Palazzolo
nick: zzolo
http://drupal.org/user/147331
http://groups.drupal.org/user/7585
http://zzolo.org
http://twitter.com/zzolo

DrupalCon Chicago

I just spent an hour and a half helping Alan update all the old CVS application issues with info about the git migration, and was chatting here and there with him about how to better support people wanting to get involved in the community. It's not the first time we've chatted about this, over time with all the discussions about how to deal with the CVS application queue workflows, new git workflows, etc. He's not only contributed a lot to Drupal's mapping tools, but he's also been one of the main CVS application reviewers (and there are not many of them!)

He's got an online Drupal resume at http://zzolo.org/drupal for more details, but some highlights:

  • Big contributor to mapping modules, most notably OpenLayers OpenLayers.
  • Maintains or co-maintains 9 modules on Drupal.org.
  • Has done lots of mapping sessions and BOFs at DrupalCons and camps.

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