We are just a few days out from leaving for Portland OR. JBS International, the company I work full time for, is sending a large contingent of it's employees to the yearly Drupal Convention known as Drupalcon. I will be documenting our trip to show how our involvement in these community events benefit our organization.
Randy Fay, Drupal community staple and well known Drupalista, talks about the role Drupal plays in NGO work and his new endeavor helping the people of Nicaragua have clean water
Some say it may be tongue in cheek, but there is a real reverence for Drupal from both it's users, and it's developers. There are also shots of the conference.
While putting together my presentation for Captial Camp, I created this diagram which shows how the different entites relate to each other on our Comemrce site for NIDA. I will also attach this to the post in case somebody wants to improve upon it.
Brock Boland and Bryan Hirsch, two of the Drupal community members behind Learndrupal.org, talk about how even beginners can contribute back to the community through the website,
They say some companies set aside time for their employees to volunteer working on Drupal Core.
The event was on April 9 and hosted by APCO- just a few blocks from the White House
Ryan Szrama, Commerce Guys developer and Drupal rock star, talks about the structure of Drupal Commerce, the Drupal community, the role of Commerce in Federal IT and sponsoring developers to get our needed modules.
The King of Denmark, a themeing guru, Drupal community staple and quite a character. According to his profile on Drupal.org, he runs "a 1 man army Drupal Shop called geek Röyale based on the corner of the red light district of Copenhagen." This guy rocks
