Attendees

Intricate CSS studier. Lovely code.

Ben is currently in his second year of a computer science degree at UC. He enjoys learning about web development and design and a bit of mountain biking or skiing when the weather is good. I hope to learn some practical skills during DrupalSouth and meet people.

I am largely a drupal n00b, as this is not my day job.

I wip up a some fairly standard Drupal 6 sites, using mostly customisations of the zen theme. I focus on customising the css and choosing the best modules.

I am more experienced as a project / program manager and I am looking forward to combining these skills at some point.

David works as a Senior Developer at Catalyst IT.
He has published a number of popular open-source extensions for Joomla and modules for Drupal.
In his spare time, he likes playing music and hiking.

I was a client for a Drupal project for an organization I was involved with, and got hooked on Drupal So I thought it was time to learn a new set of skills have been working and learning on a project of my own.

Realy just a newbie to web design and web applications, enjoying learning new skills

Jeremy is mainly found doing almost everything on the InWEnt gGmbH platform Global Campus 21. But a good friend Rob has been relentlessly trying to persuade him into working in the Drupal world.
Now, unable to resist any longer, he has come round.

Jonathan Hunt is a freelance Drupal developer based in Christchurch, and instigator of DrupalSouth. Jonathan has been main developer on more than 20 Drupal sites including CommunityCentral (forthcoming), http://can.org.nz, http://nzskier.com, http://scott.co.nz, http://millymay.co.nz, and http://nzkm.net.nz and has consulted on others.

Julian is the principal of Seradigm. Seradigm is a niche consultancy specialising in strategy. Areas of focus include information management, information systems, e-Government, and facilitation in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.

Lei is a developer work at Lincoln Uni. He is looking after Moodle - course management web application and fixing/developing M$ .net bugs;p

Marek started with Drupal back in 2003. He's been working in IT industry since 1996. He's Linux and Mac user, using free, open source technologies. After ten years of "doing PHP" for his job, he fell in love with Python and Django project in particular. OpenID and related technolgies are also one of his interests. His company Encode Ltd is running first New Zealand OpenID provider at http://openid.net.nz. Marek is happily married with two children.

I've been making websites for about 5 years and a keen proponent of web standards. I settled on Drupal as a CMS because of its good css support. I expect to learn theming in the near future, but at present am content to doctor existing themes.

Nick is the founder, senior developer, and office cleaner for Superstar Software Ltd in Wellington. He likes solving customers problems and believes Drupal can fix many of them!

I'm a communications consultant, helping organisations build their communication capabilities.

My growing interest in Drupal is mostly due to working with Giant Robot on a couple of civiCRM installs on Drupal sites, and the rebuild of the Green Party site. So keen to learn more about the capabilities and constraints of Drupal before I go recommending it to clients. Will bring my crampons as I expect the learning curve to be kind of steep.

Oh, did I mention I like maps? So keen to learn how you are all getting along with the geo-type modules.

Learning drupal by the seat o' my pants.

Brenda writes and uses opensource code for telcos. She works with SMS, WAP, and embedded applications for cellphones and PDAS, realtime billing, remote data access and phone number portability. She wishes she had more Erlang projects. Brenda likes the technology coming from the PHP community and knows life is too short to use java

A relative newbie to Drupal. I'm looking for a change. I have this monkey on my back... he seems to be paid by someone named Bill and keeps shouting things like "Dot Net Forever!" and "Down with creative communists!"

Linux Ninja since 1995, Drupal dev. since 2007 and are still missing my Commodore 64

I (aka styro on drupal.org or just 'Anton' at work) have been using Drupal since... well... it seems like ages now. I'm the author of one (yes just the one at the moment) drupal.org contrib module, and have probably spent far too long answering drupal.org forum questions instead of actually working.

Apart from doing Drupal stuff I'm mainly a sysadmin who also likes hacking around with Python when I can.

William is a developer working for Encode Ltd who likes to create web apps using php, python and a little bit of jquery thrown in for good measure. He loves the command line and thinks that gui's make you less productive.

Relatively new to Drupal but starting to get my head around it.
Working for Crop and Food Research Institute where I look after their
Drupal instance among other things.