Speakers

We are still contacting speakers and adding to this list. If you have something you would like to present at DrupalSouth, please contact us.

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Bevan

Bevan Rudge is a drupal themer and engineer at CivicActions working on JustCauseit.com, Witness Hub Map and other projects. Bevan is also very involved with the drupal community both online and in his local community.
dave.lane

Dave has worked with open source for ages, since before Ubuntu was a twinkle in Mark Shuttleworth's eye! He's handy with Drupal, and dangerous with Emacs.
davidthomas

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.
dman

As dman@drupal.org I've been doing lots Drupally, including a few projects with Signify, and then a few more with Sparks Interactive, including the Drupalization of Sorted.org.nz.

I'm based in Wellington as a mostly-independant Web Guy, building things like The Vintage Aviator (recently spotlighted on Drupal.org front page)
jonathan.hunt

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.
josh.campbell

Josh is a Designer, CSS demon and IT educator.
julian.carver

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.
marek.kuziel

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.
shiny

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
xurizaemon

Chris Burgess is an interdependent software developer from Piha, near Auckland. Not in Auckland, mind. Just near it. Honest.

He is the driving force behind Giant Robot and runs Drupal because "I heard it can do even more stuff than WordPress".

Specific areas of interest are toolkits for community use, dot-orgs, publishing, CiviCRM, and (begrudgingly) the occasional commercial client.

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    Drupal south - morning christchurch! 01 November 2008 By Shiny 0 Okay, so Twisted Hop has awesome beer -- the only Hand Pulled Cask Ale i christchurch... hmmm.. 40 odd geeks gathered at this pub for some Drupal Conferencing. It's a complete "NERD PROM" Some things we'd like to see are: * More New Zealand focused drupal modules - e.g. Payment gateways i'd like to find time to make a Zoomin maps API CCK field. * Maori language translations * More NZ Drupal association membership * Mo

  • Light Fantastic; Backporting A Great Drupal 6 Contrib Theme To Drupal 5

    Light Fantastic; Backporting A Great Drupal 6 Contrib Theme To Drupal 5 30 September 2008 - 6:14pm — Bevan I recently searched on Themebot for a great contributed Drupal flexible-width theme for DrupalSouth.net.nz and found Light Fantastic. Joshua Brauer created the awesome Light Fantastic theme as part of the Google Summer of Code 2007. Screenshot of Light Fantastic on DrupalSouth.net.nz: See a larger image. read more Feed: Blog Posts on CivicActions.com Original article

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