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Agaric Design is at DrupalCamp3 in New York CityAgaric Design is at DrupalCamp3 in New York City
Submitted by Benjamin Melançon on January 20, 2007 - 9:08pm
Specifically, I'm in Brooklyn with a bunch of other people who do Drupal.
The only way to even begin to give you a feel for this event is to data dump the introductions.
I do not list names in these notes less out of a deep respect for privacy, but mostly because there is an 97% chance I spelled it wrong.
- Manhattan Neighborhood Network - cable access
if you're in NY, the NYC Drupal group holds meetings - Integrated Digital Media Institute at Polytechnic
'we just switched over to Drupal'
Noel (our organizer): IDMI has been awesome
If you want to hold events in NYC, it really doesn't get used too frequently on the weekends
- Advomatic
'We will crush EchoDitto and Lullabot...
EchoDitto and Lullabot have given us all of our big work'(always joking about it)
but it really is a coompetition field
They actually literally work together when in town
- CivicSpace on Demand
- ChapterThree LLC was started by Drupalers, that's all that needs to be said
- Lullabot will be here tomorrow, they're out of Connecticut, they run educational things all the time
- Open Educator
educators share curriculum - EchoDitto: we're hiring
strategic online communications company - almost exclusively nonprofit and
we are technology agnostic - we recommend what's best
we do do a lot of Drupal work
some of our clients:
Clinton Foundation, Rosie O'Donnel's Blog, SEIU, UN World Food Program - Drupal just had its birthday, D5 just came out, this will be intense
Introduction for everyone
Noel Hidalgo, our heroic organizer, started off and set the format for introductions:
- Working on "the luck of seven"
want to upgrade noneck.org to Drupal 5 [which he did later in the day]
my tags: transparency, accuracy, and accountability– which are lies - wiredgeek.com
community, activism, video - IDMI
participation, freedom, community - old-time mainframe techy
set up a nonprofit with CiviCRM
activism, philanthropy, curious - Nikki's husband, I don't really blog
Nikki: I made him come
tags: I don't know - playing with computers since 1980
just about maxed wordpress out, trying Drupal
AppleII, Curious, many-to-many relationships - me:
wordpress seems to be a gateway drug to Drupal
quit white collar job to do Drupal, Agaric Design Collective, nonhierarchical, started with friends
also trying to create a network of everyone, People Who Give a Damn, completely open, completely democratic, if anyone wants to work on a project for free
tags: democracy, [I forget], revolution - knowledge facilitator at UN
fund 6,000 to 8,000 NGOs
use Drupal internally for our staff in 85 countries
sharing, community, development - got hired by Trellon
community, blogging, knitting - community, education, art
- SEO
more activist focused
develop
protect civil liberties
community, activism, effecting change - Treshler Design
sustainability, progressiveseness, [benevolence] - consulting in Vermont
here for Vermont Access Network
Don't have my own website
community, connectivity, customization - DigitalWeb
technology business
web site for my wife's company, a chemical-free line of cleaning products
tags: help - my wife and I just started a company ()
from Australia
community, Drupal, Drupal - I do graphic design
community, design, color module - interaction design
don't know anything about Drupal
learn for my own interest
tags: technology, grassroots organization, journalism - student at IDMI
video artist
video, universal connectivity, sharing - from Austria
don't know Drupal yet
connectivity, art, cooperation - also Austria
art, IDMI
software called pew data
try to convince them to drupal
I think tagging people is not a good Idea - hidden project based on Drupal - crazy RSS
our product - share big files
working with Jacob from MNN a little bit
"easy bittorrent"
launching a small developers site soon
I'm a PHP hacker, know deep in a narrow slice of Drupal - first PC 1980
3 careers. taught computer science 5 years. Helped write book called SlaveNation, then did web site slavenation.us -- static,
tags: newbie, newbie, newbie - OpenFlows - for media groups
don't blog because I secretly hate the Internet
open source, bicycles - lead 10-person tech team for direct marketing agency
looking to do a both for-profit and nonprofit project, and looking for Drupal for at least the planning process
tags: collaboration, business, benevolence - Western Mass
help friend with church for exprisoners
idea of film is we can be part of national co
distribution plan is all about community organizations
tags: totally new, not very techie, very willing - teacher in NYC
education, environment, activism - software dev for small company
Taka introduced to me
education, sharing, development - green card prisoner for seven years for big corporation
got my green card left company started my own
[applause]
help, wiki, maintenance - transportation alternatives
redoing our site
converting static to Drupal
tags: organizing, internet, advocacy, good design - work for ---- proprietary CMS
Drupal for [my own projects] - developer posing as business person for New York Observer
ripping out and replacing our CMS with Drupal
can't find anyone to help
everyone wants to have their own consulting business
so I guess I'm looking to find a good consulting business
tags: innovation, media, community - probably the oldest person here
started on Mainframes in 1956
site maintainer for NY-NJ trail conference
static site, about 5,000 pages
world's worst graphic designer
tags: community, advocacy, building - programming with Trellon for a couple months
tags: programming, curious - web developer for jewcy.com
online magazine for hip jews
I'm neither hip nor Jewish - nat'l gay and lesbian task force
redesigned new site in Drupal
absolutely new, curious - nat'l coalition against censorship
link people in first amendment
tags: art, technology, social justice - Denver Public Media
Drupal
tags: social justice, advocacy, social software - business background, want to be a developer
productivity, collaboration, benevolence - crunch numbers
eyes glaze over when I hear developers talk
want to get beyond my spreadsheets - corporate expat trying to find my way
have all sorts of ideas
Not build communities but tap communities for metadata
tags: visualization, context - dancer
was working with Wordpress
interested in activism potential
social software - been on Drupal drug for about a year
podcast, family, social. - EchoDitto
Drupal I think is too hard to use for a lot of end users
tags: curiosity, geocoding, and sadly Rosie O'Donnel - involved with Drupal since 2003 but not a dev, barely an admin
I'm here to spread the idea of best business practices
there really is a wonderful thing going on, evolving a diffferent business model. It's a really great network effect
just the way this camp itself shows
open source, open practice, revolution - probably only one stuck in corporate, Dilbert-like environment
to try to get my soul back, I work on
travel site about nat'l park in Canada
Wordpress -> Drupal
tags: community-generated media, collaboration, content management - probably most famous as the owner of David.com
Noel told me to come here yesterday
investment, managing tech sector funds
matching up a lot of people in this room looking to streamline costs
tagless, mainly because I got an e-mail from Google saying it's all about labels now, which I think is anachronistic - grad student
world bridges network
tags: education - Workers Party
community, activism, politics - web standards person by night
looking into learning more PHP
good designs from real designers and making actual Drupal themes - clueless now that I'm on Linux
trustee for C Commons
community bent, libertarian bent, in real estate
want to set up web site that's community focused, on local real estate projects that will affect communities
looking to assist local poetry collective - Connecticut
going to be doing a couple sessions
integrating images with content best practices
Google maps
father of three-year-old daughter
specialize in fairly useless modules
using drupal to build gaming sites
most of the time though I'm helping do really cool sites - looking to pass work to other developers
My three words are: democratic majority yay - one of founders of Advomatic
started using Drupal
business management and infrastructure
harassing clients
open source, politics, systems integration - software architect at echo ditto
got my first computer in 1988, but I was four years old at the time
recent mac convert
tags: Microsoft sucks, really - echoditto.com
nonprofit org sites - Mainframes
tech support
interested in Drupal, someone from Burning Man community with environmental site brought it up
art, education, mathmatics - webmaster for ____ school
blogging for teachers
education - project manager at Trellon
organizer for DailyKos convention
tags: progressive activism online - professor in design department
series of firefox plugins to show environmental impact
on the side I build web sites
Drupal for K-8 school
looking for more information on blocks and modules
looking into teachers being able to post grades, parents being able to see grades
there is some money coming down the line for that project - from Brooklin, originally from Caribbean
touched my first computer in 1998, love at first touch
design web sites in Photoshop
tags: business, technology, freelancing - mostly here from:
Nonprofit Open Source Initiative
recycle(?), bike
ecology, sustainability, a little bit of photojournalist - 60 students running aronud with minidisc recorders
Drupal site for posting stuff on that - work with Advomatic
before, Democratic politics and
Then running web site for advocacy group with Drupal, and I saw how it just made sense
now I teach campaign managers how each part of the web site
we're doing pretty go
open source, democrats, win - federal agencies better do business with youth taxpayers
use technology to save taxpayers money
open source, security - marketing manager at Trellon
core competency
political campaigns, nonprofits, scientific and ecology organizations
here to catch up with friends and see what people are interested in and talking about
democratic politics, open source, happy - my sister, her kids have various allergies, she wants a platform for sharing allegy information. I told her Sharepoint at first.
She said the people at sharepoint weren't really that technical
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