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Agaric Design is at DrupalCamp3 in New York City

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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