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.
| Picture | Name | Biography |
|---|---|---|
 | 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. |
 | 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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