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 |
|---|---|---|
 | Liz Henry | Liz Henry is a producer and developer at BlogHer, the award-winning aggregation, syndication and advertising network for women bloggers. She's been involved with organization for BarCamp, WoolfCamp, WisCon, She's Geeky, the Tiptree Awards, Wiki Wednesday, GimpgGirl, and Geek Lab. She writes for BlogHer, GeekFeminism, FeministSF: The Blog; is a literary translator and poet; writes in php, Perl, and python; and contributes to various projects including Dreamwidth, the Organization for Transformative Works, WordPress, and Drupal. |
 | webchick | Angela Byron is an Open Source evangelist who lives and breathes Drupal. She got her start as a Google Summer of Code student in 2005 and since then has completely immersed herself in the Drupal community. Her work includes acting as the Drupal 7 co-lead, doing core development and patch review, creating and contributing modules and themes, coordinating testing and quality assurance efforts within the project, improving documentation, and providing user support on forums and IRC. |
 | emmajane | Emma Jane Hogbin has been working as a Web developer since 1996. She is well known in the Drupal community not only for her technical knowledge, but also for her engaging and humorous means of bringing Drupal to a wider audience—such as the Drupal socks and their GPLed pattern. Her wildly successful theming book, Front End Drupal (co-authored with Konstantin Kaefer), was launched this spring. Emma volunteers with the Drupal documentation team and blogs at emmajane.net. |
 | Dave Sparks | Dave Sparks has been talking with clients and managing web site design and development since 1995, most recently heading up the team at Sparks Interactive banging out Drupal sites for the last 4 years. Usually found reconciling differences between developers and civilians, teasing designers about fonts or looking for someone to have coffee with. |
 | Berend de Boer | Berend has used Drupal since 2004. He has built non-profit and for-profit sites, from small to $ 500 million USD companies. Berend is currently running his hosting environment in the clouds, and specialises in Drupal hosting. |
 | Kale Worsley | Specialising in Drupal development, Kale is responsible for implementing Drupal-based applications for Egressive's customers. |
 | Julian Carver | Julian is an independent consultant who works in a range of areas including information systems strategy, enterprise content management, and web content management. He runs web CMS procurement processes for medium to large sized organisations, and has an indepth knowledge of the web CMS market in New Zealand. Julian is also the national chairperson of the New Zealand Knowledge Management Network. Julian is an active user of Drupal as the NZKM site has its web content, membership database, and ecommerce facilities implemented in Drupal. |
 | jonathan.hunt | Jonathan Hunt is a freelance Drupal developer based in Christchurch, and instigator of DrupalSouth (Christchurch). Jonathan has been main developer on over 40 Drupal sites including http://alpineclub.org.nz, http://rivers.org.nz, http://communitycentral.org.nz/, http://can.org.nz, http://far.org.nz, http://millymay.co.nz, and http://nzkm.net and has consulted on others. |
 | pete davis | I'm a communications consultant, helping organisations build their communication capabilities. My involvement with Drupal grew from working with civiCRM. In the last couple of years we worked on a dozen or so Drupal+CiviCRM implementations for political parties, environmental and human rights advocacy organisations, educational and social support organisations. Much of this work has involved Organic Groups and is now pushing in to the Features/Spaces/Context suite. We have also made good use of the Views potential in accessing civicrm data. |
 | Donna Benjamin | Donna Benjamin is the Executive Director of Creative Contingencies, an Australian company specialising in customised web services, research and event management. In addition to this Donna is currently President of Linux Users of Victoria and an active member of LinuxChix, Drupal Melbourne, Open Source Victoria and Open Source Industry Australia (OSIA). Donna was a board member of OSIA and served as director for 2006-2008 and currently organises the Melbourne OSIA gatherings. |
 | Chris Hood | Runs a freelance webdevelopment business in Brisbane (Australia) specialising to subscription and memberships sites. Currently maintaining the uc_recurring module which provided recurring functionality for Ubercart. |
 | Amber Haley | In the years LBM (life before Modica) I worked as a systems design geek, creating bespoke databases. Before that I spent 8 years filling almost every roll from graphic designer, to account and print production manager. I have a passion for intuitive information systems, UX and love the fact I gets paid to communicate! When not behind a computer, I can be found scaling indoor climbing walls, reading sci-fi, doing Kyokushin Kata, Djing in clubs and on Radio Active and tickling my son mercilessly, thus avenging myself for years of similar treatment from my mum |
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 | fiasco | IT Rockstar Josh Waihi is a Drupal developer at Catalyst IT in Wellington. He is a PostgreSQL specialist when it comes to Drupal and is one of the Drupal 7 database maintainers. |
 | Bevan Rudge | Who? |
 | Peter Lieverdink | Peter is a system administrator, web developer, mysql tune monkey and author. Having long used PHP to do everything from dynamic websites to washing socks, he recently set fire to his custom developed CMS and switched himself and his clients to Drupal. When he's not busy having coffee, he now writes Drupal modules and the occasional book. |
 | Simon Hobbs | Simon Hobbs is based in Melbourne and runs the Drupal consulting company Em Space. Em Space have held two Drupal Camps in Melbourne over the last couple of years and employ 3 developers. Em Space have developed sites like http://apo.org.au and deliver customised training throughout Australia. |
 | Claudine Chionh | I am a self-taught programmer/sysadmin; my background is in history and medical humanities. I work at the School of Population Health at the University of Melbourne, primarily on the Founders and Survivors project, which will follow the lives of Australian families from the convict transportation period to the First World War. I am especially interested in the use of web technologies to enable collaboration between academics and the wider community, and in connecting with others working in humanities computing in Australia. |
 | datacharmer | Giuseppe Maxia, a.k.a. The Data Charmer. I am the MySQL Community Team Lead at Sun Microsystems. I am active member of the MySQL community and long timer open source enthusiast. |
 | Alastair Moore | Web developer for Boost New Media in Wellington. I'm from the UK but now living in Wellington. I've been working as a web developer since 1998 and have been working with Drupal for around a year and a half. I've build numerous sites with Drupal (including www.alkane.co.uk, www.asianz.org.nz, www.barnsdalegardens.co.uk, www.adamfrost.co.uk). I've only recently started module development but wanted to share my experience with others that have shied away from building their own modules and give them a little leg up to get started. |
 | xurizaemon | Chris Burgess is an interdependent software developer based in Auckland. He is the driving force behind Giant Robot and has been increasingly focussed in Drupal space since 2005. Chris provides development consulting, mentoring and training for Drupal users and developers. |
 | Paul Flewelling | Originally living in the UK, I came to NZ on a working holiday visa 9 years ago and got stuck here. I've been a developer for 18 years, building large corporate/government applications and then moving to web apps full-time 4+ years ago after realising the potential of "Web2.0tm" I'm a firm believer in UX and if you can't show me a design or your designer, I almost certainly won't start the project. |
 | Dave Lane | Dave has worked with free and open source software and Linux for ages, since before Ubuntu was a twinkle in Mark Shuttleworth's eye! He's handy with Drupal, and dangerous with Emacs. |
 | arjen | Arjen is Exec.Director at Open Query, based from Brisbane Australia. He likes spending time with his daughter, travelling, walking and camping. He also loves to cook, and growing his own herbs and veggies. Ohyes, and Open Query does MySQL magic for you: remote support/DBA, OQGRAPH engine.... but Arjen would like you too to enjoy your free time, so he and his gang help you design well and prevent trouble, rather than play "fire department". |
 | Dave Hall | Dave is Managing Director of Dave Hall Consulting. When he isn't working with clients to build high quality web applications, he is working with them to improve their infrastructure. Dave lives less than 2 hours drive from Melbourne Australia in Green Gully near Newstead with his partner and 2 boys. Dave has been using Drupal since the days of 4.7. More recently he has been working in France building, deploying and managing around 2100 Drupal 6 sites with around 400,000 users. |
 | Aaron Fulton | Aaron did a bit of work with Drupal a number of years back and fell in love with it. Since then he's developed and administered a number of sites including the vetspace.org.nz suite, and sciquest.org.nz. He works for the VetLearn Foundation/New Zealand Veterinary Association doing all kinds of IT stuff ranging from helpdesk support to software development. He's a bit of a geek of all trades, master of none; working mostly with MSSQL, Postgres, MySQL, PHP, Javascript, Linux, Windows, propriety and open source software (mostly Drupal, Moodle, and CiviCRM). |
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