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 254: Mumbai Memories - meet Rakesh James | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 16:30

My trusty microphone, camera, and I recorded a few great conversations at DrupalCon in Mumbai that have never been released until now. Today, a conversation with Rakesh James, who credits Dries for giving him a way to live and support his family with Drupal. Rakesh is an extraordinary and generous person; he's personally paid that forward, giving others in India the chance to change their lives, too, by teaching hundreds of people Drupal and giving them a shot at a career, too. He's also a top 30 contributor to Drupal 8 core. Rakesh told me about the moment he both discovered and fell in love with Drupal. His manager gave him permission to check out Drupal for a project, "I started it with Drupal 5. I got a big error. My senior [colleague] said I could post on Drupal.org because he was sitting far away and could not debug for me. I posted the error ... After one hour somebody from the community replied that it would be better if you started with Drupal 6. That was amazing. If you post it, somebody from the [other side] of the planet replied to me, 'You should do this.' From that amazing [moment] till now, I have that feeling. All the time when you go to the community and post something, you'll be getting the right answer. In an hour's time. That is so amazing." "I feel like when I have gotten something, I should give back to others who are struggling. If they have a little education, know how to play with the computer, I should teach them Drupal. That is the best way of doing it. I spread the word because I got something. The people are around, this magic should be with them also ... So they will have a better life. They'll have a better salary. It's a better way to do that; teach the kids in pre-university colleges. We should teach them. I volunteer my time for that. Two Saturdays a month, we go out to the colleges. Every first Saturday, we have a community meet-up; the other Saturday we go to a college and teach them Drupal." If you have any doubts about Rakesh's sincerity in all this, watch how moved he is in the video from about 10:30 to 11:50 :-) DrupalCon Asia Mumbai 2016 was almost exactly a year ago now. Of all the conferences I have been to, Mumbai was probably my favorite. I met an incredible, active, enthusiastic Drupal community that welcomed everyone with open arms, incredible food (!), and a LOT of selfies :-) Subscribe to the podcast! Subscribe to the Acquia Podcast in iTunes and rate this episode! Subscribe via our RSS feed.

 250: Suchi Garg - Career makes Community | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 33:07

What's in a Driesnote? Interviews from the DrupalCon Dublin "Driesnote" keynote address. Suchi Garg is an IT professional through and through and happened upon PHP and Drupal essentially by accident at work. As of 2017, she has been working exclusively in Drupal for a decade and is still very passionate about code, contribution, the community, and passing on her knowledge through training. She is Technical Services Manager at Acquia. DrupalCon Dublin Community Voices podcasts 248: What's in a Driesnote? ASH 'n jam talk community stories. In this podcast, I talk with Acquia Office of the CTO Multimedia Designer, Alena "ASH" Heath about her history in Drupal, this project and what we learned along the way! 249: Changing lives, changing the world - voices from the Dublin Driesnote - Hear Vijaya Chandran Mani, Zsófi Major, Drew Gorton, Franck Seferiba Salif Soulama, Suchi Garg, Ronan Dowling, Jack Holding, Sheena Morris, and Crispin Read as featured in DrupalCon Dublin "Driesnote" keynote address. 250: Dublin Driesnote Voices - Suchi Garg Subscribe! Subscribe to the Acquia Podcast in iTunes and rate this episode! Subscribe via our RSS feed.

 249: Changing lives, changing the world - community voices from DrupalCon Dublin | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 8:19

DrupalCon Dublin keynote community voices - In Acquia podcast 248, Acquia Office of the CTO Multimedia Designer, Alena "ASH" Heath and I talked about helping capture stories of contribution and change from the Drupal community. In this quick follow-up, here are the soundbites that were featured in Dries Buytaert's "Driesnote" address at DrupalCon Dublin, 2016. A warm round of thanks to Vijaya Chandran Mani, Zsófi Major, Drew Gorton, Franck Seferiba Salif Soulama, Suchi Garg, Ronan Dowling, Jack Holding, Sheena Morris, and Crispin Read. Thanks for all your help, contributions, and being part of the Drupal community! DrupalCon Dublin Community Voices podcasts 248: What's in a Driesnote? ASH 'n jam talk community stories. In this podcast, I talk with Acquia Office of the CTO Multimedia Designer, Alena "ASH" Heath about her history in Drupal, this project and what we learned along the way! 249: Changing lives, changing the world - voices from the Dublin Driesnote 250: Dublin Driesnote Voices - Suchi Garg Suchi Garg is an IT professional through and through and happened upon PHP and Drupal essentially by accident at work. As of 2017, she has been working exclusively in Drupal for a decade and is still very passionate about code, contribution, the community, and passing on her knowledge through training. She is Technical Services Manager at Acquia. Subscribe! Subscribe to the Acquia Podcast in iTunes and rate this episode! Subscribe via our RSS feed.

 248: ASH 'n jam talk about collecting Drupal community stories. | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 23:53

Acquia Office of the CTO Multimedia Designer, Alena "ASH" Heath and I collaborated in 2016, collecting stories about contribution and changing lives from members of the Drupal community. Soundbites from some of those conversations were included in Dries Buytaert's "Driesnote" keynote address at DrupalCon Dublin. In this podcast, we talk about ASH's history in Drupal, this project and what we learned along the way! DrupalCon Dublin Community Voices podcasts 248: What's in a Driesnote? ASH 'n jam talk community stories. 249: Changing lives, changing the world - voices from the Dublin Driesnote - Hear Vijaya Chandran Mani, Zsófi Major, Drew Gorton, Franck Seferiba Salif Soulama, Suchi Garg, Ronan Dowling, Jack Holding, Sheena Morris, and Crispin Read as featured in DrupalCon Dublin "Driesnote" keynote address. 250: Dublin Driesnote Voices - Suchi Garg Suchi Garg is an IT professional through and through and happened upon PHP and Drupal essentially by accident at work. As of 2017, she has been working exclusively in Drupal for a decade and is still very passionate about code, contribution, the community, and passing on her knowledge through training. She is Technical Services Manager at Acquia. Subscribe! Subscribe to the Acquia Podcast in iTunes and rate this episode! Subscribe via our RSS feed.

 247: Diversity, Differentiation, Value(s) with Tim Deeson | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 26:27

While passing through London in late 2016, I sat down with Tim Deeson, lead at the Deeson agency. We talked about the history of his company, delivering value with Drupal is more than delivering code, and Tim's revelations and action regarding diversity at his company and in the tech industry. Resources / Mentioned White men in digital - our privilege is blinding - Deeson blog, September, 2016 A progress update on creating inclusive teams at Deeson - Deeson blog, January, 2017 The ten actions Tim and Deeson committed to in 2016 to improve diversity in their company: Begin annual salary audits to check for bias and rectify imbalances Report on our progress when we do our quarterly planning Implicit bias training for everyone Stop attending conferences that don’t have a credible Code of Conduct During hiring, take a more nuanced view on whether a developer has made open source contributions Stop participating in all male conference panels Improve our Careers page, including clarity on parental leave Stop asking for previous salary during hiring – it can perpetuate pay inequality Create dialogue and feedback channels within the company to offer better support Stay informed and signpost groups working in the industry Conversation Video [Full Conversation Transcript] The Deeson Origin Story jam: Tim Deeson, you run what’s now called the Deeson Agency. Is that right? Tim: Yes, that’s our social media name, but just “Deeson.” jam: Deeson. Tim: Yes. jam: What’s the history of Deeson? Tim: Deeson is a family business. It was started by my grandfather in the ‘50s, and was a contract publishing company. In 2001, we started the digital agency and that’s the main part of business, but we, actually, still have a small publishing company, too. jam: You and I talked several years ago now on the podcast about the origins of the business and coming from print to digital and all of those things, but it’s really one of those stories about like, “Yes, I can build a website, Dad!” Tim: Yes. I came back from backpacking and a family friend, when I lived in San Francisco, a family friend who worked for Apple, he taught me how to hack around with Macs and stuff. I kind of came from backpacking, needed some money. This was kind of in pre-CSS days, actually, I started making websites, kept picking up clients and kind of went from there. In about 2007, we started doing Drupal. jam: Pre-CSS. Tim: Yes. This was Adobe GoLive ... CSS was just starting to come out there. jam: Do you still write your HTML in all caps? Tim: Yes. I don’t write HTML anymore. jam: Do you still use spacer gifs? Tim: Yes, and I shrink a massive table and it’s mostly made of one-pixel gifs That’s the only way I know, unfortunately. CSS passed me by. jam: They let you do the managing now. Tim: Yes. More the spreadsheets and the blog posts, probably more where my talents lie, in reality. Delivering Value with Drupal jam: Can you talk about the difference between delivering code or delivering Drupal and delivering value higher up the value chain? Tim: Yes. I guess, I always look at these things as kind of nested, you know, often clients don’t necessarily have a strategy that they work to. Looking – things like Drupal are tools that nested within a strategy, you can deliver value because they have certain attributes, but it’s starting, for me, to the top or the bottom to understand if we want to grow sales in Europe, for example. It’s, then, looking at ways to do digital channel to that and how – what’s a cost effective long-term way of delivering their sales reliably and where does that keep stacking up. jam: “I want a website...

 246: Don't miss Drupal Camp London 2017! | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 18:11

A conversation about the event and why you should be there, too, this time around with Ben Wilding and Waliur Rahman, members of the 2016 Drupal Camp London organizing team. Come along March 3-5, 2017, to Europe's biggest (best?) community event on the calendar! Tickets and information here: http://drupalcamp.london

 57: Godspeed, webkenny - Episode 57 rebroadcast and commentary | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 29:24

Acquia Podcast 57 rebroadcast + commentary - Kenny "webkenny" Silanskas passed away in late 2016. Kenny was a Drupalist, a colleague at Acquia, a musician, and a good, funny person who touched my life and the lives of many others. Godspeed, Kenny. We miss you and your huge laugh. Here, Robert Douglass and I listened to the podcast I recorded with Kenny in 2012, reminisced, and talked about the early years at Acquia and the origins of the DrupalCon Prenote. The second half of the podcast is my conversation with Kenny from 2012 and the audio version of his performance in the DrupalCon London Prenote in 2011. Podcast 57 commentary and original audio webkenny memories DrupalCon London, 2011 Prenote 50 Ways to write a module (parody of Paul Simon's 50 Ways to leave your lover, lyrics by Robert Douglass and Jeffrey A. "jam" McGuire) - Huge thanks to Radim Klaška for filing this back in the day. "The problem's all inside your head," Dries said to me, "The hooks are easy if you take it logically, I'd like to help you in your struggle to be free, There must be 50 ways to write a module." He said, "It's fine to fins a file to include," Hopefully your server's RAM won't be abused, But in that hook, the code looks somewhat crude, There must be 50 ways to write a module, 50 ways to write a module." Just push it to Git, Mitt Write a new patch, Catch, You don't need to deploy, Roy, Just ask Angie. Post in the queue, Stu, You don't need to write code much, Just sort on the key, Lee, And learn PHP. [Repeat Chorus] Dries said, "It pleases me to see you used check_plain, But if I could only get you to test again." I said, "I appreciate that, but would you please explain About those 50 ways ... ?" Dries said, "Why don't we both just hack throughout the night? And I believe in the morning, you'll begin to see the light," And then he committed a patch and I knew that he was right, There must be 50 ways to write a module, 50 ways to write a module. Just push it to Git, Mitt, Write a new patch, Catch, You don't need to deploy, Roy, Just ask Angie. Post in the queue, Stu, You don't need to write code much, Just sort on the key, Lee, And learn PHP. [Repeat Chorus] DrupalCon London, 2011 - Living, Breathing Drupal: The Biology of the Request Original Acquia Podcast post, episode 57, 2012 Kenny Silanskas, Acquia's Tier 1 Team Manager, has a passion for getting Drupal right that rubs off on his team – Acquia's crew of frontline Client Advisers. They are in the happy position of being able to train client-developers in best practices, choosing and using the right Drupal modules, how to use the open source process, and more. Kenny says, "The Support Department gives Drupal sites the TLC they need." All of this results in happier and more successful Drupal users and a healthier Drupal project. Supporting Acquia Support Keeping his team happy and on track is quite a challenge, considering he himself describes a typical day in Support as "One large forest fire from dawn till dusk ... in any time zone ... We wake up on fire and go to bed on fire," Kenny laughs at this point, "and dream on fire ... But that's the job that we love and that's what we do." "What we provide here is so different from consumer-level support, it's a step above that. There's a heavy level of involvement with our customers and a heavy commitment to them." From partner to Acquian After working for an Acquia partner and being laid off in 2009, Kenny got a call from a recruiter who said, "Hey, you're webkenny!" ... "Have you ever heard of Acquia?" :-) Nine interviews later, an Acquian was born! "I learned large sites while I was here." Now Kenny is one of Acquia's go-to experts on site performance. Kenny's job lets him expand his technical knowledge and use his people skills to provide top-notch technical support. "Acquia has really grown my knowledge as well as my career." Being at...

 244: PHP FIG, unsplintering PHP for us all - meet Beth Tucker Long | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 26:56

This conversation with Beth Tucker Long (@e3bethtl) is the one of a series of interviews Campbell Vertesi (@CampbellVertesi) and I carried out in preparation for DrupalCon Asia in Mumbai. Now, we're sharing all the good stuff we captured but didn’t have time to cover in 40 minutes in Mumbai. Our session, Meet PHP-FIG: Your community just got a whole lot bigger, Drupal is about Drupal 8’s membership in the new, interoperable PHP community. We’re covering the basics of what the PHP Framework Interoperability Group (PHP-FIG) is, what the various PSRs are and do, talk about testing and dependency management, and what it means to be a part of the new PHP community — including having better architecture, cleaner code, and more interoperability. All of this adds up to a big move to get projects “off their islands,” saving developers a lot of code, and companies a lot of money, among other benefits. I apologize for the poor audio quality in this recording and hope the quality of the conversation makes up for it. Selected quotes from this conversation with Beth Tucker Long: "All right. Hello, Drupal. My name is Beth Tucker-Long, and I am so excited that Drupal 8 is out. Way to go! We’re very proud of you. I am really excited about Drupal 8 because it represents so much community involvement, working together. I’m so excited that we have so many big projects from the PHP side of things and the Drupal side of things working together, and I just can’t wait to see, with all this brainpower that we have merged into this project, where we go from here." “I really love the fact that now we can say, “Hey, we are all PHP developers, and these are the technologies that we use to help us, and as PHP developers, we are putting forth these standards, so we can all work together and not be so splintered.” That was my main motivation for supporting FIG.” "As long as we, as a community, are encouraging new developers to be FIG-compliant as they come into it, non-FIG-compliant code is going to start looking like old legacy code." "So, writing a quick and dirty thing 10 times is going to take longer than writing it the right way once and being able to reuse it." Guest dossier Name: Beth Tucker Long Work affiliation: Treeline Design Twitter: @e3betht LinkedIn: Elizabeth Tucker Long GitHub: e3betht Blog/Website: "A little of both" http://www.alittleofboth.com/about-me/ About: Beth Tucker Long is a PHP developer and co-organizer of Madison PHP. Beth is a firm believer in promoting community and mentoring. She runs Treeline Design, a web development company, and Playlist Event Music, a DJ company, along with her husband, Chris. Interview video - 27 min. Full conversation transcript jam: We are Campbell Vertesi ... My name is Jam. I work for Acquia. My title is Evangelist and I’m in Developer Relations. We have a special guest today. Would you like to introduce yourself? Beth: I am Beth Tucker-Long, and I am an independent consultant working with PHP. I do work with Drupal on a number of my projects and lots of other things, because as a consultant, I work on whatever you’ll pay me to work on, so ... the life of a consultant. jam: Right. Over the last however many years it’s been, you were actually, in a way, at the center of what I like to call the PHP Renaissance, so you were definitely a keen observer of this coming together of all these different PHP technologies from being very disparate, siloed implementations of the language back to being something like community. I’m thinking particularly of your role at php[architect]. Beth: Yes. I worked at php[architect] for seven years. I was involved in Tek when PHP-FIG was started at php[tek], and it was a very exciting time. Also, I was doing consulting then as well, so it’s an exciting time for me as well because having to work with all these...

 PHP FIG, unsplintering PHP for us all - meet Beth Tucker Long | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 26:56

This conversation with Beth Tucker Long (@e3bethtl) is the one of a series of interviews Campbell Vertesi (@CampbellVertesi) and I carried out in preparation for DrupalCon Asia in Mumbai. Now, we're sharing all the good stuff we captured but didn’t have time to cover in 40 minutes in Mumbai. Our session, Meet PHP-FIG: Your community just got a whole lot bigger, Drupal is about Drupal 8’s membership in the new, interoperable PHP community. We’re covering the basics of what the PHP Framework Interoperability Group (PHP-FIG) is, what the various PSRs are and do, talk about testing and dependency management, and what it means to be a part of the new PHP community — including having better architecture, cleaner code, and more interoperability. All of this adds up to a big move to get projects “off their islands,” saving developers a lot of code, and companies a lot of money, among other benefits. I apologize for the poor audio quality in this recording and hope the quality of the conversation makes up for it. Selected quotes from this conversation with Beth Tucker Long: "All right. Hello, Drupal. My name is Beth Tucker-Long, and I am so excited that Drupal 8 is out. Way to go! We’re very proud of you. I am really excited about Drupal 8 because it represents so much community involvement, working together. I’m so excited that we have so many big projects from the PHP side of things and the Drupal side of things working together, and I just can’t wait to see, with all this brainpower that we have merged into this project, where we go from here." “I really love the fact that now we can say, “Hey, we are all PHP developers, and these are the technologies that we use to help us, and as PHP developers, we are putting forth these standards, so we can all work together and not be so splintered.” That was my main motivation for supporting FIG.” "As long as we, as a community, are encouraging new developers to be FIG-compliant as they come into it, non-FIG-compliant code is going to start looking like old legacy code." "So, writing a quick and dirty thing 10 times is going to take longer than writing it the right way once and being able to reuse it." Guest dossier Name: Beth Tucker Long Work affiliation: Treeline Design Twitter: @e3betht LinkedIn: Elizabeth Tucker Long GitHub: e3betht Blog/Website: "A little of both" http://www.alittleofboth.com/about-me/ About: Beth Tucker Long is a PHP developer and co-organizer of Madison PHP. Beth is a firm believer in promoting community and mentoring. She runs Treeline Design, a web development company, and Playlist Event Music, a DJ company, along with her husband, Chris. Interview video - 27 min. Full conversation transcript jam: We are Campbell Vertesi ... My name is Jam. I work for Acquia. My title is Evangelist and I’m in Developer Relations. We have a special guest today. Would you like to introduce yourself? Beth: I am Beth Tucker-Long, and I am an independent consultant working with PHP. I do work with Drupal on a number of my projects and lots of other things, because as a consultant, I work on whatever you’ll pay me to work on, so ... the life of a consultant. jam: Right. Over the last however many years it’s been, you were actually, in a way, at the center of what I like to call the PHP Renaissance, so you were definitely a keen observer of this coming together of all these different PHP technologies from being very disparate, siloed implementations of the language back to being something like community. I’m thinking particularly of your role at php[architect]. Beth: Yes. I worked at php[architect] for seven years. I was involved in Tek when PHP-FIG was started at php[tek], and it was a very exciting time. Also, I was doing consulting then as well, so it’s an exciting time for me as well because having to work with all these...

 210: Visit the dorm room where Drupal was born! - Rebroadcast | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 18:07

Rebroadcast: Drupal launch interviews, one year on. Part 3 of 3 - Spend 18 minutes with Dries Buytaert and Jeffrey A. "jam" McGuire behind the scenes in Antwerp as we drive back to the dorm room where Drupal was invented and Dries seeing it for the first time in 15 years. Video - 18 min. Drupal 8 Release & Happy Birthday, Dries Mega Episode Don't miss the first two parts and the other material released in November 2015 to celebrate the release of Drupal 8.0.0: Part 1 - interview Part 2 - interview Part 3: Behind the scenes with Dries visiting the dorm room where he invented Drupal! Congratulating Drupalists around the world - Acquia video with Dries Celebr8Drupal8 community video

 Rebroadcast: Happy birthday Dries and Drupal 8! | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 18:07

Rebroadcast: Drupal launch interviews, one year on. Part 3 of 3 - Spend 18 minutes with Dries Buytaert and Jeffrey A. "jam" McGuire behind the scenes in Antwerp as we drive back to the dorm room where Drupal was invented and Dries seeing it for the first time in 15 years. Video - 18 min. Drupal 8 Release & Happy Birthday, Dries Mega Episode Don't miss the first two parts and the other material released in November 2015 to celebrate the release of Drupal 8.0.0: Part 1 - interview Part 2 - interview Part 3: Behind the scenes with Dries visiting the dorm room where he invented Drupal! Congratulating Drupalists around the world - Acquia video with Dries Celebr8Drupal8 community video

 243: A walk through New Orleans with Shyamala Rajaram | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 31:09

A conversation with our newest community representative to the Drupal Association Board, Director at Large, Shyamala Rajaram, recorded walking to the New Orleans Convention Center during DrupalCon NOLA 2016. Yes, I can see I need to get a gimbal or a steady cam, but the video is still fun (for me anyway) :-) Our conversation Mentioned in the conversation Acquia Podcast: Drupal Association 2016 election - Election Commentary: Drupal Association Director at Large 2016 Geek Voice Episode 01, "Meet Shyamala" - My favorite Indian podcast. Parth and Hussain talk with, "the first person outside of the European or North American timezones to be elected and she’s from India!" :-) UniMity - Shyamala's company UniMity PeoplePower platform - Shyamala's company's Drupal-based product. Dries Buytaert State of Drupal presentation (May 2016) post with video and slides. More Shyamala on the web Shyamala Rajaram on LinkedIn Shyamala has several presentations on Slideshare. Unraveling Drupal as a Versatile Enterprise Solution - Srijan webinar with Shymala Correction Rakesh James has trained more than 600 new Drupalists - I said 200 in the recording.

 A walk through New Orleans with Shyamala Rajaram | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 31:09

A conversation with our newest community representative to the Drupal Association Board, Director at Large, Shyamala Rajaram, recorded walking to the New Orleans Convention Center during DrupalCon NOLA 2016. Yes, I can see I need to get a gimbal or a steady cam, but the video is still fun (for me anyway) :-) Our conversation Mentioned in the conversation Acquia Podcast: Drupal Association 2016 election - Election Commentary: Drupal Association Director at Large 2016 Geek Voice Episode 01, "Meet Shyamala" - My favorite Indian podcast. Parth and Hussain talk with, "the first person outside of the European or North American timezones to be elected and she’s from India!" :-) UniMity - Shyamala's company UniMity PeoplePower platform - Shyamala's company's Drupal-based product. Dries Buytaert State of Drupal presentation (May 2016) post with video and slides. More Shyamala on the web Shyamala Rajaram on LinkedIn Shyamala has several presentations on Slideshare. Unraveling Drupal as a Versatile Enterprise Solution - Srijan webinar with Shymala Correction Rakesh James has trained more than 600 new Drupalists - I said 200 in the recording. Transcription A full transcription of the conversation will be added shortly!

 Meet Paul Johnson, the face behind @drupal, #celebr8d8, and more | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 26:16

I sat down with Drupal Social Media Lead, Paul Johnson at Drupal Camp London 2016, a few weeks after DrupalCon Asia in Mumbai. Paul runs the official community social media accounts on Twitter and elsewhere. I feel Paul is a kindred soul, since he and I both love highlighting and celebrating the Drupal community's stories and achievements. The @drupal Twitter account alone has more than 65 thousand followers and Paul uses his powers for good. "I get so much satisfaction out of it. There's nothing I like more than to hear that it's made a difference to somebody, or I've heard something and made other people aware of it privately and that's maybe solved a problem. Social media is used for quite a lot of things ... It's not just a marketing channel." Our conversation Follow Drupal on social media! Here are the accounts Paul runs: Twitter Drupal @drupal DrupalCon @drupalcon DrupalCon Europe @drupalconeur DrupalCon North America @drupalconna DrupalCon Asia @drupalconasia Facebook official Drupal group LinkedIn Drupal group Here is the Drupal Association Social Media Request Form that Paul mentions during our conversation. And here is the full, official Drupal social media directory. Mentioned in the conversation http://celebratedrupal8.com/ and Paul's blog about how the campaign came together: Celebrate Drupal 8 - how it was done CTI Digital Great Ormond Street Hospital Drupal site Drupal 8 release podcasts with Dries Buytaert Part 1 - Drupal 8 Release & Happy Birthday Dries Mega Episode! Part 2 - Drupal 8 Release & Happy Birthday Dries Mega Episode! Part 3 - Drupal 8 Release Mega Episode Bonus Behind the Scenes! Celebrate D8! Images used in the podcast video https://www.flickr.com/photos/amazeelabs/21513068989/ - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/amazeelabs/21632469131/in/photostream/ - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/peterlozano/21760271581/ - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/68158920@N08/21437374299/ - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

 242: Meet Paul Johnson, Drupal Social Media Lead | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 26:16

I sat down with Drupal Social Media Lead, Paul Johnson at Drupal Camp London 2016, a few weeks after DrupalCon Asia in Mumbai. Paul runs the official community social media accounts on Twitter and elsewhere. I feel Paul is a kindred soul, since he and I both love highlighting and celebrating the Drupal community's stories and achievements. The @drupal Twitter account alone has more than 65 thousand followers and Paul uses his powers for good. "I get so much satisfaction out of it. There's nothing I like more than to hear that it's made a difference to somebody, or I've heard something and made other people aware of it privately and that's maybe solved a problem. Social media is used for quite a lot of things ... It's not just a marketing channel." Our conversation Follow Drupal on social media! Here are the accounts Paul runs: Twitter Drupal @drupal DrupalCon @drupalcon DrupalCon Europe @drupalconeur DrupalCon North America @drupalconna DrupalCon Asia @drupalconasia Facebook official Drupal group LinkedIn Drupal group Here is the Drupal Association Social Media Request Form that Paul mentions during our conversation. And here is the full, official Drupal social media directory. Mentioned in the conversation http://celebratedrupal8.com/ and Paul's blog about how the campaign came together: Celebrate Drupal 8 - how it was done CTI Digital Great Ormond Street Hospital Drupal site Drupal 8 release podcasts with Dries Buytaert Part 1 - Drupal 8 Release & Happy Birthday Dries Mega Episode! Part 2 - Drupal 8 Release & Happy Birthday Dries Mega Episode! Part 3 - Drupal 8 Release Mega Episode Bonus Behind the Scenes! Celebrate D8! Images used in the podcast video https://www.flickr.com/photos/amazeelabs/21513068989/ - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/amazeelabs/21632469131/in/photostream/ - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/peterlozano/21760271581/ - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/68158920@N08/21437374299/ - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

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