Summary: In December 2015, I sat down with Michael Hanby-Director-and Tawny Bartlett-Website Coordinator-from Indigo Herbs in Glastonbury, England and dug into their history with Drupal and just how much of their business they run with it. Tawny is really inspiring: she learned Drupal and its component and supporting technologies--Git, Javascript, PHP, and much more--on the job at Indigo. She says she's fallen in love with Drupal. I say she's become a Drupalist to reckon with and should be a role model for others. Open source, #ftw! This interview, particularly the last third, is full of some great "Why Drupal?" soundbites from a sensible business perspective. Well worth listening to! A full transcript follows below as well. "If you are a small business and you want to develop a tech competency, I don’t know why you’ll do anything but Drupal because apart from the fact that it’s free, you’ve got this huge community that’s not just willing to give you the answers but wants to help you. What I think is one of the most awesome things about open source is that by asking a question, you are contributing to the project. It’s so cool. Just by asking the question that no one’s asked, you are contributing to the documentation that’s going to help someone else, it’s such a virtuous cycle." - Michael Hanby, Indigo Herbs In Drupal "everyone is so accepting and everyone’s so willing to teach people and help people grow within the community. It stands out from the crowd, it’s just a fascinating thing that everyone loves technology and everyone does it because they want to make this amazing thing and if something goes wrong, no one judges them for it. Everyone tries to help to get it working and to me that just sounds absolutely amazing, it’s missing from the world I think. The community of Drupal, if that was applied to everything, then it would be such a better place." - Tawny Bartlett, Indigo Herbs Mentioned during the conversation Indigo Herbs, according to Michael "Indigo Herbs is a manufacturer of natural health products. We make beautiful things that will make your life better. Come and check out www.indigo-herbs.co.uk and discover the natural lifestyle that we offer." Drupal Somerset Paragraphs module Heath Robinson, according to Wikipedia, "William Heath Robinson (31 May 1872 – 13 September 1944) was an English cartoonist and illustrator best known for drawings of ridiculously complicated machines for achieving simple objectives." Conversation video In the Indigo Herbs Common Room ... full transcription starts here. jam: We established that everybody – that the whole couch is fair game, right? Tawny Bartlett: Yes. Michael Hanby: Yes, it does seem to be. jam: It feels like a lovely Saturday morning and this place really, really feels like a university common room to me. It really – nice cinder block walls, a comfy couch and a warm cup of the brown stuff. It is really, really comfortable. So, please introduce yourself. Tawny Bartlett: To the camera? jam: Hello, camera. Tawny Bartlett: Hello, camera. My name is Tawny Bartlett. I am the Website Coordinator at Indigo Herbs. I do a lot of coding. I do HTML, CSS, PHP, Git, LESS and various other things. I have a growing love of technology and in all honesty I want to be a super hero in technology one day, that is my goal. I want to be an amazing Drupal developer, that is why I’ve made the decision for my life is that I want to be an amazing Drupal developer and I want to – I just want to be an expert and I want to help everyone else. I want to help people that used to be me three years ago to the Drupal. jam: My impression, having met you before, is that you’re already well down the road to being a Drupal super hero, so thank you. Tawny Bartlett: Got to be better. Michael Hanby: I am Michael Hanby and I’m a director at Indigo...
