Karen Stevenson
Karen Stevenson has been a Drupal contributor since 2006. She is a co-maintainer of the Content Construction Kit (CCK) and the author of the Date, and Calendar modules that use CCK and Views as the basis for highly flexible and configurable event management systems. She has also been heavily involved in the 'Fields in Core' initiative to move the CCK functionality to core for Drupal 7, and was responsible for updating the D7 version of CCK to be a user interface to the new core system.
Before becoming involved in Drupal, Karen created custom content management systems for her ElderWeb site and for other organizations. Her systems included web-based calendar and class scheduling systems and a multi-lingual help desk web site.
Karen has been actively involved in web development since the early days of the web. She created ElderWeb in 1994 as one of the very first health care sites on the web.
More info about Karen and her projects is available on her personal website. You'll see her on Drupal.org and in IRC as KarenS.
John VanDyk
John has left Lullabot and is now working at Iowa State University where he leads Drupal development projects as a systems analyst and adjunct assistant professor.
Before encountering Drupal, John was a developer in the Userland Frontier® community and worked with object databases. John was intrigued by the world-wide web at its inception and has been building websites with better and better tools ever since. And his fascination with finding bugs led to a M.S. and Ph.D. in entomology. He has experience in the newspaper business as a reporter, editor and photographer.
In the Drupal community, John is best known for writing the actions and trigger system and the workflow module. He gets excited about performance and scalability. With Dries Buytaert, he organized the first Drupal conference and was also part of the initial design team for the Content Construction Kit. John teamed with Matt Westgate to write the first edition of the bestselling book Pro Drupal Development and recently released a second edition.
When he's not hacking on Drupal, John can be found dabbling with insect macrophotography in field or forest. He lives in Ames, Iowa with wife Tina and a gaggle of children.
James Walker
James Walker is Lullabot's Director of Education. He comes to us following three years with Bryght, the company he co-founded in 2004. Walkah (as he is better known online), joined the Drupal project in 2002 and has written some of Drupal's staple core and contributed modules.
James has also been involved in the community's security and infrastructure teams and currently serves as a community ambassador for the Drupal Association. He lives in Toronto, where he organizes the Toronto Drupal User Group and has helped run several Drupal Camp Toronto events.
As a long time advocate of open source, James has worked on a number of different projects including Gallery and Netjuke. His current technology interests (outside of work on Drupal) include Jabber open instant messaging and the Identity 2.0 space.
When he's not geeking out, James enjoys spending time with his two adorable kids, Andrew and Camryn. Keep up with James on his personal blog.
Addison Berry
Addi (add1sun) has been involved with Drupal since 2006 and is the current Documentation Team Lead for the project. In March 2009 she was awarded a Knight Foundation grant to improve Drupal documentation. She travels around the world, speaking at events from local high schools to major conferences like OSCON, working to improve Drupal and Open Source software. She is also involved with organizing the Writing Open Source conference to get open source projects together to share ideas about how to improve documentation.
In addition to her focus on coordinating documentation efforts she's provided core patches, maintains several contributed modules, and has been involved with the Drupal Dojo and the Google Highly Open Participation (GHOP) mentoring programs.
Jeff Eaton
Jeff Eaton is a long-time web developer. He's been designing, administering, and implementing web projects since he pieced together his first HTML file in 1996. He's built ecommerce sites for florists, helped implement enterprise web systems for multinational corporations, and juggled web architectures from legacy Perl to ASP.Net. (With some Windows desktop development thrown in for good measure...) Yes, he's geeky.
Jeff is a strong believer in the power of open source software, and the importance of building solutions that are flexible enough to grow as new needs are discovered. Few things are as dangerous as the phrase, "Well, this will work for now..." If it's worth building, it's worth building right!
Jeff joined the Drupal community in 2004 after searching for a content management system flexible enough for one of his projects. Resigned to "rolling his own," he started work on a custom CMS before discovering that the Drupal community had made many of the same design decisions. After a few weeks of investigation, he converted and has been a Drupal evangelist ever since. He's the author of the popular Voting API project, and an active contributor to the Drupal core project.
In his spare time, Jeff enjoys photography, registering novelty domain names, and watching British mysteries with his wife Catherine. Their cat, Abigail, is rumored to be the fluffiest mammal in North America.
Nate Haug
Nate Haug adds a dash of design to Lullabot. He received degrees in both a Fine Arts and Computer Science from Truman State University, creating the perfect bridge between the technical and aesthetic. Detail is his obsession, so if you know what you want, Nate will deliver your desire.
Nate joined Drupal development in 2005, discovering his development times cut by a quarter, then a half, then even more. Amazed and then addicted to the rapid development of sites using Drupal, Nate dedicated himself to the development of quality Drupal modules and user support. He quickly picked up development on several major contrib modules, including the ever-popular webform module.
Nate began providing additional programming muscle for Lullabot in May 2006 then later joined the team that September. He played a significant part of the MTV UK Drupal launch, and is working on a lot of cool things that he can't yet mention.
In his spare time Nate enjoys various forms of painting, prints, and drawing, but often finds himself immersed in the latest web design trends and mucking around in Photoshop. You can meet Nate in the Drupal forums or groups discussions as quicksketch.
Angie Byron
Angela Byron is the Drupal 7 core maintainer, recipient of the Google-O'Reilly Open 2008 Source Award for Best Contributor, and 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 core coding and patch review, creating and contributing modules and themes, testing and quality assurance efforts within the project, improving documentation, and providing user support on forums and IRC.
Angela has lead Lullabot's collaboration on O'Reilly's first Drupal book, entitled Using Drupal. She is on the Board of Directors for the Drupal Association and helps drive community growth by leading initiatives to help get new contributors involved such as Drupal’s participation in Google Summer of Code and Google’s Highly Open Participation (GHOP) programs. She is a sought-after lecturer on many themes, especially the topics of women in Open Source and just about anything to do with Drupal. Angie is known as "webchick" on drupal.org.
Liza Kindred
Liza Kindred is Lullabot's Business Director. She brings to the table a myriad of experience including owning her own clothing boutique and managing multi-million dollar inventories. Liza's passion is the business of Open-Source.
In addition to her work with Lullabot, Liza is very active in the arts community in Des Moines, where she lives. She is a founding board member an events chair for Art Noir at the world-class Des Moines Arts Center, an Executive Board Member at the Des Moines Metro Arts Alliance, a founding board member of The Des Moines Fashion Alliance, and produces an annual event called The Grey Market showcasing Iowa designers. She has a seven-year old daughter.
Matt Westgate
Matt Westgate is Lullabot's co-founder. He graduated from Iowa State University in Computer Mediated Technologies, a degree program he literally built from the ground up to focus on the emerging field of web applications and information architecture. Matt enjoys teaching and has given presentations and workshops on many different facets of the web including Implementing RSS, Using Drupal as an E-commerce Platform and Understanding the Drupal APIs.
Matt is an Internet enthusiast and web developer who appreciates how easy the web makes his life, and he strives to empower others to do the same. He's a proponent of open source software and a core developer of the Drupal project. He was also the original author of the Drupal ecommerce package which received national acclaim. Matt recently finished the book "Pro Drupal Development".
When Matt isn't geeking out, he enjoys being outdoors running, jumping, climbing, pretty much anything active. Matt also maintains a daily sitting meditation practice and is studying to become a Big Mind faciliator.
Matt lives in Oregon with two of the most docile ferrets you'll ever meet. More information about Matt at his personal weblog.
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