KIERAN LAL (Technical Director, Corporate Development, Acquia), nabbed outside the Acquia room, talks about the Drupal Organization, movie sound-tracks, and learning Italian – then indulges in a “Hi, Mom!” moment.
Lingotek does translation management (whatever that is). As President and CEO, ROBERT VANDENBURG gets to travel to exotic locations like Austin and Amsterdam, and hobnob with the locals.
It was a great relief to learn that MICHAEL MEYERS (V.P. Large Scale Drupal, Acquia) is not the homicidal psycho-killer from the Halloween movie franchise, particularly as we go one-on-one with him in a noisy corner of the RAI.
In Drupal Watchdog’s proprietary corner, we have a lively chat with TOM ERICKSON (CEO, Acquia), who reveals himself as a pop-music maven, Napa oenophile, and passionate proponent of diversity in the technology field, particularly among women and millennials.
A lively LESLIE HAWTHORN (Director of Developer Relations at Elasticsearch), finds herself momentarily corralled and questioned in a corner of the RAI Convention Center.
Taking advantage of the DrupalCon Amsterdam gathering of Drupal bigwigs – and in our eternal quest to quench our thirst for enlightenment, and thrust onwards into the future and deeper into the unknown – we corner some of those key Drupal players to ask the all-important question burning in every
Author and software consultant LORNA JANE MITCHELL, fresh from her DrupalCon book-signing (PHP Web Services) and talk, is a frequent visitor to Amsterdam – she lives in Leeds, an hour flight away, and loves the city.
Cruising down the Amstel River on a blissfully warm Amsterdam evening – drink in hand – the fabulous FABIAN FRANZ (Senior Performance Engineer & Technical Lead, Tag1 Consulting) opens up about DrupalCons, chance encounters, caching, sa
Angie Byron is Director of Community Development at Acquia. For this interview, during the final day of DrupalCon Amsterdam, we were able to find an empty auditorium. Alas, filming with my brand-new GoPro camera, we got off to a topsy-turvy start...
