Angela Byron, Director of Community Development at Acquia, is the core co-maintainer for Drupal 7, recipient of the Google-O'Reilly Open 2008 Source Award for Best Contributor, co-author of the O'Reilly book Using Drupal, 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 contributing to open source. Her work includes core coding and patch review, creating and contributing modules and themes, testing and quality assurance efforts within the project, improving documentation, providing user support on forums and IRC, and general cat herding.
I live near Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada with my wife Marci and our "kids" Billie, Pickle, Bebop, and Cooper. I'm obsessed with Drupal, working with open source and getting new people (especially women) involved, and just geeky computer stuff in general. When the keyboard is pried from my hands once or twice a year, I enjoy video games, logic puzzles, drawing silly cartoons, and political books and documentaries.
I should really put something else here someday. :P
Media mentions:
- Feb 24, 2011 - Linux Journal: Angela Byron on Drupal 7: Cover story of April 2011 issue
- June 12, 2009 - CMSWire: Open Web Vancouver 2009: Want More Women In Your Project?
- April 6, 2009 - ZDNet: Perfectionists need not apply
- November 14, 2008 - OStatic: Interview: Angela Byron, Top Drupal Developer and Evangelist
- August 8, 2008 - Linux.com: Open source technology is hungry for new college grads
- July 22, 2008 - Google Open Source Blog: ... and the winners of the 2008 Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards are...
- January 23, 2008 - Linux Magazine: Greetings and welcome to our Women in Open Source blog!
- October 15, 2007 - Google Summer of Code Blog: Summer of Coders at Google: Angela Byron
- August 26, 2007 -
on the luck of seven: Episode 13 - Dries on Drupal - September 15, 2005 - The Economist: Summer camp for coders