[Part of a series about some of the cool people I met at OSCON and Portland 2005 Drupal Conference]

Drupal code from Ashish and the rest of the folks at his company, Tekriti (as well as the merry men at Broadband Mechanics like Phil Pearson and Moshe Weitzman), is powering AlwaysOn GoingOn, Ourmedia and other projects with features like organic groups, Ajax, etc. I look forward to having these cool features and more incorporated into the main branch of Drupal now and in the future.

[Part of a series about some of the cool people I met at OSCON and Portland 2005 Drupal Conference]

Kieran's intensity and focus is amazing. But of course I would expect nothing else from a fellow Systems Design Engineering grad. The story I hear is that Zack met Kieran at BloggerCon III and the rest is history. Expect much, much more from the Civic Space developer team now that Kieran is focusing their efforts.

[Part of a series about some of the cool people I met at OSCON and Portland 2005 Drupal Conference]

Derek is funny, and smart and rapidly grokking Drupal. REALNEO is lucky to have him and we were lucky to have him helping out at the Drupal booth and attending OSCON.

[Part of a series about some of the cool people I met at OSCON and Portland 2005 Drupal Conference]

Zack is everywhere evangelizing, articulating and promoting the CivicSpace vision. So of course he was at OSCON and Portland 2005 DrupalCon. Where would Drupal be without DeanSpace and CivicSpace that Zack and Neil Drumm created? As I said at the OSCON Drupal BOF, probably a lot less known and with a far smaller mindshare.

[Part of a series about some of the cool people I met at OSCON and Portland 2005 Drupal Conference]

In real years, Drumm, lead developer and co-founder of CivicSpace is young, but in reality after coding his way through DeanSpace and now with CivicSpace, Neil has seen more and coded more than a lot of developers will ever do. I am really looking forward to the cool stuff that will come out of Drumm now that Civic Space has merged back into the main branch of Drupal.