Aidan Dean Dunn

“As we charge forth with zeal toward a seeming ‘promised land,’ one must remember the impacts of the world they are creating.”

On behalf of TheDropTimes (TDT), Aidan F. Dean Dunn, spoke with DrupalCon Keynote Speaker, Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble, the esteemed digital scholar and one of Silicon Valley’s biggest critics, about the dangers presented by technology today and the responsibilities that web designers have to our society.

Noble is the recipient of the NAACP-Archwell Digital Civil Rights Award, and is recognized as a MacArthur Foundation Fellow.

To present his case, Elliott Mower first delivered a brief history on the way personas came to be. That story, like many, begins with a person who saw a problem and did something to improve it.

The beauty of open source arises when one person improves the software and gives that back to the community with no expectation of anything in return. 

At this year’s DrupalCon, Lullabot gave a presentation on their shift to a fascinating business model that allows every employee to become a partial company owner. It’s called an ESOP, or an Employee Stock Ownership Plan, and Lullabot transitioned to this organizational structure in 2021. 

Fei Lauren talks to TDT about Neurodiversity and inclusivity.

When OpenAI and Drupal comes together, it will be a perfect romance between two legends, just as the title implies. This article is the summarization of a lightning talk given by Kevin Quillen at DrupalCon Pittsburgh about ChatGPT and Drupal 10. ChatGTP is a natural language processing tool powered by artificial intelligence developed by OpenAI.

Here are five of my true favorite places in the city, and they are ones you’re not likely to find on a travel guide.