Angie Byron (webchick)

Angie Byron has worked in industries of non-profit, education, e-commerce, tech support, systems administration. With her Current Role as core committer, cat herder Drupal and principal Community Manager at Mango DB she has been a Drupal contributer since 2005. Angie was also a part as a founding member of the Drupal association boards and acted as secretary.
She likes building and contributing to tools that make Drupal development easier and Drupal's user experience more friendly to newcomers, and also focuses on core API improvements to enhance code clarity, quality assurance, documentation, and usability efforts. Her goal is to help get as many new contributors as possible as obsessed with Drupal as she is.

Angie joined the Drupal community in 2005 as a Google Summer of Code student. As she became more and more comfortable with Drupal and the community, her contributions continued to grow. She became a Drupal core committer in 2008 and has thousands of code contribution credits, over 500 documentation edits, and has contributed to the Drupal community in countless additional ways including being one of the founding members of the Community Working Group, a Security Team member, a Drupal.org site and content moderator, a Drupal Association Board member, and has spoken at many Drupal events around the world.

In 2022 Angie Byron won the Aaron Winborn Award. Multiple people nominated her for the award and have praised her saying that she demonstrats all the values of this award, she embodies them.

Drupal core committer, co-author of the O'Reilly book Using Drupal, Drupal Association Board Member, team lead of Spark, Acquian, Google Summer of Code alumnus, and general Drupal community cat herder.

My goal is to help get as many new contributors as possible as obsessed with Drupal as I am. ;) I like building and contributing to tools that make Drupal development easier and Drupal's user experience more friendly to newcomers, and focus on core API improvements to enhance code clarity, quality assurance, documentation, and usability efforts.

Note: My contact form is disabled. This is by design. If you have an inquiry about one of my modules, use the issue queue. If you have a project you'd like to hire me for, please contact Acquia.

Fun moments in my Drupal history that I keep marking down here as I find them:

• June 25, 2005: Accepted into Google Summer of Code
• August 15, 2005 - present: Never-ending crusade to fix forum signatures in Drupal! ;)
• September 15, 2005: Interview in the Economist
• October 5, 2005: Joined CivicSpace Labs
• November 1, 2005: My first core patch gets committed, awww!
• June 19, 2006: Joined Lullabot
• March 9, 2008: Started the Drupalchix group
• July 23, 2008: Best Contributor at Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards
• August 31, 2008: My first core commit, awww!
• January 9, 2009: Using Drupal gets Slashdotted.
• February 5, 2010: Kicked off discussion to figure out how to get off CVS.
• January 5, 2011: Drupal 7 gets released. :)
• February 24, 2011: CVS -> Git migration launches. :)
• Also February 24, 2011: Interview in Linux Journal.
• May 11, 2011: started with Acquia.
• May 1, 2012: Spark announced.
• Feb 7, 2013: WYSI-effing-WYG in Drupal-effing-core!