Interviews

TDT sends out an interview questionnaire to ask Bert all about his Drupal Journey. Bert Boerland is theco-initiator of the DrupalJam movement, a handbook writer and a Drupal evangelist. ...more

TDT speaks to Renato to hear from him about his journey with Drupal. Keeping DrupalCon in mind, TDT also got to ask a few questions about his session, CI&T's Drupal Competence Office (DCO) and his advice on receiving Acquia certifications ...more

The future of Drupal is not dependent on the fortunes of a single organization, so if you do need to rebuild your site, an open source choice like Drupal is a much safer bet than proprietary vendors, who could decide to shift attention (and resources) away from their CMS products. ...more

Read the completed interview with Marcin Maruszewski who shares his Drupal experience, the challenging projects he faced and why he decided to speak about becoming a Drupal Contributor Drupal Camp Poland 2023 ...more

Full Interview Transcript with Todd Ross Nienkerk, Co-founder of Four Kitchens. ...more

This is the full interview transcript of TDT's conversation with Owen Lansbury; Drupal South ...more

For beginners my advice is to be patient. Drupal is a very complicated Content Management System and not the most beginner-friendly CMS. But that makes it more versatile and better suitable for bigger projects. ...more

DrupalSouth is an annual conference devoted to Drupal. TDT conducted a zoom interview with Owen Lansbury, elected Chair of the Drupal South Steering Committee. He talked about the early beginnings of Drupal South, venue selection, volunteering opportunities and more.  ...more

TDT reached out to Shani Maurya to interview him on his journey with Drupal and to ask a few questions about his session and what he thinks about implementing Drupal Camps in India ...more

Mike Gifford, Drupal's Core Accessibility Maintainer and a Senior Strategist at Civic Action talks to TDT about his extensive and deep-rooted involvements with digital accessibility. ...more

Drupal makes the 'easy' tasks more difficult, and more difficult tasks much easier. That dynamic makes Drupal perfect for more ambitious projects that would otherwise be quite complex. ...more

Machine Learning has a lot of applications in Drupal, particularly for editors. The community is already using many modules, the latest being the integration of ChatGPT.  ...more

Matt has always been fascinated with Drupal and knows it to be an extremely powerful framework for building applications. ...more

Learn more about how Princeton University became interested in Drupal in 2010. Jill Moraca also shares her thoughts on the success of DrupalCamp NJ 2023 and hopes for a stronger turnout for the 2024 event. ...more

Follow through with TDT's interview with John Doyle Founder Digital Polygon and how the idea for his company came about. ...more

Chris is the founder of Redfin Solutions and a co-lead of Project Browser Initiative. TDT brings to you yet another interview that highlights the Drupal Journey of the presenters at the 2023 DrupalCamp NJ. Read into our conversation with Chris Wells ...more

Rick Hood is an organizer of the NERD Summit. TDT interviewed Richard Hood to also look into what the NERD Summit 2023 is all about. This is the first interview prior to the NERD Summit 2023. ...more

"Like all the best positions, it is something we invented to fit a need." Says Digital Accessibility Developer at Princeton University, John Jameson in our recent interview with him. This is out First Interview for DrupalCamp NJ 2023. ...more

April Sides and Melissa Bent have spoken to TDT about their experience at FLDC 2023 "The two of us had already worked pretty closely on this topic so assigning the portions of the talk happened naturally" says Melissa. The past week TDT has been conducting written interviews with FLDC speakers regarding their Drupal journey and career. ...more

“Happiness is not the right metric by which to measure someone’s work life; “low-stress” might be better" Says Jonathan Daggerhart in his interview with TDT. Drupal Camp Florida is here, and as TDT is an in-kind sponsor we took this opportunity to speak to the FLDC session speakers. ...more

Interview with Mark Shropshire, one of the maintainers of Guardr Project, a security focussed Drupal Distribution. This interview is part of a series prior to the Florida DrupalCamp 2023. ...more

“A larger issue is the turnaround time to get quality reviews on Drupal.org. Developers will get frustrated when they work hard on a patch to Drupal, but their code languishes for months and even years. It can be very demoralizing to anyone,” warns Mike Herchel. He was speaking to TheDropTimes (TDT) ahead of the Florida DrupalCamp 2023. ...more

Drupal camps and conferences is the best way to meet more people in the Drupal community and to grow your network, says Aubrey in her interview with TDT. In this interview you read about how Aubrey was introduced to making her own websites as a teen, the evolution of HTML and CSS through her own experience, ...more

As part of our effort to feature products and distributions around Drupal, TheDropTimes (TDT) reached out to Jurriaan Roelofs, the founder and senior product manager of DXPR and arranged an email interview with him. Jurriaan painstakingly replied to them. Here is the result: ...more

From running a solo Drupal shop that he calls a “boutique” to joining as a front-end developer at Lullabot, Adam Varn takes us through his formative years, including his bartering services for access to certain other services and getting trained on the way, in this interview. ...more

"When we choose inaccessibility, we are disabling people," says AmyJune Hineline. She was speaking to TDT over an email interview with Alethia Braganza prior to the upcoming Florida DrupalCamp for which, she is one of the lead organizers. Read on to know more. ...more

"I’d like to see Drupal continue to expand its presence in the JavaScript community via official packages on NPM. Specifically, I’d like to see Drupal offer an official JavaScript client to interface with JSON:API," Brian expresses his wishful thinking in this interview. A must read for those who are into decoupled initiative. ...more

The Drop Times (TDT) approached Italo Mairo for an interview, asking questions about his work, and he was kind enough to reply via email. His answers inspire any Free Libre and Open-Source Software contributors in general and aspiring Drupal contributors in particular. It would also appeal to young engineers passionate about engineering drawing, computer graphics and visualisation. Read on to grab a bite from the exciting conversation. ...more

Monica Flores has been declared the winner of the recently concluded election to the At-Large position of the Board of Directors of the Drupal Association (DA). She talks to the Drop times about her time with Drupal and her story in tech. ...more

It is extremely problematic to train an AI on code covered by Open Source licenses and then allow people to release this copiloted code without licensing compliance, opines Matt Obert. He was answering a question about pair programming tools in a slack interview by TDT ahead of the New England Drupal Camp 2022. ...more