James Abrahams (yautja_cetanu)

I set up a church website with a bunch of other people when I was 16. It was based on phpbb and we tried turning it into a phpbb based CMS. The forum took off to some degree especially the praying side of things. Since then I've been trying to find a way to get what worked there (before Facebook was big) to the rest of the world.

I did a physics with philosophy degree but I massively prefer philosophy to the physics. I'm an avid gamer and just love gaming community, especially Starcraft.

I got into Drupal as a platform to build a church management system to handle managing those communities. Whilst exploring that idea we discovered that it would be beneficial if Drupal had a native Drupal CRM module. I gave us 3 months to build it.... 8 years later we're still here! We discovered that native Drupal CRM could benefit more then just the church and have expanded our clients to a variety of different industries both charities and commercial. Freely Give was founded to support this and we have been steadily growing.

Due to CRM software being heavily tied to a great deal more user data then most Drupal sites will capture, I have found myself getting very into GDPR and privacy in general. I've spent months of research, helped build the GDPR module and given a number of talks on the subject.

From LinkedIn:

I have worked for over a decade building web applications with Drupal, taking on a variety of roles. I'm happy wearing nearly all hats except programming or graphic design. I've worked as a consultant helping take dreams of non-techies and turning them into design briefs that programmers can use. I've worked as a software architect with a focus on user experience.

I'm deeply passionate about building business applications and CRM systems with a great user experience to help individuals focus on what makes them productive. I am part of a Cross-CMS e-privacy group and have given talks on how we can build tools to achieve GDPR compliance.