This talk details hardships and steps that designers can take to make my life (as a front-end developer) easier, and save time and money. The day started off with Jen Witkowski ( jwitkowski79) and I presenting on Painless Designer to Developer Handoffs at 8:30am. Tuesday was my big day! I had two presentations, and a question and answer session with the Drupal Association. Mike and Ted are pretty responsible, so I gave them the responsibility of chaperoning me (□) back to my hotel room so I wouldn’t get stuck in the hotel lobby until early Tuesday morning, although not 100% successful, they did an admirable job (thanks!). I purposefully took it easy Monday night and got dinner with Mike Anello ( ultimike), Ted Bowman ( tedbow), and Martin Anderson-Clutz ( mandclu). A lot of my wardrobe is made up of free t-shirts from various conferences that I attend, so it’s been getting a bit threadbare because of Covid. I also made sure to get out early and load up on those sweet Drupal t-shirts □. Although, I feel fortunate that I was able to participate in the discussions, I also had a serious case of FOMO because of my inability to be out hiking and experiencing nature. I sat across the table from a big window looking out to the snow-capped mountains of the Cascades. The overall feeling in the room was one of warmness, excitement, and a little bit of exhaustion (the long meetings were brutal).Īfter a good night sleep, we reconvened Sunday morning. That didn't happen at all! My ideas were evaluated, iterated on, and responded to. I fully expected one or more people not to take me seriously, or to immediately dismiss my ideas. One of my biggest take-aways from Saturday is how nice of a group of people the board is composed of. The conversations were lively, passionate, difficult, and set the stage for Sunday’s meeting to determine more concrete steps that the board can take. That afternoon we got to work on a lot of challenging and “fun” topics, including what we need to do to make Drupal succeed within the next ten years. The flight to Portland was smooth as can be expected, with a beautiful view of Mt Hood right before touchdown.įrom left to right: Nick (throwing chair), Baddy (taking the pic), Owen (throwing the punch), Nikhil (□♂️), and Mike (taking the punch) I met up with fellow board member Ryan Szrama ( rszrama) in Atlanta before my Friday inbound fight. At DrupalCon, we had two all day meetings on Saturday on Sunday. But, I was also really excited about sharing my thoughts and view points on a subject that I’m deeply passionate about. Going into this meeting, I was pretty nervous about meeting everyone and fitting in. Since then, we’ve had a number of conversations over email and Slack, as well as had some procedural meetings over Zoom. I was elected into one of two Drupal Associations Board of Directors at-large positions last November. It was a lot! Weekend Board of Directors duties
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