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| News ID | Title News | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 201 | Case Study: AmyJune Hineline |
From Nursing to Open Source
It’s difficult to describe the amazing AmyJune Hineline’s impressive three year old Drupal Career without using a slew of adoring adjectives, since she really does embody everything great about Open Source technologies and the communities that support them. It’s also difficult to concede that, as much as we’d like to take credit for her remarkable commitment, expertise and all of the goodness and light she brings to Drupal; Drupal Career Online (DCO) was indeed just a well leveraged tool that this very smart, insightful woman chose to help her along her path. This path and her passion has led her to become the Open Source Community Ambassador for Kanopi Studios. She ensures that the Kanopi team maintains an active connection to the communities it serves, which include Drupal and Wordpress. "...This focus enables others to forge deep community connections that benefit the whole. I help communities discover how they can contribute back in more ways than code," she explains. Kanopi designs, builds, and supports websites for clients that want to make a positive impact on the world: A great fit for the former hospice nurse and mother of two young adults. Part of her responsibilities also include creating dashboards for data visualization and performing accessibility audits, which also feeds her passion in the accessibility realm. AmyJune helps to organizes events, is on the Drupal Core mentoring team and leads first time contributor workshops at regional and local DrupalCamps, and helps mentor attendees in general contribution spaces. It’s an impressive list of responsibilities, especially when you remember she has been at this for just 3 years. Her early career route offers no clues as to how she arrived in this auspicious role in Open Source. She began with a college degree she did not use that led her into retail, then a sharp turn into Volkswagen repair. After having children, she rolled into nursing, focusing on hospice, and eventually earned a BS, and later picking up another degree, this one in Human Communication. As a hospice nurse, she embraced her role as a guide for patients and families transitioning through the phases of terminal illness, but over time the work took a toll. The unexpected onramp to Drupal came after she did a bit of content entry on a Drupal site. She was intrigued, and decided to become a developer. “My colleague and mentor (loopduplicate) knew of DCO from DrupalEasy podcasts and Mike's (ultimike) presence in the Drupal community.” she recalls. Coming into the DCO without much technical background, AmyJune had a lot more to learn than most students, which she quickly overcame. Mike recalls she took advantage of every possible resource full force. She worked closely with her mentor, was active in the weekly office hours/co-working labs and was truly engaged in every class session. In addition to the classes and lab, she recounts she spent two to three hours a week, perhaps a bit more toward the end, outside of class to get the most of her education. Within a week after graduating, she was offered a paid internship at Kalamuna which led to her first full time position, and then on to a higher level gig with Hook42. In her current position with Kanopi Studios, AmyJune also helps to organize camps and conventions throughout North America, with a focus on helping communities be more inclusive, as well as playing a mentoring role at events and beyond. These projects help her realize the gratification she drew from nursing. She explains, “...there is a feel good factor that comes when empowering others to get involved in Open Source projects. I love the smiles and reactions when someone I have mentored get theirs first credit or attribution. It feels good to help others feel good.” As for her thoughts on Drupal Career Online, AmyJune is a big fan of the active and ever growing DrupalEasy Learning Community. "The continued support and mentorship is unbelievable. I love attending the weekly office hours...I like to hear what the other students are working on. Also I enjoy the camaraderie. (and sometimes the commiseration!)" She adds, "The relationships I have forged through the program have been valuable and essential to my growth as a developer." "The trajectory of my career has been amazing," she reflects. "I started as an intern in programming, moved to a team's community lead, and now being an Open Source Ambassador for Kanopi allows me the time to be a Mentor and Drupal community lead in the camp organizer space…," she explains. Looking forward, she continues, "I would love to be able to move into a lead mentoring or diplomacy role involving accessibility and inclusion." AmyJune’s advice to those looking to get into Drupal?
As a developer, AmyJune admires patience and humor in the other developers she works with. "Developers who are patient are good collaborators and mentors, and being able to laugh and joke makes the day-to-day work flow so much easier," she explains. You can follow AmyJune at volkswagenchick, on Twitter @volkswagenchick, and learn more about some of the Projects she is working on:
The next session of Drupal Career Online will be launching new careers beginning August 26th. If you’d like to learn more about this 12-week certificate program, you can attend one of DrupalEasy’s no-cost Taste of Drupal mini webinars, or visit DrupalEasy’s Drupal Career Online page. You can also contact me at [email protected] |
| 203 | DrupalEasy Podcast 221 - Greg Anderson - Composer Support in Drupal 8 Core Initiative |
Greg Anderson, Open Source Contributions Engineer at Pantheon joins Mike Anello to talk about the Drupal Community's Composer Support in Core Initiative. Discussion
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| 204 | DrupalEasy Podcast 222 - Heather Rocker - talking DrupalCon Minneapolis with the new DA executive director! |
Heather Rocker, Drupal Association Executive Director, joins Mike Anello to talk about her background, her vision for the Drupal Association, and DrupalCon Minneapolis! Discussion
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| 6,646 | DrupalEasy Podcast 223 - New format - Leslie Glynn, Mauricio Dinarte |
We debut a new podcast format, and talk with Leslie Glynn about the Aaron Winborn Award and Mauricio Dinarte about Drupal 8 migrations. URLs mentioned
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| 8,063 | DrupalEasy Podcast 224 - Jacob Rockowitz, Ted Bowman |
We talk with Jacob Rockowiz about the Webform variants and A/B testing and Ted Bowman about Drupal 9 info.yml files. URLs mentioned
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| 9,616 | DrupalEasy Podcast 225 - Lando Alliance (Mike Pirog), DrupalCamp Asheville (April Sides), The Change Notice (Chris Weber) |
We talk with Mike Pirog about the Lando Alliance, April Sides about DrupalCamp Asheville, and Chris Weber debuts his new segment, The Change Record. URLs mentioned DrupalEasy News
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| 9,739 | Introducing the Drupal Career Online Spring 2020 Class |
The Spring 2020 class of our Drupal Career Online course is off to a great start with a (sold out!) group of ten amazing students from across the United States. During the 12 weeks, we'll be diving deep into Git, Composer, information architecture, site-building, module and theme development, development workflows, and so, so, so much more! This semester's class includes students with a wide range of technical backgrounds and experiences. Some quick stats:
Each of our students has different goals and expectations for the course; over the duration of the course, we will be working to personalize their experience via office hours, community mentors, and the high-level of student/teacher interaction that the DCO has come to be known for. In addition to the 7 hours of class time each week, students have access to 4 hours of open "office hours" each week with DrupalEasy instructors where they can ask about anything Drupal- (or Drupal-adjacent) related. Half of the office hours coincide with DrupalEasy's perpetual office hours for all DCO alumni - this serves as a way to help introduce new students to our ongoing DrupalEasy learning community. In the next week or so, we'll be looking for community mentors for each of our current students. If you're interested in getting involved, please let us know- this is a great opportunity to give back to the community while growing your own Drupal network. We always try to match up mentors and mentees based on similar Drupal interests and/or technical backgrounds. If you, or someone you know, is interested in learning more about the DCO, the next semester begins August 31 - learn more by attending one of our free, 1-hour Taste of Drupal information seminars. |
| 11,175 | DrupalEasy Podcast 226 - Tearyne Almendariz (empowering volunteers), Albert Hughes (Memphis Grizzlies), Chris Weber (The Change Notice) |
We talk with Tearyne Almendariz, Frontend developer for Lullabot about empowering volunteers, Albert Hughes, Sr. Manager of Marketing Technology for Memphis Basketball, LLC the parent company of the Memphis Grizzlies, and Chris Weber is back with another episode of The Change Record. Drupal is a box of opportunity. URLs mentioned
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| 11,941 | DrupalEasy Podcast 227 - Pivoting to Virtual Midcamp with Avi Schwab |
Mike speaks with Avi Schwab, one of the organizers of MidCamp, on how the organizing team quickly shifted from an in-person camp to a virtual camp. In addition, Chris Weber also has three new change records for us. URLs mentioned
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| 12,699 | DrupalEasy Podcast 228 - Ofer Shaal (Drupal Rector), AmyJune Hineline (Virtual Contribution Days) |
Mike speaks with Ofer Shaal, one of the maintainers of the Rector for Drupal project, a tool to automate the fixing of deprecated Drupal code. AmyJune Hineline also makes an appearance talking about moving contribution sprints from in-person events to virtual events. In addition, Chris Weber also has some new change records for us. URLs mentioned
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