About Me: 

I come from the land of Ice and Fire, married, have three children of my own and my wife also has three.  One huge household when everybody comes to visit.

BSc. from Reykjavik University and a board member for Drupal Iceland.  Love to travel, write code, learning new skills and spreading the Drupal word.

Questions for the Candidate

Jeff Veit’s picture
Comment: 

How would being Director At Large, help you spread the Drupal word? What problems do you think you could solve? What are the practical steps you would undertake?

Jeff Veit’s picture
Comment: 

I note again - it's the 15th today. Voting closes on the 18th. I asked this about a week ago.

The same supplementary question I have asked other candidates: how would you interact with the community to represent us?

drupalviking’s picture
Comment: 

Sorry Jeff how long it took me to respond.

One thing that I bring to the table is a driving force to get things done.  Very often things are discussed alot in meetings and groups, but the driving force to complete is not there.  Everybody is waiting for someone else to finish.  Well ... I do finish.  Thats how Drupal Iceland was founded and how many of the meetings are organized (I'm not alone, but like often is the case, only a handful of people actually follow things through).

I am enthusiastic about creating guidelines regarding how to teach Drupal to newcomers, and to bring better documentation quality for patches and modules.  Since I have over 15 years of PHP knowledge but only around three years of Drupal (7.11) I also have some ideas to engage programmers come into the Drupal project without prejudice.

We need to stand closely around Drupal as an open-source project and not getting it to be "too-commercial", meaning that the hard work of developers and contributors will be exploited for financial gain within supercompanies.

And lastly I think we need to stick to our roots as much as we need to go corporate, and give everybody the feeling that Drupal is for everybody, not just major corporations and governments.