Jeffrey A. "jam" McGuire has a longstanding passion for Drupal and its community. He promotes, markets, and advocates for the Drupal project and open source software. Presenting around the world at Drupal and other events helps satisfy his inner diva, which he also feeds with performances as a storyteller, singer, french horn and alphorn player. Tags: Musician, foodie, Drupalista ...
Janne is responsible for Exove’s operations, customer relationships and business development. Janne participates on a daily basis in the design and implementation of projects where needed.Before founding Exove, Janne has led product development in both First Hop, a telecom middleware company, and Continuent Inc. that specializes in high availability databases.
When not working, Janne enjoys being with his family, reading contemporary literature, and taking photographs.
Santeri Lindgren works at Mearra as a Senior Developer. Santeri has over five years of work experience from multiple web development projects. Through hobbies and personal interests Santeri has gained over 10 years of valuable experience in different fields of IT. Santeri has also gained expertise in technical design and implementation, support and team building. Santeri's key competences also include project management. With Santeri’s immense social skills, he is almost never left speechless.
Sami Kallinen is the Head of Online at Svenska Yle. He is currently responsible for swedish speaking web publishing at Svenska Yle, the facilitator of creative processes and a Floss believer with a background in everything from publishing, producing television and events to making media art, squatting buildings for cultural use and hobbyist hacking in Amsterdam, Stockholm and Helsinki.
Mårten works with creating the visual look & front end code of svenska.yle.fi. He is a concept development enthusiast, new to Drupal and started playing with web development in the era of IE3 and Netscape. When not working, he can be found traveling the world.
Saku Sairanen has a long experience in various roles around software development, mobile services and advertising and marketing communications. Currently he is responsible for Exove Design Ltd which specializes in designing usable and exciting web and mobile solutions. Outside of work Saku likes to spend time with his family and do sports.
Tomi Mikola is partner and co-founder of Mearra and has 10 years of experience in different internet technologies through education and various IT projects. Involvement in projects of different caliber have given versatility that Tomi considers to be his strongest side. With an entrepreneur background, Tomi understands not only web application development but also the requirements of the bottom line in the business world. Currently Tomi focuses ambitiously on enhancing production process and guaranteeing overall technical quality.
Teemo is social media doer, Drupal doer, Data journalism doer and many things more. He is a web developer and postgraduate student from Helsinki. Currently Teemo is occupying svenska.yle.fi as a Web designer.
Rasmus Werling, better known as Rade, familiarized himself with Drupal 6 for the first time in early 2009 and has been hooked since. For the past year he has been rocking Drupal at Soprano Brain Alliance, mostly doing backend and module development but also some frontend stuff.
His first very own module contribution to the community was in February 2012 when he released the first stable version on Block Sections and he wanted to share his experience about the process of module contribution.
Roni Kantis (or bfr @ drupal.org) is a Drupal architect from Soprano Brain Alliance. He has made his living out of Drupal since 2008. Roni is mainly focused on the inner workings of Drupal, and aims to master all the backend aspects from integrations to performance bottlenecks. Roni is a regular contributor, and tightly follows, and eagerly awaits, the development of Drupal 8 (especially the Symfony 2 integration) since for relatively short period of time it really sparks life to the thing he mostly loves about Drupal: the community.
Vesa started building web software professionally back in 1995 and has experienced many different technologies, ways of building sites and companies along the way. With a lot of previous experience in building online communities Drupal came into his attention in 2004. After gradually replacing many different platforms with Drupal he finally decided to go all Drupal a few years ago. Vesa is currently CEO of Mearra and a member of the board of directors for the Drupal Association. Twitter: @wesku
Pedro Cambra is a Drupal developer and trainer based in Barcelona, Spain, with more than four years of experience in Drupal and PHP development mostly focused on building and maintaining e-commerce sites. Currently in lead of the Spanish Drupal association, Pedro helps organizing both Drupalcamps and local events and encourages local communities
DrupalCamp Helsinki 2012 has opened its registration! You can reserve a spot for yourself by paying the registration fee (20€) to the given bank account. Feel free to pay additional extra to help the community, if you feel you should contribute more ;) When you make the payment, please remember to give your name as a reference.
On Saturday, 2nd of June, we will gather all the Drupalists (beginners and gurus) under the same roof at YLE Iso Paja. The event will be bigger than last year with three tracks and both pre-set discussion topics and ad hoc discussions following the trends of Open Space Technology.
The three tracks are Drupal & Business, Drupal & Mobile and the Future of Drupal. More info will follow!
Last year DrupalCamp Helsinki was held at a venue provided by Microsoft. We had 80 participants and only one track. This is the one area we intend to correct at DrupalCamp Helsinki 2012!