Getting the new year started off right!
In addition to a lively event calendar of Drupal User Group meetings and Drupal Happy Hour (which has recently been extended world wide, the Twin Cities now has started to have local in-person Drupal code sprints. (* Of course, these may well have happened in the past. I just don't happen to know about them! :P )
Updated my website. It is funny how badly my own website can be neglected. Since I recently quit working at the Science Museum of Minnesota, I decided to take this opportunity to make some changes. * Renamed the site from artmess.org to my old domain name, chachaville.com * Reorganized the content a little bit as it appears that this site is becoming more of an article-based blog. * Starting to put more images & stories behind the projects I have worked on.
screenshot of cute-ify The Mind website just launched. This was a project I worked on for 4 years at the Exploratorium -- developing web/kiosk interactives and some physical exhibits.
Here is a theme I worked on for the Omeka platform in conjunction with UC Berkeley's Open Knowledge and the Public Interest department, with Noah Wittman. This theme will make it a lot easier for people with less web experience (or less time) to create a visually rich web experience. It was totally fun to work on!
A few weeks ago, I attended a code sprint. This code sprint had the goal of enhancing Drupal taxonomy (core and contributed) modules in a way that will make it possible for scientists to import massive quantities of taxonomic information about all of the different species on this planet.
I would like to share this experience of group module development, especially with DrupalChix! So I wrote this article
I managed to add a bunch of pages about my own projects with Drupal 6 in a very short time. Drupal 6 is pretty swift. The only serious problem is still that Views is still beta..I will experiment with this and let you all know how it goes.
An older version of my resume...the only differences being: I now work at the Science Museum of Minnesota on the Disease Detectives Website as well as the NISE network. I attended DrupalCon, Museums and the Web, MN.swf camp.
Winter in Minneapolis wasn't so terrible. I am really really looking forward to spring. I'll be actively posting information about owl and frog monitoring later this summer. I'm enrolled in a botanical illustration program, the Minnesota School of Botanical Art. Here's the flickr page with occasional postings of new paintings and drawings. The teachers are really amazing, and I learn SO much in every class.
I trashed my last website...jumping straight into Drupal 6. For those of you who want to know, I got the whole thing up and running in about 30 minutes -- minus a few minutes turning on a subversion repository for myself, dumping my existing webcontent and trashing an old database. I got distracted watching a few lullabot how-to-videos. So far Drupal 6 seems really quick, though I haven't turned on any modules yet. I really don't need Views 2, Panels 2 or anything else like that on my own computer...so I'll be ready by the time the drupal people launch those major modules.
