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title: 2014
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date: 2015-03-20
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excerpt: A look back at 2014.
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tags:
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- drupal-association
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- drupalcamp-london
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- personal
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tweets: true
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---
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A lot happened in 2014. Here are some of the main things that I'd like to
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highlight.
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## Joined the Drupal Association
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This was the main thing for me this year, in May I left
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[Precedent](http://precedent.com) and joined the
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[Drupal Association](https://assoc.drupal.org). I work on the Engineering team,
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focused mainly on [Drupal.org](https://www.drupal.org) but I've also done some
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theming work on the DrupalCon [Amsterdam](http://amsterdam2014.drupal.org) and
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[Latin America](http://latinamerica2015.drupal.org) websites, and some
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pre-launch work on [Drupal Jobs](https://jobs.drupal.org).
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Some of the tasks that I've worked on so far are:
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- Fixing remaining issues from the Drupal.org Drupal 7 upgrade.
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- Improving pages for
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[Supporting Partners](https://www.drupal.org/supporters/partners),
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[Technology Supporters](https://www.drupal.org/supporters/technology) and
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[Hosting Partners](https://www.drupal.org/supporters/hosting). These
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previously were manually updated pages using HTML tables, which are now
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dynamic pages built with [Views](https://www.drupal.org/project/views) using
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organisation nodes.
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- Configuring human-readable paths for user profiles using
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[Pathauto](https://www.drupal.org/project/pathauto). Only a small change, but
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made a big difference to end-users.
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- Migration of user data from profile values to fields, and various user profile
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improvements. This was great because now we can do things like reference
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mentors by their username and display their picture on your profile, as well
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as show lists of peope listing a user as their mentor. This, I think, adds a
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more personal element to Drupal.org because we can see the actual people and
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not just a list of names on a page.
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I've started keeping a list of tasks that I've been involved with on my
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[Work](/work/) page, and will be adding more things as I work on them.
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### Portland
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I was able to travel to Portland, Oregon twice last year to meet with the rest
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of the Association staff. Both times I met new people and it was great to spend
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some work and social time with everyone, and it was great to have everyone
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together as a team.
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## My First DrupalCamp
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In February, I attended [DrupalCamp London](http://2014.drupalcamplondon.co.uk).
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This was my first time attending a Camp, and I managed to attend some great
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sessions as well as meet people who I'd never previously met in person. I was
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also a volunteer and speaker, where I talked about
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[Git Flow](/blog/what-git-flow/) - a workflow for managing your Git projects.
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{% include 'tweet' with {
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content: '<p>Great presentation by <a href="https://twitter.com/opdavies">@opdavies</a> on git flow at <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23dclondon&src=hash">#dclondon</a> very well prepared and presented. <a href="http://t.co/tDINp2Nsbn">pic.twitter.com/tDINp2Nsbn</a></p>— Greg Franklin (@gfranklin) <a href="https://twitter.com/gfranklin/statuses/440104311276969984">March 2, 2014</a>'
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} %}
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I was also able to do a little bit of sprinting whilst I was there, reviewing
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other people's modules and patches.
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Attending this and [DrupalCon Prague](https://prague2013.drupal.org) in 2013
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have really opened my eyes to the face-to-face side of the Drupal community, and
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I plan on attending a lot more Camps and Cons in the future.
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## DrupalCon Amsterdam
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I was also able to travel to Holland and attend
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[DrupalCon Amsterdam](https://amsterdam2014.drupal.org) along with other members
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of Association staff.
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## DrupalCamp Bristol
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In October, we started planning for
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[DrupalCamp Bristol](http://www.drupalcampbristol.co.uk). I'm one of the
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founding Committee members,
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