bertboerland

DrupalCode profile
Posts on Drupal.org
Starred projects

Netherlands

Current Role(s):

Creative Director / Owner

Gently Rocks BV

Owner

Luminis Nutrix BV

Founder, Chair

Senior Sales Executive

SUSE

Director of Excellency

IRC:

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Slack:

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Professional Info

Companies Worked For

Trifork, Wunder, Appnovation , Dutch Open Projects, PinkRoccade, KPN, PinkElephant, AT&T, Unisource, drupalnl, drupal-association, Synetic

Industries Worked In:

3D Animation, Web, Open Source consulting, ISP's, Internet transit provider, Consultant, Internetworking, Media, Print media, Internet Agency

https://boer.land

Personal Info

Pronouns:

He/Him

Primary language:

Dutch

Other languages:

Afrikaans

Dutch

English

German

On Drupal.org for 23 years 1 month

Over 50 edits to documentation

Bio:

Business nerd with a passion for open source, the open web and open business.

Senior Sales Executive at SUSE.

Contributor roles

Drupal meetup organizer
From 2007-01 to present

I have co-started the DrupalJam movement and organised over a dozen for over a decade
Drupal Association board member
From 2007-05 until 2010-09

I was a Permanent Member of the Drupal Association VzW
I co-started the SplashAwards and organised half a dozen of these events.

Drupal Contributions:

Bert Boerland from The Netherlands, is a long term Drupal user.

Bert has been active as a user, handbook writer, tester and evangelist since the Drupal's early days on drop.org (2000) and has a long standing track record in the Drupal community. He donated the Drupal.org domain to the community, organised the DrupalCon Amsterdam 2005 and co-organised as lead the DrupalCon Barcelona 2007.

Bert has been a Permanent Member of the Drupal Association since 2007 and a Board Member in 2008. He resigned being a Permanent Member in November 2010. Bert is a co founder of the Dutch Drupal Stichting and has been a member of the board for 10 years.

He co-founded the DrupalJam and co-organised a dozen of these Dutch events with over 500 attendees. He also co-founded the Splash Awards and organised many editions. Bert was also a co-organiser of the 2012 edition of Frontend United, a European conference for frontend developers in Drupal. Bert helped organising 6 year long other DrupalCons as a global track chair for the Business Tracks.

To be the wallet of the DrupalJam, Bert founded the Stichting Drupal Nederland and has been a board member for over a decade. His is currently the Chair of the board.