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Location Berlin | Hamburg | New York | London | Paris
Current Role(s): 
CEO, CD/AD, Initiator, Project Lead
MAROQQO studios
IRC: 
digidog (diqidoq)
Slack: 
diqidoq

Professional Info

Industries Worked In: 
digital media, multimedia, film, audiovisual, graphic design, web applications

Personal Info

Pronouns: 
(formerly "diqidoq")
Other languages: 
English
French
German
Spanish

On Drupal.org for 13 years 4 months

Over 50 edits to documentation

Bio: 
  • Founder and CEO of MAURSEGLER film.
  • Founder and CEO of REQQORD music.
  • Founder and CEO of MAROQQO studios.
  • Creator of JASS.dev
  • Open Source Advocate and Project Lead.

The user name "dqd" refers to Double Quantum Dot (formerly written out as diqidoq, to make fun about it) and is the Open Source involved user name of the artist, novelist, essayist & philosopher, dramatist, play-wright, theater & film director, cinematographer, composer and award winning music producer and classical conductor Sebastian Gilmano Ugovsky-Strassburger.

What brought you to Drupal? - It was actually not Drupal, it was Views and CCK. Contrib modules back in the days of Drupal 5/6. ;-) And we build the first headless Drupal 16 years ago, where the term not even existed yet :) To fill a Flash site for art in Africa with Drupal managed content.

What made you an Open Source advocate? - Very simple: Transparency in code and community decisions, the "computer is not a consumer product" movement (Stallman) and Linux. I started became involved and participated and contributed to Linux 20 years ago. Later Linux and audiovisual concepts (completely different to the audiovisual concepts on proprietary OS) became an interesting part in my "developer" sidekick life-stream.

What was the first code you wrote and when? - C++ 25 years ago, than PHP and Flashscript.

What struggles you the most (on people)? - Expectations in a bad relation to the will to give. And behavior of people based on career thinking.

For you what is the most important rule in a society? - Respect and Empathy.

Is a company paying for your work on Drupal or Linux? - No.

What do you think is the most human challenge? - Death.

Contributor roles

Areas of Expertise: 
Initiator
Project Lead
web applications for editorials
audio-visual presentation and web project management tools
Drupal events: 
LinuxWorldExpo London
DrupalCon Paris 2009
DrupalCon London 2011
DrupalCon Munich 2012
DrupalCon Austin 2014
DrupalCon Amsterdam 2014
DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015
DrupalCon Barcelona 2015
DrupalCon New Orleans 2016
DrupalCon Vienna 2017
Drupal Europe 2018
DrupalCon Amsterdam 2019
DrupalCon Minneapolis 2020 (was planning to attend)
DrupalCon Europe 2020
DrupalCon Europe 2021
DrupalCon Prague 2022
DrupalCon Pittsburgh 2023

Credited on 125 fixed issues

Projects maintained

Drupal Association Individual Member

dqd helps support and grow the Drupal community with the Drupal Association.

My mentors: 

5 people list dqd as a mentor

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I give support on Slack
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I answer on Drupal Answers
I help mentor new contributors