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Georgia (US)Current Role(s):
Sr. Director of Consulting
IRC:
agentrickard
Professional Info
Companies Worked For
Morris DigitalWorks, Drupal Diversity & Inclusion
Industries Worked In:
Internet Publishing, Higher Edication, Healthcate, Newspapers, Magazines, Software Development
Personal Info
Pronouns:
he/him
Primary language:
English
Other languages:
English
On Drupal.org for 19 years 2 weeks
Over 100 edits to documentation
Bio:
Ken Rickard is Sr. Director of Consulting at Chicago-bassed web agency Palantir.net. He maintains numerous Drupal modules and is a core contributor and mentor.
Ken built his first web site in 1995 while teaching at the University of Arkansas. Ken has helped develop corporate online strategies for companies such as Morris DigitalWorks, and served on the planning and development teams for some of the first newspaper sites built with Drupal. Ken’s specialties are using external data sources with Drupal, enterprise Drupal adoption and site conversions.
In his spare time, he is a board game designer.
Documentation guides
- Search API Federated Solr - Search API Federated Solr (module)
- Search API Federated Solr - Search API Federated Solr (module)
- Search API Federated Solr - Search API Field Map (module)
- Contributed module documentation - Search API Federated Solr
- Contributed module documentation - Workbench Menu Access
- Contributed modules - Domain Access
- Contributed modules - Search API Federated Solr
- Contributed modules - Workbench Access
✓ Can opt projects into security advisory coverage
Events spoken at
Drupal events:
Drupal conference colocated with the Open Source CMS and Blogging Tools Summit (Vancouver, Canada)
OSCMS 2007, Sunnyvale
DrupalCon Barcelona 2007
DrupalCon Boston 2008
DrupalCon Szeged, Hungary 2008
DrupalCon DC 2009
DrupalCon Paris 2009
DrupalCon San Francisco 2010
DrupalCon Copenhagen 2010
DrupalCon Chicago 2011
DrupalCon London 2011
DrupalCon Denver 2012
DrupalCon Munich 2012
DrupalCon Portland 2013
DrupalCon Austin 2014
DrupalCon Amsterdam 2014
DrupalCon Los Angeles 2015
DrupalCon Barcelona 2015
DrupalCon New Orleans 2016
DrupalCon Dublin 2016
DrupalCon Baltimore 2017
DrupalCon Vienna 2017
DrupalCon Nashville 2018
Drupal Europe 2018
DrupalCon Seattle 2019
DrupalCon Amsterdam 2019
DrupalCon Minneapolis 2020 (was planning to attend)
DrupalCon Global 2020
DrupalCon North America 2021
DrupalCon Pittsburgh 2023
Credited on 1 security advisory
Credited on 520 fixed issues
- Project analysis, 1 issue
- Workbench Access, 115 issues
- Drupal core, 14 issues
- Rector, 19 issues
- Domain, 230 issues
- Entity Browser, 2 issues
- Search API Federated Solr, 27 issues
- Workbench, 26 issues
- Restrict IP, 1 issue
- CacheExclude, 7 issues
- Views Linkarea, 2 issues
- Workbench Reviewer, 2 issues
- PDF generator API, 1 issue
- Printer and PDF versions, 1 issue
- Drupal GovCon, 1 issue
- Domain Path, 4 issues
- Search API Solr, 2 issues
- Drupal 8 Contrib Porting Tracker, 4 issues
- Workbench Menu Access, 4 issues
- Style Guide, 2 issues
- Condition pack, 5 issues
- Search API Solr: Boosted Keyword, 1 issue
- Menu Node API, 3 issues
- Upgrade Status, 2 issues
- DrupalCon North America 2021, 1 issue
- Switch Page Theme, 1 issue
- Search API Field Map, 12 issues
- Term condition, 1 issue
- Decoupled Blocks, 1 issue
- Search API, 1 issue
- DrupalCon Global 2020, 1 issue
- Workbench Moderation, 6 issues
- Domain Menu Block, 1 issue
- Menu Node Views, 1 issue
- Drupal Camp Asheville, 1 issue
- Drupal Diversity, 6 issues
- Florida DrupalCamp 2019, 1 issue
- Paragraphs, 1 issue
- Drupal.org site moderators, 1 issue
- Domain Views, 1 issue
- Contrib Team for Drupal Diversity & Inclusion, 2 issues
- Gender field, 1 issue
- Drupal.org customizations, 1 issue
- Drupal.org CVS applications, 2 issues
- Drupal.org security advisory coverage applications, 1 issue
Projects maintained
agentrickard helps support and grow the Drupal community with the Drupal Association.
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becw19 people list agentrickard as a mentor
I contributed Drupal patches
I contributed Drupal modules
I contributed to Drupal issue queues
I contributed to Drupal.org
I contributed Drupal documentation
I helped organize DrupalCon
I contributed Automated tests
I reviewed Project applications
I provide Drupal-related services
I help mentor new contributors
