Angie Byron, Principal Community Manager at MongoDB, is a Drupal core committer and product manager, recipient of the Google-O'Reilly Open 2008 Source Award for Best Contributor and 2022 Aaron Winborn Award, co-author of the O'Reilly book Using Drupal, and an open source enthusiast. She got her start as a Google Summer of Code student in 2005 and since then has completely immersed herself in contributing to open source. Her work includes core patch review, improving the user experience of Drupal through the Spark project, strategic initiative coordination, testing and quality assurance efforts, improving and fixing documentation, and general community cat herding.
She lives near Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and has an amazing daughter. She's obsessed with open source, getting new people (especially women) involved, as well as just geeky computer stuff in general. When the keyboard is pried from her hands once or twice a year, she enjoys video games, logic puzzles, drawing silly cartoons, and political books/documentaries.
I should really put something else here someday. :P
Media mentions:
- November, 2020 - Core Confidential - Core Confidential with Angie Byron (webchick) : Learning about 15 Years of Drupal Contribution Part 1, Part 2
- October 12, 2020 - TechRepublic - Remote development success: Lessons we can learn from the Drupal 9 team
- April 15, 2020 - Acquia.com Blog - The Women of the Drupal Community: webchick
- May, 2019 - Bounteous - Q&A With Drupal-Expert Turned Acquia Pro: Angie Byron Part 1, Part 2
- March 22, 2019 - AngelList - Drupal's Angela Byron On Building A Diverse Community
- October 31, 2018 - The Changelog - Episode #321: Drupal is a pretty big deal
- June 14, 2018 - Lullabot Podcast - Not your grandparent’s Drupal, with Angie “Webchick” Byron
- December 22, 2016 - Roundhouse Radio: Sense of Place With Minelle Mahtani: Building Inclusive Communities
- May 25, 2016 - source{d}: 100 Awesome Women In The Open-Source Community You Should Know
- July 1, 2015 - Opensource.com: 21 Canadians to follow on Twitter #CanadaDay
- Feb 13, 2015 - Computerworld: Drupal 'getting off the island' with version 8
- Jan 26, 2015 - Opensource.com: 30 community managers in open source to follow on Twitter
- Apr 7, 2014 - Opensource.com: Angie Byron on Drupal 8 out of the box
- Feb 9, 2014 - Business Insider: These Women Are Building The Software That Quietly Runs The World
- Dec 10, 2012 - New Relic blog: Infographic: Forget Wonder Woman — These Women Nerds Are Our Real Superheroes
- May 16, 2012 - The Georgia Straight: Geek Speak: Angie Byron, core co-maintainer for Drupal 7
- May 26, 2011 - The Next Web: Angela Byron will be the first woman to ever hit the cover of Linux Journal
- Feb 24, 2011 - Linux Journal: Angela Byron on Drupal 7: Cover story of April 2011 issue
- June 12, 2009 - CMSWire: Open Web Vancouver 2009: Want More Women In Your Project?
- April 6, 2009 - ZDNet: Perfectionists need not apply
- November 14, 2008 - OStatic: Interview: Angela Byron, Top Drupal Developer and Evangelist
- August 8, 2008 - Linux.com: Open source technology is hungry for new college grads
- July 22, 2008 - Google Open Source Blog: ... and the winners of the 2008 Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards are...
- March 20, 2008 - Reddit - I am Angie "webchick" Byron, Drupal core committer, cat herder of 30,000+ developers, and adoptive mom. AMA!
- January 23, 2008 - Linux Magazine: Greetings and welcome to our Women in Open Source blog!
- October 15, 2007 - Google Summer of Code Blog: Summer of Coders at Google: Angela Byron
- August 26, 2007 -
on the luck of seven: Episode 13 - Dries on Drupal - September 15, 2005 - The Economist: Summer camp for coders