Dries Buytaert

Vancouver 2006

A man in a suit looks down with focus in an indoor setting.
Will Pate, VP Sales and Marketing for Raincity Studios.
Two people working together on a laptop, focused and engaged in coding.
Sarah Pullman and Robert Douglass cranking out Drupal code.
A plate of sushi rolls with white rice and sesame seeds, served with pickled ginger and wasabi on the side.
Vancouver has lots of great sushi places.
A person with glasses smiles while looking at a laptop covered in stickers, including an Ubuntu logo.
Snow-covered ski slope at night with city lights visible in the distance from Cypress Mountain, Vancouver.
After day 2 of the Open Source CMS Summit, some of us went night skiing on Cypress Moutain, located only 30 minutes from downtown Vancouver (Canada). From the downhill runs, you have a spectacular view on the city.
A person in a dark sweater holds a white cardboard cutout labeled "Morbus", covered in handwritten signatures.
A virtual Morbus Iff.
A person wearing glasses and a white shirt sips a green cocktail through a straw, garnished with fruit.
Jeff Robins, co-founder of Lullabot and former rockstar.
A man wearing a cap and glasses smiles while holding a drink, with another man blurred in the foreground.
Aaron Welch, co-founder of Advomatic. Theodore Serbiniski (m3avrck) is in the foreground.
Orbit
Jeff Robins, co-founder of Lullabot, is a former rockstar. He autographed one of his CDs for me.
A man with glasses and a lanyard looks at the camera with a serious expression on a busy street.
Boris Mann, co-founder of Bryght and co-organizer of the Open Source CMS Summit, MooseCamp and Northern Voice.
Two Canada geese stand by the water while several ducks swim nearby in Stanley Park.
Stanley Park
A person with red hair and glasses looks down, wearing a lanyard with "sxip" text.
Chris Perillo
A man with glasses and a short beard looks at the camera with a slight smile.
Steven Wittens
A man wearing glasses and a lanyard smiles while engaged in conversation at an event.
Robert Scoble, Microsoft employee, technical evangelist and blogger extraordinaire. We talked 'Drupal' with him which I'm sure he will be pitching to Bill Gates. ;-)
A sushi bento box with glazed fish, sesame seeds, orange slices, and chopsticks resting on top.
Vancouver has lots of great sushi places.
A man with short, light brown hair wearing a black Technorati T-shirt, smiling slightly while looking at the camera.
Matt Mullenweg, lead developer of WordPress and co-founder of Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and Akismet. We talked about web technologies and open source development on more than one occasion this week. Really nice guy to hang out with!
A man wearing a hat and a lanyard stands indoors, looking slightly to the side with a neutral expression.
Tim Bray, Sun Microsystems employee, W3C member and co-inventor of XML. Tim made Sun Microsystems donate a Sun Fire V20z server to the Drupal project. I finally got to say "thank you" in person.
Chris Perillo showing his IBM Thinkpad running MacOS X
Chris Perillo showing of MacOS X running on his IBM Thinkpad.
A group of people sitting in a room, some using laptops, with one person in the center looking forward.
Will Pate, surrounded by photography people.
A row of gray lockers with metal locks and orange knobs at Cypress Mountain.
Lockers at Cypress Mountain
A person wearing a red jacket, ski goggles, and a helmet smiles while night skiing at Cypress Mountain.
Trae McCombs (occy) while night skiing at Cypress Mountain. Works for CivicSpace.
A person holding a camera close to their face, looking through the viewfinder while taking a photo.
Kris Krug
A man in a plaid jacket smiles while talking to another person wearing a red shirt.
Robert Douglass talking to Earl Miles (merlinofchaos).
A man wearing glasses and a red sweater looks at the camera with a slight smile.
Jonathan Chaffer (JonBob)
A whiteboard with handwritten text saying "Work for Bryght: sign up here".
Bryght's whiteboard.
Sausages and other meats grilling at night, with a hand using tongs to turn them.
We had a nightly BBQ in Stanley Park. Yes, in a public park, in Vancouver, in the winter, in the middle of the night. Cold!
A man wearing a lanyard smiles while looking at a screen.
James Walker, co-founder of Bryght.
A bearded man wearing a lanyard smiles slightly while looking at the camera in an indoor setting.
Michael Meyers, co-founder of NowPublic.
A woman interviews a smiling couple at an event, holding a microphone labeled "GETV.
Sarah Pullman interviews Robert Scoble and his wife Maryam.
Whistler
We went skiing in Whistler, the venue for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic winter games.
A man in a white shirt writes on a large sheet of paper resting on another person's bent back.
Kieran Lal from CivicSpace writes on the virtual Morbus Iff.
A close-up side profile of a man wearing glasses, looking to the left with a neutral expression.
Zak Greant of ezPublish.
A Holy Bible placed inside a wooden hotel nightstand drawer.
This is what all American hotel rooms have in common.
A person with long hair looks directly at the camera with a neutral expression in an indoor setting.
Allie Micka from Pajunas Interactive. Works for CivicActions.
A man wearing glasses and a gray T-shirt smiles while looking to the side.
Drupal developer Karoly Negyesi (chx). Works for NowPublic.
A man in a blue sweater plays an electric guitar and smiles.
Drupal rockstar Chris Johnson.
A person playing an electric guitar, focusing intently on the instrument.
Drupal rockstar Chad Phillips.
A person with short hair and glasses smiles with their eyes closed, wearing a white shirt with a name tag.
Angie Byron (webchick)
A person wearing a ski helmet and goggles looks out over a snowy mountain landscape.
Andre Charland, CEO of eBusiness Applications. Ski addict and AJAX master.
A man wearing a CivicSpace t-shirt plays an acoustic guitar and sings with an expressive face indoors.
Drupal rockstar Trae McCombs (occy). Works for CivicSpace.
A man wearing glasses and a gray shirt is focused on something in front of him at a conference.
Moshe Weitzman
The sun sets over the ocean, with a distant shoreline and city lights visible beyond dark trees in the foreground.
A man with short brown hair and a goatee looks directly at the camera in an indoor setting.
Earl Miles (merlinofchoas)