Dries Buytaert

Photos from February 2006

A man in a suit looks down with focus in an indoor setting.
Will Pate, VP Sales and Marketing for Raincity Studios.

· Vancouver

Two people working together on a laptop, focused and engaged in coding.
Sarah Pullman and Robert Douglass cranking out Drupal code.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Jeff Robins, co-founder of Lullabot, is a former rockstar. He autographed one of his CDs for me.

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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.

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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. ;-)

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A sushi bento box with glazed fish, sesame seeds, orange slices, and chopsticks resting on top.
Vancouver has lots of great sushi places.

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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!

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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.

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Chris Perillo showing his IBM Thinkpad running MacOS X
Chris Perillo showing of MacOS X running on his IBM Thinkpad.

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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.

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A row of gray lockers with metal locks and orange knobs at Cypress Mountain.
Lockers at Cypress Mountain

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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.

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A man in a plaid jacket smiles while talking to another person wearing a red shirt.
Robert Douglass talking to Earl Miles (merlinofchaos).

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A man wearing glasses and a red sweater looks at the camera with a slight smile.
Jonathan Chaffer (JonBob)

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