Join WWEST manager Danniele for a lively interview with Angie Byron. Topics include the vast world of open source programming, how Drupal and open source can change the world for the better, and Angie's mission to push some of that change forward. You'll also find out little tidbits about Angie in her life outside of Drupal.

Guest: Angie Byron (Twitter)

Angie Byron is the Senior Director of Product and Community Development at Acquia. She is also a Drupal core committer, recipient of the Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award for Best Contributor, co-author of the O'Reilly book Using Drupal, and an open source evangelist who lives and breathes Drupal. Her work includes core patch review, improving the user experience of Drupal, strategic initiative coordination, testing and quality assurance efforts, improving and fixing documentation, and general community cat herding.

For a full transcription of this episode click here.

Links:

• Acquia
• Adventure Time
  
• Drupal
• DrupalCon
• Etrian Odyssey V: Beyond the Myth for Nintendo 3DS
• Impostor Syndrome
  
• Linus Torvalds, Finnish-American software engineer
  
• ScratchJr - coding for young children
  
• VIC-20 - one of the first inexpensive home computers
  

Hosted by: Danniele Livengood (@livengood)
Theme Music: “Positive and Fun” by Scott Holmes
Produced by: Vanessa Reich-Shackelford