Talks

Conference talks, panels, and presentations.

• 2025-03-26: “From Community Initiative to a Drupal CMS Track: the Dashboard Module” (with Christian López Espínola), DrupalCon Atlanta.
• 2024-09-13: “Drupal Starshot Panel Discussion: Shaping the Future Together,” Twin Cities Drupal Camp.
• 2024-09-12: “Principles of Configuration Management,” Twin Cities Drupal Camp.
• 2024-08-15: “Principles of Configuration Management,” Drupal GovCon. [video, slides]
• 2024-05-07: “Community Working Group Roundtable” (with Mark Casias and April Sides), DrupalCon Portland.
• 2024-04-21: “How Old Are Yoga Poses?,” Minnesota Yoga Conference.
• 2024-04-20: “Teaching Yoga in Schools,” Minnesota Yoga Conference.
• 2023-12-03: “Introduction to Yoga History & Philosophy,” Spirit of the Lake.
• 2023-11-04: “How Old Are Yoga Poses?,” The Marsh.
• 2023-10-08: “An Introduction to the History and Philosophy of Yoga,” Lake Fellowship.
• 2023-09-15: “Habits of an Effective Drupal Contributor,” Twin Cities DrupalCamp. [video, slides]
• 2023-06-06: “Habits of an Effective Drupal Contributor” (with Owen Bush), DrupalCon Pittsburgh.
• 2023-04-16: “Reclaim Your Attention,” Minnesota Yoga Conference.
• 2022-06-22: “Building Radical, Ethical Websites,” Unitarian Universalist Association General Assembly.
• 2021-10-17: “Drupal’s Credit System and Evidence-Based Open-Source Sustainability” (with Tim Lehnen), All Things Open. [video]
• 2021-09-29: “Contributor Leaderboards to Incentivize Good Community Citizenship” (panelist), Open Source Summit.
• 2021-08-04: “Evidence-Based Open-Source Sustainability” (with Tim Lehnen), GitLab Commit. [video]
• 2020-07-15: “Cultivating the Drupal Community Mindfully,” DrupalCon Global Community Summit. [slides]
• 2019-06-07: “Layout Builder in the Real World” (with Wes Ruvalcaba), Twin Cities Drupal Camp.
• 2019-04-11: “The Imaginary Band of Drupal Rock Stars,” DrupalCon Seattle.
• 2019-01-18: “Meditative Live Coding and Musicological Hindrances,” International Conference on Live Coding (Madrid, Spain).
• 2018-06-08: “Drupal and the Music Industry,” Twin Cities Drupal Camp.
• 2017-06-23: “Drupal in the Public Sphere,” Twin Cities Drupal Camp.
• 2017-04-27: “Drupal in the Public Sphere,” DrupalCon Baltimore.
• 2016-05-11: “AMPing up Drupal” (with Karen Stevenson and Marc Drummond), DrupalCon New Orleans.
• 2016-05-10: “Configuration Management for Developers in Drupal 8” (the most attended session at DrupalCon), with Alex Pott, DrupalCon New Orleans.
• 2015-10-23: “Configuration Management for Developers in Drupal 8” (with Alex Pott), BADCamp Configuration Management and DevOps Summit.
• 2015-10-03: “Introducing Drupal 8,” Open Source North.
• 2015-07-18: “Teaching Kids to Code,” NYC Camp.
• 2015-07-18: “The Cultural Construction of Drupal,” NYC Camp.
• 2015-06-27: “Teaching Kids to Code,” Twin Cities Drupal Camp.
• 2015-06-21: Keynote, “Teaching Kids to Code,” DrupalCamp Colorado.
• 2015-01-04: “Open Source Unitarian,” First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis.
• 2014-09-21: “Open Source Culture and Unitarian Universalism,” Lake Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists.
• 2014-08-08: “Introducing the Drupal 8 Configuration System,” Twin Cities Drupal Camp.
• 2014-06-03: “Introducing the Drupal 8 Configuration System,” DrupalCon Austin.
• 2014-04-23: “Introducing the Drupal 8 Configuration System,” Twin Cities Drupal User Group.
• 2013-10-26: “Introducing the Drupal 8 Configuration System,” BADCamp.
• 2013-07-23: Keynote, “Drupal 8: What You Need To Know,” DrupalCamp Wisconsin.
• 2013-06-19: “Drupal 8: What You Need To Know,” Twin Cities Drupal Camp.
• 2013-03-07: “WordPress, Drupal, and APIs, Oh My!” Integrated Media Association.
• 2013-02-27: “How ttbook.org Uses Drupal,” PRI: Public Radio International (invited speaker).
• 2012-02-22: “Drupal in Public Media,” Twin Cities Drupal User Group.
• 2005-06-02: “Music, Musicians, and AIDS,” State of Wisconsin AIDS/HIV Program staff meeting (Madison, invited speaker).
• 2005-04-16: “Positive Music: Women, Music, and AIDS,” Women’s and Gender Studies Conference — InterACTIONS: Activism, Research, Scholarship, Teaching (Madison, Wisconsin).
• 2005-02-10: “‘Don’t Go Chasing Waterfalls’: Music, Black Women, and HIV/AIDS,” Society for American Music (Eugene, Oregon).
• 2004-02-28: “Musical AIDS: On the Popularity of American Musical Responses to HIV/AIDS in the 1990s,” Midwest Graduate Music Consortium (Chicago, Illinois).
• 2002-02-23: “Excuse Me, Where Can I Find Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto?” Midwest Graduate Music Consortium (Madison, Wisconsin).
• 2001-03-09: “How Do the Grateful Dead and Deadheads ‘Mean’?” Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association (Albuquerque, New Mexico).
• 2000-11-06: “Grateful Dead Musicking,” Society for American Music — Toronto 2000: Musical Intersections.
• 2000-02-11: “Playing in the Band: The Grateful Dead and Musicking,” Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association (Albuquerque, New Mexico).