[consulting] Introduction - Mike Gifford (mgifford)

[Mike Gifford]

My name is Mike Gifford, from Ottawa, Canada.  I'm fairly new to the  
Drupal world having decided to migrate my developers & clients to  
Drupal.  I have been the lead developer for Back-End.org, another GPL  
CMS, for the past 3-4 years.  Working in Canada's Capital it has just  
made sense for us to focus on creating multi-lingual sites to serve  
the many bilingual organizations here.  We'll be launching a Persian/ 
English web site that we started a year and a half ago fairly shortly  
- we contributed Persian collation to MySQL so that the sort order  
would work properly.  I'm discussing moving another client to Drupal  
who wants a multilingual English/French/Persian/Arabic/Russian site.

Since diving into the drupal world in August OpenConcept has  
contributed a lobby module and have also worked with the i18n team to  
provide better multi-lingual support in Drupal.  I am coming to  
Drupal through CivicSpace and have also been exploring CiviCRM and  
its application for our clients.

We will be launching a number of Drupal sites fairly soon, but the  
biggest on so far is for the Canadian Labour Congress' Take Action  
site (see my signature).
	
I've been trying to use delicious & flickr to gather screen shots &  
links to examples of drupal installs.  I've got examples in my  
signature too.  I do think that it is useful to have examples to show  
folks of what Drupal can look like.

Mike
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Mike Gifford, OpenConcept Consulting
Free Software for Social Change -> http://openconcept.ca
http://del.icio.us/mgifford/drupal http://flickr.com/photos/mgifford/ 
sets/1178930/
Latest Launch -> CLC's Action Pages - http://action.clc-ctc.ca/