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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kcolwell/3334940821/" title="James presenting Why I Hate Drupal"><img src="/images/james-speaking.png" alt="James speaking" class="right" /></a>James is a long time leader in Open Source Software and a dedicated steward of Open Standards. Most recently, he was the Senior Services Architect at [StatusNet](http://status.net/) where he was one of the principle designers of the [OStatus](http://ostatus.org/) protocol for open federated social networking.

Since 2003, he has been a core contributor to the [Drupal Project](http://drupal.org/). Within the Drupal community, he has contributed countless lines of code to several of the most popular components. Additionally, he was a founding General Assembly member of the [Drupal Association](http://association.drupal.org/).

In 2004, he co-founded Bryght, the first company to offer hosting and professional services exclusively for Drupal. James went on to serve as the Director of Education for [Lullabot](http://www.lullabot.com/) the foremost consulting and training company for Drupal. In this role, he trained thousands of new Drupal developers and users through public workshops, online workshops, on-site training, books and DVDs.

Outside of Drupal, James maintains a deep interest in the OpenID, Open Web and Jabber/ XMPP communities and frequently presents at conferences and events as an evangelist for these technologies. He is also a founding member of the [Open Web Foundation](http://openwebfoundation.org/).


