PureGin.org

I had lunch this week with Terry Coatta - Terry finished his Ph.D. at UBC about five years before I did, and went on to found Network Software Group, which was eventually bought out by Open Text Corporation. From leading the development group there, he joined Vancouver based startup Silicon Chalk as VP of development. Silicon Chalk, sadly, suffered from the difficulties of developing some truly new ideas in Vancouver's rather conservative venture capital environment (that's my take on it, anyway).

Terry has some interesting insights, a perspective born of his path through academia, technology consulting and 'big' R&D in industry. He is a member of the editorial board of the Association for Computing Machinery's Queue magazine (always an interesting read!) alongside people such as Eric Allman, Steve Bourne, Jim Gray, Marshall Kirk McKusick, ...

I gather Terry is involved in looking at content management systems for the ACM, and he seemed interested in hearing more about Drupal. Could be a very interesting project...