Earl Miles is a permanent member and founder of the Drupal Association. In 2005, Earl found Drupal and thought it was exactly the kind of thing that he wanted for a website he was building in his spare time. Then he found out that Drupal lacked a couple of features here and there; so Earl ignored work for about three weeks and created the Views module, which has been instrumental in Drupal's continued growth.

Earl has also been active in the community providing support here and there, as well as posting tips and tricks when the mood strikes him.

Earl is happily married with his two children (the second born just days before this book hit stores), which makes him both happy and tired. He is an amateur writer (sci-fi/fantasy) and a gamer.

Earl has worked with several Drupal based companies and is currently employed by iO1, who is actively giving back to the community in return for open source software that makes it easier to pursue company goals.

Earl’s Drupal blog is Angry Donuts (http://www.angrydonuts.com).

Lynette Miles has worked for fifteen years in professional software technical support, mainly for Alcatel-Lucent. During that time, she has done everything from respond to customer issues via phone, email, and ticketing systems to writing and editing documentation for corporate software. She has also spent entirely too much time building and maintaining technical support knowledge bases for customers and support team members.

She became involved with Drupal after attending DrupalCon Brussels and DrupalCon Barcelona with her husband and became tired of listening to him talk about how active his issue queue was. Since then, she has spent most of her contributing time working with the Drupal Documentation team, and triaging the Views and Panels queues. She actively maintains that she is not a coder, stating, “I have people for that.”

Lynette is a gamer, a spinner, and a knitter. She has cheerfully created her own Drupal hats based on Emma Jane Hogbin’s pattern, complete with glow in the dark faces. Most of her time is spent ensuring that she and Earl’s daughter (also a Drupalcon fixture) learns the proper way to work with Drupal, “Don’t hack core!”