Robin Barre provides technology team leadership for Next Agenda technology initiatives. An experienced web developer, Robin Barre is a linux chick with top notch engineering skills. She has been providing web services as a PHP developer including full web applications, content specific search engines, and content management systems. With Drupal and CivicActions, Robin is a Technical Lead and Engineer. She was the Technical Lead for Berkeley Journalism School's OpenToSolutions which focuses on local neighborhood violence. She also led one of the fastest turnaround projects for CivicActions: MeNotMeth. MeNotMeth is a state of California campaign discouraging methamphetamine use. Robin is currently leading a project for Architecture for Humanity, and continues as a Lead Engineer for The HUB, a project for the human rights organization WITNESS. Robin contributes patches and modules to the Drupal community, and she participates in her local Drupal User Group in Seattle. Helping to organize DrupalCamps in Seattle is another way Robin contributes back. Working with CivicActions provides the best of both worlds: providing technical services and helping to make the world a better place for all. Personal interests include learning theory and music. Political interests focus on free software and equality.
This is just a quick update to let everybody know about what the Next Agenda team has been doing. We spent a lot of the summer working with the Breakthrough Institute, covering their inaugural Breakthrough Dialogue conference, "Modernizing Liberalism." The conference, which was put on in conjunction with launch of a new journal, brought together dozens of top thinkers from a range of disciplines to figure out new ideas that could adapt liberalism to today's realities.
