Today marks the two-year anniversary since my official start at Bryght, easily the longest full-time job I've had, and easily the best.  (It beat out other jobs I enjoyed as well, which included teacher's assistant at an alternative high school in Surrey and the Internet training summers at a public library.  More on that in a bit.)  Thanks to Lance, James, Adrian, Roland, Colin, Kris, Boris, and, this year, Djun, Steven and Petrina (her last day today, so sad) for making this an enjoyable two years so far.  Because of Bryght, I've been to a few conferences and even met some of my online friends and, occasionally, heroes. Every day I learn something new about technology, business, and, importantly, myself. I've learned a lot about working at a small startup, supporting many customers at a time, improving my programming and system administration skills, and participating in an open source community that is Drupal.  I've been very impressed with the quality both of the code and the interaction between community members, not only within Drupal but between the Drupal community and other open source communities.

I hope in the coming months to be a little more active outside my "official" duties at Bryght (do I even have official duties?) such as maintaing the small modules I wrote and participating more on the Drupal.org forums, as well as contributing documentation to the handbooks.  I'd like to do more public speaking, something that, even though I consider myself an introvert, I really enjoy.  As a teacher's assistant, I didn't so much as public speak as help a dozen kids at once on some of the more technology-oriented lessons, and as an Internet trainer, taught the basics to a group of people, sometimes as large as 20 people.  Those numbers don't look so big, but I think they're about right for people to go to a session and have a good balance between lecture-style speech and question and answers, which I always prefer to have during the presentation, not after.  That way it's more of a conversation than a presentation, and I think people get more out of those than someone standing up, showing slides and waiting until the end to have only a few questions due to time constraints.

Enough soapboxing: I'm looking forward to continuing to support Bryght's current as well as future customers as well as continuing to support the Drupal and open source communities, as best I can.  I'm also looking forward to moving into our new office, right on the train tracks, with a view of the mountains here in Vancouver.  The future does indeed look Bryght!