Developer

Marco Carbone stumbled upon Drupal when he started running the Internet operations for Nevada's Question 7 campaign. He hand-built several modules that in the course of the campaign recruited hundreds of volunteers, handled tens of thousands of phone banking calls, and kept track of tens of thousands of door knocks. He participated in a GOTV push that included mobile phone messaging and interactive Google maps with voting locations. After Election Day, he came to the crushing realization that 44% is not greater than 50%, but that Drupal 5 *is* greater than Drupal 4.4 (and 4.7, for that matter). Impressed with the Drupal community, and wanting to give back while continuing to use Drupal for the right causes, he found a place working at Advomatic.

Before his move to Nevada, Marco received a B.S. in Computer Science at Tufts University, followed by a Masters and an ABD in the same at Harvard University, where he studied several topics in Artificial Intelligence. Following that, he spent a year at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society of Harvard Law School working on the H2O project, where he developed most of the back end of the H2O Playlist project.

Marco lives in Reno, NV, and enjoys exploring petroglyphs, reading long works of historical fiction, and watching television shows on HBO dealing with the failings of our urban institutions.