http://drupal.org/ is the Drupal Home Page. I assume that you have already posted the position at the Drupal home page. I would suggest contacting some of the people at Drupal and asking for suggestions for some good Drupal developers who may be interested. Perhaps one of the developers at the company would consider moving over for an interesting and
challenging position. I see that Drupal developers are hired all round the globe. The folks at Drupal may be more likely to know of someone who does not need a job and is therefore not actively looking, but who may have an interest in returning to the country or moving to the Los Angeles area and could give you contact information for them. You may also be able to find out who is doing the best and most innovative or whatever quality
you are looking for in a Drupal developer so that you can check out their work on a web site and if they are recommended to contact them to see if they are interested.

So a good question to ask might be who is doing Drupal work that you admire? If you contact that person, and they are not interested in your position, who could they recommend that also does exceptional work who might be interested? With that contact, you may also be able to run prospective names by them to see whether the person you are thinking of considering is considered a high quality Drupal developer by that expert.

Is Drupal taught by anyone from Drupal in workshops or courses or online or locally or globally? I would ask that person who they may recommend from their workshops that really knows the topic. They must run some kind of updating workshop at conferences, onsite, etc. A workshop leader usually knows who the people are who can answer all the questions from
the audience that they can't :) I found a photo from an L.A. Drupal camp below.

If Drupal is used extensively or taught at any academic institutions locally, perhaps the instructor can point you in the direction of a gifted past graduate who may be keeping in touch with them.

If there is a local or national computer conference where Drupal developers may be attending, can you network there and find out a consensus of the people there - who is a great Drupal person?
eg. the upcoming MacWorld conference nearby in San Francisco may have people there who are qualified to judge Drupal developers and recommend some to you. Is there a Drupal booth going to be there?
Can you find out from the exhibitors if anyone is knowledgeable who may be interested.
Often there are job fairs at conferences where you can interview onsite or browse resumes.

Here is the MacWorld link for this year http://www.macworldexpo.com/ You may be able to attend workshops by Drupal developers or for Drupal developers giving you a concentration of people to check out
or ask for recommendations from. Talking to others that know the person and their work can help you choose someone who is not only highly capable, but also likely to be compatible with the type of setting you have.
The photograph below was taken from a Drupal Camp in LA in 2007.

Creative Commons by Roland
Source(s):
http://drupal.org/
http://www.macworldexpo.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/35034347371@N01/1348502880


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