Mike:
With my voice still recovering from Drupalcon SF, I've been thinking a lot about what I learned. The most surprising and significant thing I learned is that the landscape of Drupal has changed in drastic ways since I first started using it 4 years ago. Even since Drupalcon DC last year, the community is different. Standing at our booth last year, a few people stopped by with curious interest. After a few minutes of small talk, most folks would mosey on to the next booth with the same ambivalent inquisitiveness in which they had found us. Not this year.
Posted Apr 24, 2010
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Irakli:
The World Bank Group has announced today that it will offer free access to more than 2,000 financial, business, health, economic and human development statistics that had mostly been available only to paying subscribers. The data will be immediately available through the World Bank Open API for developers and and also gets a user-friendly user-interface at: data.worldbank.org
Posted Apr 20, 2010
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Jeff:
As the Drupal community and lots of newcomers all descend on San Francisco this week, I am making just one (maybe not so bold) prediction: This conference is the tipping point. Drupal is officially big. Why is this all happening now? It is likely a combination of many things: maturity of the product itself, size of the installed base, growth in community popularity and participation, lack of affordable alternatives for comparable web 2.0 functionality, etc. I actually prefer to view it more as the maturity of Drupal as a platform through which the Drupal technology community is pushing Drupal forward - potentially straight into enterprise software territory. Here is my "top ten style" list of the technology trends I see fueling this growth.
Tiffany:
Phase2 Technology and Mediacurrent are proud to announce the availability of a white paper titled Building Large-Scale Publishing Sites with Drupal.
Mike:
So, the DrupalCon session that I’m giving with Dave is titled “Planning and Executing a Successful Drupal Implementation.” …. Wait… sorry, I just fell asleep. Yeah, it doesn’t sound very exciting does it? Well, hopefully it will be more interesting than the name let’s on. In an effort to try to get some folks in the door before heading out to happy hour next Monday, we wanted to share a couple of the topics this week in the blog.
Irakli:
The ability to write self-contained modules (thank you, Hooks API!) and a very flexible theming layer are two important aspects behind the power and extensibility of Drupal. The following blog post describes how to leverage this power and write "proper" modules - modules that externalize all rendering logic into TPLs, suggest default implementation but allow themers to override default TPLs if needed. Several use-cases are discussed.
Posted Apr 10, 2010
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Tiffany:
We are thrilled to be a part of Drupalcon again this year. Phase2 staff will appear on nine panels, and we'll be giving a pre-conference training on OpenPublish. If you are there, please say hello - we are looking forward to seeing all our old friends and making new ones in the Drupal community.
Samantha:
Each year in Austin, one of the most epic gathering of tech minds happens at SXSW Interactive. This year I represented Phase2 Technology both as a speaker and as an excited participant. According to PCMag.com, there were 15,000 attendees making this year's event the most attended on record. It was my Fifth time at the festival, and by far my favorite. From more intriguing panel topics to a wider variety of industry professionals to network with, the entire experience was top-notch.
Jeff:
I have been writing a series of guest blog posts at GovFresh on Drupal in open government. GovFresh works to inspire government-citizen collaboration and build a more engaged democracy through Gov 2.0 best practices, open gov news, guides, TV, tech, people and official U.S. government feeds, all in one place.
This month, I discuss how Drupal is close to being the perfect Gov 2.0 solution for savvy agencies – and soon perhaps a default solution for open government web initiatives in my post today entitled Drupal: The New Gov 2.0 Site Builder?
Last month I wrote about how Drupal supports five of the most effective open government sites in Five Government Sites Using Drupal Effectively for Open Government Initiatives.
Let me know what you think of these posts and what else you would like to see written about on this topic.
Posted Mar 17, 2010
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Liz:
When I first started duplicating DVDs as part of a volunteer project organized by Carl Malamud, I never thought the project would garner any media coverage, let alone interest from New York Times. But, I'm thrilled because the project is important for freedom of information and for democracy.
