Business and Strategy Talks We’ll See at DrupalCon
As expected, DrupalCon 2011 won’t only be about Drupal -- from a technical standpoint, that is. And that’s particularly good for people like Joel and Jeff, who’ll be talking about some of the business and project management strategies they’ve adopted in both selling and delivering Drupal projects to their clients.
Specifically, you can catch them at the following sessions on March 9:
- At 1 PM -- Joel will join a panel including Nicole Lind of Treehouse Agency, and Palantir.net’s Amy O’Malley and George DeMet to talk about “Project Management as an Art Form.” This is going to be a dynamic talk since each of the panelists comes from various companies with unique specialties; we’re looking forward to hearing how these masters of client communications have exercised political savvy in ushering complicated projects from concept through delivery.
- At 3:45 PM -- Jeff will take the stage with the New York State Senate’s CIO, Andrew Hoppin, to Introduce OpenPublic: The Government Drupal Distribution. This isn’t exactly a business strategy from a traditional service-level standpoint. But OpenPublic has us all pretty excited because it (as our newest product to be released) represents a business opportunity for government clients to (finally) take advantage of open-source in an intuitive, secure way while meeting Open Government Initiative requirements. We hope you’ll attend the unveiling and discuss feedback and thoughts with us, too.
- At 4:30 PM -- Jeff will jump on another stage -- this time with Acquia’s Robert Douglass -- to co-present “Drupal as a Mature Software Industry.” And this is well-timed on the heels of the OpenPublic introduction since government is among the top verticals increasingly adopting Drupal -- thereby further facilitating its evolution and maturation. We expect this talk to be both informative from a business standpoint and a general celebration of what we’ve all known to be true for a while now -- that Drupal’s community is passionate, committed, and growth-oriented.
Even though we’d love to attend every one of the business and strategy tracks this year at DrupalCon, some of them sound like they might be right up our niche in the government, media, and non-profit industries. Those sessions include:
- Building Conference & Event Websites in Drupal with COD -- By Ezra Barnett,Gildesgame, Ben Jeavons, and Lisa Rex
- Creating an Online Community the Open Source Way -- By Jason Hibbets
- Lessons Learned from the Agile Process Applied -- By Jenn Sramek
- Teaching Drupal: Creating Effective Drupal Training Materials for Clients, Employees, and the Public -- By Chris Shattuck, Tom Geller, Matt Petrowsky
Will you be joining us?
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