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This weekend will see hundreds of Drupalers swam into New York City to attend it’s 8th Drupal Camp. We’re excited to be attending the Camp, and are super stoked that we have three speakers from WorkHabit running sessions: Joshua Jabbour is going to take us on a discovery of GIT http://groups.drupal.org/node/71058 Eric Duran is going to show us HTML5 and Drupal playing together Wes Roepken is planning on taking a BOF session on why Apple is near to the best dev platform for Drupal So let’s hope if you’re planning to be in NYC this weekend, you stop by and come play with us!
Over the course of our search for new developers for WorkHabit, I’ve often gotten a letter or message from Drupal Zealots large and small — Drupal developers that were born and indoctrinated into the community and believe it’s the best thing since sliced bread.
And rightfully so. Drupal satisfies the technical requirements for a vast number of problems surrounding social software. There is, however, a delineating line between where Drupal leaves off and where other applications or programming languages may do things better. read more »
Drupal as a framework doesn’t lend itself well to detailed specifications — and many projects try very hard to do them to “contain risk” and get “a clear and exact” deliverable. read more »
If you haven’t tried to do video online, you’d be surprised at how difficult it is. There’s a large number of formats out there, and often your source video isn’t appropriate for displaying on a web page. The process of converting the source to a format and size that works online and then getting it into Drupal and delivered to your viewers turns out to be expensive and time consuming. read more »
Workhabit customer YourSphere was featured recently in a case study on Drupal.org.
The case study shows how YourSphere is building a secure, safe, and private social network just for teens. They describe how things are built, going into some good detail on the profiles and how the developers made it easy for non-expert admins to add content.
There’s a particularly nice mention of WorkHabit’s scalable Drupal hosting platform, Elastic 2. read more »
Information Week has an article that looks at how success has been achieved by Drupal and Alfresco by integrating social and collaboration features into the products.
The article compares both platforms favorably to large commercial products from the likes of Microsoft and IBM and finds that businesses are frequently evaluating open source platforms along side proprietary packages and choosing based on their requirements, not on a political or ideological basis. read more »
It’s about time we had a Drupal Camp here in San Diego. Both Karl Scheirer and I want it, and now that we’ve posted it to the groups.drupal site, a lot of other people are interested too.
Here’s the original posting: http://groups.drupal.org/node/16691
Use that node to keep track of our progress as we work to bring you a full-featured Camp here in the sunny side of California. read more »
When users control the conversation, there is an interesting tendency for the elevation of users as experts based on contribution. If there is one thing I've learned about the Drupal community over the years, and in my years working around and in Open Source communities for years before that, it's this: contribution and presence are the basis of community capital; or, in short: contribution is social capital. read more »
The second Bay Area Drupal Camp is next weekend at UC Berkeley and WorkHabit is proud to be sponsoring, attending, and presenting.
We’ll be giving sessions on everything from scaling to theming. And I’ll be showing off AutoPilot, our build management product.
If you’re there, we’d love it if you’d say hi. We’ll be the ones in the black WorkHabit shirts.
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It’s about time we had a Drupal Camp here in San Diego. Both Karl Scheirer and I want it, and now that we’ve posted it to the groups.drupal site, a lot of other people are interested too.
Here’s the original posting: http://groups.drupal.org/node/16691
Use that node to keep track of our progress as we work to bring you a full-featured Camp here in the sunny side of California. read more »
