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Deep into Drupal, Cisco starts to give back to open source community
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Thursday 22nd of October 2015 10:37:10 PM Filed under

Cisco’s Jamal Haider acknowledged during a presentation this week that his team that works on the company’s open source-based customer support portal hasn’t given much back to the wider Drupal community yet, but he said this talk at the sold-out Acquia Engage conference in Boston is part of an effort to change that.
And why not? Cisco has plenty of reasons – more than $400 million of them, in fact – to be grateful for Drupal since migrating its Support Community portal to the open source content management system early last year. Cisco started working on project requirements in 2013 with Acquia, a SaaS provider that has commercialized Drupal offerings.
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What's top of mind for a Drupal web developer at Georgia Tech
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Tuesday 20th of October 2015 12:51:04 PM Filed under

That both open source and education have core commitments to sharing knowledge freely and to impacting the world for good through collaboration. We also share a similar challenge of how to encourage many small and unique contributions to a very large-scale project. There is some fascinating work going on in India to create social infrastructure in and around schools that makes Drupal knowledge and community easier to build and sustain.
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If Drupal were a band it would be Rush
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 2nd of October 2015 09:28:08 AM Filed under

Getting my clients' developers and sysadmins to stick to all of the documented processes I've set up for them.
I have years of experience implementing Drupal-based solutions, so I have a rather solid understanding of what works and what doesn't. But some folks without any experience with Drupal try to shoehorn it into incompatible environments. I do my best to explain all of this and why to ensure that, when I'm gone, folks can take all of my wiki documentation and run with it (use it and update it as necessary).
I like to think of my consulting services as successful if my clients can continue working on their projects without me. Basically, I'm doing a good job if I put myself out of one.
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Acquia Funding Tops $173M as Drupal 8 Release Nears
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 29th of September 2015 10:35:14 AM Filed under

While the open source Drupal content management system (CMS) is freely available, there is money to be made in support and services. This is where Acquia, the lead commercial vendor behind Drupal, comes into play.
Acquia today announced a new $55 million Series G equity financing round, with investors Centerview Capital Technology, New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Split Rock Partners.
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Always be shippable
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 25th of September 2015 01:38:46 PM Filed under


Drupal will soon be 15 years old, and 5 of that will be spent on building Drupal 8 -- a third of Drupal's life. We started work on Drupal early in 2011 and targeted December 1, 2012 as the original code freeze date. Now almost three years later, we still haven't released Drupal 8. While we are close to the release of Drupal 8, I'm sure many many of you are wondering why it took 3 years to stabilize. It is not like we didn't work hard or that we aren't smart people. Quite the contrary, the Drupal community has some of the most dedicated, hardest working and smartest people I know. Many spent evenings and weekends pushing to get Drupal 8 across the finish line. No one individual or group is to blame for the delay -- except maybe me as the project lead for not having learned fast enough from previous release cycles.
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Developer lowers Drupal's barrier to entry
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Friday 28th of August 2015 07:10:14 PM Filed under

From a consumer perspective, I'd like open source to be ubiquitous to the point of invisibility. Using recent Ubuntu distros, I'm always shocked at how professional the environment feels. Just five years ago, you'd need to hunt down drivers and do a bunch of fiddling to get basic things like a sound card working. Now there are so many pushbutton ways to deploy open source tech, from OSes to CMS distros on Pantheon to buying an Android-powered mobile phone.
We're not quite to the point where CMS users can feel like open source is transparent; there's still a huge investment in vendors to give you the expertise to manage your Drupal or WordPress site, for example. But we're closer than we were a decade ago, and that's pretty exciting.
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London.gov.uk beta site demonstrates growing “Open Source mentality” among public sector organisations
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Monday 17th of August 2015 07:20:02 PM Filed under

The beta version of London.gov.uk, the website serving the Mayor of London and the Greater London Assembly (GLA), signals a “growing Open Source mentality” within government organisations, according to the site’s developers.
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Czech TV and radio switch websites to Drupal
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Thursday 13th of August 2015 05:46:20 PM Filed under

The Czech government-owned public TV broadcaster Česká televize has switched to using the open source content management system Drupal for its CT 24 news website, it announced on 6 August. One month earlier, the government-owned Český rozhlas (Czech Radio) also began using Drupal.
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Drupal 8 Nears Finish Line
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Tuesday 14th of July 2015 05:45:46 PM Filed under

After over four years of development, including missed deadlines on general availability, the open source Drupal 8 content management system (CMS) finally appears to be nearing the finish line.
Drupal, one of the world's most popular CMS technologies, is used by many high-profile organizations, notably Whitehouse.gov, the flagship website of the U.S. government. While Drupal founder Dries Buytaert in 2012 announced Drupal 8 would be generally available in December 2013, that date passed with no release.
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A developer replete with Drupal vim and vigor
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Monday 13th of July 2015 11:24:28 AM Filed under

Web architect Cleaver Barnes makes websites do interesting and useful things, which is to say he focuses on the code more than the visuals. His first major use of open source was Linux in the mid-'90s. It allowed him to do things that weren't possible in Windows at the time. Since then he has worked building web apps with Java J2EE and other technologies.
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