Jeff Schuler's blog

Here are the slides I made for last month's "Kick-off: Meet-and-Greet" meeting, outlining a process and starting-points for discussions about what shape the group should take.

I haven't transcribed the notes from the meeting, but will soon and post them here...

The Lullabot Podcast is a great Drupal resource -- from a rockstar company comprised of some of the very best of the Drupal community.

I was listening to an old episode, (because of a Twitter from DavidWheelerPhd) and came across a quote that resonated with me:

Attached are PDF and OpenOffice Impress versions of the Drupal presentation I prepared for the WebSIG Open Source Content Management Systems: Joomla! & Drupal meeting today.

The slides comprise a brief overview on Drupal, plus-and-minus certain particulars. Any comments and feedback are welcome and appreciated, as I may refine and expand this for future use.

Drupal is free and open-source software. Anybody can download, use, modify, repackage, and redistribute it (event at a price,) freely. Open source is not only key to its distribution but also its development, culture, and very nature.

The Path to Richer Text: Input Format Improvements in Drupal 7
David Rothstein

Adding input formats to main permissions lists -- this role can use this input format. Not quite in D7 core yet.

Warnings on permissions page for allowing unsafe formats? New patch needed.

Must get rid of allowing setting of site-wide default text format.

Weights on input formats

Keynote: Our Online Identity
Chris Messina

Social Web, Cloud computing, and its discontents

Our Online Identies, My Online Identity, I am Mine, I am You

Web 2.0: WTF?

• "Build applications that harnes network effects -- to get better, the more people use them." (O'Reilly)

Rules

Project Management For Fun and Profit
Crystal Williams

The Talking Stage

• There is no shortcut
• Clients are the experts on their needs, though they don't always know how to express that, but your'e the expert on getting them there. Show what you know, but listen.
• You can't afford to save time on planning or communication.

Process

Selling You and Your (Drupal) Services
Neil Giarratana

True genius is pulling threads out of the ether, and giving them reality. "Oh wow, nobody's ever said that?"

If you do the right thing, winning takes care of itself.

What you're selling is invisible.

The true product of a business is the business itself.

Promiscuous Drupal: Building Your Site With Web APIs
Jeff Eaton

How many folks in this room came to Drupal after trying to build their own CMS? Quite a few... Drupal tends to emphasize homegrown, native solutions to everything.

"Drupal: the blogging software with the worst forum software built-in." -- Walkah

CCK Mashup -- Oh The Things You Can Do!
Karen Stevenson and Alex Barth from Development Seed