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Join us as we celebrate our 500th episode with Drupal founder Dries Buytaert! Reflecting on 13 years of our podcast and Drupal's 24-year journey, Dries shares his motivations, strategies, and insights into the future of Drupal. From community contributions and AI strategy to the impact of Drupal on organizations worldwide, this episode is packed with exciting updates and heartfelt reflections. For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/501 Topics Reflecting on Milestones The Urgency Behind Starshot Cobwebs Guests Dries Buytaert - dri.es dries Hosts Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan Stephen Cross- @stephencross
Join us for an extraordinary celebration of Talking Drupal's 500th episode! In this milestone episode, we dive into a treasure trove of memories, insights, and updates from an array of special guests. From innovative Drupal contributions to the future of open-source technology, this episode is packed with valuable discussions. Don't miss appearances from notable guests like Dries Buytaert, Tim Doyle, Tim Lehnen, Mike Anello, and many more. Celebrate with us as we look forward to 500 more episodes! For show notes visit: https://www.talkingDrupal.com/500 Topics Guests include, in order of appearance: Jason Pamental Dries Buytaert Tim Doyle Tim Lehnen Carlos Ospina Mayela Jackson Mike Anello Jonus Cuyvers Jacob Rockowitz Antonio Estevez Norah Medlin Kevin Quillen Chris Wells Steven Jones Jürgen Haas Thomas Scola Chad Hester Matt Glaman James Abrahams Avi Schwab Josh Mitchell James Shield Resources Road to deprecating .module files Hosts Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu Stephen Cross - stephencross
Episode 363 of The VentureFizz Podcast features Jay Batson, Acquia Co-Founder & Founding CEO, serial entrepreneur, investor, and mentor. Lots of people like to make predictions, especially around this time of the year. Few are right. Jay on the other hand made some bold predictions about the future in a Forrester report that he published back in 1995 called Beyond Internet Gaga and it is pretty remarkable. So what does Jay predict in 1995? Yes, the internet was emerging but these predictions were made when there were only about 35 million internet users and before the Netscape IPO. He detailed three scenarios: 1. The first was internet-based cyberattacks. 2. The second was how a younger generation would be glued to the internet (think screentime) and how it would replace the television, plus the emergence of social media, & online gaming. 3. The third was the advancement of smart appliances. It's really amazing and as you'll hear, Jay has a knack for seeing the future and creating businesses that capitalize on shifts in technology, some that have been widely successful or some that just didn't hit. We chat about all of them. In this podcast, we cover: * Jay's background story and how he got started in entrepreneurship by building a company in the energy sector. * Moving to Boston and more of his early experiences in the tech industry. * All the details about founding PingTel and its innovation in IP phones and he even pulls out one of the phones for the visual, plus his reflection on why the company didn't succeed. * The full story of how he met Dries Buytaert (who was a guest on Episode #326) and how they co-founded Acquia together and lots of great scaling stories to unicorn status. * His role post-Acquia as a mentor and investor. Why founders should spend more time on their go-to-market strategy. * The importance of co-founder and investor alignment. * And so much more.
Thank you to the folks at Sustain (https://sustainoss.org/) for providing the hosting account for CHAOSSCast! CHAOSScast – Episode 96 In this episode, host Georg Link is joined by guests Courtney Robertson and Santiago (Santi) Dueñas to discuss the latest updates and future directions of GrimoireLab, an open-source tool designed to analyze community health metrics. They dive into how GrimoireLab originated, its current usage, and how organizations like WordPress and Bitergia are utilizing it for community contribution tracking. They explore the challenges of scaling the tool and the needs for further automation and data source integration. Courtney shares insights on how WordPress uses GrimoireLab to track contributors, improve sustainability, and automate reporting, while Santi explains the technical evolution of GrimoireLab, including moving to OpenSearch and improving database performance. Hit download now to hear more! [00:00:57] Courtney shares her background in Word Press and contributions to the community since 2005. [00:02:07] Santi introduces himself and talks about the origins of GrimoireLab as a spinoff from Bitergia. [00:03:34] Georg explains his role as co-founder of the CHAOSS project and its connection to GrimoireLab. [00:05:04] Santi discusses the history and name origins of GrimoireLab. [00:09:21] Courtney talks about her journey using GrimoireLab for WordPress metrics and how it helps improve contributor recognition and shares a story how she met Georg for the first time at a CHAOSScon. [00:16:38] Courtney shares her “Wish list” for WordPress community data tracking, including new data sources and scaling challenges. [00:25:04] Santi explains the current focus on improving GrimoireLab's scalability and performance. [00:27:55] Georg shares final thoughts on future developments. [00:29:47] Find out where you can follow Courtney and Santi online. Value Adds (Picks) of the week: [00:31:08] Georg's pick is getting a new puppy. [00:31:42] Courtney's pick is watching the movie Coco with her children. [00:32:24] Santi's pick is collecting physical media (movies and comics). Panelist: Georg Link Guests: Santiago (Santi) Dueñas Courtney Robertson Links: CHAOSS (https://chaoss.community/) CHAOSS Project X/Twitter (https://twitter.com/chaossproj?lang=en) CHAOSScast Podcast (https://podcast.chaoss.community/) podcast@chaoss.community (mailto:podcast@chaoss.community) Georg Link Website (https://georg.link/) Santiago Dueñas X (https://x.com/sduenasd) Santiago Dueñas LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sduenasd/) Courtney Robertson X (https://x.com/courtneyr_dev) Courtney Robertson Website (https://courtneyr.dev/) Courtney Robertson LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/courtneyr-dev/) GrimoireLab-GitHub (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coco_(2017_film)) Bitergia (https://bitergia.com/) WordPress (https://wordpress.com/) Coco (2017 film) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coco_(2017_film)) Solving the Maker-Taker problem-Dries Buytaert (https://dri.es/solving-the-maker-taker-problem) WordPress Contribution Health Dashboards: An Experiment by Hari Shanker R (https://make.wordpress.org/project/2024/09/12/wordpress-contribution-health-dashboards-an-experiment/) Five for the Future program-WordPress (https://wordpress.org/five-for-the-future/) Special Guests: Courtney Robertson and Santiago Duenas.
Síguenos en: A veces es útil echar un vistazo a cómo se están haciendo las cosas en otras comunidades para coger ideas y ver opciones que podrían implementarse o ayudar en la nuestra. ¿Qué tal la semana? Semana esther Mucho movimiento altas/bajas TWP Descubriendo Bricks (maquetador visual) Semana Nahuai Sacándole partido a :has para ocultar encabezados cuando no hay entradas debajo. Programando las próximas Meetups de WordPress Terrassa. Susto al encontrarme el plugin Loggedin cerrado en repositorio de WordPress. Abierto el siguiente día. El plugin Genesis login modal box también está cerrado pero en este caso de forma permanente. Me reafirmo en que me molestan muchísimo los plugins que usan gifs como logo. Echando un ojo a plugin Content Model. Contenido Nahuai Video de la última Meetup de Terrassa ya está en WordPress.tv https://wordpress.tv/2024/10/03/aprovecha-al-maximo-las-ultimas-novedades-de-wordpress/ Tema de la semana: Un poco de follow-up. Automattic cedió la marca de WordPress a la fundación WP y se quedó con los derechos comerciales (usar el nombre) Definir qué contribuciones cuentan, plugins de la comunidad y no comerciales (GraphQL, Jetpack comercial..) WP Engine demanda a Matt y Automattic (según los abogados de Automattic sin bases legales): https://automattic.com/2024/10/03/meritless/ Más de un 8% de los empleados de Automattic se marchan, acogiéndosela a la oferta de llevarse un bonus de 30.000 dólares. (+120 empleados que trabajaban en temas relacionados con WordPress). https://ma.tt/2024/10/alignment/ Sarah Goding (ex WP Tavern) comparte su visión: https://sarahgooding.dev/2024/10/06/21-years-of-wordpress/ Un post de reflexión de Dries Buytaert (co-fundador de Drupal), en el que habla de cómo resolver el problema del “Maker-Taker”. https://dri.es/solving-the-maker-taker-problem Algunas de las cosas más destacadas que menciona: Los dos principales retos de los proyectos de código abierto: El desequilibrio entre los principales contribuyentes y aquellos que contribuyen mínimamente, y cómo esto perjudica a las comunidades de código abierto. La falta de un entorno que apoye la coexistencia justa de los negocios de código abierto. El enfoque de Drupal: el sistema de crédito de contribución. Para ello es importante: Identificar claramente a los creadores y tomadores dentro de su ecosistema Apoyan y promueven activamente a sus creadores Educar a los usuarios finales sobre la importancia de elegir a los creadores Las estrategias para favorecerlo: Ciertos beneficios, como el patrocinio de eventos o la publicidad en Drupal.org, están reservados para organizaciones con un número mínimo de créditos. El mercado de Drupal solo enumera a los creadores, clasificándolos por sus contribuciones. Los principales contribuyentes aparecen primero, y las organizaciones que dejan de contribuir caen gradualmente en las clasificaciones o son eliminadas. Animamos a los usuarios finales a requerir contribuciones de código abierto de sus proveedores. Responsabilidades de la Drupal Asociation Organizando DrupalCons Gestión de Drupal.org Supervisar el seguimiento de contribuciones y el sistema de crédito Recomendaciones para WordPress Implementación de un sistema estructurado de recompensas para los creadores que cumplan con umbrales de contribución específicos, como la colocación prioritaria en el mercado de WordPress, una mayor visibilidad en WordPress.org, oportunidades de exponer en eventos de WordPress o acceso a servicios clave. Ampliar el modelo de gobernanza actual para que esté más distribuido. Proporcionar definiciones claras de creadores y tomadores dentro del ecosistema. Implementar un sistema justo y objetivo para rastrear y valorar varios tipos de contribuciones. Novedades Tutorial para poder seguir actualizando ACF (versión gratuita) https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/blog/installing-and-upgrading-to-the-latest-version-of-acf/ WordPress 6.7 beta 1 ya disponible: https://wordpress.org/news/2024/10/wordpress-6-7-beta-1/ Tip de la semana Menciones Pensando en cerrar el Twiter de Freelandev.
Episode 326 of The VentureFizz Podcast features Dries Buytaert, Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and Co-Founder, CTO, and Chief Strategy Officer of Acquia. Many of the most successful companies in tech were created by founders who built something that was to fill their own need. This was certainly the case for Dries, who back in 2000, started an internal online message board for his friends from his dorm room in Belgium which turned into Drupal. Fast forward to today, Drupal powers 2% of all websites in the world and over 10,000 people contribute to the Drupal open source project every year. In addition to running one of the most successful open source projects, Dries went on to build Acquia, along with his Co-Founder & the company's first CEO, Jay Batson and early investor - Michael Skok. Acquia's innovative business model has been a blueprint for other open source companies. In this episode of our podcast, we cover: * The details of the Drupal community and what are the right ingredients for building a successful community. * Dries' background story growing up in Belgium, how he developed a passion for technology, and the full story of how Drupal came to fruition. * Drupal's growth and momentum, plus a great story of how the community stepped in to help fund this open source initiative. * The early days of Acquia in terms of figuring out the business model and then scaling the company under Tom Erickson's leadership. * The current state of the state of Acquia as a Digital Experience Platform. * Why entrepreneurship is 80% sales and marketing, even as an engineer. * And so much more.
We have to start this week's news with coverage of WordPress' 20th birthday. Our beloved CMS officially reached the milestone on Saturday, May 27. Dozens of celebratory events were held around the world. You can even sign an online birthday card as part of the #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks campaign.Meanwhile, there is some special content worth checking out. First, WordPress co-founders Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little joined Drupal founder Dries Buytaert for a conversation on open source, AI, and the future of the web.And if you'd like to read about the last 10 years of WordPress history, take a look at Building Blocks: The Evolution of WordPress. The online book serves as the second volume in a series.Not surprisingly, the WordPress community also shared their thoughts via blog posts. That's how this whole thing got started, right?Among the highlights:WordPress Executive Director Josepha Haden Chomphosy shared an ode to the WordPress community's role in the project's success;Sarah Gooding of WP Tavern reflected on the impact of WordPress and outlines future challenges;HeroPress founder Topher DeRosia looked back at his start in blogging and what WordPress has meant to him;For more coverage of the big celebration, check out the #WP20 hashtag on Twitter.Links You Shouldn't MissWordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg wrote a short post regarding his creation's 20th anniversary. And he also announced the Audrey Scholars program. The aim is to provide 100% scholarships to selected members. There are currently 13 scholars in the program, which renews annually. All are encouraged to apply, although the focus will be on “children of parents or guardians who have contributed significantly to open source, or have been significant in our principal Matt Mullenweg's life.” Audrey Scholars is run by Audrey Capital, Mullenweg's angel investment and research company.Does Automattic have a top-secret AI plugin in the works? Author Seth Godin recently discussed such a tool on the Tim Ferris Podcast. The WP Minute's Matt Medeiros took a closer look at how important AI will be to WordPress. He even makes a guess at this new item Godin referred to as the “single best use I have seen of Chat GPT or whatever they're using.”European service provider group.one has acquired popular WordPress SEO plugin Rank Math. The free version of the plugin currently boasts over 2 million active installations. This a deeper dive into WordPress for group.one, as they also own web host one.com and the WP Rocket optimization plugin.A couple of well-known WordPress workflow solutions are teaming up. Sandbox site provider InstaWP has partnered with collaboration tool Atarim. There will be cross-product integration. Together, the aim is to make it easier to spin up test environments, collaborate, and track changes.From the Grab Bag Now it's time to take a look at some other interesting topics shared by our contributors.Automattic has pushed an automated update of the Jetpack plugin to patch a security hole. The vulnerability was found during an internal audit and would allow site authors to modify WordPress files. If you use Jetpack, make sure to update to the latest version immediately.There's been lots of talk regarding diversity and inclusion related to the upcoming WordCamp Europe. With that in mind, Michelle Frechette has shared some thoughts on moving forward as a community.WordPress developer and accessibility expert Joe Dolson has announced the closure of the Access Monitor and WP Tweets Pro plugins. Both plugins will be shuttered due to complications with their third-party tie ins.The results of the WordPress Individual Learner Survey are in. A total of 583 people participated. An analysis shows that 321 respondents described themselves as ‘somewhat knowledgeable' or ‘very knowledgeable' of WordPress, while nearly 32% had more than 10 years of experience.The WordPress Performance Team has conducted an analysis of version 6.2. The goal was to identify opportunities for future enhancements. Based on their findings, performance upgrades for classic theme templates, block widgets, and translation loading are among the identified targets.There's a new proposal to establish a WordPress Sustainability Team. The group would be responsible for promoting eco-friendly practices on the web and for in-person events. It would also include creating themes and plugins that serve this purpose.Developer Bill Erickson has released BE Starter, a hybrid starter theme. The package combines classic PHP templates with a theme.json file to control block styles.Thanks to all of the members who shared these links today: - Michelle Frechette- Mustaasam Saleem- Daniel SchutzsmithOutroThanks to you, dear listener, for tuning in to your favorite 5-minutes of WordPress news every Wednesday.You can support independent content like this by purchasing us a digital coffee at thewpminute.com/supportOr join the #linksquad membership for $79/year to support the show and become a producer of the WP Minute at thewpminute.com/supportThat's it for today's episode, if you enjoyed it, please share it wherever you do social media and jump on the mailing list at thewpminute.com. ★ Support this podcast ★
Today we are talking with Dries Buytaert. For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/400 Topics Favorite improvement to Drupal in last 10 years Biggest opportunities and challenges facing Drupal Drupalcon Portland Driesnote Ambitious site builder Spoilers for the next Driesnote Static site generators 50,000 projects Impact of AI People just entering the development market Last thing you coded For work For fun Digital Public Good Resources Drupal is for ambitious site builders Drupal Recognized as a Digital Public Good Claro episode DrupalCon Innovation Contest Drupal vs SSG 50K modules 50000 module Artificial Intelligence, the future of Content Management and the Web Dries Site Header Tool Getting 10/10 Makers and Takers Guests Dries Buytaert - dri.es Hosts Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi Stephen Cross - stephencross.com @stephencross Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu MOTW Correspondent Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu OpenAI Provides a suite of modules and an API foundation for OpenAI integration for generating text content, images, content analysis and more.
Dries Buytaert is the Founder, Chief Technology and Strategy Officer, and Board Member of Acquia, a venture-backed software company offering products and services for Drupal, an open-source website-building platform he founded and leads. Honored as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, he has also been recognized as CTO of the Year by the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council and a Young Innovator by MIT Technology Review, among other recognitions. Before Acquia and Drupal, Dries was the CEO and Founder of Mollom, which Acquia acquired. In this episode… With digital transformation becoming increasingly prevalent, composable architecture has gained traction in the eCommerce landscape. Yet there's uncertainty surrounding this concept as organizations struggle to transition from monolithic systems to more flexible software. So what does composability entail, and how can you pivot and adapt to this solution to prepare for the digitally native future? For Dries Buytaert, composable commerce is a philosophy involving an organization's ability to acclimate to evolving business needs by incorporating various tech stack components into a comprehensive application. This requires evaluating multiple modules from assorted vendors, testing their synergy, and exchanging them to ensure your system remains agile. But composability extends beyond mere architecture to include no and low-code approaches, which entails unifying content, data, and team participation to create ubiquitous customer and business experiences. Aaron Conant sits down with Acquia's Founder, Chief Technology and Strategy Officer, and Board Member, Dries Buytaert, in this episode of The Digital Deep Dive to talk about composable commerce approaches. Dries explains how MACH (microservices-based, API-first, Cloud-native, and headless) differs from composability, content management strategies for composable architecture, and how to adapt to composable commerce solutions.
In this episode of Straight Forward, Dries Buytaert, Founder and Project Lead of Drupal and Co-Founder and CTO of Acquia, joins Bruno to discuss Digital Project Management in depth. The discussion delves into finding the right product managers, creating a roadmap for quickly launching a product that adds incremental value, and more. About Straight Forward: Dive deep into essential topics often overlooked in the business world. Hosted by CI&T President and Co-Founder Bruno Guicardi, this thought leadership web series features leaders in the digital transformation space who have successfully implemented changes and found solutions amidst organizational complexity.
Guest Ruth Cheesley Panelists Richard Littauer | Ben Nickolls | Eriol Fox | Justin Dorfman Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Today, we are excited to have as our guest, Ruth Cheesley, joining us from the UK. She is an open-source advocate and Project Lead for Mautic at Acquia. We invited Ruth on this podcast because we don't seem to have enough talks from people who are part of an actual community of coders. Today, Ruth tells us all about Mautic and her job there as Project Lead, she fills us in on Drupal and Acquia, and a tool they used in managing community health called, Savannah. We'll also hear Ruth's strategy when she helped with governance, why Open Source Friday is so important, she explains how she diversifies the contributor base, and we hear her ten-year vision for Mautic she's working on. Go ahead and download this episode now to learn more! [00:02:38] Ruth explains what Mautic is, how she became the Project Lead and being on the Community Leadership Team at Joomla. [00:04:48] Find out the difference between Joomla, Drupal, Acquia, and Mautic. [00:06:17] From someone that organizes open source communities at his job, Justin asks Ruth what tools she uses, and she tells us about one called, Savannah. [00:08:54] Ruth tells us about what her strategy was when she helped with governance. [00:12:47] Richard wonders if the assessment also applies to Mautic and if Mautic is just the same as every other open source project on the web. [00:16:03] Eriol asks Ruth to tell us some success stories or things that have been tricky between different kinds of functions within the open source. [00:19:14] We learn how Ruth sees her role or the roles of other people who are being paid as being part of a sustainable path for Mautic itself, and how money has a play in the ecosystem as well as attribution. [00:21:59] Ruth explains if Acquia pays for full-time engineers and for traditional coder roles for Mautic, and she tells us about Open Source Friday. [00:24:20] Eriol wonders if there's anything people can go read or listen to around how smaller organizations or individuals can make that kind of contribution sustainable and are there things we can implement. [00:27:09] Ruth tells us about a partner's program they created in Mautic. [00:29:27] How does Ruth manage to diversify the contributor base, given that not everyone has the access or time to do that sort of work? [00:32:01] Ruth shares a ten-year vision with a three-year strategy for Mautic. [00:34:10] Find out where you can follow Ruth online. Quotes [00:09:14] “There wasn't really a community empowerment process to set up workflows and training for people to take on the releases, so the project just sort of slowed down.” [00:32:28] “It's quite tricky during longer term plans when you have lots of businesses that are depending on your software, because what one business thinks the product should do is maybe different to what another business thinks the product should do.” Spotlight [00:35:27] Justin's spotlight is Tour de Source newsletter. [00:35:46] Eriol's spotlight is Fantasy Map Generator. [00:36:20] Ben's spotlight is Roden open source bike design. [00:37:02] Richard's spotlight is Richard Matthews and his Oyster Yachts, and the Royal Naval Tot Club of Antigua & Barbuda. [00:37:46] Ruth's spotlight is Ardour, a tool to compose music. Links SustainOSS (https://sustainoss.org/) SustainOSS Twitter (https://twitter.com/SustainOSS?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) SustainOSS Discourse (https://discourse.sustainoss.org/) podcast@sustainoss.org (mailto:podcast@sustainoss.org) Richard Littauer Twitter (https://twitter.com/richlitt?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) Ben Nickolls Twitter (https://twitter.com/BenJam?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) Justin Dorfman Twitter (https://twitter.com/jdorfman?lang=en) Eriol Fox Twitter (https://twitter.com/EriolDoesDesign) Ruth Cheesley Twitter (https://twitter.com/RCheesley) Ruth Cheesley LinkedIn (https://uk.linkedin.com/in/ruthcheesley) Ruth Cheesley Website (https://www.ruthcheesley.co.uk/) Mautic (https://www.mautic.org/) Joomla (https://www.joomla.org/) Sustain Podcast-Episode 109: Dries Buytaert of Drupal on Balancing Makers and Takers to Scale and Sustain Open Source (https://podcast.sustainoss.org/guests/buytaert) Drupal (https://www.drupal.org/) Mautic Open-Source Marketing Automation Project (Open Collective) (https://opencollective.com/mautic) Savannah (https://www.savannahhq.com/) Mautic Community Manifesto (https://www.mautic.org/blog/community/mautic-community-manifesto) Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software by Nadia Eghbal (https://press.stripe.com/working-in-public) Google Season of Docs (https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs) Open Source Friday (https://opensourcefriday.com/) Acquia's Drupal Acceleration Team (https://dev.acquia.com/blog/acquias-drupal-acceleration-team) Acquia's response to the Mautic Community Manifesto (https://www.mautic.org/blog/press/acquias-response-to-the-mautic-community-manifesto) Mautic Community Governance Model (https://www.mautic.org/blog/press/mautic-community-governance-model) Response to Community Consultation on the Governance Model Proposal (https://www.mautic.org/blog/press/response-to-community-consultation-on-the-governance-model-proposal) Establishing an incentivised partners programme in an open source project (https://speaking.ruthcheesley.co.uk/uIAJxk/establishing-an-incentivised-partners-programme-in-an-open-source-project) Tour de Source (https://tourdesource.substack.com/) Fantasy Map Generator (https://github.com/Azgaar/Fantasy-Map-Generator) Roden (https://opencollective.com/roden) Oyster Yachts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyster_Yachts) Royal Naval Tot Club of Antigua & Barbuda (http://rntc.club/) Ardour (https://ardour.org/) Ardour-GitHub (https://github.com/Ardour) Credits Produced by Richard Littauer (https://www.burntfen.com/) Edited by Paul M. Bahr at Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Show notes by DeAnn Bahr Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Special Guest: Ruth Cheesley.
We spreken met Dries Buytaert, oprichter van Drupal en CTO van Acquia, over het open-source model. Voor wie het niet weet, een kleine 3% van alle websites in de wereld draaien op Drupal en Acquia is een web-service bedrijf van 1 miljard euro. Dries heeft tijdens de oprichting van Drupal vrij snel gekozen om het platform open-source te maken. We kijken naar de voor- en nadelen van dat model en hoe we bepaalde principes kunnen overdragen naar de bedrijven en overheden. Enjoy! DISCOURS vzw https://www.discours.be PODCAST Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/discours-met-de-boys/id1552090974 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1hC2t2YYCE3l7BOB12yjIr Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@discours SOCIALS Twitter: https://twitter.com/DiscoursDialoog Instagram: http://instagram.com/discoursdialoog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DiscoursDialoog TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@discoursdialoog
A continuation from Part 1, our host, Tim Ahlenius, spoke with Dries Buytaert, Founder and Project Lead of Drupal, and Americaneagle.com's Partner Director, Peter Gavrilos, and Ameriacaneagle.com Drupal Technical Director, Jason Luttrell, to breakdown how Drupal incorporates itself with Acquia. They discuss the different variations of Drupal, who exactly is the right target audience that Drupal would work well for, what the future holds for Drupal, and it's new version Drupal 10 to be released this winter. If you missed Part 1, listen here This podcast is brought to you by Americaneagle.com Studios. Follow this podcast wherever you listen to them! Connect with: Lessons for Tomorrow: Website // Twitter // Instagram // Facebook // YouTube Tim Ahlenius: LinkedIn // Twitter Dries Buytaert: LinkedIn // Twitter // Instagram // Website Peter Gavrilos: LinkedIn Jason Luttrell: LinkedIn
In this episode, our host, Tim Ahlenius, spoke with, Dries Buytaert, Founder and Project Lead of Drupal, and Americaneagle.com's Partner Director Peter Gavrilos and Drupal Technical Director Jason Luttrell, to breakdown how Drupal incorporates itself with Acquia. They discuss how Drupal has evolved from a hobby started in Dries's dorm room in college, to running and managing the corporation. And integrating Acquia, the cloud infrastructure for Drupal. Join us for Part 2 of this discussion here This podcast is brought to you by Americaneagle.com Studios. Follow this podcast wherever you listen to them! Connect with: Lessons for Tomorrow: Website // Twitter // Instagram // Facebook // YouTube Tim Ahlenius: LinkedIn // Twitter Dries Buytaert: LinkedIn // Twitter // Instagram // Website Peter Gavrilos: LinkedIn Jason Luttrell: LinkedIn
Guest Dries Buytaert Panelists Richard Littauer Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. We're very excited about our guest and even though Richard is the only panelist today, it's going to be a great episode. Joining us today is Dries Buytaert, who's the Founder of Drupal, as well as the Founder and CTO of Acquia, which is a very successful open source company that helps out Drupal. We learn more about Drupal and why it's so successful, as well as how Acquia was born and how it differs from Drupal. Dries goes in depth about a blog post he wrote, _Balancing Makers and Takers to scale and sustain Open Source, _and he shares one of the biggest challenges that we need to figure out in open source sustainability and explains how the work of Elinor Ostrom ties into it. Go ahead and download this episode now to find out more! [00:01:42] Dries details how it all started for him and how he ended up with Drupal. [00:03:25] Find out how many contributors Drupal has and how many websites are served by Drupal. [00:05:16] We learn about Acquia, how it differs from Drupal, and the donation Drupal made to the PHP Foundation. [00:09:20] Dries explains why Drupal is so successful. [00:10:46] Richard mentions a blog post to check out that Dries wrote. Dries goes in depth about what he means by the ‘Fairness Principle,' and explains the takers, makers, and the credit system they use to encourage the makers. [00:20:57] Richard brings up the Algorithm in Drupal and Dries talks more about it. [00:22:51] Dries shares advice to people who may be interested in setting up to invest in foundations and the story of how he started Acquia. [00:27:50] Richard asks Dries what his views are on both digital infrastructure and government involvement in open source. [00:31:50] Dries explains some challenges for open source sustainability and talks about the work of Elinor Ostrom. [00:38:20] Dries fills us in on some experiments they're doing in the Drupal project. [00:38:55] Find out where you can follow Dries and his work online. Quotes [00:14:15] “Open source is also a common good.” [00:29:51] “I do think we need to think about how we institutionalize the operations of the project.” [00:38:03] “Sustainability is often a coordination problem.” Spotlight [00:40:07] Richard's spotlight is Rachel Lawson. [00:40:37] Dries's spotlight is a shout out to all the open source diversity and inclusion communities. Links SustainOSS (https://sustainoss.org/) SustainOSS Twitter (https://twitter.com/SustainOSS?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) SustainOSS Discourse (https://discourse.sustainoss.org/) Dries Buytaert Website (https://dri.es/) Dries Buytaert Twitter (https://twitter.com/Dries?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) Drupal (https://www.drupal.org/) Acquia (https://www.acquia.com/) Balancing Makers and Takers to scale and sustain Open Source (blog post by Dries Buytaert) (https://dri.es/balancing-makers-and-takers-to-scale-and-sustain-open-source) PHP Foundation (https://opencollective.com/phpfoundation) Drupal-GitHub (https://github.com/drupal) Rachel Lawson- Sustain Podcast: Episodes 35 and 88 (https://podcast.sustainoss.org/guests/rachel-lawson) Danese Cooper-Sustain Podcast: Episode 54 (https://podcast.sustainoss.org/guests/danese) Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action by Elinor Ostrom (https://bookshop.org/books/governing-the-commons-the-evolution-of-institutions-for-collective-action/9781107569782) Greg Bloom LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregbloom/) SustainOSS Working Group: Community Principles & Ostrom Redux (Greg Bloom) (https://sustainoss.org/working-groups/ostrom/) SustainOSS Working Group: Licensing (https://sustainoss.org/working-groups/licensing/) Rachel Lawson Twitter (https://twitter.com/rachel_norfolk) Open Source Diversity (https://opensourcediversity.org/) Credits Produced by Richard Littauer (https://www.burntfen.com/) Edited by Paul M. Bahr at Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Show notes by DeAnn Bahr Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Special Guest: Dries Buytaert.
You may or may not know what Drupal is. However, when you're using a website, there's a decent chance you're using it. It's one of the Web's most used open source content management platforms, and it's currently being used to operate millions of sites.But Drupal didn't start as a content management system. It began as a way for Drupal's creator to tell his friends the status of their shared, high-speed Internet access. As more and more people suggested ways of expanding the software, Dries decided to open source code, and a huge community grew around it.Today, Drupal is one of the largest and most popular open source software platforms in the world. Find out how that happened on this episode of Web Masters where Dries Buytaert, Drupal's founder, tells the story of building Drupal.For a complete transcript of the episode, click here.
Guest Silona Bonewald Panelists Richard Littauer Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. Today, our guest is Silona Bonewald, who is the Executive Director of IEEE SA OPEN, which is a comprehensive platform offering the open source community cost-effective options for developing and validating their projects. She is also the Founder of Leadingbit Solutions. We find out why Silona was a taker, not a maker, when she first got into open source, how she went from writing code to working on policy, how she ended up at IEEE, and what SA OPEN does. She reveals her long-term vision for IEEE and open source, how she feels about standards using her Reese's Peanut Butter Cups metaphor, working on certifications, and she shares her thoughts on where she thinks we will be down the road in the distant future in terms of badges and certification for open source. Go ahead and download this episode to learn much more from Silona! [00:01:30] Silona tells us how she was a taker, not a maker, when she first got into open source. [00:05:20] At some point Silona segued from writing code to working on policy and she tells us how that happened. [00:06:53] We find out how Silona ended up at IEEE and what SA OPEN does. [00:09:08] Silona talks about her long-term vision for both IEEE and open source. [00:11:30] Standards are explained by Silona, how they work, why they think in decades, and who the 30,000 people are involved with standards. [00:14:17] In regard to talking to developers, Richard wonders if Silona feels like she's often trying to talk in two languages again when people would come into the room while she was coding. [00:18:48] Silona tells us about working on doing certifications and how they are going through badges and are in the design phase right now. She also mentions that IEEE recruits from engineering schools all over the world to get their members. [00:20:00] Richard wonders if some people think certifications are scary and they won't be able to get them, will this slow down open source development by forcing people to jump through hoops in order to do work. [00:22:00] Find out about a conversation Silona had with Richard Rockefeller and Larry Brilliant. She talks about an experiment they are doing with three advisory groups which include the technical advisor, marketing advisor, and community advisor, which Georg from CHAOSS is running. Also, she tells us about a great article to check out written by Dries Buytaert on the “Makers and Takers.” [00:28:20] Richard mentions a great episode to check out on CHAOSScast Podcast with guest Stephen Jacobs, and he gives a shout-out to Rachel Lawson at Drupal. [00:28:55] Silona shares her thoughts on where she thinks we will be fifty years down the road in terms of badges and certification for open source. [00:34:14] Find out where you follow Silona on the internet. Quotes [00:09:59] “You can pull the data back out, but can you pull the community back out of GitHub?” [00:13:36] “But, I really do love the not doing the corporate dominance aspect, and the trying to achieve the balance pieces I think is really important when you're creating a standard, especially if you want true adoptability.” [00:14:27] “My favorite little metaphor now is chocolate and peanut butter. You put your peanut butter in my chocolate. Oh, you put your chocolate in my peanut butter. And then you've got the Reese's Peanut Butter Cups.” [00:23:29] “It's hard to teach non-profits to become a software company.” Spotlight [00:35:08] Richard's spotlight is Tom “Spot” Callaway, Episode #52 on Sustain Podcast where he was a guest, and listening about his adventure in Canada. [00:35:48] Silona's spotlight is InnerSource Commons and the Patterns Working Group. Links SustainOSS (https://sustainoss.org/) SustainOSS Twitter (https://twitter.com/SustainOSS?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) SustainOSS Discourse (https://discourse.sustainoss.org/) Silona Bonewald Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/silona) Silona Bonewald Twitter (https://twitter.com/silona?lang=en) IEEE SA OPEN (https://saopen.ieee.org/) Leadingbit Solutions (https://sites.google.com/leadingbit.com/leading-bit-solutions/home) The Long Now Foundation (https://longnow.org/) CHAOSScast Podcast (https://podcast.chaoss.community/) Project OCEAN (https://opensource.google/projects/project-OCEAN) Digital Impact Alliance Open Source Center (https://www.osc.dial.community/) Drupal (https://www.drupal.org/) Sustain Podcast-Episode 88-Foundations Roundtable: From Maintain to Sustain with Rachel Lawson and other guests (https://podcast.sustainoss.org/88) Sustain Podcast-Episode 35-Why the Drupal Community Cares with Rachel Lawson (https://podcast.sustainoss.org/35) OSPOCon 2021 (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/ospocon/) IEEE SA OPEN Community Advisory Group Meetings (https://opensource.ieee.org/community-advisory-group/meetings) Balancing Makers and Takers to scale and sustain Open Source by Dries Buytaert (https://dri.es/balancing-makers-and-takers-to-scale-and-sustain-open-source) IEEE SA OPEN Community Advisory Group Education (https://opensource.ieee.org/community-advisory-group/education) CHAOSScast Podcast-Episode 22: University OSPO Metrics with Stephen Jacobs (https://music.amazon.de/podcasts/cb69ea13-d021-49ff-8d4f-5e5e3f953028/episodes/271c289d-2b58-44dd-996e-69e0c157bda7/chaosscast-episode-22-university-ospo-metrics-with-stephen-jacobs) Tom Callaway Twitter (https://twitter.com/spotfoss?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) Sustain Podcast-Episode 52-Being Willing to be Open: Twenty Years of Coding at Red Hat, with Tom “Spot” Callaway (https://podcast.sustainoss.org/52) InnerSource Commons (https://innersourcecommons.org/) Special Guest: Silona Bonewald.
Panelists Georg Link | Nicole Huesman | Sean Goggins Guests Tim Lehnen | Matthew Tift Sponsor SustainOSS (https://sustainoss.org/) Show Notes Today, we are lucky to have two representatives from the Drupal community. Our two guests are Tim Lehnen, CTO of the Drupal Association, and Matthew Tift, Lead Engineer at Lullabot, who has been involved in the Drupal Project since 2010. They are here today to talk about who contributes to open source and how do we understand this in the Drupal Community. We also learn the meaning behind Tim and Matthew's catchphrases, “Build a better picture of how open source gets built” and “Building a better understanding of corporate citizenship in open source.” Download this episode now to find out much more! Don't forget to subscribe for free to this podcast and share this podcast with your friends and colleagues. [00:02:13] Tim and Matthew introduce themselves and tell us what they do and how they got into the Drupal community. [00:06:18] Tim and Matthew talk about what the Drupal community is doing to really be this community that it is today. [00:13:14] Nicole wonders how Tim and Matthew go about putting a pulse on who's contributing from a non-code perspective, and if there are ways that they surface these contributors either through reports or other ways. They talk about the mechanics of what they do. [00:18:43] Tim talks about one of the key considerations of the initial design is wanting to avoid giving people too much paperwork, and Tim tells us the two catchphrases they came up. [00:20:15] Matt talks about an analysis that he did with Dries Buytaert called, “Who sponsors Drupal development?” [00:25:16] Tim talks about two points that were brought up by Matt and Nicole earlier about the value of understanding who gets paid to the work and the different roles and historically unnoticed roles in open source. [00:28:24] We learn more about what we can do with the data when we capture it really well. Tim talks about the cool data they gathered and what they did with it, and the experiment they are trying out at the Drupal Association. [00:38:43] Georg asks Tim how the issue tracker is being used and how has that collaboration shaping up there. [00:49:16] Nicole asks if Tim and Matthew if they report out on the diversity of the Drupal community and if they've seen upticks or changes. [00:52:24] Find out where you can follow Tim and Matthew and their work online. They also share advice for communities that want to adopt a system and resources or any starting points. Quotes [00:17:25] “It's organizing these different events, it's writing a blog, it's all of these different things that we do to, it's the so what who cares, it's the translating the lines of code into, you know at heart I'm a storyteller, so it's really translating these lines of code into why is that important to our broader world.” [00:19:48] “Building a better picture of how open source gets built” and “Building a better understanding of corporate citizenship in open source,” were two of our sort of like catch phrases.” [00:31:57] “So if your organization sponsors a lot of people's time you get to come up right on top of the list, you get more business and leads, you're rewarded for sponsoring your developers to work on the project, and that encourages you to do it more.” [00:38:08] “Nobody in our community wants people to feel bad, so we're trying to tweak this. We're trying to work on our algorithms, our marketplace page as a committee that could probably talk about that studying this.” [00:42:12] “So, we have our contribution recognition committee which has access to what the true weights are. We don't publish the exact numbers of those variables because gaming the system is something you have to look out for and manage and review periodically.” [00:44:48] “And I think for me, there is still the sense that you can use these data in different kinds of ways and one of them is to sort of rank people. And I think in another way, one of the more interesting views is to kind of understand the diversity of the community, to try and understand what sort of initiatives are important to organizations, and what initiatives are important to say, volunteers.” Adds (Picks) of the week [00:53:51] Georg's pick is the Nebraska Passport Program. [00:54:38] Nicole's pick is traveling to Massachusetts and Maine with her son this summer. [00:55:27] Sean's pick is a book called, The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn _by Richard W. Hamming. _ [00:55:57] Tim's pick is working with his brother on building a PC Case Mod with custom water cooling, and it's NASA themed. [00:56:44] Matthew's pick is a book called, Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias _in a World Designed for Men _by Caroline Criado Perez. Links CHAOSS (https://chaoss.community/) CHAOSS Project Twitter (https://twitter.com/chaossproj?lang=en) CHAOSScast Podcast (https://podcast.chaoss.community/) podcast@chaoss.community (mailto:podcast@chaoss.community) Matthew Tift Website (https://matthewtift.com/) Matthew Tift Twitter (https://twitter.com/matthewtift) Matthew Tift Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewtift) Matthew.tift@lullabot.com (mailto:matthew.tift@lullabot.com) Tim Lehnen-Drupal (https://www.drupal.org/u/hestenet) Tim Lehnen Twitter (https://twitter.com/timlehnen) Tim Lehnen Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/hestenet/) tim@association.drupal.org (mailto:tim@association.drupal.org) Drupal (https://www.drupal.org/) Lullabot (https://www.lullabot.com/) Drupal Contribution Credit (https://www.drupal.org/drupalorg/contribution-credit) OpenStack Diversity Report (https://superuser.openstack.org/articles/2018-gender-diversity-report/) “Who sponsors Drupal development?” (2019-2020 edition) (https://dri.es/who-sponsors-drupal-development-2020) CHAOSScast Podcast-Episode 20-CHAOSS + FINOS: Lessons Learned with Rob Underwood (https://podcast.chaoss.community/20) GitLab issue, proposing to add the Drupal system-Tim Lehnen (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/327138) Drupal Diversity & Inclusion (https://www.drupaldiversity.com/) Nebraska Passport Program (https://nebraskapassport.com/) [The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn by Richard W. Hamming](https://www.amazon.com/Art-Doing-Science-Engineering-Learning/dp/1732265178/ref=sr11?crid=17P87FNW09ARE&dchild=1&keywords=the+art+of+doing+science+and+engineering&qid=1623024969&sprefix=the+art+of+doing+sc%2Caps%2C169&sr=8-1) Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez (https://www.penguin.com.au/books/invisible-women-9781784706289) Special Guests: Matthew Tift and Tim Lehnen.
While there are many companies based in open source software that are successfully funding themselves based on consultancy and other services, that’s not necessarily true of individual contributors. As part of our series of talks with Open Source Leaders, Tag1 Consulting’s Managing Director Michael Meyers, VP of Software Engineering Fabian Franz, and Yjs founder Kevin Jahns talk with Drupal's founder, Dries Buytaert about open source projects and communities. This talk focuses on open source project sustainability and funding. Dries talks about some of the key points that made Drupal successful, and how the project and the Drupal Association have changed and pivoted based on challenges like the coronavirus pandemic. Dries also gives some pointers on how he started to sell his project to others, and how that started to change his role in the project over time, from the primary developer to a project head focused on visibility.
Dries Buytaert’s name is known to everyone in the Drupal community. As the originator of the project, project lead, and co-founder of Acquia, Dries has been a pivotal person in the success of Drupal. During this interview, you’ll learn more about some of the accomplishments, accidents, and purposeful decisions that have made Drupal what it is today. While Drupal is an open source project, based in code, many of the things that have made it the CMS that powers 1 out of every 30 websites are not the code - they’re also the marketing that convinces new users to try Drupal, and the people who make up the community and own necessary portions of the project. As part of our series of talks with Open Source Leaders, Tag1 Consulting’s Managing Director Michael Meyers, VP of Software Engineering Fabian Franz, and Yjs founder Kevin Jahns talk with Dries about the origins of Drupal, and how it grew as a project and a community. We’ll also tie back to our https://www.tag1consulting.com/blog/tag1-looks-back-20-years-drupal-experiences (Tag1 looks back on 20 years of Drupal experiences 20 years of Drupal) series to talk about how community members can be critical to the growth and adoption of an open source project.
New Google Nest Hub tracks sleep without wearables, cameras What Really Happened at 'Reply All'? Podcasting Is Booming. Will Hollywood Help or Hurt Its Future? The State of Podcast Listening for 2021: Podcasting Finds a Way Alphabet X: 'Maya' was a canceled 'tricorder' project to analyze skin health with lightwaves Google Must Face Suit Over Snooping on 'Incognito' Browsing Google's Texas antitrust suit takes aim at Chrome's Privacy Sandbox Google calls Microsoft's support for Link Taxes "naked corporate opportunism" US lawmakers propose Australia-style bill for media, tech negotiations FB announces lots of ways to support independent writers: pages, newsletters, etc What Facebook sees in newsletters Instagram will no longer let adults message teens who don't follow them The Great Amazon Flip-a-Thon Teen mastermind of Twitter hack pleads guilty, sentenced to three years Tesla CEO Elon Musk updates job title to "Technoking" JPG File Sells for $69 Million, as 'NFT Mania' Gathers Pace Nathan 'Doggface' Apodaca Selling Viral Longboarding Video as NFT The Freedom Phone California Bans "Dark Patterns" Under Landmark Privacy Law Three new ways anyone can update Google Maps Live Caption comes to Chrome YouTube is rolling out copyright checks for videos before they're published YouTube Shorts beta starts rolling out in the US Google Family Link lets parents set 'always allowed' apps, get more detailed activity reports A Drone Went Bowling. Hollywood Noticed Uber reclassifies 70k UK workers as employees Picks Stacey: Phyn Plus Smart Water Assistant Leo: A Hacker Got All My Texts for $16 Jeff: Sperm whales in 19th century shared ship attack information Ant: FLOSS Weekly 621: Dries Buytaert and Drupal Ant: My YouTube Short Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Sponsor: nureva.com/twit
New Google Nest Hub tracks sleep without wearables, cameras What Really Happened at 'Reply All'? Podcasting Is Booming. Will Hollywood Help or Hurt Its Future? The State of Podcast Listening for 2021: Podcasting Finds a Way Alphabet X: 'Maya' was a canceled 'tricorder' project to analyze skin health with lightwaves Google Must Face Suit Over Snooping on 'Incognito' Browsing Google's Texas antitrust suit takes aim at Chrome's Privacy Sandbox Google calls Microsoft's support for Link Taxes "naked corporate opportunism" US lawmakers propose Australia-style bill for media, tech negotiations FB announces lots of ways to support independent writers: pages, newsletters, etc What Facebook sees in newsletters Instagram will no longer let adults message teens who don't follow them The Great Amazon Flip-a-Thon Teen mastermind of Twitter hack pleads guilty, sentenced to three years Tesla CEO Elon Musk updates job title to "Technoking" JPG File Sells for $69 Million, as 'NFT Mania' Gathers Pace Nathan 'Doggface' Apodaca Selling Viral Longboarding Video as NFT The Freedom Phone California Bans "Dark Patterns" Under Landmark Privacy Law Three new ways anyone can update Google Maps Live Caption comes to Chrome YouTube is rolling out copyright checks for videos before they're published YouTube Shorts beta starts rolling out in the US Google Family Link lets parents set 'always allowed' apps, get more detailed activity reports A Drone Went Bowling. Hollywood Noticed Uber reclassifies 70k UK workers as employees Picks Stacey: Phyn Plus Smart Water Assistant Leo: A Hacker Got All My Texts for $16 Jeff: Sperm whales in 19th century shared ship attack information Ant: FLOSS Weekly 621: Dries Buytaert and Drupal Ant: My YouTube Short Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Sponsor: nureva.com/twit
New Google Nest Hub tracks sleep without wearables, cameras What Really Happened at 'Reply All'? Podcasting Is Booming. Will Hollywood Help or Hurt Its Future? The State of Podcast Listening for 2021: Podcasting Finds a Way Alphabet X: 'Maya' was a canceled 'tricorder' project to analyze skin health with lightwaves Google Must Face Suit Over Snooping on 'Incognito' Browsing Google's Texas antitrust suit takes aim at Chrome's Privacy Sandbox Google calls Microsoft's support for Link Taxes "naked corporate opportunism" US lawmakers propose Australia-style bill for media, tech negotiations FB announces lots of ways to support independent writers: pages, newsletters, etc What Facebook sees in newsletters Instagram will no longer let adults message teens who don't follow them The Great Amazon Flip-a-Thon Teen mastermind of Twitter hack pleads guilty, sentenced to three years Tesla CEO Elon Musk updates job title to "Technoking" JPG File Sells for $69 Million, as 'NFT Mania' Gathers Pace Nathan 'Doggface' Apodaca Selling Viral Longboarding Video as NFT The Freedom Phone California Bans "Dark Patterns" Under Landmark Privacy Law Three new ways anyone can update Google Maps Live Caption comes to Chrome YouTube is rolling out copyright checks for videos before they're published YouTube Shorts beta starts rolling out in the US Google Family Link lets parents set 'always allowed' apps, get more detailed activity reports A Drone Went Bowling. Hollywood Noticed Uber reclassifies 70k UK workers as employees Picks Stacey: Phyn Plus Smart Water Assistant Leo: A Hacker Got All My Texts for $16 Jeff: Sperm whales in 19th century shared ship attack information Ant: FLOSS Weekly 621: Dries Buytaert and Drupal Ant: My YouTube Short Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Sponsor: nureva.com/twit
New Google Nest Hub tracks sleep without wearables, cameras What Really Happened at 'Reply All'? Podcasting Is Booming. Will Hollywood Help or Hurt Its Future? The State of Podcast Listening for 2021: Podcasting Finds a Way Alphabet X: 'Maya' was a canceled 'tricorder' project to analyze skin health with lightwaves Google Must Face Suit Over Snooping on 'Incognito' Browsing Google's Texas antitrust suit takes aim at Chrome's Privacy Sandbox Google calls Microsoft's support for Link Taxes "naked corporate opportunism" US lawmakers propose Australia-style bill for media, tech negotiations FB announces lots of ways to support independent writers: pages, newsletters, etc What Facebook sees in newsletters Instagram will no longer let adults message teens who don't follow them The Great Amazon Flip-a-Thon Teen mastermind of Twitter hack pleads guilty, sentenced to three years Tesla CEO Elon Musk updates job title to "Technoking" JPG File Sells for $69 Million, as 'NFT Mania' Gathers Pace Nathan 'Doggface' Apodaca Selling Viral Longboarding Video as NFT The Freedom Phone California Bans "Dark Patterns" Under Landmark Privacy Law Three new ways anyone can update Google Maps Live Caption comes to Chrome YouTube is rolling out copyright checks for videos before they're published YouTube Shorts beta starts rolling out in the US Google Family Link lets parents set 'always allowed' apps, get more detailed activity reports A Drone Went Bowling. Hollywood Noticed Uber reclassifies 70k UK workers as employees Picks Stacey: Phyn Plus Smart Water Assistant Leo: A Hacker Got All My Texts for $16 Jeff: Sperm whales in 19th century shared ship attack information Ant: FLOSS Weekly 621: Dries Buytaert and Drupal Ant: My YouTube Short Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Sponsor: nureva.com/twit
New Google Nest Hub tracks sleep without wearables, cameras What Really Happened at 'Reply All'? Podcasting Is Booming. Will Hollywood Help or Hurt Its Future? The State of Podcast Listening for 2021: Podcasting Finds a Way Alphabet X: 'Maya' was a canceled 'tricorder' project to analyze skin health with lightwaves Google Must Face Suit Over Snooping on 'Incognito' Browsing Google's Texas antitrust suit takes aim at Chrome's Privacy Sandbox Google calls Microsoft's support for Link Taxes "naked corporate opportunism" US lawmakers propose Australia-style bill for media, tech negotiations FB announces lots of ways to support independent writers: pages, newsletters, etc What Facebook sees in newsletters Instagram will no longer let adults message teens who don't follow them The Great Amazon Flip-a-Thon Teen mastermind of Twitter hack pleads guilty, sentenced to three years Tesla CEO Elon Musk updates job title to "Technoking" JPG File Sells for $69 Million, as 'NFT Mania' Gathers Pace Nathan 'Doggface' Apodaca Selling Viral Longboarding Video as NFT The Freedom Phone California Bans "Dark Patterns" Under Landmark Privacy Law Three new ways anyone can update Google Maps Live Caption comes to Chrome YouTube is rolling out copyright checks for videos before they're published YouTube Shorts beta starts rolling out in the US Google Family Link lets parents set 'always allowed' apps, get more detailed activity reports A Drone Went Bowling. Hollywood Noticed Uber reclassifies 70k UK workers as employees Picks Stacey: Phyn Plus Smart Water Assistant Leo: A Hacker Got All My Texts for $16 Jeff: Sperm whales in 19th century shared ship attack information Ant: FLOSS Weekly 621: Dries Buytaert and Drupal Ant: My YouTube Short Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Sponsor: nureva.com/twit
New Google Nest Hub tracks sleep without wearables, cameras What Really Happened at 'Reply All'? Podcasting Is Booming. Will Hollywood Help or Hurt Its Future? The State of Podcast Listening for 2021: Podcasting Finds a Way Alphabet X: 'Maya' was a canceled 'tricorder' project to analyze skin health with lightwaves Google Must Face Suit Over Snooping on 'Incognito' Browsing Google's Texas antitrust suit takes aim at Chrome's Privacy Sandbox Google calls Microsoft's support for Link Taxes "naked corporate opportunism" US lawmakers propose Australia-style bill for media, tech negotiations FB announces lots of ways to support independent writers: pages, newsletters, etc What Facebook sees in newsletters Instagram will no longer let adults message teens who don't follow them The Great Amazon Flip-a-Thon Teen mastermind of Twitter hack pleads guilty, sentenced to three years Tesla CEO Elon Musk updates job title to "Technoking" JPG File Sells for $69 Million, as 'NFT Mania' Gathers Pace Nathan 'Doggface' Apodaca Selling Viral Longboarding Video as NFT The Freedom Phone California Bans "Dark Patterns" Under Landmark Privacy Law Three new ways anyone can update Google Maps Live Caption comes to Chrome YouTube is rolling out copyright checks for videos before they're published YouTube Shorts beta starts rolling out in the US Google Family Link lets parents set 'always allowed' apps, get more detailed activity reports A Drone Went Bowling. Hollywood Noticed Uber reclassifies 70k UK workers as employees Picks Stacey: Phyn Plus Smart Water Assistant Leo: A Hacker Got All My Texts for $16 Jeff: Sperm whales in 19th century shared ship attack information Ant: FLOSS Weekly 621: Dries Buytaert and Drupal Ant: My YouTube Short Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Sponsor: nureva.com/twit
New Google Nest Hub tracks sleep without wearables, cameras What Really Happened at 'Reply All'? Podcasting Is Booming. Will Hollywood Help or Hurt Its Future? The State of Podcast Listening for 2021: Podcasting Finds a Way Alphabet X: 'Maya' was a canceled 'tricorder' project to analyze skin health with lightwaves Google Must Face Suit Over Snooping on 'Incognito' Browsing Google's Texas antitrust suit takes aim at Chrome's Privacy Sandbox Google calls Microsoft's support for Link Taxes "naked corporate opportunism" US lawmakers propose Australia-style bill for media, tech negotiations FB announces lots of ways to support independent writers: pages, newsletters, etc What Facebook sees in newsletters Instagram will no longer let adults message teens who don't follow them The Great Amazon Flip-a-Thon Teen mastermind of Twitter hack pleads guilty, sentenced to three years Tesla CEO Elon Musk updates job title to "Technoking" JPG File Sells for $69 Million, as 'NFT Mania' Gathers Pace Nathan 'Doggface' Apodaca Selling Viral Longboarding Video as NFT The Freedom Phone California Bans "Dark Patterns" Under Landmark Privacy Law Three new ways anyone can update Google Maps Live Caption comes to Chrome YouTube is rolling out copyright checks for videos before they're published YouTube Shorts beta starts rolling out in the US Google Family Link lets parents set 'always allowed' apps, get more detailed activity reports A Drone Went Bowling. Hollywood Noticed Uber reclassifies 70k UK workers as employees Picks Stacey: Phyn Plus Smart Water Assistant Leo: A Hacker Got All My Texts for $16 Jeff: Sperm whales in 19th century shared ship attack information Ant: FLOSS Weekly 621: Dries Buytaert and Drupal Ant: My YouTube Short Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Sponsor: nureva.com/twit
New Google Nest Hub tracks sleep without wearables, cameras What Really Happened at 'Reply All'? Podcasting Is Booming. Will Hollywood Help or Hurt Its Future? The State of Podcast Listening for 2021: Podcasting Finds a Way Alphabet X: 'Maya' was a canceled 'tricorder' project to analyze skin health with lightwaves Google Must Face Suit Over Snooping on 'Incognito' Browsing Google's Texas antitrust suit takes aim at Chrome's Privacy Sandbox Google calls Microsoft's support for Link Taxes "naked corporate opportunism" US lawmakers propose Australia-style bill for media, tech negotiations FB announces lots of ways to support independent writers: pages, newsletters, etc What Facebook sees in newsletters Instagram will no longer let adults message teens who don't follow them The Great Amazon Flip-a-Thon Teen mastermind of Twitter hack pleads guilty, sentenced to three years Tesla CEO Elon Musk updates job title to "Technoking" JPG File Sells for $69 Million, as 'NFT Mania' Gathers Pace Nathan 'Doggface' Apodaca Selling Viral Longboarding Video as NFT The Freedom Phone California Bans "Dark Patterns" Under Landmark Privacy Law Three new ways anyone can update Google Maps Live Caption comes to Chrome YouTube is rolling out copyright checks for videos before they're published YouTube Shorts beta starts rolling out in the US Google Family Link lets parents set 'always allowed' apps, get more detailed activity reports A Drone Went Bowling. Hollywood Noticed Uber reclassifies 70k UK workers as employees Picks Stacey: Phyn Plus Smart Water Assistant Leo: A Hacker Got All My Texts for $16 Jeff: Sperm whales in 19th century shared ship attack information Ant: FLOSS Weekly 621: Dries Buytaert and Drupal Ant: My YouTube Short Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Sponsor: nureva.com/twit
New Google Nest Hub tracks sleep without wearables, cameras What Really Happened at 'Reply All'? Podcasting Is Booming. Will Hollywood Help or Hurt Its Future? The State of Podcast Listening for 2021: Podcasting Finds a Way Alphabet X: 'Maya' was a canceled 'tricorder' project to analyze skin health with lightwaves Google Must Face Suit Over Snooping on 'Incognito' Browsing Google's Texas antitrust suit takes aim at Chrome's Privacy Sandbox Google calls Microsoft's support for Link Taxes "naked corporate opportunism" US lawmakers propose Australia-style bill for media, tech negotiations FB announces lots of ways to support independent writers: pages, newsletters, etc What Facebook sees in newsletters Instagram will no longer let adults message teens who don't follow them The Great Amazon Flip-a-Thon Teen mastermind of Twitter hack pleads guilty, sentenced to three years Tesla CEO Elon Musk updates job title to "Technoking" JPG File Sells for $69 Million, as 'NFT Mania' Gathers Pace Nathan 'Doggface' Apodaca Selling Viral Longboarding Video as NFT The Freedom Phone California Bans "Dark Patterns" Under Landmark Privacy Law Three new ways anyone can update Google Maps Live Caption comes to Chrome YouTube is rolling out copyright checks for videos before they're published YouTube Shorts beta starts rolling out in the US Google Family Link lets parents set 'always allowed' apps, get more detailed activity reports A Drone Went Bowling. Hollywood Noticed Uber reclassifies 70k UK workers as employees Picks Stacey: Phyn Plus Smart Water Assistant Leo: A Hacker Got All My Texts for $16 Jeff: Sperm whales in 19th century shared ship attack information Ant: FLOSS Weekly 621: Dries Buytaert and Drupal Ant: My YouTube Short Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Sponsor: nureva.com/twit
New Google Nest Hub tracks sleep without wearables, cameras What Really Happened at 'Reply All'? Podcasting Is Booming. Will Hollywood Help or Hurt Its Future? The State of Podcast Listening for 2021: Podcasting Finds a Way Alphabet X: 'Maya' was a canceled 'tricorder' project to analyze skin health with lightwaves Google Must Face Suit Over Snooping on 'Incognito' Browsing Google's Texas antitrust suit takes aim at Chrome's Privacy Sandbox Google calls Microsoft's support for Link Taxes "naked corporate opportunism" US lawmakers propose Australia-style bill for media, tech negotiations FB announces lots of ways to support independent writers: pages, newsletters, etc What Facebook sees in newsletters Instagram will no longer let adults message teens who don't follow them The Great Amazon Flip-a-Thon Teen mastermind of Twitter hack pleads guilty, sentenced to three years Tesla CEO Elon Musk updates job title to "Technoking" JPG File Sells for $69 Million, as 'NFT Mania' Gathers Pace Nathan 'Doggface' Apodaca Selling Viral Longboarding Video as NFT The Freedom Phone California Bans "Dark Patterns" Under Landmark Privacy Law Three new ways anyone can update Google Maps Live Caption comes to Chrome YouTube is rolling out copyright checks for videos before they're published YouTube Shorts beta starts rolling out in the US Google Family Link lets parents set 'always allowed' apps, get more detailed activity reports A Drone Went Bowling. Hollywood Noticed Uber reclassifies 70k UK workers as employees Picks Stacey: Phyn Plus Smart Water Assistant Leo: A Hacker Got All My Texts for $16 Jeff: Sperm whales in 19th century shared ship attack information Ant: FLOSS Weekly 621: Dries Buytaert and Drupal Ant: My YouTube Short Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Sponsor: nureva.com/twit
New Google Nest Hub tracks sleep without wearables, cameras What Really Happened at 'Reply All'? Podcasting Is Booming. Will Hollywood Help or Hurt Its Future? The State of Podcast Listening for 2021: Podcasting Finds a Way Alphabet X: 'Maya' was a canceled 'tricorder' project to analyze skin health with lightwaves Google Must Face Suit Over Snooping on 'Incognito' Browsing Google's Texas antitrust suit takes aim at Chrome's Privacy Sandbox Google calls Microsoft's support for Link Taxes "naked corporate opportunism" US lawmakers propose Australia-style bill for media, tech negotiations FB announces lots of ways to support independent writers: pages, newsletters, etc What Facebook sees in newsletters Instagram will no longer let adults message teens who don't follow them The Great Amazon Flip-a-Thon Teen mastermind of Twitter hack pleads guilty, sentenced to three years Tesla CEO Elon Musk updates job title to "Technoking" JPG File Sells for $69 Million, as 'NFT Mania' Gathers Pace Nathan 'Doggface' Apodaca Selling Viral Longboarding Video as NFT The Freedom Phone California Bans "Dark Patterns" Under Landmark Privacy Law Three new ways anyone can update Google Maps Live Caption comes to Chrome YouTube is rolling out copyright checks for videos before they're published YouTube Shorts beta starts rolling out in the US Google Family Link lets parents set 'always allowed' apps, get more detailed activity reports A Drone Went Bowling. Hollywood Noticed Uber reclassifies 70k UK workers as employees Picks Stacey: Phyn Plus Smart Water Assistant Leo: A Hacker Got All My Texts for $16 Jeff: Sperm whales in 19th century shared ship attack information Ant: FLOSS Weekly 621: Dries Buytaert and Drupal Ant: My YouTube Short Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Sponsor: nureva.com/twit
New Google Nest Hub tracks sleep without wearables, cameras What Really Happened at 'Reply All'? Podcasting Is Booming. Will Hollywood Help or Hurt Its Future? The State of Podcast Listening for 2021: Podcasting Finds a Way Alphabet X: 'Maya' was a canceled 'tricorder' project to analyze skin health with lightwaves Google Must Face Suit Over Snooping on 'Incognito' Browsing Google's Texas antitrust suit takes aim at Chrome's Privacy Sandbox Google calls Microsoft's support for Link Taxes "naked corporate opportunism" US lawmakers propose Australia-style bill for media, tech negotiations FB announces lots of ways to support independent writers: pages, newsletters, etc What Facebook sees in newsletters Instagram will no longer let adults message teens who don't follow them The Great Amazon Flip-a-Thon Teen mastermind of Twitter hack pleads guilty, sentenced to three years Tesla CEO Elon Musk updates job title to "Technoking" JPG File Sells for $69 Million, as 'NFT Mania' Gathers Pace Nathan 'Doggface' Apodaca Selling Viral Longboarding Video as NFT The Freedom Phone California Bans "Dark Patterns" Under Landmark Privacy Law Three new ways anyone can update Google Maps Live Caption comes to Chrome YouTube is rolling out copyright checks for videos before they're published YouTube Shorts beta starts rolling out in the US Google Family Link lets parents set 'always allowed' apps, get more detailed activity reports A Drone Went Bowling. Hollywood Noticed Uber reclassifies 70k UK workers as employees Picks Stacey: Phyn Plus Smart Water Assistant Leo: A Hacker Got All My Texts for $16 Jeff: Sperm whales in 19th century shared ship attack information Ant: FLOSS Weekly 621: Dries Buytaert and Drupal Ant: My YouTube Short Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Sponsor: nureva.com/twit
New Google Nest Hub tracks sleep without wearables, cameras What Really Happened at 'Reply All'? Podcasting Is Booming. Will Hollywood Help or Hurt Its Future? The State of Podcast Listening for 2021: Podcasting Finds a Way Alphabet X: 'Maya' was a canceled 'tricorder' project to analyze skin health with lightwaves Google Must Face Suit Over Snooping on 'Incognito' Browsing Google's Texas antitrust suit takes aim at Chrome's Privacy Sandbox Google calls Microsoft's support for Link Taxes "naked corporate opportunism" US lawmakers propose Australia-style bill for media, tech negotiations FB announces lots of ways to support independent writers: pages, newsletters, etc What Facebook sees in newsletters Instagram will no longer let adults message teens who don't follow them The Great Amazon Flip-a-Thon Teen mastermind of Twitter hack pleads guilty, sentenced to three years Tesla CEO Elon Musk updates job title to "Technoking" JPG File Sells for $69 Million, as 'NFT Mania' Gathers Pace Nathan 'Doggface' Apodaca Selling Viral Longboarding Video as NFT The Freedom Phone California Bans "Dark Patterns" Under Landmark Privacy Law Three new ways anyone can update Google Maps Live Caption comes to Chrome YouTube is rolling out copyright checks for videos before they're published YouTube Shorts beta starts rolling out in the US Google Family Link lets parents set 'always allowed' apps, get more detailed activity reports A Drone Went Bowling. Hollywood Noticed Uber reclassifies 70k UK workers as employees Picks Stacey: Phyn Plus Smart Water Assistant Leo: A Hacker Got All My Texts for $16 Jeff: Sperm whales in 19th century shared ship attack information Ant: FLOSS Weekly 621: Dries Buytaert and Drupal Ant: My YouTube Short Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Sponsor: nureva.com/twit
New Google Nest Hub tracks sleep without wearables, cameras What Really Happened at 'Reply All'? Podcasting Is Booming. Will Hollywood Help or Hurt Its Future? The State of Podcast Listening for 2021: Podcasting Finds a Way Alphabet X: 'Maya' was a canceled 'tricorder' project to analyze skin health with lightwaves Google Must Face Suit Over Snooping on 'Incognito' Browsing Google's Texas antitrust suit takes aim at Chrome's Privacy Sandbox Google calls Microsoft's support for Link Taxes "naked corporate opportunism" US lawmakers propose Australia-style bill for media, tech negotiations FB announces lots of ways to support independent writers: pages, newsletters, etc What Facebook sees in newsletters Instagram will no longer let adults message teens who don't follow them The Great Amazon Flip-a-Thon Teen mastermind of Twitter hack pleads guilty, sentenced to three years Tesla CEO Elon Musk updates job title to "Technoking" JPG File Sells for $69 Million, as 'NFT Mania' Gathers Pace Nathan 'Doggface' Apodaca Selling Viral Longboarding Video as NFT The Freedom Phone California Bans "Dark Patterns" Under Landmark Privacy Law Three new ways anyone can update Google Maps Live Caption comes to Chrome YouTube is rolling out copyright checks for videos before they're published YouTube Shorts beta starts rolling out in the US Google Family Link lets parents set 'always allowed' apps, get more detailed activity reports A Drone Went Bowling. Hollywood Noticed Uber reclassifies 70k UK workers as employees Picks Stacey: Phyn Plus Smart Water Assistant Leo: A Hacker Got All My Texts for $16 Jeff: Sperm whales in 19th century shared ship attack information Ant: FLOSS Weekly 621: Dries Buytaert and Drupal Ant: My YouTube Short Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, Stacey Higginbotham, and Ant Pruitt Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Sponsor: nureva.com/twit
Drupal is the popular open-source content management system developed by Dries Buytaert. How did this project get started? Better yet, how did Buytaert come up with the name Drupal for this product? Buytaert explains on FLOSS Weekly with Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman. For more, check out FLOSS Weekly: http://twit.tv/floss/621 Hosts: Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman Guest: Dries Buytaert You can find more about TWiT and subscribe to our podcasts at https://podcasts.twit.tv/
Drupal is the popular open-source content management system developed by Dries Buytaert. How did this project get started? Better yet, how did Buytaert come up with the name Drupal for this product? Buytaert explains on FLOSS Weekly with Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman. For more, check out FLOSS Weekly: http://twit.tv/floss/621 Hosts: Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman Guest: Dries Buytaert You can find more about TWiT and subscribe to our podcasts at https://podcasts.twit.tv/
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman are joined by Katherine's boss at Acquia, Dries Buytaert, who is also famously the creator and alpha maintainer of Drupal, the open source content management framework. Dries talks about how Drupal started out as a college dorm project, turned in to a blogging platform, and has since grown to run some of the world's largest, most active and important websites—all while growing a great many development and usage communities. Hosts: Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman Guest: Dries Buytaert Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Sponsor: linode.com/floss
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman are joined by Katherine's boss at Acquia, Dries Buytaert, who is also famously the creator and alpha maintainer of Drupal, the open source content management framework. Dries talks about how Drupal started out as a college dorm project, turned in to a blogging platform, and has since grown to run some of the world's largest, most active and important websites—all while growing a great many development and usage communities. Hosts: Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman Guest: Dries Buytaert Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Sponsor: linode.com/floss
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman are joined by Katherine's boss at Acquia, Dries Buytaert, who is also famously the creator and alpha maintainer of Drupal, the open source content management framework. Dries talks about how Drupal started out as a college dorm project, turned in to a blogging platform, and has since grown to run some of the world's largest, most active and important websites—all while growing a great many development and usage communities. Hosts: Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman Guest: Dries Buytaert Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Sponsor: linode.com/floss
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman are joined by Katherine's boss at Acquia, Dries Buytaert, who is also famously the creator and alpha maintainer of Drupal, the open source content management framework. Dries talks about how Drupal started out as a college dorm project, turned in to a blogging platform, and has since grown to run some of the world's largest, most active and important websites—all while growing a great many development and usage communities. Hosts: Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman Guest: Dries Buytaert Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Sponsor: linode.com/floss
Drupal is the popular open-source content management system developed by Dries Buytaert. How did this project get started? Better yet, how did Buytaert come up with the name Drupal for this product? Buytaert explains on FLOSS Weekly with Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman. For more, check out FLOSS Weekly: http://twit.tv/floss/621 Hosts: Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman Guest: Dries Buytaert You can find more about TWiT and subscribe to our podcasts at https://podcasts.twit.tv/
Drupal is the popular open-source content management system developed by Dries Buytaert. How did this project get started? Better yet, how did Buytaert come up with the name Drupal for this product? Buytaert explains on FLOSS Weekly with Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman. For more, check out FLOSS Weekly: http://twit.tv/floss/621 Hosts: Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman Guest: Dries Buytaert You can find more about TWiT and subscribe to our podcasts at https://podcasts.twit.tv/
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman are joined by Katherine's boss at Acquia, Dries Buytaert, who is also famously the creator and alpha maintainer of Drupal, the open source content management framework. Dries talks about how Drupal started out as a college dorm project, turned in to a blogging platform, and has since grown to run some of the world's largest, most active and important websites—all while growing a great many development and usage communities. Hosts: Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman Guest: Dries Buytaert Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Sponsor: linode.com/floss
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman are joined by Katherine's boss at Acquia, Dries Buytaert, who is also famously the creator and alpha maintainer of Drupal, the open source content management framework. Dries talks about how Drupal started out as a college dorm project, turned in to a blogging platform, and has since grown to run some of the world's largest, most active and important websites—all while growing a great many development and usage communities. Hosts: Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman Guest: Dries Buytaert Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Sponsor: linode.com/floss
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman are joined by Katherine's boss at Acquia, Dries Buytaert, who is also famously the creator and alpha maintainer of Drupal, the open source content management framework. Dries talks about how Drupal started out as a college dorm project, turned in to a blogging platform, and has since grown to run some of the world's largest, most active and important websites—all while growing a great many development and usage communities. Hosts: Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman Guest: Dries Buytaert Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Sponsor: linode.com/floss
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman are joined by Katherine's boss at Acquia, Dries Buytaert, who is also famously the creator and alpha maintainer of Drupal, the open source content management framework. Dries talks about how Drupal started out as a college dorm project, turned in to a blogging platform, and has since grown to run some of the world's largest, most active and important websites—all while growing a great many development and usage communities. Hosts: Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman Guest: Dries Buytaert Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email floss@twit.tv. Thanks to Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Sponsor: linode.com/floss
Many in the open source community shun all things commercial, but they shouldn't, says Dr. Dries Buytaert, the creator of Drupal and the co-founder and CTO of Acquia. In this episode of TechRepublic's Dynamic Developer, host Bill Detwiler talks with Dries about this and other lessons he's learned during his 20 years as an open source leader and advocate. You can listen to episodes of Dynamic Developer on a variety of podcast platforms, including: Spotify: https://tek.io/34Vo2mT Stitcher: https://tek.io/2KkwjHG Apple Podcasts: https://tek.io/2xQUSt5 Google Play: https://tek.io/3btMluL Follow Bill Detwiler: https://twitter.com/billdetwiler Watch more TechRepublic videos: https://www.youtube.com/techrepublic TechRepublic on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TechRepublic/ TechRepublic on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TechRepublic/ TechRepublic on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/techrepublic/ TechRepublic on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/techrepublic/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Last month at DrupalCon Global, Dries Buytaert, the founder of Drupal, announced that a major focus of Drupal 9 will be improving the user interface and user experience of the platform - for all personas. Two of the five D9 Strategic Initiatives have been dedicated to making this happen. The “New Front-End Theme Initiative” or user interface (UI) for Drupal, also known as the Olivero Theme, covers the end-user experience. The “Admin UI & JavaScript Modernisation Initiative”, also known as the Claro Admin theme covers site builders, managers, and administrators. A critical component of improving the experience for all users is accessibility. In this episode of Tag1TeamTalks, Michael Meyers (Managing Director, Tag1) talks with Kat Shaw (Senior Front-end Developer, Lullabot), a CPACC-certified accessibility expert working on both initiatives. Join us for a tour and overview of both themes, get unique insight into the development process and inner workings of strategic initiatives, learn about the accessibility improvements, and find out how all these benefit you and your Drupal sites (hint: your sites become a lot more accessible, for free, with little effort on your part). Both initiatives carry over from D8 and have been under development for some time. In Drupal 9.0, Claro, the new admin theme, is available in beta as an optional theme you can enable today. It is slated to become the default admin theme in the upcoming D9.1 release. You can also try the new front-end theme, Olivero, hands-on, by downloading and installing it from Drupal.org. It will likely be part of Core in the upcoming D9.1 release as an optional theme that you can enable, and will hopefully be the default theme in Drupal 9.2.
Dr. Dries Buytaert, creator of Drupal and co-founder and CTO of Acquia, offers his first-hand advice for developers who are going from writing code everyday to managing projects and people. In this episode Dries and I discuss: How to overcome the challenges of moving into engineering management How to learn the right leadership skills How to prioritize your tasks to make the biggest impact each day You can listen to episodes of Dynamic Developer on a variety of podcast platforms, including: Spotify: https://tek.io/34Vo2mT Stitcher: https://tek.io/2KkwjHG Apple Podcasts: https://tek.io/2xQUSt5 Google Play: https://tek.io/3btMluL Follow Bill Detwiler: https://twitter.com/billdetwiler Watch more TechRepublic videos: https://www.youtube.com/techrepublic TechRepublic on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TechRepublic/ TechRepublic on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TechRepublic/ TechRepublic on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/techrepublic/ TechRepublic on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/techrepublic/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Sponsored By: Panelists Justin Dorfman | Allen “Gunner” Gunn | Richard Littauer Guest Rachel Lawson Drupal Association Show Notes In this episode, we have Rachel Lawson, from the U.K., who is the Community Liaison for Drupal Association. She is going to tell you all about the Drupal Association, what role she plays, and what she does. Since DrupalCon has been canceled due to COVID-19, there are some major things going on with sponsors that are still contributing money, the founder of Drupal making an unbelievable donation, as well as some other campaigns and match donations happening! [00:01:08] Rachel explains about working with Drupal in the U.K. and also talks about how many people are using Drupal to power their websites. [00:02:50] Justin has noticed that Drupal has a very big adoption within government, and he wonders why is that? Is it a security thing? Rachel answers this. [00:04:14] Rachel tells us how Drupal gets paid as an open source product. She also talks about what’s been going on since DrupalCon has been canceled in May. [00:10:37] There is a list of sponsors that are still contributing money to Drupal, despite the event being canceled, and a HUGE SHOUT OUT is necessary to them, so please see the list below! ☺ [00:012:01] The Founder of Drupal, Dries Buytaert, made an unbelievable donation and Rachel talks about what it was and how it affected everything. It is AMAZING!! There have been some other match donations mentioned as well. [00:16:16] Governance is brought up by Gunner and he wants to know the civilian’s version of how governance at Drupal works and how the decision-making works that others could learn from and Rachel explains. [00:23:00] Rachel explains her role with Drupal and what she does. [00:25:00] How does someone join the Drupal open source community and how does Drupal capture all the contributors, not just the Devs? Rachel explains. Spotlight [00:33:01] Justin’s spotlight is The Ruby Blend Podcast-Episode 9. Listen to it! [00:33:49] Gunner has two spotlights: Qubes OS and Subgraph OS and the Tails Project (tails.boum.org). [00:34:39] Richard’s spotlight is the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation). [00:35:33] Rachel has two spotlights: A pub in Leeds, Yorkshire where she was attending a Drupal event. It made her reflect back to being there before and how much it changed her life. Also, OS FEST in Lagos, Nigeria, that she recently attended. It was a huge experience for her and truly incredible. Quotes [00:20:54] “We’ve been going through a process at Drupal association about raising money and we have a campaign on at the moment called Drupal cares (#DrupalCares) and you will notice there is quite a lot going on with that.” [00:23:33] “If just downloading Drupal or downloading any open source projects isn’t enough, you need the services around it, the support around it, regular security updates so where you can work on new code and have thousands and thousands of thousands of continuous integration tests run every time you say, “Hey, I propose that we do this new thing in Drupal!” [00:25:18] “Do you want to give a shout out to those sponsors that have done that because that warmed my heart! You know, the sponsors that said, keep our money, we believe in the project, we know we won’t get any real value out of the event not being alive. Please, give them some props.” (They are listed below.)
Twenty years ago, Dries Buytaert founded Drupal right at the dot-com bust. Then in 2008, at the start of the so-called Great Recession, he started Acquia, a digital experience platform for Drupal sites. Some would say those are unlucky times to start businesses. Not Buytaert. He's convinced well-loved free and open source software or FOSS is recession-proof. And that's what this episode of The New Stack Makers dives into.
Dr. Dries Buytaert, creator of Drupal and co-founder and CTO of Acquia, explains why Open Source is more suited to survive, and even grow, in a recession than other software distribution models. Subscribe to TechRepublic's Dynamic Developer podcast: Spotify: https://tek.io/34Vo2mT Stitcher: https://tek.io/2KkwjHG Apple Podcasts: https://tek.io/2xQUSt5 Google Play: https://tek.io/3btMluL Follow Bill Detwiler: https://twitter.com/billdetwiler Watch more TechRepublic videos: https://www.youtube.com/techrepublic TechRepublic on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TechRepublic/ TechRepublic on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TechRepublic/ TechRepublic on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/techrepublic/ TechRepublic on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/techrepublic/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Frank Maene is medebezieler van durfkapitaalfonds Volta Ventures. Als geen ander kent hij dus de grootste valkuilen en werkpunten van de Belgische groeibedrijfjes. Maar hoe staat het vandaag met ons start-up ecosysteem? Wanneer komen start-ups? volgens hem in aanmerking? Waar zit het succes van een goede pitch? In deze episode kom je het allemaal te weten!
Dries Buytaert, founder of Drupal, is our guest on the 50th TEN7 podcast!
Vi snackar om högt och lågt, vänster och höger, och Tesla, Dan Brown, Harry Potter, Captain Drupal, Dries Buytaert kommer på tal. Detta poddavsnitt sponsras av Websystem Det här poddavsnittet sponsras av Websystem. Länkar till moduler, webbplatser och tjänster vi pratade om i detta avsnitt: Dagens avsnitt Elon Musk om neurala nätverk och poliser Självkörande bilfärja i Finland Om Pingsten Captain Drupal Skata, pica pica Trana, grus grus Lodjur, lynx lynx Carl von Linné Drupal The crimes of Grindelwald Kvintologi/Pentalogi
DrupalEurope is over, but in our podcast-rucksack we have three interesting interviews (Dries Buytaert, Baddy Breidert and Michael Miles) which spice up this episode. Adam and Kristoffer talk about the conference, why it happened, how it happened, sessions, trivia night and the food. No, wait, we didn't discuss the food! Or did we? Listen to this special episode, this time in 100% English (with some broken Swedish and strange words now and then)! This podcast episode is sponsored by Websystem This podcast episode is sponsored by Websystem. Shownotes, links and other thingamabobs: No DrupalCon in Europe 2018 DrupalEurope, official website DevelopingUp, Michael Miles’ podcast Darmstadtium, the venue Dries’ keynote, the DriesNote Dries blogpost: State of Drupal presentation Dires’ blogpost: Extended security coverage for Drupal 8 minor releases Dries’ blogpost: Drupal 7, 8 and 9 DrupalEurope on YouTube DrupalCon Amsterdam 2019 Apply for DrupalCon Advisory board (link on page) DrupalCamp Oslo
Welcome to Episode 41 of The VentureFizz Podcast, the flagship podcast of your most-trusted source for startup and tech jobs, news, and insights! For this episode of our podcast, I interviewed Mike Sullivan, CEO of Acquia. Mike is an entrepreneur who co-founded an early SaaS company called Steelpoint Technologies, a provider of high-end electronic discovery solutions that was later acquired. If you are not familiar with Acquia, they are one of the anchor companies in the Boston tech scene, known for helping companies create digital experiences. They have a global presence with about 800 employees. In this episode, we cover: -The details on Steelpoint, and how the company moved from a services business to a productized solution -His decision to join Acquia, and his partnership with Dries Buytaert, Acquia's Chairman, CTO and Co-Founder -The current state of Acquia, and their strategy moving forward (which could include making acquisitions) -Advice for growing a bootstrapped business, as well as how to generate revenue on day one and get your first customers -Plus, a lot more! Lastly, if you like the show, please remember to subscribe to and review us on iTunes, or your podcast player of choice!
Direct .mp3 file download. Tara King, Customer Success Engineer with Pantheon, Drupal Diversity and Inclusion leadership team, and a member of Core Mentoring Leadership team joins Mike Anello to talk about Drupal's Diversity and Inclusion Contribution Team - and how you can get involved. Discussion Drupal Diversity and Inclusion Contribution Team Increasing Drupal contribution from underrepresented groups blog post by Dries Buytaert. Open Demographics Project and the Gender field module. Nikki Stevens' talk at TEDxASU titled, "Other, Please Specify". DrupalEasy News Upgrading your local development environment with DDEV full-day training at Drupal Camp Colorado - Friday, August 3, 2018. Introducing our online, hands-on, 2-hour Professional local development with DDEV workshop - monthly, beginning July 18. Drupal Career Online - Fall semester begins September 3. Learn more at the next Taste of Drupal webinar on July 19. Sponsors MyDropWizard.com - Long-term-support services for Drupal 6, 7, and 8 sites. WebEnabled.com - devPanel. Follow us on Twitter @drupaleasy @andrewmriley @liberatr @ultimike @tedbow @sixmiletech @akalata @sparklingrobots Subscribe Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes, Google Play or Miro. Listen to our podcast on Stitcher. If you'd like to leave us a voicemail, call 321-396-2340. Please keep in mind that we might play your voicemail during one of our future podcasts. Feel free to call in with suggestions, rants, questions, or corrections. If you'd rather just send us an email, please use our contact page.
DrupalCon Dublin keynote community voices - In Acquia podcast 248, Acquia Office of the CTO Multimedia Designer, Alena "ASH" Heath and I talked about helping capture stories of contribution and change from the Drupal community. In this quick follow-up, here are the soundbites that were featured in Dries Buytaert's "Driesnote" address at DrupalCon Dublin, 2016. A warm round of thanks to Vijaya Chandran Mani, Zsófi Major, Drew Gorton, Franck Seferiba Salif Soulama, Suchi Garg, Ronan Dowling, Jack Holding, Sheena Morris, and Crispin Read. Thanks for all your help, contributions, and being part of the Drupal community! See the conversation video at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/249-changing-lives-changing-world-voices-dublin-driesnote
Acquia Office of the CTO Multimedia Designer, Alena "ASH" Heath and I collaborated in 2016, collecting stories about contribution and changing lives from members of the Drupal community. Soundbites from some of those conversations were included in Dries Buytaert's "Driesnote" keynote address at DrupalCon Dublin. In this podcast, we talk about ASH's history in Drupal, this project and what we learned along the way! See the conversation video at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/248-whats-driesnote-ash-n-jam-talk-community-stories
Intro: Welcome to the latest episode of On the Air with Palantir, a long-form podcast by Palantir.net where we go in-depth on topics related to the business of web design and development. It’s July 2016 and this is episode #6. In this episode, Account Manager Allison Manley is joined by Palantir CEOs George DeMet and Tiffany Farriss. TRANSCRIPT: Allison Manley [AM]: Welcome to On the Air with Palantir, a podcast by Palantir.net where we go in-depth on topics related to the business of web design and development. It’s July 2016 and this is episode #6. This is a special edition really, since this year marks the 20th anniversary of Palantir. It’s hard to fathom considering the internet was still very new in 1996, so there are very few web shops that have been around this long. Palantir started as a development agency, then over time added services such as design and strategy, to become the full, well-rounded, end to end company that it is today. So we are celebrating our 20th anniversary later this month. I sat down with owners George DeMet and Tiffany Farriss to talk about how Palantir started, how it developed into the company it is today, and where we’re headed. AM: Hello, Tiffany and George! How are you doing today? George DeMet [GD]: We’re doing well. Tiffany Farriss [TF]: Hi, Allison! AM: Thanks for talking with me, I appreciate it. So we’re going to talk about the 20 years of Palantir. It’s hard to believe, right? GD: It’s…yeah [laughs]. I’ve never really known anything else, it’s kind of funny. AM: You’ve never had another job? GD: That’s not true. I worked for my parents when I was in high school. They ran a disposal and recycling company. So I did have experience growing up driving a garbage truck and managing a recycling center. TF: This wasn’t what I was going to do, but it is pretty much the only thing I’ve done. Other than having a NASA research grant as an undergrad, this is it. AM: What were you going to do? I’m curious. TF: I was going to go to grad school in astrophysics. That was my thing. I really wanted to do astrophysics, and I really liked cosmology in particular. I wanted to study the origins of the universe. AM: Which we’re kind of doing [laughs]. So let’s have a quick overview of Palantir’s history. How did Palantir begin? GD: So I actually started Palantir back in the summer of ’96, which was between my sophomore and junior year of college. I had discovered the Web back in the fall of ’94 when I was a freshman, and had really been kind of fascinated by it. It was very new – Netscape was still in beta at that point, and I was just really captivated by this idea of having pretty much anyone in the world being able to publish content that pretty much anyone else anywhere in the world would be able to read and access and view. I thought that was kind of revolutionary and I could see that this was the start of something kind of interesting, and I wanted to be a part of it. And so I started making some web pages, just sort of as a hobby. I made a fan page for ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ that is still around today, after 22 years. And then I discovered that folks would pay me money to build websites and web pages. So after doing this freelance for a while, I decided it was a good idea to start a company around it. TF: Because that’s what your family does [laughs]. GD: So that’s probably a little bit of helpful background. Both sides of my family are a couple of generations of people who started and ran family businesses. I mentioned that my parents have a disposal company. My mom’s father had a couple of grocery stores in Leavenworth, Kansas. My dad’s family ran the DeMet candy company, the folks that brought you the chocolate Turtle. So that was really kind of all I knew, right? Working for someone else was really not part of my DNA. So I knew I was going to do something, and when the web came along, it seemed like this was definitely something I wanted to do. TF: For me, I started on the web around the same time, in 1994. It was kind of an outgrowth of my love of Latin [laughs]. That’s the other thing about me is my love of the classics, particularly Latin, and I was involved in the Junior Classical League in Ohio. I first became the membership director and then the president of the Ohio chapter, and for them I learned how to do HTML. And the web was so new and so exciting, and I had a friend who was at MIT who could give me server space. And this was just so cool that we could be out there and be doing that. So when I met George, when I started at Northwestern, I joined up with him when we were creating a website for our dorm, for Willard Residential College. And we really wanted – our residential college was eclectic, which is probably the best way to talk about it [laughs]. GD: I think the proper way to talk about it was pan-thematic. Most of the other residential colleges had a theme, like arts or sciences or engineering. We were all the things. TF: We were all the things, we were all the interesting people interested in lots of things. And so we really wanted to do an amazing job creating that website, and that’s really how George and I started working together, in that capacity, and ultimately that’s how Palantir got its second client, or first paying client, depending on how you looked at it [laughs]. GD: That’s right. So one of the things I didn’t know how to do but Tiffany did quite well at the time was to actually go out and find clients. And that’s the skill that Tiffany brought to the table, in addition to her technical skills and managerial skills – really bringing some kind of structure to the enterprise, as it were. TF: And it all happened in the way we still sell today, in that we’re looking for that good fit. You say, OK, this is what we can do and these are our ideas and this is what we bring to the table. And that’s essentially how we got – when I was a freshman and George was a junior – how two students got the job to do Northwestern’s main university site. It was also the 90s which was a bit of a Wild West [laughs]. But that’s how it happened. We were at the awards ceremony for the residential college competition, which we won, of course [laughs], and I was talking to one of the judges who happened to be responsible for the web at Northwestern at the time. And she was talking to me about our thought process, and how we approached it, and I was talking about things that are so obvious to everyone now. The three-click rule. Thinking about how users would journey through the path and how you would organize information. And how you apply human-computer interaction theory to the web. But this being early ’97, you know, she said to me, I’m taking classes to learn what you guys already know, can I hire you for $2 an hour as a work-study? And I said, well, I already have a NASA research grant, so, no, but you can contract Palantir. My partner will be in Wisconsin but I can come in for meetings with you. And that’s how we got that contract, so that’s how it all worked out. And that first project was to redo the information technology site, and then in ’97 through ’98 we ended up doing the main Northwestern site. GD: For the folks at Northwestern, I’ve heard people complain since about the fact that it’s northwestern.edu. We share a little bit of the blame for that [laughs]. But seriously, nobody calls it NWU. It’s Northwestern. Or maybe NU, but I think that might have been taken. AM: Well, a pretty auspicious beginning, I would say. Now that you live in Evanston and the office is in Evanston. GD: Yeah. We never moved [laughs]. TF: Well, this is the thing. I met George my third day at Northwestern, and we’ve been a couple ever since, but we’ve lived within a six-block radius since 1998 [laughs]. Our first off-campus apartment was literally a block over, two blocks away. This has just been where we’ve found a home. Neither of us is from here. I’m from Akron, Ohio, and George is from Wisconsin. We met in the middle and literally stayed. GD: To be fair, I have some family connections to Chicago. My dad and his family are from Chicago, and so it’s always felt like a second home to me even though I grew up in northern Wisconsin. There’s also a lot more to do here, and it’s a place where even though we are a distributed company and have customers all over the world, it’s a really great place to be. TF: What I like about it is that irrespective of a physical office, I do consider us to be a firm that’s rooted in Midwest values. And I love that Chicago means business, but it’s business with this ethic. You work hard and you play hard, and you treat people fairly, right? That’s the way that we do things here, and it’s really important to me. And even once we don’t have a physical office or we don’t have headquarters or whatever it is, it’s about the sense of philosophy of place, of being Midwestern. Of being very authentic, being very genuine, and bringing our best selves to what we do. AM: What would you say, if you can project back 20 years, or 19 or 18 years, the focus was for Palantir the first couple of years? Was the focus just trying to stay afloat, was there a specific direction you were trying to take at the time? GD: So if you go back in time to the mid-90s and remember what the Web looked like at that point, it was the era of Geocities websites, and everyone was into, like, banners that scrolled across your pages and little animated GIF clip art and animated background patterns, and just really horribly ugly garish sites that people were creating because they could. And one of the things that I really wanted to do at Palantir was to bring more of a design aesthetic to the Web. I really felt that it shouldn’t be too difficult to create websites that were not just functional but were actually easy to use, and didn’t make you want to claw your eyes out when you looked at them. So I thought there was a real opportunity there. Not just to be able to do business, but also to help make the Web a better place. And that was very much what we wanted to do, certainly for the first couple of years, and even beyond as we started partnering with other folks. I think making the Web look better and work better for people was really key in those first couple of years. TF: And for me, I think – I agree with everything that George said, but I also felt very strongly about how the information was organized and presented. At the time it was a lot of brochure-ware. People were essentially trying to put these very linear experiences up on the Web. Now we call it ‘content strategy’ but at the time it was ‘information architecture’, and I really loved to think about the way to organize information in a way that made sense to someone who had no familiarity. It wasn’t about creating this highly linear journey for them, it was about – I saw the promise as being able to present information, to allow people to get what they wanted, but still to also come away with the message you wanted them to have. I thought that was such an interesting challenge, to be able to allow people to take control of how they gathered information, to really put the control back in their hands, but still to have it be that kind of alignment where you as the content provider were getting your message through, right? And that’s still a lot of what underpins our work today, is really this kind of ‘choose your own adventure’. And that’s where the name really comes from and why it comes into play. GD: So the name is something I came up with. It represents this idea of interconnectedness. The Palantiri are these communicators that in a fantasy realm are interconnected with each other, so you can look in one and communicate with anyone else who has a Palantir. The dominant metaphor at the time when Palantir started was the information superhighway, and I felt that metaphor was really flawed because it implied this kind of linearity, right? But the Web isn’t like that. The Web is this very decentralized interconnected place, and it really feels more and it actually is this network of interconnected communication, of nodes, really. TF: And it’s interconnected not just in terms of people, which it certainly is and always has been since its beginning, but it’s also in terms of content. What I love and what I find so fascinating and interesting is the notion that you don’t have to encapsulate all of the knowledge – you can just link to it, right? So you can tell a story and you can pull together these varied threads, and braid it together into a narrative in such an interesting way. And anybody can do that. It’s so accessible that it’s really broken down some of those traditional barriers that essentially gated who was able to define the narrative. So any person now can define that narrative and string it together. This is why a lot more of our work recently has dealt with APIs and what we can do to bring pieces of content from different systems together. And ultimately it’s why I’m so passionate about Drupal, because the ability to weave different pieces of content together but allow them to remain authoritative external sources is so exciting. AM: So it seems that, 20 years later, what you had outlined for yourselves back then still stands today. GD: Absolutely, no question. We’re still facing some of the same sorts of challenges. They’re very different in nature, but fundamentally it’s a question of enabling people to be able to access information, or to create information, or to share information in a way that’s findable, that’s usable, that’s discoverable. That’s what we started out trying to do, and that’s what we’re still trying to do today. TF: I have this very Teutonic brain, I like things to be very efficient. So for me the notion that I could weave these narratives together but allow there to be single authoritative sources of information, I don’t have to duplicate it – it’s very efficient, it’s so compelling to me. And this is where I think you see a lot of enterprises getting too narrow, with their notion of the omnichannel strategies – where you want there to be a single source but you need to kind of customize what that experience looks like. And you really get – by being so efficient with presenting that information and where you’re sourcing the information, you get to focus your efforts on how you differentiate it in different channels and different contexts, and have other people mix and potentially remix your information. That’s what’s so exciting about where we are today, but it’s not that different than in ’96. We were really trying to get authoritative sources, that was the key, to kind of have those sources be out there and have them be integrated together. AM: So you would say that Palantir’s core values and mission really haven’t changed at all, or maybe just better definition. GD: I would agree with that. What we’re trying to do, how we’re trying to do it, really hasn’t changed. What has changed is that we’ve talked about it, we’ve articulated it more publicly. It’s not just locked in our brains [laughs]. TF: Right, it’s those notions of assumptions so deep that you’re not even aware of them. For so many of the early years, we just knew. And because we were a smaller company and everybody worked with George and I on a daily basis, you just kind of felt it. You didn’t know it. I couldn’t articulate it very well, and it’s taken us several tries to be able to get it to the point where we feel confident saying, yes, this is it. Because words matter so much, and there’s such precision when I use language that I’m constantly trying to make sure, is this the right word to use, is this really capturing that feeling that’s so deep in our culture that I want other people to be able to grasp onto it. Because we do have this growing firm, and our folks here today – George and I are clearly the longest-standing employees of Palantir, but we have folks who start in a week. So how do they get a sense of the history? So it’s this notion that we have to really have those core values, as guiding principles, articulated so that, without knowing the lore and history of Palantir, they can apply it going forward. It’s really been an interesting challenge and one that George and I have been focused on for probably the last 18 months, is realizing that all that shared history has to be able to be communicated, has to be able to be transferred. And that’s been a really exciting part of the challenge. GD: And it’s not just communicated, it’s also contextualized. That’s the really fun part for me. AM: It’s very hard to define your own selves, too. It’s definitely tough work. GD: It is. But I think it’s essential. I think it’s something that has been kind of a hallmark of who we are. It’s really this constantly asking ourselves and trying to be as self-aware as possible about who we are and what we do and why we do it. TF: And also what we don’t do, right? I think that as we look at the growth over the last 10 years, it’s really easy to think that we were something we weren’t. We were never a start-up. We’re celebrating our 20th year so by definition we can’t be a start-up, and even in the past 10 years we weren’t a start-up. But it might have felt that way, or it might have looked that way. And so it’s on us, it’s our responsibility, to make sure that people understand – both our clients and our friends and our colleagues – that we are approaching this with very much a fundamental family business mentality. Really old-school principles. You don’t spend money you don’t have, you treat people fairly. This kind of notion that you’re always building, that every decision you constantly make has to be adding up to something. And I think that’s been – we certainly have friends who made other choices with their companies, whether they consider themselves a tech company or a start-up and they go after VC. We’re just not that. And we totally admire them and wish them well with what they’re doing. We’re doing something a little bit different over here. So in order for folks to understand that, we have to talk about it. We have to say, you know, we don’t spend other people’s money, we don’t spend money we don’t have. It’s been such an interesting journey, particularly for me not coming from a family business background, to understand really what that means and why that applies and to be really proud of it. I really think that’s the compelling thing here. Because at the end of the day, I’ve always believed that what you do outside of work makes you better when you are at work. And you have to have time and space in your life for that. And I believed that before I had a family, and I certainly believe it to be true now. How I live it, how I articulate it, is very different. And I think that’s right, that’s appropriate, to be able to evolve with you and to be able to change with you. And that’s the kind of company that we’ve built. AM: Well, one of the things I’ve noticed specifically about Palantir is how involved you’ve gotten in several communities. One of the reasons that I actually knew Palantir for years before working here was your commitment to design, which George mentioned was an early interest, and you did partner with design firms in Chicago when at the time you didn’t have an in-house design department, you were strictly development-only. So you were prescient and smart enough to know that you should partner with some very good design firms in the city, and there is a very strong design community here. And so you actually joined the American Institute of Graphic Arts board at one point, to become, I think, the Web liaison. TF: Electronic Media Chair, yes. I was lucky enough to be Electronic Media Chair for AIGA Chicago, and that came after several years of working with and partnering with those design firms. And that was such an invaluable time in Palantir’s history. Chicago does have such a very storied and internationally respected design community, and the opportunity to work in such an early stage in my career, and in Palantir’s lifespan, with some of the best – looking back on it, it was unbelievable. To be able to learn and work so closely with really, really smart designers as they were making that transition from being exclusively print designers to thinking about interactive design and Web design – it was such a neat time for all of us. We were bringing this very digital sensibility with us and they were bringing expectations of typography and color fidelity. And those were things that were really difficult in that early Web. It was really amazing. And that all came out of our early work at Northwestern. We originally started out partnering with the information technology department over there, and through that work we advocated that the university relations people be included in that conversation. Because we felt that there was a role for branding and photography, and just design standards as part of the work we were doing for the Northwestern home page. And through that we ended up learning how to work with traditional print designers. And our business has always been built on this word of mouth, on reputation. And so through that experience we ended up getting connected into the Chicago design community, and passed from firm to firm to firm, and I see that being appointed to the board was really the outcome from that, after the several years we’d been working with and partnering with design firms, from 2001 – I think it was 2001 when I became Electronic Media Chair, until 2008 – we had been working for six or seven years. But I still reflect on those experiences and what I learned from working with those folks, just in terms of how to relate to clients and how to really be a consultant. It was an amazing opportunity, it was really great. I’m really grateful for it. AM: And around the same time, around 2008-ish, was when you started to get involved heavily in the Drupal community as well. GD: That’s right. AM: So a pretty pivotal year there [laughs]. GD: Well, the Drupal decision we actually made in 2007. We had started working with Drupal in 2006, but to lay a little bit of background, we’ve always worked primarily with open source technologies – open source software, free software, from the very beginning. The LAMP stack, Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, and used those technologies. And I had always been interested in getting a little more involved with open source on the content management side. We did a little bit of looking into that around 2001, when some of the first generation open source CMSs started to come on the scene, and none of them were really never mature enough at that point. And at that point we actually thought we could probably do our own, just as well if not better. So we had our own CMS for a while – it was called the Community Platform and we did four major versions of it, each of which was pretty much a complete rewrite. Was it just three? TF: We were thinking about doing a fourth. GD: Right, right. And that was a really interesting learning experience for us, because when you are responsible for creating your own product that you are then in turn using for customer projects, you have to really be careful. Because there’s a huge temptation to modify it or tweak it or change it every single time. So what we actually found was that we didn’t have one CMS, we had however many dozen CMSs, each of which was a bespoke version for that particular client, because we had had to make some sort of tweak for the business needs of that customer. Which was great in terms of the short-term customer need, right? Because we could very quickly and inexpensively roll out a site for a customer, get it up very quickly, but when it came time to expand that site or support that site or make that site do something different, it was incredibly difficult. So that was one of the big issues that we were running into. We had worked with some other proprietary platforms – there was a product that was being used by a lot of higher education institutions we were working with in the early 2000s. It definitely had its challenges, but it was something our customers were using and it worked well for a lot of our customers. And ultimately the company ended up deciding to end-of-life that product, actually without telling any of their customers [laughs]. We had a little inside knowledge on that, and Tiffany actually announced it up on stage at South by Southwest, I think this was 2007. TF: 2008. GD: 2008. And it was really kind of interesting seeing everyone flee the room when you made that announcement. TF: The 20 people. GD: The 20 people, yes [laughs]. I mean, you know, it was a pretty big session. So at that point, things were kind of – we realized we really needed to get involved with, you know, something that was going to be more widely supported by a wider community, and that also wasn’t going to be tied to the commercial whims of one particular company. And so I’m actually going to let you tell the story of how we started working with Drupal. TF: It happened over several years, really. In 2006, Robert Petrick, who’s one of those amazing Chicago designers that we were lucky enough to work with, he brought us in on a project for Washington University in St. Louis. And the project was a little unusual, because it wasn’t an implementation project. It was going to be an implementation project, but first it started with a consulting project, where they wanted us to look at the available landscape of content management solutions, but both bespoke – our Community Platform was on the table for consideration – and open source projects as well as proprietary. And I helped them make the decision, and open source was absolutely the right choice for them. Again, we narrowed it down – should it be Drupal, should it be Joomla, and there were a couple of other options they were considering at the time. And for them Drupal was the right choice. So we built out that first site for WSTL in Drupal 4.6, and it was a little bit frustrating. But 4.7 came out actually before the site launched, and we immediately upgraded it to 4.7. We had looked at 4.6 before and not used it, because we couldn’t do the things we needed to visually. We were working with a lot of the design firms, and we couldn’t tell them, oh, the technology choice we’ve made won’t allow us to present the interface visually the way you want it to be done. That was why we had our own community platform, and in 4.6 we felt that was still very much the case, we were very much limited by that theming layer. Then 4.7 ended up being the right choice for Washington University in St. Louis, and we built out the site there, and it was still a bit frustrating but we achieved the level of fidelity we wanted. And as we were wrapping up that project and getting ready to launch it, Drupal 5 came out. And without launching the 4.7 version we ended up going to Drupal 5 right away. And that was when our team said, oh, this is different, and we can do everything that is being asked of us visually, everything we want to do visually. And by the way the security team that Drupal has is larger than our entire firm. So it was really in early 2007, in February 2007, when we were faced with rewriting our community platform from version 3 to version 4, it was going to be a complete rewrite – I just looked at George and said, I think we need to deprecate our own CMS in favor of Drupal. I think we need to put our efforts in that direction. So the next month we actually sent George and one of our colleagues at the time, Larry Garfield, who’s known as Crell in the Drupal community, we sent them both out to Sunnyvale where Drupal was having a DrupalCon, to learn more about it. And George came back and said, I think this is a community you’d really like. And you could really get involved in this. Ah, I don’t know, let’s just start with where we’re at right now. And then you do fast forward, that year of 2007 was when we did a lot of our first projects. We got all of our clients off our own community platform, and any new project we’d start doing in Drupal. AM: How were they when you suggested getting them off the existing platform and getting them onto Drupal? Were they receptive to that, or were they hesitant…? TF: We did it gradually, as people needed new enhancements or new versions of their sites. At the time, none of the sites we were working on had particularly long life spans, right? And we ended up having to support the community platform for several years thereafter. So it was really when someone came to us for new work, it was, oh, here’s Drupal and we think you should move here for the following reasons. We would lay it out, but we weren’t going to do any new enhancements to it, and we told them very clearly, we’re not in active development on the community platform any more. GD: One distinction that’s important to make, I think, is that with our own product, the Community Platform, it wasn’t an open source product, but we did have our customers have the right to modify the source code themselves. They just didn’t have the right to redistribute those changes. So if customers wanted to take on that responsibility of updating or maintaining the site themselves, they were certainly able to do that, or we gave them the option of moving to Drupal. TF: Right. So really through 2007 and into 2008 – 2008 is really where we got involved in the Drupal community per se. And that’s when I went out to Boston, and I said, oh, this is a community I will love. This is something that – the ethos of it, getting to meet Dries and Angie Byron and Moshe Weitzman, all the early and very influential Drupal developers, and just how welcoming and how open they all were. And what we were able to build with Drupal was just so much more than we would be able to build if we were responsible for the whole stack. It just started to fall into place, it started to make sense that we could do more for our clients. And that’s ultimately what’s always driven us. We’re trying to add value. We’re trying to say, because the clients we work with have limited resources and are always under constraints, what’s the most we can do for them? How much can we accomplish, how much value can we give back to them? How much easier can we make their lives by the choices that we make all along the project? And Drupal was one of the ones that made a lot of sense for them. It had roughly the same implementation cost as any other proprietary or custom solution, but in terms of the long term, it was much less expensive. Because you didn’t have the long-term licensing fees, you had the community patching issues – so sometimes a client would say, oh, I’m noticing this bug on the site, and we’d say, oh, actually that’s a module that’s been patched in, we can patch that for you. It really opened it up and allowed us to focus. So all these kind of pivotal points that you’ve noted in Palantir’s history, they come around our ability to focus. Right? So in 2001 when we really started partnering in earnest with design firms, it allowed us to focus and really hone our craft, and understand how to do content strategy and how to architect solid technical solutions. And then again in 2008, when we focused in on Drupal it allowed us to realize, okay, here’s how – only build what you absolutely need to build. That really allowed us to do more with our client budgets, and again, I would say 2016 is another one of those pivotal years for us, when we realized how to focus in and how to really get to the nugget of the business problem that needs to be solved. We have the opportunity now to influence businesses and the success of those businesses, and organizations as well since we do so much work with non-profits and higher ed in particular, and really how to solve core problems that aren’t technology problems. They’re problems that reach across the organization at every level, and so the fact that we’re able to focus in on it from that perspective, with that lens, I see that as another transformational moment for Palantir. AM: It seems like you had some very pivotal choices that you made, in 2001 to 2008 in particular - partnering with design firms, choosing open source and eventually choosing Drupal – and that you were sort of on the forefront when the mid-2000s hit. That was when it seems to me, from my perspective, that you were a very big fish in a tiny pond at that time. You had this incredible design aesthetic and appreciation, you knew how to work with design firms at that point – you weren’t doing in-house design yet – and you were one of the few firms who had really embraced Drupal in particular. And that community was exploding, and I’m not sure if you could see that community was going to explode, if you were able to predict that. GD: It was pretty apparent when I went to Sunnyvale in early 2007. That was a very small conference, it was maybe a couple of hundred people, and not all of them were Drupal people. But it was really, really clear just from the conversations that were happening and the folks that were there that Drupal was on the verge of becoming a big deal. And it was really funny, because I think the first couple of years that we started working with Drupal, we would go to industry conferences like higher ed conferences or museum conferences, and people would be like, oh, what do you do, and we’d say, we work with Drupal. And people would be, Drupal, what’s that? And then a couple of years later, we would go to the same conferences, and people would literally come up to me, like, I hear you guys are experts in Drupal and I need a Drupal expert [laughs]. So there really was a huge shift, I think, between 2008 and 2011, when Drupal went from being kind of this niche open source project that very few people had heard of that powers some of the biggest and most ambitious sites on the Web. TF: And I think a lot of that has to do with the ecosystem that was built up around Drupal. Not just Acquia but especially Acquia, which is the firm that Dries Buytaert founded and is CTO of, that really brought a lot of visibility to Drupal particularly around hosting and 24/7 support. I think that was a really important moment for Drupal. But I think what was happening before then as well, not just with firms like Palantir but the work that Phase2 was doing in the government sector – there are a lot of firms both in the US and Europe that were doing this very ambitious very large-scale work. You had Examiner really pushing the development of Drupal 7, and then eventually the White House goes to Drupal, and everything that was happening with Warner Brothers and SonyBMG putting all their artists on Drupal – Drupal became this kind of de facto go-to. When you had a project that was, as George said, ambitious – it didn’t necessarily have to be large, sometimes they were technically complicated and involved a lot of integrations between different kinds of data sources. That was the kind of work that we did, both for higher ed and for museums, where we were combining, say, digital asset management systems with content management systems with active directory or LDAP-based user solutions. Any kind of complexity at that level, Drupal’s so good at tying those systems together. Or if you wanted to go headless, right now Drupal’s very good if you want to have, you know, no front end to your data source. Drupal just knows how to connect people, how to connect things, and it gives you such a good basis for what you’re trying to do, or trying to replicate. If you need a thousand sites, right, this is again what Pfizer does, and they’ve got such huge regulatory concerns that Drupal, you know, was just always there. And those of us in the, I would say, the second wave of Drupal – Palantir’s not a first wave Drupal shop, we really did start to come on line with Drupal 6, and we were essentially writing for those pieces that our clients need. So again this is that ethos that we have, where we’re going to find that win-win solution. And what we did early on, and in particular when we made our name with Drupal 7 where we created Workbench, it was because this was a need that our clients had, and multiple clients had that need at the exact same time. It was a space that Drupal just wasn’t solving, and it was something that we had the capacity, we had the expertise in-house to be able to write. So we were able to combine pooled budgets from some of the smaller non-profit clients that we had, combine them together and get that better solution than they would be able to afford on their own, and make Drupal better – those are those niches that we’re constantly looking for. Okay, where can we add the most value here, where’s that problem that we can pull the resources together to solve – whether it’s people or time or money. AM: Well, I think one of the direct results of – maybe Palantir wasn’t a first adopter, but pretty early, still, and the creation of Workbench which has proven to be very popular, and going back to the fact that those choices led Palantir to be a pretty big fish in a small pond for a long time – one of the things that I think is amazing about Palantir is that for 17 years, I think you told me, you never had to do any marketing. GD: That’s right. No outbound marketing. AM: That’s a dream, right? [laughs] To never have to look, the referrals came so naturally. But then, 17 years in, as Drupal became more ubiquitous and more people were adopting it and more people were recognizing the design abilities of it and the flexibility on the front end, marketing all of a sudden was needed [laughs] because there was more competition. So how would you say the landscape has changed? I’m going to guess that was a pivotal moment too, just how that landscape changed. GD: Well, I don’t know that it’s a pivotal moment – I think it’s been a general trend we’ve been seeing over the past few years. And fundamentally I think if you – we talked about focusing, and that’s important, but if you narrow your focus too much and you find yourself in too much of a niche and people associate you with a specific technology or a specific type of client, that’s not a great situation to be in. And I wouldn’t actually describe us so much as a Drupal shop, we’re a full service boutique firm that helps customers be successful on the Web. And fundamentally the tools we use to accomplish that – what’s important to us is helping our customers make the right choices, collaborating with our customers, being able to help them to achieve success. Drupal is and historically has been a really great way to do that for an awful lot of our customers. But at the end of the day, it’s not about being the biggest or the best or the most well-known Drupal shop. It’s about being a firm that can help achieve success for our customers, in a really smart way. And because we were so closely associated with Drupal, that’s something we didn’t talk about as much. But we have started talking about it a lot more in the last few years. So if that’s marketing, sure [laughs]. TF: Well, I think it is. Early on, in those days when we were partnering, it was, oh, you’re the people who know tech who know how to talk to designers. So we want to work with you. AM: Which is a valuable skill [laughs]. TF: Absolutely. And we keep it with us, we still have it today. But at the time, what we were doing was problem solving. We were hearing what they wanted, what their clients wanted, and how we solved it, right? But then you fast-forward to Drupal, and then we had this really great run where it was like, Palantir! You know Drupal! We want to work with you! But at the end of the day we did the same thing. You come in, you have a problem to solve. They picked us for different reasons and they were pleased with the outcomes, and that’s how we ended up getting those referrals and that engine. But as Drupal matured and as Palantir matured, and, quite honestly, as the Web matured as a channel in its own right, not kind of as ancillary to the traditional channels that businesses and organizations relied on – as it became co-equal and even dominant, the expectations of what people needed from the Web started to go up. So I think that the notion that, oh, you’re good at this tech thing was no longer going to be compelling, it was kind of a given. Oh, we’re going to bring you in as a partner, we assume that you have technical expertise, but we need to know that you have the strategic expertise to help us make those good decisions. And we need to know that you are going to work with us to help us build our internal capacity around this. Because the Web has gone beyond something that you would just give to, you know, your neighbor’s kid who knew how to do HTML, to, you know, the core of many businesses. And right now we’re in this era where even the oldest and most established businesses are going through digital transformation. It is reshaping how everyone works right now. So the expectations, and rightly so, have changed. They’ve increased, And Palantir has had the luxury of all of this time to mature and to hone our craft, and we are still excellent problem-solvers. That approach, combined with all the expertise we’ve built up over the last 20 years, makes us a really great partner. AM: So now it’s July 2016, celebrating the 20th anniversary, and we’re having a company retreat – we’re shutting down everything for a week to bring all the employees, one from as far as South Africa, to Chicago so we can all get together and celebrate and – there’s going to be some work too, internally, but there’s going to be a lot of celebrating. So my final question: what would you like to see for the next five years, moving forward, or two years, what would you say? GD: [laughs] AM: Is it overwhelming, is it too much…? GD: No, no – you know, actually a couple of years ago we set out a couple of very high-level goals for the company, and we’re kind of in the middle of the process of that, of working toward those goals. We refined them a little bit at the beginning of this year, but they’re still fundamentally the same. And it’s about helping our clients achieve success on all of our projects, that’s number one. Number two, continuously learning, sharing and applying new knowledge, and this is one I’m really interested in having us focus a lot more on in the coming years. That this learning and applying new knowledge is really not just about technical skill or expertise, but it’s really about new ways of understanding people’s problems and looking at people’s problems in new and different ways. And developing our skills internally in terms of being able to understand and address those issues and questions and concerns, and the goals that our customers have. And then of course continuing to be a sustainable well-run organization with healthy finances and a happy staff. Those are the three things we’re working on. I think when we get together here for our on-site we are going to really talk a lot about how we’re going to do those things, and figure out and talk about what we’re going to do. We’ve spent a fair amount of time over the past year talking about what we have done – you know, how we are where we are today – and I think it’s time to start looking to the future. TF: Building on what George said, I think learning really is the key. It’s about taking what we learn on every project and elevating it to the level of organizational learning, and doing the same thing for our clients. We have a long track record of collaboration and we have clients who embed with us and who we help level up and we make kind of essential parts of our projects. And that’s fabulous, and that’s a huge service for capacity building for our clients. And I think the opportunity I see is being able to take that and transform the organizations as well, so that they also have an organizational learning moment. So for me, I’m really focused on the notion of making sure that we’re getting the most out of every opportunity, out of every decision, and understanding why things worked or why things didn’t work, and how we make it better. And it’s this notion of continuous improvement, and really making that a core part of our service. I see that as kind of the biggest change. Because as the industry and the Web kind of matures, and continues to mature, I think we’re getting to this point where we’re going to see fewer and fewer exponential leaps, and I think it’s going to start to plateau off. And so the notion that you kind of create and institutionalize incremental learning is really going to be key for us and for our clients. So that’s what I want to focus on – how we help them continuously improve, not only in their website and their Web presence and their infrastructure and their digital strategy, but how they can continue to incrementally improve their teams and their organizations to be able to take advantage of and recognize opportunities when they come up. AM: And cake. There will be cake. GD: I hope there will be cake. Who’s in charge of the cake? I’m not in charge of the cake! [laughs]. AM: Well, thank you very much. Looking forward to our retreat, and looking forward to the next five. GD: Absolutely. TF: The next 20! [laughs] AM: Why stop at five? The next 20! [laughs] AM: Thank you so much for listening. I have to say, after three years of being with Palantir myself, and after having worked with them for several years prior to that, I’m thankful that I get to go to work every day with really, really smart and thoughtful people who are creating great work and toiling every day to make the Web a better place. So - happy anniversary, Palantir! If you want to hear more episodes of On the Air with Palantir, make sure to subscribe on our website at palantir.net. There you can also read our blog and see our work! Each of these episodes is also available on iTunes. And of course you can also follow us on twitter at @palantir. Thanks for listening!
This week, Gunnar talks with Adam Weingarten of Acquia and Nneka Hector of DSFederal about working with Drupal in government and the upcoming DrupalGovCon. whitehouse.gov: the OG. Drupal 8 is now object-oriented and opinionated. Dries Buytaert is the godfather of Drupal. Nneka enjoys Puppet and Behat. Drupal takes security seriously. Want to hang out with other Drupal folks in DC? Hit the Meetups. Nneka uses Drupal on OpenShift, and Gunnar owes Nneka $20. Want to start with Drupal? Start with the documentation!
DrupalCon is just a few weeks away in New Orleans, so this time around our Account Manager Allison Manley is joined by our CEO and Founder George DeMet, Drupal veteran and PHP guru Larry "Crell" Garfield, and Senior Front-End Developer Lauren Byrwa. They share thoughts about the conference generally, what they're excited about specifically, and what they're expected from the Driesnote, among other topics. TRANSCRIPT Allison Manley [AM]: Hi, and welcome to On the Air with Palantir, a podcast by Palantir.net where we go in-depth on topics related to the business of web design and development. It’s April 2016, and this is episode #4. I’m Allison Manley, an Account Manager at Palantir, and today we are going to give a preview of what to expect from the upcoming DrupalCon in New Orleans which is taking place May 9th through the 13th. The website is drupalcon.org if you want to see more. I’m a newbie to DrupalCon — this will be my very first one — so I gathered a bunch of my seasoned colleagues here at Palantir who have attended in the past to get their thoughts on the upcoming conference. I am here with three of my fabulous colleagues that are going to be attending DrupalCon with me. So I have Lauren Byrwa, who’s one of our senior front-end developers. Lauren Byrwa [LB]: Hi! AM: George DeMet, founder and CEO. George DeMet [GD]: Hello. AM: And Larry Garfield, Senior Architect and Community Lead. How are you? Larry Garfield [LG]: Hello, world. AM: So what we’re doing here is basically a preview of DrupalCon. DrupalCon is coming up in a couple of weeks, in New Orleans, which is very exciting. How many DrupalCons is this for each of you? LG: I think this will be #21. AM: Out of how many? How many have there been? LG: Maybe 25? I’m a staple at this point [laughs]. GD: It’s a good question. Not as many as you, Larry, but probably, if I had to guess, between 15 and 20. LB: I’m actually only at #2 for Cons. So not a whole lot compared to these guys. AM: I’m a complete newbie, so we’ll get to that later — what I can expect — but before we get to what most people or new people can expect from DrupalCon, or what DrupalCon is about — we know that Drupal was started by Dries Buytaert. Did I pronounce that right? LG: Close enough for an American [laughs]. AM: What is the correct pronunciation, please? LG: Well, I’m an American too. ‘Drees Boy-thart’ I think is closer, but don’t quote me on that. Dries, feel free to correct us. AM: I’m sure he will later [laughs]. So what is DrupalCon about? LG: DrupalCon is the summit of the community. It is the largest Drupal in-person event in the world by a very wide margin. It’s a place for the whole community of whatever stripe to gather and discuss, learn, teach, plan, work, play, drink, and several other things along the same lines. A lot of conferences are very developer-centric or very business-centric, or very whatever. DrupalCon is — these days, DrupalCon is a Web conference with a Drupal angle to it. There’s sessions for back-end developers, there’s sessions for front-end developers, there’s sessions for project managers, there’s sessions for content strategists, there’s sessions for business owners — whatever you do, if it involves Drupal or the Web in some way, there’s at least a couple of sessions that are worth going to for you. GD: I would agree, and I would say that even if you don’t do Drupal or you’re not someone who’s really immersed in the technology or the community, it’s still a conference with really great value. You can get a lot out of it, and I think particularly for folks who are new to DrupalCon, it’s a really great way to get immediately connected with the community. And it’s often a very overwhelming way. We’re a very friendly and welcoming community, sometimes overly so. LB: I would like to think of DrupalCon as our family reunion, for all Drupalers. We’re there to learn, we’re there to share, but mostly we’re there to collaborate. And that can happen in sessions, that can happen at happy hour,that can happen anywhere. But it’s a great way to get plugged into the community. AM: So I am a newbie, as I said — this will be my first. So what should I expect from DrupalCon? Am I just going to walk in and be completely overwhelmed at first? GD: Yes. AM: [laughs]. LB: I think at my first DrupalCon — overwhelmed? Yes, definitely expect to be overwhelmed no matter what. But feel comfortable, feel welcomed. Everybody is excited for newcomers. Everyone is excited to get to know you, to hear your ideas. So stand up and talk, and listen, and ask questions. And go up to people that intimidate you, and tell them that you’re a huge fan and that you work with their tools every day and that you like what you saw in this blog post. And they’ll be flattered and want to know what you think and why or why not you agree or disagree. But talk to everybody. Talk to them on Twitter, talk to them in person, talk to them at bars — everything you can do to soak up as much information as possible. That’s always my number one. LG: The main thing you should expect at DrupalCon is 3000 introverts playing extroverts, who really want to talk to you and teach you things because that’s what they do. And if you’re up for talking to people you’ve only heard of, or never heard of, and just learning from every person you run across, you’ll do just fine. GD: And I think — so when we’re at our booth, every year without fail I’ll be standing there and someone will just kind of come up to me, and they’ll have The Look in their eyes. It’s very clear that this is their first time, they’re feeling very overwhelmed. And it’s really funny, this happens every time, they’ll make eye contact, come over to the booth, pull out their program guide, and be like, where do I go? And there’s so many different things you can do and places you can go and sessions you can experience, and it really is about — I think for folks who are going, it’s really taking a look at the sessions, figuring out ‘what do I want to get out of this event’, and focusing on that. And if you are getting overwhelmed, just find a friendly face, and they’ll more than likely be able to help you out and point you in the right direction – ‘oh yeah, I know the person doing that session, they’re awesome, go to that session if you want to learn about this, so-and-so is like the world’s expert on that’. All kinds of opportunities to just soak everything in, and learn what you can. It’s a really fun, really intense time. AM: Great, I’m really looking forward to it. So every year Dries gives a keynote. And it’s fairly spectacular, I’ve seen a bunch of them on YouTube. They’re very involved. So what are you anticipating this year from the Driesnote, as he calls it? LG: I have no idea what Dries is planning. I think the best keynote he’s given in recent years was in Amsterdam, where he was talking about actual practical changes to our process. That’s where he introduced the plan for putting credits on the site, which got implemented later. And I think that’s been a great thing to encourage contributions from companies and clients and commercial organizations, which we absolutely need. I’d like to see something inward-looking. By that point Drupal 8.1 will have just come out, and that’ll be the first time we’ve done that type of release in, I think, ever in Drupal. So I suspect he’ll be talking about that and the implications of being able to evolve the system more smoothly than in the past. That’s my prediction, such as it is. [this was cut from the original recording due to audio issues, but is left intact for the transcript] GD: I’m hoping that Dries will take this opportunity to talk a little bit more about what the vision and future direction of Drupal is going to be, not just from a technical standpoint but really from an — answering the question, why does Drupal exist? What we’ve seen over the last few years, particularly as we’ve been through the Drupal 8 cycle, is that Drupal has changed and evolved tremendously. And at the same time the kinds of people that use Drupal, and the ways that they are using it, have changed tremendously. And I think that a lot of folks in the community have moved along with those shifts, but others might be feeling a little left behind, like they’re not really sure. Maybe if you’re somebody that’s joined Drupal at a point in the past, and you’ve had a particular motivation for doing so, the project and the community may be very different now. I think as we go through that change and that evolution, having a shared understanding and grounding in what our shared values are as a Drupal community and a project would be really cool to hear from Dries. LB: I would say we’re actually at a place right now where we don’t entirely know what’s next for Drupal. We’re not waiting on D8 any more — there’s a whole slew of things out there. And so I agree that the future of Drupal is going to be a big topic. I think in addition to that, this is our good chance and this is Dries’ good chance to really press on contribution, and to recruit people. A lot of our hardcore developers that helped build D8 are feeling a little burnt out. They too are celebrating the release, but in addition to that, they’re feeling a little burnt out after years and years of press to get it there. So I think contribution is going to be a really big topic this year — trying to figure out how to get people involved and how to get new blood in the system and new ideas. To really push us towards that future, that’s going to be important. AM: That’s a lot to cover in one keynote [laughs]. GD: The expectations are always incredibly high for these things. And it’s really often almost too much to ask, that one person will be able to cover this much in an hour or an hour and 15 minutes. One thing I’ve seen is that sometimes, when Dries delivers, he really delivers in a really great way. But I also know that it’s really hard to do that. So hopefully everything will click in place. I’m looking forward to it. AM: Me too. So what are the big talking points in Drupal right now? Obviously I can assume Drupal 8. What else do you think will be the big things? LB: A big focus of this year’s DrupalCon is actually a lot of the front-end frameworks and performance. Like we said earlier, it’s really kind of a dev conference with Drupal in the background. So we’re really trying to branch out as a community and accept some of the other new things going on in tech right now, and I know that’s going to be a big press this year. LG: There’s a whole lot of sessions on the front-end frameworks, like Lauren was saying, and around the discussions around, should Drupal have a front-end framework baked into it, like Angular or Ember? Or should we do something along those lines with our own components? Or should we ignore all of that? Or should we, whatever? So there’s actually a new track for this con called Horizons that has — pie-in-the-sky ideas. That’s kind of the point of that track. So we actually have the project lead of Angular talking. We have the project lead of Ember talking. And there’s a number of other sessions along similar lines. We’ve got a core conversation that was originally supposed to be a moderated fight between people who wanted a front-end framework and people who didn’t. I think it’s turned into — those people have already fought and have a plan now, and what’s that plan, but we’ll see. Definitely, the front end and JavaScript are big talking points. Another core conversation, as Lauren was talking about, is burnout. We have two, maybe three, sessions on time management and burning yourself out and managing volunteers, and what happens when people leave Drupal and how can we learn from the people who have. People will always come and go from any project, but how do we do that in the most graceful fashion, so that it’s good for those people and good for the project. That’s another talk we have there. And then of course, continuing the ‘get off the island’ angle, we have a Symfony track, as we’ve had the last couple of years. We have a dedicated PHP track — that’s non-Drupal-specific PHP that we actually collaborated with Php[architect] on. I was one of the track chairs for that. It’s the first time we’ve had it in North America — we’ve had it in Europe. And then the Horizons track includes a lot of big ideas outside of Drupal, so there’s a lot of, what new stuff outside of the Drupal experience should we be looking at and taking stuff from. LB: In addition to what Larry was saying, there’s a new spotlight on mental health in the tech industry, and this is going to be a big issue. You’re starting to see real sessions on mental health and taking care of yourself as a developer. But I also think it’s going to be a hot-button issue for BOFs, and you’re going to see a lot of talking about it outside of sessions as well, and how to cope with this environment. AM: OK, wait a minute. Can we define “BOF”? LB: My apologies, it’s an acronym for “birds of a feather”. It’s a group talk where people of like-minded ideas or having the same interests get together and have a conversation about it, as opposed to somebody getting up and presenting about a topic. It’s a more casual and close way to discuss some of the issues that are popular. GD: And so one of the other hats I wear in the Drupal community is serving on the Community Working Group. And I know that we’ve been talking internally about a lot of the challenges we’ve seen, experiencing burnout, and trying to improve — trying to provide more communication tools and resources, particularly for folks in the core development community. So I’m really happy to see an increased focus on that, not just at this DrupalCon but at the last couple of DrupalCons. I think we’re going to have more and more, hopefully more structured, programs and resources, so that people can contribute in a way that is sustainable in the long run. The other kind of big topic or trend that I’m seeing is — I think there’s a little bit of a question or tension, that ties into a lot of the technical questions, about the extent to which Drupal is a product and Drupal is a software platform. If you think about it in terms of Legos, is it a big box of a whole bunch of Legos that you can put together in any kind of different shape or form to create whatever you want, or is it more kind of a Lego construction kit that’s got all the tools you need to build a truck or a boat or whatever. And the extent to which we move in one direction and make Drupal more of a polished product — does that undermine our ability to be incredibly flexible? And so there’s questions like, do we have a decoupled front end? How do we approach questions like content workflow and management and all that stuff, and how much is that prescribed by the system? These are all really important questions that we’re going to have to, as a community, come to some sort of agreement or consensus on as we move forward. LG: As a side note, on the mental health front, our third keynote for Thursday is from Michael Schmid, a long-time Drupaler. He’s talking on brain health and mental health and so forth. It’s definitely an area worth the time it’s being given, which is considerable and as it should be. AM: Great — I definitely want to get to some of the sessions that you’re excited about. So there are 13 tracks total in DrupalCon this year. Some of them are new, as you mentioned earlier, and they cover quite a range of topics. So there is something for everybody. I am not an engineer myself, but there is plenty for me to absorb at this conference [laughs], because the tracks are so varied. And I haven’t counted how many sessions there are in total, spread across those 13 tracks. LG: I think it’s 131 or something like that. AM: Wow. So there’s a lot of information being shared. So outside of the Palantir-led sessions, because we are leading three — which we’ll cover in a bit — which sessions are you most excited about, aside from the ones you’ve already mentioned? LG: I’d say I’m most looking forward to the core conversations on burnout and on community management, and on how do we keep this process sustainable? Because the way we went about Drupal 8 is not sustainable. That level of work was necessary for the project, but that kind of surge mentality of, throw warm bodies at it and work extra hard to make sure it gets done, is not a good way of developing software, open source or not. I’m looking forward to the discussions that are already slated around, how do we not do that? How do we make Drupal successful, or more successful, and how do we make our people more successful while respecting the fact that people still have lives and limits, and people have families? We don’t want to inadvertently pressure people to sacrifice those. No one consciously likes to do that, but there’s unconscious pressure at a lot of times. So how do we counteract that in a healthy fashion? Topic-wise, that’s probably what I’m most looking forward to, probably followed by some of the front-end framework discussions. LB: As a front-end developer, I’m interested in some of the config management in D8, some of the front-end frameworks, I’ll definitely be at those. But outside of that I’m also really looking forward to the content strategy and UX things — D8 accessibility, content strategy and popular culture, some of these look really interesting. I know there’s also one on lessons from WordPress that I think is going to be really great as well. I think there’s a lot of great sessions regardless of what you’re specifically interested in. GD: Unfortunately, one of the things about being someone in my position is that I don’t really get to go to sessions very much [laughs]. I actually have not looked too much at the program schedule yet. AM: But you will, of course [laughs]. GD: I will, certainly. And I will pick out a few sessions and put them on my calendar and will intend to go to them, and then inevitably something else will pull me away and I’ll end up watching the recording after the fact. AM: But luckily they are all recorded. GD: They are all recorded. And they’ve gotten really good at making sure that the session recordings are up usually within a day or two of when they’re recorded, which is a very impressive logistical feat. So I’m really happy with that. And in addition to Michael Schmid, or Schnitzels — that’s his nickname — and his keynote, I’m very much looking forward to, and I hope I don’t destroy her name here or we can correct it in post-production, Sara Wachter-Boettcher, who’s doing a keynote on content and design. I’ve read a lot of her stuff and I’m really excited to hear what she’s going to have to say for the Drupal community. One of the great things over the past few years is that we’ve really started thinking more about design as a project, which is really important and really challenging for an open source project – to really come together and prioritize not just what the software does but how people interact with it. LG: That’s something that we’ve been seeing not just in the visual design aspect. We have a session in the PHP track that I’m really looking forward to, called “Your API is a UI”. The idea is that code should be designed with the same kind of thought you put into user experience for someone pushing buttons — it also needs to go into how someone is writing code. And that’s something that the community is starting to get their head around in the last couple of years. So I’m really excited for that session and others like it, that push that concept. AM: Well, let’s talk about the ones that Palantir is leading. We have three. One is “PHP 7: The New New PHP”. LG: I talk about new stuff [laughs]. This is a talk that I’ve given at a few PHP conferences – it’s not Drupal-specific at all, it’s in the PHP track. PHP 7 was released last fall, right after Drupal 8 was – its release date was actually pushed back because of Drupal, we kept finding bugs. But for the developers and sysadmins in the room, if you have not tried out PHP 7, you really need to. It’s got a ton of really nice new features which I talk about in the session, and it’s twice as fast. And I’m not just showing marketing numbers – there are companies that have said they’ve shut down half their servers by switching to PHP 7. It is dramatically faster. Drupal 8 requires PHP 5 or later, and I would say, within six months if you’re not running Drupal 8 on PHP 7 – you’re doing it wrong. You’re leaving money on the table, you’re hindering your own developers. So come to the session. I’ll tell you all the reasons why as a developer you really, really want to be using PHP 7 right now. AM: Really, really! LG: Really, really, really [laughs]! AM: So your second session is “D8 Module Acceleration Program”. LG: And this isn’t a normal track session, this is actually in the Business Showcase. It’s a panel that Acquia is putting together. Acquia, as some of our listeners know, has been funding a program called MAP — Module Acceleration Program — which is basically, hey, Drupal 8 is out, what about contrib, let’s put some actual money behind getting the major contrib modules up and running on Drupal 8. And Palantir has been partnered with them, as have a number of other companies. Acquia has provided some funding, and Palantir is working at a reduced rate because we’re doing community work, essentially. My main work for the last few months has been the Workbench moderation module for Drupal 8, as well as the multi-version Workspace deploy suite which I’m collaborating on with some other developers at Pfizer. So the idea is there’s a panel of people who have been working as part of this program, saying, okay, what is it, why is it, what are the benefits of it, what does it mean for contributing to open source. Teaser: contributing to open source is a viable and important part of any business that’s using it, and it is a worthwhile investment. Now you can come to the session to hear the details of that. AM: Cool. So the last session is George’s session, “Finding Your Purpose as a Drupal Agency”. GD: Yes, so I’m going to be doing a session in the Business track. It’s a little bit, for those who might have seen the session I did for DrupalCon Barcelona last fall, it’s a little bit of a sequel to that session. Essentially what I’m going to be talking about are some of the challenges. Last year was a fairly challenging time for a lot of companies in the Drupal ecosystem. Everyone was kind of waiting for Drupal 8 to come out — a lot of folks were holding off on starting new projects because of that, and so I’m going to talk a little about that. I’m reaching out to some other folks, some other companies in the Drupal ecosystem, hoping to get them to share some of their perspectives as well. But then I’ll be talking about how, particularly during challenging times but during any time in general, the value of defining your purpose as an agency — your vision, your values, and how those things really come together and enable you to really have kind of a focus for where you’re taking your company. And not just how you run your agency, but also why — which I think is a question that doesn’t get asked often enough. So I’m really looking forward to that. For people that might be interested, it’s not just for folks that run Drupal companies. If you are involved in or interested in any way about how companies are run, and even — I’m not going to be talking that much about Drupal in particular, so I think it will be really valuable for folks, obviously even non-technical. And one of the things I do with my talks is a lot of analogies, so I’ll probably have some pretty entertaining analogies for folks. AM: Great. Well, as Lauren touched on, beyond the sessions DrupalCon is also about the social life, and the socializing, and the community around it. So what am I to expect as a newbie, going to my very first one, after the daily sessions are over? LB: Expect to be overwhelmed. Expect to be bombarded. And expect a little debauchery. I think you’ll be entertained, to say the least, but everybody is very friendly, everybody wants to buy you a drink and hear your thoughts. And everybody wants to argue. So be willing to defend your ideas, because it will come. And you might change your mind and you might change somebody else’s, but that’s the glory in all of it. And I’ve found a lot more meaning comes from the conversations outside of the sessions than sometimes during them. So I always encourage especially first-time Drupalers or first-time Con-goers, don’t stop after the sessions. Go to the after-stuff, even if you don’t drink, even if you just want to sit there and have water and talk to people, or have a Coke. It doesn’t have to be about the drinking, and it’s a really great place to socialize and share ideas. AM: I understand that in the past there’s been things like trivia night, or karaoke, or just meeting at ping-pong [laughs]. GD: Well, in fact there is a trivia night on Thursday, and we are sponsoring it, as we have for the last couple of DrupalCons. And for me at least, it’s one of the highlights of the whole event. The key is, try to find a table with people who have been around the community a little while. But the questions can be all over the place, and sometimes they even give credit for having someone who’s at their first DrupalCon at your table. AM: So what, you get something like frequent flier miles for your very first one? [laughs]. LG: It varies by year, but I think your team gets a bonus point for every person at your table who’s at their first DrupalCon. If it’s your first time at a DrupalCon, that makes you a valuable commodity, so show up anyway [laughs]. AM: I should wear a sign. LG: And I think there’s actually a penalty if someone on your team is a core committer. So don’t always go for the table with all of the lead developers because you get a penalty for having them on your team. I’m not a core committer so I have no penalty one way or another. GD: The trivia night is on Thursday night, and I think a lot of folks may be tempted to leave early because Thursday is the last day of sessions, but definitely stick around for trivia night on Thursday. And stick around for the sprints on Friday as well. Folks are generally fairly tired by that point, but sometimes being tired at that place really lets you focus [laughs] on getting cool stuff done. And it’s not just code, it’s all sorts of things. There’s documentation sprints, we’ll often do some community work as well — all sorts of things going on even after the sessions are over. LB: Definitely, it’s an exhausting week and it’s a long one. But those sprints at the end, those make the difference, and that’s how you really get involved and how you really learn stuff. So don’t ever think that, oh, I’m not an engineer, or, I don’t know how to do this. Because if you show up, we will find a job for you. LG: There’s a number of people at sprints every year whose job is, it’s just part of sprints, to mentor people in getting started. Get your dev environment set up, figure out where to find issues to work on, figure out if you want to do code or documentation or usability testing or whatever else you’re going to do — whatever you’re interested in doing, there’s a use for it, and someone who can hold your hand along the way to get involved in it. So, yeah DrupalCon doesn’t end on Thursday, DrupalCon ends on Saturday. AM: That’s a long conference. It is. Sunday to Saturday, pretty much. LG: It is, but for all of that, it’s one of the cheapest conferences around for that length of time. It’s definitely worth the value of going. AM: So then let’s delve into the exhibition space and the vendor space. What can attendees expect from going into the vendor room, besides being thrown a whole lot of swag? Pencils, buttons, tattoos, all sorts of things [laughs]. LB: So there’s the swag, which is always wonderful. And you will find some very cool and unique swag, depending on what booths you’re at. But what I think is funny, having worked a booth before, is you’ll see vendors kind of use it as bait. They’ll watch you walk by and they’ll watch you want it but not want to talk to people, because, like Larry said earlier, we’re all introverts. We’re just pretending for the week. And so they’ll kind of bait you with it, and they’ll get you to talk. And they’ll start with something small and introductory, and you might find yourself connecting with people you didn’t expect. LG: People are generally not too pushy about it, most of the time. But yeah, tech conferences are where introverts go to cosplay extroverts. GD: So as somebody who’s been to a lot of different conferences, and seen a lot of different exhibition spaces and exhibit halls and vendor booths and all that stuff — I really love the DrupalCon exhibit hall because it’s a lot more down-to-earth. It’s a lot less sales-y than most other conferences out there. You definitely have folks who will put a little flair on their booth or have some wacky promotion or something like that, but it doesn’t feel forced as it does at many other kinds of conferences. You really can, as Lauren said, just go up to people and have a conversation. And most of the time they’ll be happy to talk to you and not just to convert the sale. AM: So of course I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that we’re going to have a booth and we’re going to be luring people in with our swag as well [laughs]. LG: Come to our booth! Say hi! We’ve got swag! AM: That’s right [laughs]. Come to our booth, there’s going to be about seven or eight of us this year, and we’re going to be booth number 222. Come visit! And the website for DrupalCon is… LG: http://www.drupalcon.org . That will redirect you to what the actual URL is. AM: Perfect. LG: One final note. On Tuesday, you go to the pre-note. That’s not even a question. You go to the pre-note. Everyone goes to the pre-note. GD: The pre-note is kind of a tradition that’s sprung up over the last five or six years or so. It’s the presentation that occurs before the keynote on Tuesday. And it’s generally put together by the same group of people. It’s intended for people who have never been to DrupalCon before, but it’s enjoyable by everyone, and they go to great lengths to make it incredibly enjoyable. So in the past, there was one that was all themed around Disney musicals — they’re very often tied into the culture of the location where DrupalCon is being held. Occasionally in the past we have even seen Larry up on stage [laughs] singing and dancing… AM: And wearing inappropriate things [laughs]. LG: Those things were very appropriate given the character I was playing. AM: Fair enough, fair enough [laughs]. LG: Without giving too much away — this year is more musical numbers, and I’m sure there will be shenanigans [laughs]. We’re still working on it as we speak, but expect shenanigans. You want to be at the pre-note. It’s worth waking up early for. AM: Early? How early is it? LG: It’s before the keynote on Tuesday, so it’s at 8 am. And it’s worth being up and at the conference center for. AM: Good, I look forward to it. Thank you all for joining me. I’m looking forward to my first DrupalCon, thanks so much. LB: Thanks for joining us, and you can find us at DrupalCon. GD: Thank you. See you in New Orleans. LG: See you in New Orleans. Let’s have some fun! And learn stuff [laughs]. AM: Thank you so much for listening. If you want to hear more episodes of On the Air with Palantir, make sure to subscribe on our website at palantir.net. There you can also read our blog and see our work! Each of these episodes is also available on iTunes. And of course you can also follow us on Twitter at @palantir. See you at DrupalCon New Orleans!
Part 3 of 3 - VIDEO! Spend 18 minutes with Dries Buytaert and Jeffrey A. "jam" McGuire behind the scenes in Antwerp as we drive back to the dorm room where Drupal was invented and Dries seeing it for the first time in 15 years. Read the full post and see the conversation video at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/210-drupal-8-release-mega-episode-33-bonus-behind-scenes
Part 1 of 3 - I got to spend a half a day with Drupal Project Lead, Dries Buytaert, in Antwerp recently. This was a rare pleasure, given the success of Drupal and Acquia in recent years and how busy we both are. In between shots for some professional video material, Dries and I sat down in front of my tiny cameras and microphones to talk about Drupal 8. In parts one and two, we touch on how we got here and lessons learned along the way, what Drupal 8 brings to the table, and more. Read the full post and see the conversation video at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/208-drupal-8-release-and-happy-birthday-dries-mega-episode-13
Part 2 of 3 - I got to spend a half a day with Drupal Project Lead, Dries Buytaert, in Antwerp recently. This was a rare pleasure, given the success of Drupal and Acquia in recent years and how busy we both are. In between shots for some professional video material, Dries and I sat down in front of my tiny cameras and microphones to talk about Drupal 8. In parts one and two, we touch on how we got here and lessons learned along the way, what Drupal 8 brings to the table, and more. Read the full post and see the conversation video at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/209-drupal-8-release-and-happy-birthday-dries-mega-episode-23
Part 1 of 2 - I recorded an audio-only conversation I had recently with Tom Erickson, Acquia's CEO. In this podcast, Tom and I talk about how he met Acquia's founders Dries Buytaert and Jay Batson, why Drupal looked like a good bet even back in 2007, how Drupal has changed and grown, the advantages and challenges of running a business in the open source world, the Drupal community, how Acquia Cloud Site Factory helps businesses manage hundreds of sites in a cost-effective way, Acquia's contributions to Drupal over the years, "community open source", and what Tom is excited about in Drupal 8. Tune in next time for the down-low on what Acquia's "Drupal 8 All-In" effort is all about. Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/195-excited-about-drupal-8-meet-acquia-ceo-tom-erickson-12
Daniel Blomqvist är ende svensk som jobbar på Acquia, ett av de större Drupalföretagen i världen. Vi pratar med honom om hur han hamnade på Acquia, vad hans jobb består av och varför man inte ska svara sanningsenligt på frågan "What's up?" när man möter Dries Buytaert i korridoren på Acquia i Boston. Detta poddavsnitt sponsras av Kodamera Det här poddavsnittet sponsras av Kodamera, en webbyrå med inriktning på öppen källkod. Dagens program: Vi intervjuar Daniel Blomqvist, ensam svensk på Acquia. Acquia Harry Potter Hogwarts Nackademin Acquia Cloud Varnish Cache Wikipedia: Acquia Eftersnack aGov - Australiska Drupaldistributionen Alingsås kommun Vad kommer att hända på drupal.se? Adams blogginlägg: Another 5 Drupal resources you might have missed Linuxdistributionen Scientific Cykelväskan som Daniel köpt Tanay Sai
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Kalpana Goel - web developer with Forum One - and I sat down to chat at DrupalCon Amsterdam. We discussed the topic of Dries Buytaert's Amsterdam keynote: the potential benefits of "gamifying" and rewarding companies for supporting contributions, especially to Drupal core; Kalpana's discovery of Drupal; her contribution to the Drupal 8 web services initiative and Drupal's culture of sharing, and some of the benefits that are coming with Drupal 8. Read the full post and see the conversation video at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/159-meet-drupal-core-contributor-mentor-kalpana-goel
DrupalCon Prag 2013. Kristoffer var där och delar med sig av intryck och intervjuer med bl a Dries Buytaert och Morten Birch Heide-Jørgensen (mortendk). Länkar till moduler, webbplatser och tjänster vi pratade om i detta avsnitt: DrupalCon Prag DrupalCon Prague DrupalCon Prague 2013 Videos (YouTube) The official Drupalcon Prague group photo (Flickr) Webform.com Sessioner Auditing Drupal REST and Serialization in Drupal TWIG and the new theme layer in Drupal 8 TWIG a templating system for web designers Tutti fan Drupal Blocks from Drop.org to Drupal 8 Events DrupalHagen DrupalCamp Oslo PHP Novembercamp i Stockholm Rabatterat inträde för Drupalsnacklyssnare Nyheter PHPs utveckling CI och dess problematik Vad Drupal Association lärde sig av intrånget Drupal Association har nu valt in Mortendk och Matthew Saunders Moduler Six simple tips to improve Drupal for your content managers Nyheter i Rules-modulen Mailhandler
As a result of Randy Fay's blog posts and Drupalcon Denver core conversation on Drupal governance (see show notes for links), Dries Buytaert convened a working group to define the first steps in the refinement of Drupal governance. In this episode, I sit down with the working group members to talk about what they have been working on, what they have accomplished, and what the next steps are in defining what governance in the Drupal community should look like. Read the full post at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/improving-drupal-governance
This is a recording of the keynote talk, "The State of Drupal" delivered by Drupal project lead, Dries Buytaert. The beginning of the podcast has Mosh Weitzmann thanking the local committee and others and also an introduction by Jeff Wolcott, Acquia's marketing person. See pics from the keynote.
Drupal's project lead Dries Buytaert and the new CEO of Acquia Jay Batson introduce Acquia to the Drupal community. Acquia is to Drupal what Red Hat is to Linux and Zend is to PHP. The establishment of Acquia aims to energize the Drupal community, support it creating a symbiotic relationship which will result in growing the Drupal community and increasing the impact of Drupal. See photos from the session.