Blog: Open Source Software
How extensive is Drupal?
I am always telling clients how big the Drupal developer community and how responsive everyone is and why that is the real reason we use the great software. So how big is the Drupal community?
Here are some stats I just got yesterday from Zack Rosen at CivicSpace.
Any Drupal experts/creative thinkers looking for work?
That's right... we're hiring! Development Seed is always looking for creative thinker who know Drupal and are passionate about making websites that will impact progressive organizations and their causes. Drop us a line at info@developmentseed.org
To Extend the HelpEdit Functionality?
Things have been and still are quite 'shop-ish' these days, meaning long hours in the shop working on some exciting sites. Therefore, apologies if this post is a bit 'shop-ish'. The discussion starts where Eric and I are talking about HelpEdit not showing up on path aliased pages in Drupal, which sparks some ideas...
Celebrate OSS
September 10 is Software Freedom Day! More than 62 countries around the
world are signed up with Software Freedom International to host local
community events to spread the word about Open Source Software. You can
get more details about Software Freedom Day on its website, and make sure you check out this map out to see if there's an event near you.
Convio, over-charging to make better tools for the enemy?
Many people thought they were just getting ripped off with their over priced software... turns out it is even worst. Convio is working with an anti-gay hate group, the Alliance for Marriage.
Open Source at Web for Development Conference.
We just got out of a three day conference over at the World Bank called Web for Development - Telling the Development Story to the World. You can check out the agenda here: http://tinyurl.com/7t4fh. The World Bank has somewhere between 600 and 1000+ websites, of which 40 or 50 are corporate websites, and the remainder, everything else.