Drupalcon Szeged 2008. Kieran and I are walking to meet some Drupalers at a patio bar, and I spot a sign for a fitness studio. Just. Too. Hard. To. Resist. Note: the sign is real; the photo of Kieran under it is real. What’s not real is the time each photo was taken. The photoContinue reading “Amazon, and his dream health club”
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Red Sox win
Went with Dries and his wife Karlijn to see the Sox play last night. Their first game. Tix (for amazing seats!) obtained by the ever-fantastic Roger (red jacket), accompanied by my wife (pink sweater) and kudos to Chuck (left), who got to go because he scored our first revenue dollar. (Go Chuck!) Jason Varitek hit an exciting long ball to center,Continue reading “Red Sox win”
Assisting Drupal Community Growth
Both Dries and I have agreed on one key thing with each other since our first conversations about Acquia: 18 months after we start our business, we truly hope the community at large thinks Acquia has been a great thing for the Drupal project. Issues presented by Drupal’s expansion One of the challenges the DrupalContinue reading “Assisting Drupal Community Growth”
Boy, I spoke too fast
Here’s a podcast of the talk Dries and I gave at Drupalcon where Dries and I introduced Acquia. See here. I’ve spoken a lot in public, and am quite comfortable in front of a crowd. (In fact, I enjoy it.) Despite this, I think I was really trying very hard to please the Drupal community, and IContinue reading “Boy, I spoke too fast”
Is Drupal like the others?
Matt Asay blogged about recent research suggesting that much of the core development work on open-source projects is done by paid developers. It’s interesting to consider this in the light of Drupal. Drupal has lots of contributors who are totally volunteer – and they’ve been contributing to Drupal for a long time. Yet, there are Drupal developers who workContinue reading “Is Drupal like the others?”
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