Drupalcon News & Articles

Drupalcon 2012 in Denver goes beyond open source to focus on the them of Collaboration for Every Device. Here's what to expect at this year's event:

Just in time for DrupalCon London 2011, Acquia, provider of Drupal Web CMS services, has announced the release of several new components to its Acquia Network offering. The general theme is helping developers manage and scale their Drupal-powered websites more easily. The package consists of a new dashboard, site-testing tools, training modules and more.

By the end of DrupalCon Chicago 2011, one concept had managed to weave its way throughout the three days of talks and presentations, hinting at where Drupal (news, site) is heading as both a community, and a project. Here's the synthesis, as I interpreted it.

Grand projects often start from humble beginnings. When the folks at Lullabot (news, site) decided to offer their training through streaming video, they had no idea of the can of worms they'd open, or where it would take them.

One common theme here at DrupalCon 2011 is the concept of Drupal (news, site) as a platform. In particular, there's a lot to learn from the groups and companies behind various Drupal distributions.

Today's keynote for DrupalCon 2011 couldn't have been more appropriate. Usability guru Jared Spool spoke on The Unintuitive Nature of Creating Intuitive Designs. Most web CMSs and related technologies struggle with this issue. If you want to do better, read on.

It started at Dries Buytaert's DrupalCon 2011 keynote. In this case, the "shot heard 'round the world" was a pair of words that he seemed to know would cause mixed reactions from the crowd: App store. This wasn't a product announcement, but so far throughout the conference, the term won't seem to die.

For someone who's spent most of her career writing about Linux and open source, it was a little brain-bending to see a Microsoft (news, site) booth at DrupalCon 2011. I managed to drag Mark Brown, senior product manager for the Microsoft Web Platform Team, away from the booth for a bit of a chat.

This morning at DrupalCon 2011, Clay Shirky gave a keynote discussing the increasingly social aspect of the Internet, and what this means for how we look at content and content management.

At DrupalCon 2011, Bryan House, Acquia's (news, site) Vice President of Marketing, gave a talk on competing against large proprietary vendors for contracts with large enterprise companies. While he of course focuses on Drupal (news, site), much of what he says applies to other open source projects that are mature enough to make the jump to these clients.

In the opening keynote for DrupalCon 2011, Drupal (news, site) founder Dries Buytaert laid out what they've learned from Drupal 7, and his initial plans for Drupal 8.

Want to try Drupal (news, site) but don't want to deal with setting up servers, dealing with dependencies, and all of the stuff under the hood? Now you can, and you can even take your experiment into production with the first (non-beta) release of Drupal Gardens (news, site).

Attention all you Drupal (news, site) heads! The DrupalCon conference in Copenhagen is coming up,  so if you're going to be in Europe at the end of August, swing by for some face time with project founder Dries Buytaert. 

With the release of Alfresco Enterprise 3.3, open source Enterprise Content Management vendor Alfresco Software (news, site) has jumped headlong into integration that allows for a much more flexible document infrastructure.

Historically, Microsoft (news, site) has shown active hostility to open source, referring to it as a cancer among other things. These days, however, the company has been dipping its toes in open source CMS waters to rather mixed reactions.