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Josh Koenig drupal.org/user/3313 josh - at - chapterthree.com getpantheon.com About the cloud * "Cloud" as new model for hosting * Traditional hosting = real estate (rack space) * Most real estate customers are renters... read more

See also Features [http://drupal.org/project/features] on drupal.org * Jeff Miccolis & Eric Gundersen - Development Seed, building a lot of products (things like Open Atrium) * Drupal is very configurable - but that's also a weakness... read more

See slides here [http://www.doitwithdrupal.com/2009/sessions/jquery-drupal]. * What's jQuery: javascript library, circumvents browser incompatibility * Known for things like opacity, AJAX requests that work across all browsers * Visual effects and "wow factor" * Reducing javascript code... read more

* You can use full html to input a map straight from Google * Geo, Geocode, OpenLayers modules * Standards compliance * Example functions: within, touches, crosses - also, distance, area, perimeter... read more

* To make it easier for people to format text without knowing HTML, you could do filters, and/or editors * Filters change stuff - people type things, filter changes that on output * A ton of modules that provide filters in addition to the core * Filter only makes its transformations on output... read more

Background * Transforming an anachronistic organization with Drupal * In control of Republican party for 44 years * Never had a CIO before January 2009 - focused on internal enterprise IT before * People were cutting out and pasting articles from papers... read more

About Stack Overflow * Zero barriers to entry * Reward good content by putting the best answers first * Give people karma * Destroy Experts' Exchange and answers behind a paywall * Incredibly active... read more

Rob robpurdie@economist.com [robpurdie@economist.com] - Scrum Practice Leader twitter.com/robpurdie facebook.com/robpurdie Overview * Moving incrementally and iteratively to Drupal- making improvements as you move bit by bit * User comments and recommendations served from Drupal... read more

* Open Atrium is a "team portal in a box" (AKA Basecamp alternative) * Can be behind a firewall, is free, openatrium.com * Putting people in different groups * Comes with six features: * Blog: ... read more