Marketing of Drupal
Welcome Drupal evangelists. We will use this group to plot a path towards Drupal world domination.
CVS folder with logos, presentations, brochures, etc: http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/docs/marketing/ -- get your favourite geek to help put stuff here if CVS isn't your style.
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Drupal Kata (our homegrown project learning program) is taking shape
Hi there -
Just to follow up for those who aren't already aware/involved (most of you), the Drupal Kata (http://drupalkata.com/) is up and running and we're starting to generate a bit of interest. That said, we're still very much in need of leaders, mentors, advisers, and apprentices in the areas of project/sprint/task management, education, business, and marketing. Developers, designers, themers, are obviously pretty key, but it helps when there are people to provide guidance.
These may be good points of entry -
GOSCON Drupal booth needs volunteers
GOSCON DC is a special production of the Government Open Source Conference (GOSCON) designed to meet the needs of senior IT executives of federal agencies and regional state and local government.
Now more than ever governments across the world are turning to open source software (OSS) as it impacts the way they procure, resource, collaborate, develop and rapidly deploy information technology to support of their organization's mission and goals.
RFP for the Provision of Web Content Management System | United Nations Development Programme
Details can be found here:
http://procurement-notices.undp.org/view_notice.cfm?notice_id=4445
UNDP is the UN's global development network, an organization advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. We are on the ground in 166 countries, working with them on their own solutions to global and national development challenges. As they develop local capacity, they draw on the people of UNDP and our wide range of partners.
Open Source Events/Conferences for 2010
Maybe we should get booths at some of these?
- http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale8x/ - Los Angeles February 19-20
- http://www.fosdem.org - FOSDEM - Brussels
- http://www.solutionslinux.fr Solutions Linux - Paris, March/April?
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http://www.linuxtag.org - Linux TAG, Berlin, June?
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http://southeastlinuxfest.com - likely late in the year
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http://www.infoworld.com/event/osbc/ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC)
- http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2010 OSCON (O'Reilly)
- http://www.linuxonwallstreet.com/ Linux on Wall Street (March/May timeframe)
Fund raiser & community service manager | Drupal associaiton
The Drupal association is a non-profit organization which provides support for the Drupal, web content management, open source project. The Drupal association is an all volunteer organization with thirty permanent members, and a support base of over 1000 financial contributors. We will provide event sponsorship packages for the fund raising activity. You will also receive access to the Drupal association CRM, CiviCRM 2.1. As a fund raiser you will receive direct requests through the event website and be required to follow up via email and over the phone. This is a contract position.
Drupal community shared booth at NTEN, Non-profit Drupal consulting shops wanted
Last year I was fortunate to share the Open Sourcery Booth at NTen. The Plone foundation had a nice booth with lots of traffic, and the Joomla project had a nice booth as well.
This year I'd like to propose that members of the Drupal community that service Non-profit customers band together and have a joint Drupal community booth. I've done this with some success at the other technology oriented conference in the Bay Area and other cities. We jointly promote Drupal, talk about each other's industry case study Drupal sites, and share customer leads.
Packt Publishing Open Source CMS awards nominations meeting
Each year Drupal wins awards in the Packt Publishing Open Source CMS. We win those awards because of the popularity of Drupal, but also because we work hard to inform the judges of the quality of Drupal projects and implementations, and provide voters with good reasons to vote for Drupal.
The awards are changing this year and we are increasing the work to ensure Drupal stays competitive and more members of the Drupal community get awarded for their contributions. Please join us to help in researching our nominations and recognizing members of the Drupal community.
We're back!
A lot of good things coming together as we're pressing forward with many of the objectives laid out in the Drupal Open Learning Initiative. We can use this post to tie everything together, keep tabs on progress, and discuss how to get involved!
New Drupal Book : Drupal 6 Site Blueprints
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blockquote>Bad news is always good news for the press. And so Vaughan Pyre has decided to take advantage of this and create a web site that will aggregate bad news and weird happenings from all over the world. The content of the site will be entirely derived from RSS feeds from several sources; each feed being automatically fetched and its items displayed as individual articles on the web site. Vaughan's intention is to create a lot of self-updating web sites which he intends to populate with Google ads for site users to click and click so that he can make a lot of money.
Adobe MAX 2009 conference in Los Angeles, California
Adobe's annual MAX conference is taking place this October 4-7th in Los Angeles, CA. I will be presenting three Drupal related sessions at this conference for Adobe. Most of my sessions show people how to customize Drupal 6 through themes, modules, and its administration. My sessions are 1-1.5hrs, with one session being a lab (BYOL: Bring Your Own Laptop Lab).
Adobe MAX is a paid conference, and has something like over 200 sessions. Early bird discount still available (as of this writing).
My sessions are:
- Customizing Drupal Using Dreamweaver - skill: Beginner - Learn how to install Drupal, a robust, full-featured web content management system, and publish your first pages. You'll be guided through common designer workflows using Drupal and learn how to customize Drupal theme templates. When this lab is complete, you'll be able to take your new skills back to work and be more productive.
- Exploring Web Content Management Systems from a Designer's Perspective - skill: Beginner - Watch an expert guide you through a selection of today's popular web content management systems and learn which one is right for you. This session will include detailed demonstrations of WordPress, Drupal, and the Adobe InContext Editing service in action, covering installation and publishing.
- Learn to Rock Drupal Using Dreamweaver - skill: Beginner - Explore the functionality of Drupal from a designer's perspective while learning about the most common workflows. Learn how to integrate Drupal with Dreamweaver and how to use Creative Suite 4 Web Premium to customize Drupal theme templates.
I have presented at MAX before, and attended twice. This conference is huge. Last year 5,000 attendees ran around chatting Flash, Flex, AIR, Photoshop, After Effects, everything Adobe. One of the new things Adobe has done at MAX is run un-conferences inside the main conference building. Last year there were four un-conferences going on all week inside MAX, adding to the already hundreds of sessions. This year I am involved with the Web CMS theme of the conference, promoting Drupal & PHP. Some of you know my Drupal Dreamweaver extensions and Theme Starter desktop software, so I am glad to be exclusively covering Drupal in my talks this year. One session covers the different approaches in Web CMS software like Wordpress & Drupal. For that session I will be sharing the stage for that session with a Wordpress counterpart. I hope that session turns into a feature flinging match as it'll help me get caught up with Wordpress limitations.
I'd like to promote the MAX conference to the Drupal community, and at the same time ask who is already planning to attend. We can meet up and rep Drupal together.
Post-Drupalcon communication package
Hello there,
The "pre-conference" part of our communication plan is nearly over now. The objectives were to gather individuals at the conference (this one was easy), invite journalists/bloggers during the conference (mainly locals + media partners) and use the location of the conference as a purpose to talk about Drupal in France (great success so far). The main information that we had to communicate was "Hey, there is a Drupal conference, it is going to be great..." ;-)
Now, we will have to surf on the event to launch the "conference" and "post-conference" part of the plan. This is when we will have the main added value information to communicate, we will be able to tell the world what was so great about the conference.
Camp/Conference formula for Drupal
With over 500 camp attendees and 60+ session proposals, us organizers of Drupal Camp LA needed a Drupal site that was built for organizers and attendees, with lessons learned from 3+ DrupalCons & 2+ DrupalCamps. Here is our formula for our awesome camp site.
"DrupalCampLA.com was built on Drupal 6 using core & contributed modules to handle event registration, sponsorship management, featured speakers, user bio's, and session proposals. The website features an attendee driven event schedule where members propose sessions and only registered members pick which sessions they'd like to see (in the BarCamp style). Planning the schedule for the day of events has been made flexible enough to allow organizers to maintain a master schedule with ease. Not to mention that all attendees get their own schedule view with the sessions they pick."
"The web site was based on the latest Drupal 6.x release and utilized many of the current generation modules such as CCK for content customization, imagefield and imagecache to handle imaging Views & custom theming built on Zen for content presentation." (A full list of the modules used is in the case study - http://drupal.org/node/519100 )
The download link is available in the case study post - http://drupal.org/node/519100 and has been made available by LA Drupal & This By Them.
Redhat Summit, Sept 1-4th
Drupal has been invited to participate in the RedHat Summit Expo in Chicago. The Drupal booth will be available for two days and will give us an opportunity to promote Drupal to a large audience of professional open source users. The costs for the booth are $1500 and if we can find some booth organizers we can find funding for the booth.
Please sign-up if you are interested.
70 beautiful Drupal sites
Who said that Drupal sites are ugly? Take a look at 70 outstanding sites a an inspiration and a proof that Drupal can be beautiful.
All Drupal features
Lets write all Drupal core and module features, benefits, requirements and success stories as information material to potential Drupal site owner and/or content editor. Module names are for internal reference only, they are to be deleted if this is presented to non Drupal people, since they don't care.
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Compte rendu de la réunion de lancement du chantier Marketing
Nous étions finalement 4 ! pour ce lancement :
- Géraud SCHMIT
- Jean-Baptiste INGOLD
- Nicolas ENGEL et moi
C'est peu surtout suite à l'engouement lors du DrupalCamp et aux inscrits sur Doodle.
Il faudra peu-être organiser la prochaine réunion durant les heures de travail comme certains l'ont proposé.
Merci de votre retour sur ce point.
Cela dit, nous avons bien avancé sur les objectifs du groupe marketing.
A complete list of Drupal awards
Are there any other awards that Drupal has won?
Webware 100 - 2007, 2008, 2009
Packt Publishing 2009 Hall of Fame
Packt Publishing 2008 Best Overall Open Source CMS
Packt Publishing 2008 Best PHP Open Source CMS
Packt Publishing 2007 Best Overall Open Source CMS
François Fillon, french prime minister, is a Drupal fan !!!
When I say that Drupal is getting a strong reputation in France.
Read in le figaro.fr :
» Son vocabulaire. François Fillon fait dans l'ensemble preuve d'une grande maîtrise dans l'usage de termes techniques, évoquant avec la même aisance «le CMS open source Drupal» et les flux RSS. De plus, c'est le premier ministre qui revendique spontanément être un «vrai geek», et vouloir «essayer toutes les nouveautés».
" Francois Fillon, in his vocabulary, masters technical terms, even speaking with ease of the open source CMS Drupal."
Read in svmlemag.fr :
Réunion chantier marketing France
Bonjour,
Je profite de cette belle journée ensoleillé pour annoncer le lancement du chantier Marketing. Encore désolè pour l'horaire qui est en dehors des horaires de bureaux !
Le thème principal de cette réunion sera l'organisation de définir les grands axes du chantier Marketing et notamment :
* Rassembler les planches existante (François et anglais)
* Elaborer un document type pour :
o Les études de cas
o Les planches de présentation de Drupal
o ....
Heure de démarrage :
19h30
Lieu :
27, rue de Berri
75008 Paris
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