A group for consultants and businesses that work with Drupal. You are encourage to also join the consulting mailing list on Drupal.org.
For consultants: project manager, consultant, or developer -- you use Drupal to solve business requirements.
For businesses: you've built your business using the Drupal framework, be it hosting, a social networking website, a newspaper, or a fantastic new Web 2.0 app.
Building a valuable business with Drupal
We are working with a partner to build a web application that we believe clearly answers a need and is a great business idea, although that does remain to be seen. We use Drupal for most of our web application development but we have not been involved in a project where the aim is clearly to build an application based on an idea that would then be sold at profit.
The idea is Business to Consumer and has a clear revenue model.
Based on this core aim of selling the business, I'm wondering about people's experience of using Drupal as a basis for a valuable business. Particularly:
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New Drupalistas Study Group project forming...
Hey there all...
Our Drupalistas Study Group tripled in size this last round (from 5 to 15 !! :) ). We are not a big group, but we ARE having a good time learning Drupal in quick, bite-sized chunks. It has been loads of fun. So much fun, in fact, we are starting another "track" of learning.
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Drupal distro for designing courses
(This is going out on several channels. Apologies if you get more than one copy.)
There are many Web sites and tools for authoring textbooks: iBooks Author, Flat World Knowledge, etc. Good tech, but there's a fundamental flaw in their specs. They're based on an obsolete view of learning.
Education researchers have shown how we can help students learn STEM skills (STEM: science, tech, engineering and math). Deep learning, formative feedback, other things. We need to redesign authoring software based on these research findings.
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Drupal Jobs Summit on January 28, 2013, from 7-9pm at Droplabs in Downtown Los Angeles
Do you own or help manage a company or organization that uses Drupal? Does your team depend on professional Drupal service providers in the Greater Los Angeles Area? Have you and your projects been affected by a shortage of Drupal development and theming talent?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, then consider coming to our first-ever Drupal Jobs Summit from 7-9pm on Monday, January 28, 2013. There is no charge for this event. It is open to any and all companies and organizations who qualify, by:
- Hosting any Drupal meetups, trainings or other Drupal community events, including Frontend Drupal, High Performance Drupal, Downtown Los Angeles Drupal, LA Drupal, and so on;
- Sponsoring or exhibiting at any of the Los Angeles Drupal job fairs, including this month's Drupal Job Fair on Monday, January 28th.
Hosting a meetup at your office qualifies you for this event. Buying pizza at a meetup, while appreciated, does not. If you do not meet the above qualifications, contact us at jobs-jan28summit@droplabs.net with a request to attend.
This is a roll-up-your-sleeves working meeting and we will be meeting one another (many for the first time) and discussing the following topics:
- Building a healthy marketplace and business community of colleagues and potential partners;
- Getting the most out of our recruiting and marketing dollar;
- What we're doing now to staff up, from local recruiting and in-house training to outsourcing and hiring out-of-town or overseas;
- Identifying the skills, job titles and qualifications of desirable candidates, employees and vendors;
- Workshops, trainings and other programs that most or all of us can get behind in order to solve our business needs.
We'll have an open bar and cocktails will be served.
Read moreDrupal Job Fair on January 28, 2013, from 5-7pm at Droplabs in Downtown Los Angeles
Are you a freelancer or service provider who's looking for Drupal work? Do you represent a company or organization that's looking for Drupal talent? Come and make new friends and turn new connections into long-term relationships at the next Los Angeles Drupal Job Fair from 5-7pm on Monday, January 28, 2013.
This event is FREE for individual job seekers and is being hosted by Droplabs, a collaborative coworking space, classroom and hackerspace in Downtown Los Angeles. In addition to being the venue of the only Drupal job fairs ever in Los Angeles in June, 2011, and November, 2011, Droplabs hosts the majority of Drupal activity, from meetups, topic-based summits and code sprints to free workshops, tutoring sessions and paid trainings, in the Greater Los Angeles Area.
- Information for Job Seekers
- Information for Employers and Recruiters
- Sponsorship Levels
- Location and Directions to Droplabs
- About Downtown Los Angeles Drupal
Light food and drinks are being provided by Chimney Coffee House, our favorite neighborhood cafe, bakery, sandwich and dessert boutique.
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Live Webinar: Taking Drupal Cross-platform
10 things you need to know to optimize a Drupal website for any device or platform.
When:
January 10th
North America – 2PM EST. Register Here
EMEA – 3PM GMT. Register Here
UK Cookie Law - are there now thousands of "illegal" Drupal 6 sites in the UK?
Drupal 6 tends to set an anonymous cookie by default. I recently did a quick check of UK sites and found many which are indeed setting cookies but don't have one of the available compliance modules installed. From my understanding of the law, the standard D6 anonymous cookie may be exempt if it could be proven that:
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it is required for proper use of the site (probably not the case) and
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isn't used in a way that would identify the user on returning to the site such that displayed contained would be customised for them in some way.
Path Finder module - another solution for path/alias management
Comments invited - new module to help with path-management and avoid broken links: http://drupal.org/project/pathfinder
Code will be uploaded very shortly.
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New Online Course on being a Drupal Freelancer -- now free -- and new 6 week live online training
Our live webinar.
Earn a Great Living as a Freelance Web Developer (specializing in Drupal), previously $39.00 is being offered free, this Thursday, 9/13/2012 at 8m EST. I hope you can join me.
We also have a new six week live Drupal intensive starting soon:
Mastering Drupal 7: A live Six Week Online Course.
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Get your Web site (re)made by a class of University of Michigan graduate students
Hello everyone—
I am seeking clients for a class at the University of Michigan, School of Information. This class breaks into teams to work on Web sites run by Drupal.
Webinar: Using Drupal for Multiple Sites: Effective Strategies for Enterprise Web Platforms
Join our webinar on Enterprise Drupal
Forum One's Chief Technology Officer, Kurt Voelker, will demonstrate first steps toward using Drupal as a platform and highlight some big-name organizations who are already using the platform successfully.
Register here: http://forumonejulywebinar.eventbrite.com/?discount=f1multisite
Date: Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Presenter: Kurt Voelker
Time: 2-3 PM EDT
Cost: $99 (25% off with promotional code: f1multisite)
In this webinar, you'll learn practical how-to's and real-world case studies of using Drupal as a platform to:
Read moreNew class on succeeding as a Drupal Freelancer
Hi all,
I've developed a new class on succeeding as a Drupal Freelancer.
http://new-media-solutions.com/drupal-training/drupal-freelancer
It's intended for those getting into the business and those already in the business who need help or support.
In addition to the live three hour course on everything from how to charge to how to find work, there will be an ongoing email support group for participants.
Thanks,
Sam
Five reasons that you should go with VPS
VPS hosting or Virtual Private Server is a bridge between the dedicated and shared hosting. In VPS there is a partitioning of a server computer into multiple servers, each having its own independent operating system. The businesses requiring powerful web hosting solutions for them VPS is like an advent. With VPS hosting you will get the advantages of both dedicated and shared hosting. VPS hosting is cheaper than dedicated hosting.
Read moreCharging clients for when Drupal security updates cause incompatibility issues
(please note that I write this article as a business owner, not an experienced Drupal dev!)
Our company charges an annual fee for identifying and applying security updates/patches for the Drupal sites we've designed, built, host and maintain.
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New Drupal 7 Business Directory searchpagelocal.com
searchpagelocal.com helps people connect with the products and services they need.
New Drupal 7 Business Directory searchpagelocal.com
http://searchpagelocal.com/
This is your guide to professional business services online business directory portal with the most up to date business listings nationwide and worldwide.
Customers and vendors
helping customers and vendors to find what they want in the area Search by City, State and Zip code.
For Business
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Paying for the Plumbing: Snowball initiative for a Drupal crowdfunding platform
Ever wanted a place where you could simply offer to pay to get something you need in Drupal done?
Please donate to make that place. (Yes, it's using a different crowdfunding platform, one that really lacks features for coordination, but is passing on all money raised -- if we reach the minimum -- without even deducting credit card fees.)
And spread this link! http://tilt.tc/usLL Is there enough interest in community funding of Drupal software to fund the software to coordinate this-- in just a few days? Also, if you are available to work on this project in DrupalCon Denver, we've got a DrupalCon ticket for you! Or if you're interested in working on this later, contact me for that, too!
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Drupal-centric DBA - referrals
I am working with a client on an RFP response and would like to include as a potential resource a DBA, ideally with some Drupal experience. We're looking at a large and relatively complex integration of a number of legacy systems on both Postgres and MySQL, and it would be handy to have a multi-talented DB guru to help craft queries and generally support an ETL to Drupal.
I'm not posting this under Jobs since it's not a definite gig per se, but if you have a recommendation for someone (or are that someone yourself) and would like more info, please get in touch privately.
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Call for Action - Drupal Business Days Europe
Hello Business Leaders!
we plan the Drupal Business Days in Vienna to become a very powerful event that allows you to get your Drupal business further!
On May 3th - 5th we will have three days of business discussions, keynotes, products, startups, pitches, fun and more fun!
Register at: www.drupalbusiness.org - We have several actions for you that give you the perfect possibility to get involved...
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Create a new "Jobs" group on g.d.o?
Currently groups.drupal.org has a "Job" content type available for content creators to use.
Due to the number of organizations looking to do hiring, the availability of this content type has resulted in an increasing number of Job content type nodes being posted into groups here where job postings reduce the effectiveness / usefulness of the group. Frequently (almost always?) the job postings are for positions that have very little to do with the subject matter of the group.
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A place for jobs?
I often come across job postings that are in inappropriate groups and don't know where to stick them. Usually I stick them here but I wonder if that's wanted? This is a discussion group, not just a dumping ground for jobs.
I'm wondering if making a group "Marketplace" or some such would be a better idea? Then we would have a group that's purely for seeking and selling your Drupal services and not intended for discussion.
Or shall I just continue dumping them here? Am I making an issue where there is none?
Michelle
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