Consulting and Business

During drupalcon several of the business tracks returned to the same notion of maintaining a list of qualified contriuted modules.
So dear "I drupal for dollars" crowd...
The classics are obviously
1. cck
2. views
3. image field
4. imagecache
And then as requirements start to rise
5. og
6. workflow
7. relativity
8. voting-api (plus most frontends work fine)

So that was easy... but now what about the exotics? What do YOU always include in your projects and what should enter this "absolutly essential module list?"
best regards
Lior

Hi Guys and Gals..
I've attended several of the business tracks in drupalcon boston and one of the emerging patterns (Which was verbally advocated by Boris Mann in his session) was to form a pool of joint resources to improve and add methodology to our business practices.
The most inspiring example I've seen was by the "Drupal performance agency" and was handed out by the tag1 consultants.
You can see the example here - http://tag1consulting.com/drupal/performance
These performance checklist are superb and are licensed under the creative commons attribiution sharealike2.0 license.

Cross posting from here: http://drupal.org/node/219476

There will be a Drupal site showcase and case study contest at the upcoming Boston Drupalcon.

Submitted sites will be voted online and judged by a panel of community nominated judges and some great prizes will be awarded to the winners! This is a chance to have all your hard work creating amazing Drupal sites recognized.

Hello,

We are looking for speakers for the upcoming DrupalCon in Boston. Since you are subscribed to the Consulting and Business group, you might be especially interested in the “Business and marketing” track (see http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/business-and-marketing-track-descriptions).

This track covers the following topics:

• The Drupal ecosystem
• Businesses learning to use Drupal
• Case studies
• Showcase

Hi!
I'm peach, or Jurriaan, from All Drupal Themes and I'm having some trouble finding good themes to port and release to the community. I've already ported several themes but it turns out there were some problems:
-Apparently people were more interested in 3-column themes
-Some of the themes were not deemed useful at all
-Most good looking themes I find are Creative Commons licensed, which makes sense from the designers point of view, but unfortunately they are not allowed on drupal.org/project/Themes. I was reassured when I signed up for a cvs account that I must not upload CC2.5 licensed themes, only GPL.

I've created this post to communicate with the Drupal community, for whom I make the themes, and hopefully some people have good ideas for themes to be ported to drupal! If anyone has a GPL theme in mind please post it in the comments sections.

If you know of a gorgeous CC licensed design, it's also eligible for a free drupal port but I will put it up with my free drupal themes department but it won't show up on drupal.org/project/Themes.

Looking forward to your input!
JR

How do you guys get the content from your clients?

Do you start designing/programing without it? Why or why not?

What about a Client Needs Analysis?

Basically, what do you all do to get the information from your clients that you need and what work flows do you use?

Hey guys and gals,

For the past couple of weeks I've been working on a hobby project - the concept was to make a super-simple job and gig posting website for Drupal professionals - everyone from freelancers looking for piecework to firms who have a serious commitment to building large sites using Drupal.

Its called the Drupal Developers Network and can be found at http://www.drupaldevelopers.net

Check it out and sign up; its a free site and lets you fill out a simple profile thats referenced from all job and gig postings you make.

Hi! I run a company called Digital202, based in New York City. It's a web agency with a focus on online communities and social networks, and a geographically distributed model where we work with talented people from around the world to get things done. I've been a member of the Drupal community for 3 years now, and we base most of what we do on Drupal (+ CiviCRM).