Drupal Gardens: Drupal 7 SaaS - BOF

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Posted by decibel.places on July 21, 2010 at 6:47pm

Drupal Gardens is Acquia's Drupal 7 SaaS product.

Hosted and maintained Drupal - similar to Wordpress.com

It is promising, but is it ready for commercial use? There are already 10K+ DG sites!

Limitations such as no Calendar/Event modules are restricting its use, but it will surely grow in its capabilities in time.

Share your experiences - I am creating a community site for a school with DG, importing a static site with a custom theme and menu system. The client loves the idea of free hosting and maintenance! [note: the free service is limited in the amount of pages and data transfer, but there are other tiered commercial plans available]

There is no "official" session for Drupal Gardens - so let's flock together!

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The Rewards of Volunteering

Posted by decibel.places on July 23, 2010 at 12:29pm
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[oops this is not meant as a comment, it is a separate BOF proposal - but I lost where to post it, maybe the BOF thread is closed]

Volunteering has many rewards -

As the volunteer web developer/webmaster for Faith the Dog I have fun helping spread the word and every day I get incredibly moving feedback from visitors to the web site

But how do we avoid the pitfalls:

  • Exploitation
  • Lack of guidance from "clients"
  • Obsession with unpaid "work" overruling gainful work

etc?

  • What are the aspects of the Drupal framework that encourage or complicate volunteering?
  • Will Drupal Gardens encourage us to create sites we can "hand off"?

¿ are you netsperienced ?
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I'll be at that BoF

Posted by susan macphee on July 25, 2010 at 7:23pm
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Hi, I work in Drupal Gardens, can go into depth about using the SaaS
my DG Site:
http://www.susanmacphee.com
One that I built:
http://www.ipswichmuseum.org

www.macpheedesign.com

I'll try to show up - did you

Posted by pwolanin on July 24, 2010 at 2:16pm
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I'll try to show up - did you pick a time?

There are a ton of great sessions - seems like 4:50 Sunday is just for BoFs though, I'm guessing that will be packed with BoFs.

Sunday 4:50-5:50 PM Rm 203 is

Posted by decibel.places on July 25, 2010 at 6:15pm
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Sunday 4:50-5:50 PM Rm 203

is what Susan & I discussed

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