Drupal Gardens

We held our Broward Drupal monthly meetup on Wednesday, November 9th from 7:00pm to 9:00pm.

Participants:
Remote:
Boca Raton - Jeff Locke (http://Adoptek.com)

In Person (Fort Lauderdale, Broward County Florida):
Jay Epstein @jeppy64
Joel Lukacher @LikeCatcher
Leonardo Vargas @leovarg
Pilar Montana @pilimontana
Me @hectoriribarne

We switched to using using Join.me for screen sharing and it worked out well. We used Skype for audio as usual.

We held our Broward Drupal monthly meetup on Wednesday, September 14th from 7:00pm to 9:00pm.

Participants:

In Person (Fort Lauderdale, Broward County Florida):
Jay Epstein @jeppy64
Norman Flecha @Stock_S
Claudio Vera @modulist
Steve Hall @KPS_93
Tony Webb
Me @hectoriribarne

We had no remote users this month.

Jay Epstein (@jeppy64 http://jay-epstein.com) gave a great presentation about Drupal Gardens. Jay's presentation was an introduction to Acquia's Drupal Gardens and why you should be using it. The following topics were discussed during the presentation:

Word on the tweet is there are some musician friendly features growing in Drupal Gardens. Considering modules such as Media and Media Gallery have been improved and/or contributed out of gardens, there could be points of overlap with developing Pushtape features.

This 'could' be a very good thing!?!

I'm interested in getting feedback on the pros/cons of using the enterprise version of Drupal Gardens to develop a university website. Any thoughts would be much appreciated. Thanks!

We held our Broward Drupal monthly meetup on Wednesday, June 8th from 7:00pm to 9:00pm.

Participants:

Remote (from furthest to closest):
Seattle - Chris Parsons @chillin411
Boca Raton - Mark Stahlbaum @markeytoe
Coral Springs - Jason Graham @polishyourimage

In Person (Fort Lauderdale, Broward County Florida):
Claudio Vera @modulist
Jay Epstein @jeppy64
Luis Salazar @LuisPixelhead
Norman Flech @Straightalk
Me @hectoriribarne

We continued to have remote users participate in our meetup via Skype and TeamViewer.

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.