Marketing

I'm not sure if anyone posted something about this. I'm sure someone would have seeing as it is from early October.

Info world did a comparison of CMS's from the Enterprise perspective.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/10/08/41TC-open-source-cms_1.html

Drupal was not a serious contender.

I do NOT think they got this entirely wrong. Drupal is certainly not a winner in this particular race.

The Southern California Linux Expo is coming up February 8-10, 2008 at the Westin Los Angeles Airport. Myself and Addi Berry (add1sun) will be there, at least on February 8 for the Women in Open Source mini-conference.

Not sure if others have noted the new open source census effort, which aims to measure open source software use both locally (via use of a new OSS Discovery tool) and globally through the aggregation of local discovery data.
http://www.osscensus.org/
http://ossdiscovery.opensource.collab.net/

Robert Fabian is a management and systems consultant in Canada, who has been in computing for many decades. Robert has been involved with CIPS, the Canadian Information Processing Society for a long time too, and they are moving to Drupal as a platform to manage their 30-odd sites, after evaluating other CMS/CMF systems.

I met Robert at the Ontario Linux Fest in October 2007, and then yesterday at the Drupal Users Group meeting in Toronto.

Hello All,

PLEASE TAKE A MINUTE OR TWO TO READ THIS

I am a high school student in American participating in the Google Highly Open Participation Contest 2007 (http://code.google.com/opensource/ghop/2007-8/) and am working on a task for Drupal. The task is to research how Drupal is used in Africa to demonstrate that Drupal is used worldwide.

I am posting this to you either because you are an Africa group, have an African Drupal site, or have been using Drupal for a while and are knowledgeable (or all of the above).

Hello all!

It's been a year full of surprises with Drupal. Even at every second you glance at this node, it gets more worldwide attention.

However, in our case here in the Philippines... we are slowly becoming a Joomla country.

Here's one evidence:
1) Google Trends for Joomla! in the Philippines
^-- will return a good trend for Joomla.
2) Google Trends for Drupal in the Philippines
^-- will return no result.

I'm not worried whether Drupal is preferred by developers or not. I'm worried because our developers doesn't have much to hear, see, feel and even try about Drupal, unlike how the Joomla community do it here in our country. Because I love Drupal so much, I'm a bit anxious (depressed sometimes) about it.

A list of experiences --that I hope could explain myself:

[A] A client wants a community website developed using a CMS, all he can say at the top of his lungs is the word "Joomla!". Don' worry, he did not faint. I did (trying to convince him about the benefits of Drupal. Alas, I got his consent.).

[B] I spoke in front of some of our top businessmen to pitch the goodness of open source (esp. Drupal & Plone for CMS/Enterprise CMS); after the talk they asked,

Is there anyone out there who knows of general Drupal resources for the everyday user who wants to learn more about Drupal. Clearly there is overlap with this and the concept of why open source in the first place but I think this a great resource to be out there for developers who have clients that want to understand why they have code written by someone other than their developer on their site and the benefits of being part of the greater Drupal community.

If something like this exists please share it with me. If anyone else is interested in creating this piece lets do it.

Hey, folks!

On Monday, Oct. 8, myself and Geoff Butterfield of the George Lucas Educational Foundation's Edutpoia site will be doing a tech talk at Google campus in Mountainview. 1/2 hour of this will be me yammering on and on about Drupal and how awesome it is, the other 1/2 will be Geoff demoing the Edutopia site and how it uses elements like CCK, Views, etc.

O'Reilly recently posted presentation files from some of the talks at OSCON 2007. Only a PDF of the slides are available for "What Do You Mean, Marketing? Promoting Open Source Projects," but they're worth checking out.

Greetings! I would like to announce that SpryDev today launched the Drupal SEO Podcast at http://www.sprydev.com/podcast. Over the coming months we'll be exploring all aspects of SEO on Drupal. I wanted to start out with the basics so the first podcast is rather short and covers the Page Title module. I know that's pretty basic stuff for this crowd but we wanted to get the ball rolling and it seemed a good place to start. If you have any suggestions for future topics, please let me know.