jam
Community Affairs Manager
Acquia Manager of Community Affairs Jeffrey A. "jam" McGuire has a longstanding passion for the Drupal project and its community. Presenting around the world at Drupal and other events helps satisfy his inner diva, which he also feeds with performances as a storyteller, singer, french horn and alphorn player. Tags: Musician, foodie, Drupalista ...
About.me:
Recent blog posts
Posted on Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - 11:43
More than a million served! It’s been just over a decade since Drupal’s inception as an online message board in founder, Dries Buytaert’s student dorm in Antwerp, Belgium. It is now developed and supported by a vibrant, collaborative,
More... Posted on Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 12:00
Drupal is a huge software project by any measure, with thousands of developers writing code for it and deploying websites and applications on it. It is one of the largest open source projects in the world, alongside Linux, Apache, and Mozilla.
More... Posted on Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 06:24
Dries Buytaert, co-founder/CTO of Acquia was interviewed recently. This is nothing new, of course, as the Drupal project lead, one of the world's largest and most active open source developer communities, he's in the limelight a lot. The
More... Posted on Tuesday, December 6, 2011 - 07:43
Misplaced priorities hampering UK government uptake of open source
According to a computing.co.uk article entitled Open Source: The government's commitment so far, most of the IT technology used in the UK government is still proprietary and
More... Posted on Tuesday, November 22, 2011 - 12:15
The best part of my job
At Acquia, I get to help make Drupal Camps and other Drupal community events successful, with financial sponsorships and other, material support. I'm proud to work for a company that truly puts its money where its
More... Posted on Thursday, March 24, 2011 - 13:04
Every few months it seems, a proprietary vendor from the closed source world decides that they can take on open source software. Maybe they think it's an easy target; maybe they're worried about losing more and more deals to free software; maybe
More... Posted on Monday, October 4, 2010 - 08:10
The very best session I attended at DrupalCon Copenhagen was
"WordPress is better than Drupal: developers take note" by Jennifer Lea Lampton. While I
disagree with the premise - comparing a purpose-built product (WP) to a
framework
More... Posted on Thursday, September 3, 2009 - 12:32
Why the Acquia Drupal Stack is now the Drupal development stack of
choice.
Drupal On-ramp - Personal experiences at Drupal events
in recent months and reports from friends and colleagues indicate that
the Acquia Drupal Stack
More... Posted on Monday, June 8, 2009 - 06:48
Watch these videos to see how to install Acquia
Drupal from the Subversion repository and then how simple it is to do
clean and fast updates to your SVN-enabled Drupal website.
More information on installation and use of the Acquia
More... Posted on Sunday, June 7, 2009 - 10:52
Acquia Documentation Survey - Results - The Way Forward
Many thanks to all who provided feedback in the recent survey about Acquia’s documentation.
Here are the results of the survey’s multiple choice questions and some of the conclusions we
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Acquia You are my Hero! [Drupal Commons] works for me, and I love the endless possibilities that one can do with the Drupal Platform.
Joshua Moore
