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Open Source and Local Economies - Meet Ranko Marinic
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Here is one more conversation I had at Drupal Camp Alpe-Adria in April, 2013. Ranko Marinic is from Croatia and has some great perspectives. He works as an IT consultant with a wide range of technologies and with Drupal "by night". He is studying economics and has become interested in the economic effects on local communities of implementing open source software. Ranko also talks about the moment he really started believing in open source as a social movement.
Local Economies and Open Source
The City of Munich adopted Libre Office and Linux (see below for links to more information... More
A Reflection on Karen McGranes DrupalCon Portland Keynote
I just finished listening to the DrupalCon Portland’s Wednesday keynote presented by Karen McGrane about UX experience and content for all devices.
[I'll add the keynote video once it is posted, but I didn't want to wait to share my thoughts]
What I took away from her talk was, we need to start thinking about our content in a way that can be used in many places and not just thinking about the one spot we want it in at this very moment we request it. Wow is this really a new way of thinking? I’ve been working with Drupal for the past 5 years starting with Drupal 5 in 2008. At my last job... More
Thoughts on the DrupalCon Portland Keynote
Today was the official start of my first DrupalCon. As a newbie, it was a fun experience to see 3,300 Drupalists all in one room, anxious to hear from Dries, the original developer of Drupal.
Here are some of my thoughts from today’s keynote:
Do Well. Do Good. Change the World.
Dries kicked off the keynote with a video from the head of Drupal for whitehouse.gov. After the video, Dries spend some time talking about their citizen engagement application called “We the People”. “We the People” is an application that allows citizens to directly petition the government, one of the constitutional... More
Event summary: DrupalJam 2013
Last Friday the annual one-day DrupalJam conference was held in the Rotterdam Feyenoord soccer stadium. The conference, which saw its eighth edition - if I recall correctly - is shifting to be more business focused with its new motto Drupal beyond the code, and was a great success with over a 100 participants. This blog post serves as a high-level summary of a couple of the talks that I attended.
Some of the talks were in English whereas others were in Dutch, as the... More
The DrupalCon Portland Sessions every Webmaster should attend!
Hello DrupalCon! Have you arrived yet? DrupalCon Portland starts officially tomorrow but come and get your badges and awesome t-shirts. I was going through the session list to pick out what sessions would be most beneficial for me and I wanted to share what I thought were the sessions every digital marketer or Webmaster should attend.Tuesday:
9:00 am – 10:00 am
OR 204 - BlackmeshThe Future of Views
This session is directed towards site builders and people who have used views... More
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