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Herein lies the difference between two companies. Microsoft made the Courier tablet well known before release. Apple made the iPad well known just before they put it into market.
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My lovely wife Amy did a “Day in the Life” photo series for her mommy discussion board yesterday. The pictures are here.
My favorite:
Eli and I working
This is my temporary office due to my primary getting water damage.
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Wonder if this move from Verizon is a setup for the iPhone to Verizon.
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Kind of important, and Chris articulates it well.
Drupalcon was as inspiring as usual this year. I have been going for three years now, and to see it grow from a very home-grown feeling event to what it is now (3000 people and huge) is awesome. I’ve been using Drupal for personal and work projects since 2002. We’ve launched well over 200 websites on it at Warner Bros. Records, and are amping up our efforts in this area.
But Drupal faces an interesting challenge as it grows. There are a lot of competitors in the space vying for attention promising something that Drupal still doesn’t have: ease of use.
Drupal is a schizophrenic platform, in that it doesn’t yet know if its an application framework, a content management system, asset management system, community system or all of the above. This fissure represents itself in the meta layer above Drupal of bootstrapping tools, things like Features, install profiles, Pressflow, etc.
While the strength of the platform is that it can be everything to all people, too often, its incomprehensible for the beginner and quickly becomes mired in complexity for the expert.
Other tools bring the promise of allowing the individual to feel like they can leverage a huge team. A team that thinks about the best of user experience, tools, systems for what they need, etc.
Drupal needs to step up to this challenge as a community.
My proposal:
By next Drupalcon, the Drupal community needs to organize itself in such a way that a beginner can feel like they have the support of experts, and the experts have a method to educate and evangelize methods and patterns which make them experts.
The individual needs a team of 30 even when they can’t afford it.
This would entail making Drupal.org actually useful. Something similar to the Yahoo Patterns library. Universal acceptance and deployment of Features/Contexts/Spaces.
It will take as much attention to user experience and UI as we currently give integration and development of new technology.
It is a challenge, but I think if Drupal is to grow into the clothes its making itself, its one we need to face.
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My presentation from Drupalcon San Francisco is online.
In it I go over how we architected a system for our artist sites, using Drupal that maximizes the collection of data. Our use of data is based around my stance that data is expensive while storage is cheap. And similarly, you can add storage, you can’t recreate data you never received.
To that end we have a decoupled, data rich and extendable architecture for our artist sites which provides compelling fan experiences with our artists without us getting in the way.
[From Social Analytics for 120 Warner Bros. Records Artist sites | DrupalCon San Francisco 2010]
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One of the most exciting things to happen to the Drupal project!
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