China market entry becomes a global phenomenon!

China market entry business has its potential in fields of networking, telecommunication, enterprise technologies, implementations and applications. It is going to access the World Trade Organization and would trigger inward investments from all foreign firms, as...

CTO of NowPublic looses businesscards on DrupalCon Paris

The unfortunate Mr. Michael. E. Meyers lost a stack of his businesscards on the second day of the DrupalCon, the most important internet fair for Drupal enthousiasts in the world. Drupal is an open source CMS...

Stallman, the Swedish Pirate Party, and copyleft

A few days ago, Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation published an op-ed to the GNU project's website, in which he criticized the copyright views of the Swedish Pirate Party, which had recently...

DrupalCon 2009

DrupalCon 2009 is underway in Washington, DC. This unofficial event is the best place for Drupal developers and the people who love them to meet in person, discuss ongoing projects, share innovations, and collaborate...

Facebook censors Cuban activist Luis Moro from speaking out.

We believe that Luis Moro, one of the administrators for 'End the US Trade Embargo on Cuba' group on Facebook was censored for speaking for allowing travel between the United States and...

List of companies that had a 'record breaking year' in 2008

By Bobbi Miller-Moro Read this if you want to feel better about the economy, or the recession as a whole for that manner. As I was buying into the recession news on all the major news outlets, my husband reminds...

Open Source Resources | The Hidden Costs of Open Source

When switching your business to open source software, you lose the licensing fees but may pick up other costs. When businesses hear the term “open source” software, it often translates into another word: free. And while open source code technically is just that -- free...

Rasmus Lerdorf: Simple Is Hard - DrupalCon 2008 Key Note

The talk is about how we use php today vs. how Rasmus thought it would be used. PHP was all about separating your biz logic from your presentation layer. So that you don't have to recompile your code when you...

DrupalCon 2008 Szeged Has Started!

Drupalcon coverage stories, photos, twitter etc you can find at our Drupalcon channel pageDrupalcon started today.  Registration process went fairly smoothly and first session is in progress. 500 people...

DrupalCon Szeged 2008 Fast Approaching

With just over one week remaining, Drupal's bi-annual conference is fast approaching. This time around the conference is being held in Szeged, Hungary. I'm no expert, but this could be one of the most exciting...

Drupalcamp Paris

On a very nice Saturday morning people interested in Drupal from France and countries near by gathered in Paris for a Drupalcamp. Drupalcamp is a Barcamp for Drupal. User generated conference where everyone can...

Drupal Founder Named Biz Week's Top Young Entrepreneur

Congratulations to Dries.  Way to go buddy."While he was still a computer science student in college, Buytaert developed Drupal, a system designed to make it easier to publish, manage, and organize content on...

Open Source Geeks Come Together for Drupal Camp Vancouver - May 9-10

{Cross posted in various forms at Vancouver Drupal Camp Group, Urban Vancouver and Raincity Studios - please spread the word} First there was an idea, then we chose a date (May 9-10), set up a relevant Drupal Group, now there is a location (SFU Wosk Centre and Workspace) and...

Drupal Developers Acquia Raise $7 Million

Dries Buytaert, the founder of Drupal and and an advisor to NowPublic has started up an interesting new venture.  Dries is an exceptional guy and this business will do well with him behind it.  Good luck...

Raincity Studios Acquires Bryght

Vancouver Web 2.0 Companies Join Forces to Create First Full-Service, Open Source, Web AgencyVancouver, BC, Nov. 20, 2007 - Web design and development firm Raincity Studios has agreed to acquire long-time partner...

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