Aug 2, 2010

Drupal, Drinks, and Dries The next meet-up of the Atlanta Drupal User Group (ADUG) welcomes a very special guest this Thursday, August 5th from 8 – 10pm EST at Gordon Biersch in downtown Atlanta. We are fortunate to have none other than Dries Buytaert the original creator of Drupal himself. There will be no formal presentation or agenda, but this free event will offer plenty of time for talking Drupal and networking. Dries and a few of his colleagues from Acquia happen to be in town for business, and they were very receptive to hanging out with the local Drupal community. We will have two billiards tables reserved and a large meeting space at our disposal. read more »


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Mar 30, 2010

ADUG + Open PublishThis month the Atlanta Drupal User Group (ADUG) continued our discussion on the Drupal distribution Open Publish (OP). The presentation was conducted by the actual creators of Open Publish, Phase2 Technology, after their originally scheduled visit was postponed due to the winter blizzards earlier in the year.

We had a strong showing of 40 Drupal enthusiasts ranging from beginners, business owners, corporate employees, and seasoned developers. Jeff Walpole, CEO of Phase2, talked about the history of OP, where things are headed, and the desire to outreach for more community collaboration. Frank Febbraro, CTO at Phase2, elaborated on more of the technical features, modules, architecture, and highlighted a few use cases. I found it particularly interesting to hear that Jeff said over 2500+ hours went into developing Open Publish, and they continue to stay on an aggressive release cycle. However, as OP reaches a critical inflection point the need for additional resources to help with documentation, patches, testing, etc. is highly wanted. If you are interested in learning how you can get more involved be sure to join the Open Publish subgroup. read more »


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Feb 17, 2010

We had an action packed Atlanta Drupal User Group (ADUG) meetup last week with two awesome demonstrations of emerging Drupal distributions - Open Publish, which was created by our friends at Phase2 Technology and Drupal Gardens from our partner, Acquia. We had a last minute change of plans since Phase2, who was originally going to co-present with Kent Lester, was neck deep in the Snowmageddon taking place in Washington D.C. However, it happened to work out well, and we allocated the extra time to Chuck D’Antonio, Director of Professional Services at Acquia, who was in Atlanta. read more »


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Feb 2, 2010

On Tuesday, February 9th at 6:30pm the Atlanta Drupal User Group (ADUG) will be hosting a very special event at our location sponsor, Matrix Resources. Our discussion will be predicated around the Drupal distribution called Open Publish (OP) that was created by Washington DC based consultancy, Phase2 Technology. Most notably, Phase2 was one of the lead development firms for the high profile launch of WhiteHouse.gov. Jeff Walpole and Frank Febbraro, Partners at Phase2, will be flying to Atlanta to talk about late breaking developments (including the new release of Open Publish v1.7), the vision of OP, and showcase how OP is helping a myriad of publishing-based websites. read more »


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