General discussion

Please delete my profile. An extensive search of this site does not provide an option to delete a profile. Therefore, this posting to have the profile deleted.

thank you

so durpal 8 is coming out. Its been over 4 years and drupal.org looks the same. Pls may we have a makeover for our beloved site too.

everyone might be very busy but we can get some small changes done which will really help in 8's release.

Thanks,
vishal

Hi,

I was wondering: Is there any central authority within the Drupal community that aims to "recruit" people to make them contributors? At Drupal conventions and camps, is there a booth of people that try to convince people to open source their modules? Are there printed brochures about the advantages of becoming a contributor?

I've been working in Drupal for several years - before I could code, in fact.

A company I worked for used a Drupal back-end, and the company I currently work for uses it to design websites for clients.

I do some Drupal programming (but mostly configuration of modules and such).

How do I go from intermediate spot programming here or there, and some theme development, to really being a good, competent Drupal programmer?

I know PHP to a decent extent, MySQL, database design is alright, as are my HTML and CSS skills.

If you are using the location module and dump zip code data into your files from ( http://www.geonames.org/ )...

Do you still need to agree to google/yahoo terms and conditions if you are creating zip code proximity searches in views?

I am part of a startup and we are looking for a CTO/Developer. More on this below. I am a CIO in real life but not a developer so I am looking for some architecture advice. I am wondering whether our platform should be Drupal or if we should build the platform with Rails. Here are our basic requirements.

This is a site where users shoot and upload videos of themselves speaking. The videos may be seen by the entire community in that specific portal, and/or go to just experts for review. There will also be other functionality such as community discussion, expert content, training videos, etc. The tricky part, or maybe not, is that we want to use the same platform for multiple markets segments. In other words, each market is hosted on the same platform but appears unique to the user. So for example, if you are younger, you login in and see content specific to your age group. If you are older, when you login, the site appears to you as devoted to your age group. Also, there are experts for whom your video would be sent, (a sue in the system), but the experts would be different on the market segment. So simply, the platform performs as multiple platforms but of course is leveraged for purposes of added functionality, administration and maintenance.