News and announcements

Due to a lot of feedback the teleconference has been moved back to the 17th to avoid conflicting with SXSW, we're still looking for people interested in speaking at the Develiconference, so, get those subjects in!

SXSW Interactive is only a few weeks away, March 9th - 13th, so mark your calenders. It would be great to have a large Drupal group organized to meet up do a little networking, a little learning and maybe even grab a drink or two. Come join us at the SXSW Interactive Drupal Group so that we can get organized.

Over at Collaboration Loop you can find a very nice article about Drupal. Apart from the fact that it is well written and very positive about Drupal, the thing that I liked the most is the fact that the author (Larry Cannell) directly puts Drupal head to head with The Big proprietary systems.

The core developers also incorporate significant user contributed innovations into the platform itself enabling the development of the next generation of extensions that continue to outpace offerings from competitive products such as those from Microsoft and IBM.

Not only Larry puts Drupal head to head, he also thinks Drupal is better then most of the proprietary systems out there.

There is probably nothing in Drupal that products from the big vendors can't do and may have implemented somewhere. The difference is companies using Drupal are meeting customer needs faster and cheaper because they are sharing innovations within the community.

Faster and cheaper. Leading to better.