#DrupalBizVan in Review!
The Vancouver Drupal Business Summit was a one-day event offering business leaders and managers insight into Drupal's capabilities as a versatile, business solutions framework. The event took place on June 1, 2012 at UBC Robson Square in beautiful British Columbia.
What exactly is a Drupal Business Summit?
And before you knew it... #DrupalBizVan was here!
Ready to explore the next steps, probe for answers, and eat code for breakfast. #DrupalBizVan
#drupalbizvan is all set up and the show begins in t - 21 minutes. @jillianwalker @glennhilton are in the house!
The .@DrupalBizVan first session has just started and we're all setup! Come by and say hi to Isabel if you're here! #drupalbizvan
Our Emcee - Phillip Djwa!
@phillipdjwa opening #drupalbizvan noting the collaborative spirit of the #drupal community! @agentic #drupallove http://pic.twitter.com/H3uh4pBo- Phillip Djwa is the Founder and Creative Director at Agentic Communications. He can be found on LinkedIn or on Twitter at @phillipdjwa.
First up - Kieran Lal!
- "Making the Business Case for Drupal and Open Source"
- Drupal is best known as a web content management solution, but the platform is capable of much, much more. This session discussed Drupal's roots as a CMS and social tool, and how the platform is used today by many of the world's leading brands to build rich content, collaboration, and commerce sites.
You can use #Drupal for corporate sites, product sites, community sites, marketing micro sites and more. #DrupalBizVan
@bcbusiness definitely falls in that group. RT @drupalbizvan: There are 630,000 developers + users of #Drupal worldwide. #DrupalBizVan
#drupalbizvan OK, the crazy-fast Pinterest module development is a compelling example of flexibility.- Over Plan > Over Pay. Under Plan > Expected Outages. Elastic Plan > NO FAILURE. Focus on elastic resources. #Drupal #DrupalBizVan
The biz case for Drupal according to @amazonk: cost savings, integrated processes, increased flexibility and reduced risk. #DrupalBizVan- Kieran provided the following supplementary info:
- Total cost of ownership of open source software
