Your #1 Question About Products: Answered!

It's inevitable. Sure as the Druplicon is blue, my job as Community Manager means that I'll be fielding this question almost daily: "So...when can we expect the next release of Open___?"

Envisioning an Open Source Product Marketplace: Could it Work?

What I've learned in 18 months of Drupal product management is this: monetization in open source communities is prickly. Monetization of products in Drupal is scary -- done right, it could build a vibrant economy around the open source software we know and love, making it stronger while people make a living. Done wrong, and it could alienate the community, deprecate innovation, and ultimately harm the open source project.

Following up on New Year's Resolutions at Phase2

Well, it's been a few weeks since the 1st of the year, so of course most of us are either dreading or hoping for the question: "How are you doing with your New Year's resolution?" Today, I'm excited to report on one of mine!

App Sprint Austin - Success

We had our first Austin Apps sprint last week and got quite a bit done. We had 12 people from Phase2 Technology, LevelTen, Four Kitchens, Mediacurrent and Pantheon all had people at the sprint. Thanks to Four Kitchens for helping us provide a space for the Sprint.

Phase2 Distros & Apps now on Pantheon

Having spent an amazing few days in Austin for the Apps Sprint we came away with some even better news than expected. After a few joint development sessions with the great folks of [Pantheon] we are thrilled to announce that OpenPublic, OpenPublish and OpenAtrium are now available on the Pantheon platform via a one-click install from your Pantheon dashboard.

Open Atrium 1.2 Security Release

Just a small but important release, security release for Date (SA-CONTRIB-2012-004), and multiple community patches!

Digging into Module Maintenance

It's been about three months since I joined Phase2 as Community Manager, and I have really appreciated getting to know the needs of the community around Phase2's products and contributed modules. Thank you so much to those of you who have offered your honest -- and at times colorful! -- feedback. Truly, this is how we get better, move forward, and work together. In my last post, I talked about how we planned to respond to the community and about our goal to communicate more about our module contributions and product work. So I'm here to fulfill that promise.

Features and Overrides - Part Deux

A new method for overriding Features in Drupal is presented that works for all types of Features.

City's OpenPublic Site Prioritizes Info Access for Citizens

In the Town of Lake Clarke Shores, Florida, citizens no longer have to wait to access valuable information about their town hall meetings, thanks to a new web site powered by OpenPublic and built by the team at Big Couch Media Group. Seeing a need for not only a site makeover but an overhaul of the tools that community members needed most, John Studdard and the Big Couch team put OpenPublic to the test, utilizing the responsive design theme and maximizing the available tools for citizen engagement, while also building new functionality for the platform. I sat down with John this week to hear more about the build.

Enhanced Wysiwyg Tools For The Point-and-Click Editor

The Wysiwyg module for Drupal already provides quite a few tools for the word processor based editors to be able to create Word-esque types of enriched content in their site. Even with those tools though, their is still desire for the "point-and-click" webmaster to be able create even more enhanced elements without having to, well, know code. The combination of the Wysiwyg module and Drupal provides methods of adding plug-ins to the Wysiwyg editors.

For the purposes of this post, the methods to be able to create tabbed and accordion drop-down style content via the CKEditor editor will be covered.