April 2014
After several months of planning, the first stand-alone Drupalcamp South Carolina is finally upon us. We are expecting 60-70 attendees which is not bad considering it is Easter weekend.
I'm excited about Ryan Szrama's keynote. I asked him to focus more on Ryan, less on Drupal commerce. I'm looking forward to hearing his story. To me Ryan is a great example of how open source can work out for hard-working individuals willing to give their time.
Steve Burge of OS Training as well as Ryan and Commerce Guys both agreed to do their Pre-camp (Friday) training for FREE-- what a gift to the Columbia, SC Drupal community! This has generated quite a bit of excitement and activity over the last few days.
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I had an old friend ask me (via LinkedIn), What do I think of Bitcoin? While I do have opinions about this, no one has ever asked me before! In particular, this person was wondering if they should invest in Bitcoin.
In case you don't know, Bitcoin are a form of virtual digital currency, and you can buy and sell them like any other currency. Bitcoin has been in the news for various reasons, but the most public was when the government shut down a shady website called "Silk Road" and seized $28 Million in Bitcoin. So here was my answer to the question....
I would consider it a very risky investment at this point. I believe in the concept of having alternative currencies and I believe we should be able to transact business online anonymously (ie, without credit cards), but up until now BitCoins have been used mostly for kind of shady purposes so they have a bad rap right now.
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I had the pleasure this past week of attending the Great Wide Open conference in Atlanta. Many thanks to Todd Lewis and the folks at IT-oLogy for inviting me to serve as a volunteer at the conference. I met a number of really talented and in some cases world-renowned developers.
I spent most of my time at the registration desk, but found time to get away and see several sessions. Of course I was most interested in those related to Drupal. In particular, I was thrilled to hear Jason Smith of MediaCurrent talk about the massive project to replace Weather.com with a Drupal site. I expect that site to be something really special and something the Drupal community can be proud of.
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