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January 25, 2010

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Jeremy goes to DrupalSouth Wellington

I’m sitting right now in the main presentation room here at DrupalSouth Wellington January 2010, the second ever Kiwi Drupal conference. This is my second time representing Digital Eskimo at a Drupal event (previous one being DrupalCon DC last year), and my third Drupal conference. I was super-excited to be attending the first-ever Drupal event in Australasia to feature international guest speakers. After a full weekend of presentations, hack jams, mingling, and beverage guzzling (in no particular order), things are just about to wrap up.

For those of you whose first language is English rather than binary: Drupal is a software product called a Content Management System (CMS for short). It’s used to power dynamic web sites with features such as blogging, media integration and community participation. Digital Eskimo has been using Drupal for several years, and we’re proud to support Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and its largely volunteer community. In terms of ethics and philosophy, Drupal is closely aligned with Digital Eskimo. We’ve launched several successful Drupal sites recently, including our “experiment full of experiments” live local.

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Jeremy Epstein

March 20, 2009

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DrupalCon DC: reporting back

Two weeks ago, I was lucky enough to make it to DrupalCon DC (a.k.a. “DC/DC”). For me, the conference consisted of excessive geeking, excessive beer-drinking, and sleep deprivation.

Naturally, I expect nothing less from a web developer’s conference. DrupalCon DC was big, it was passionate, and it was jam-packed with high quality presentations.

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Meitar Moscovitz

August 5, 2008

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Digital Eskimo shares code, too

Just the other day, Duncan talked a little about how we find new talent, and share some of the benefits. He called it “sharing the love.” Today, I want to talk a bit about how Digital Eskimo shares code, too.

Of course, Digital Eskimo is very big on sharing. Everything from our work culture to our strategy planning is based on encouraging collaboration from our employees, our clients, and last—but certainly not least—our users. Even beyond this, however, the whole idea of sharing is actually central to our business model because (for instance) we proudly use free and open source software. In fact, most companies use free software in one capacity or another.

Free and open source software is great because it provides the building blocks of world-class products for none of the cost…but this isn’t going to be one of those posts that preaches about the philosophies of FLOSS. Instead, I’d like to direct your attention to two small utilities I developed in-house that I’m happy to say are now available for public use.

These are the beginnings of our code contributions back to the free software ecosystem …

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Chris Gaul

November 13, 2007

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