VOCES
Yannick Warnier   
Fernando P. García   

ANUNCIOS

1. Primera Parte
- Dokeos User Day America 2009 - 24 y 25 Junio 2009
- Software Freedom Day Perú 2009 - 19 Setiembre 2009
- Reunión Drupal Perú - Julio 18, 2009
2. Lullabot Podcast

3. Tercera Parte
- Proyectos del grupo:

"Lullabot Drupal Podcast #65"

- Proyectos del grupo:
URL: http://www.lullabot.com/audiocast/podcast-65-dries-buytaert-acquia-and-mollom
Fecha: Octubre 16, 2008
Frecuencia: Cada 1, 2 o 3 semanas

Tema: Dries Buytaert, Acquia, and Mollom
Entrevistador: Jeff Robbins
Entrevistado: Dries

Notas
- Acquia y Mollom son dos compañias fundadas por Dries Buytaert
- Dries acababa de terminar su PhD
- Jeff comenta que la última vez que tuvieron la entrevista fue hace un año y medio
- Acquia
  - Datos empresa: qué fundada en Diciembre 2007, tiene el objetivo de proveer soporte comercial para Drupal, también provee la distribución Acquia Drupal. Dries decidió fundar una empresa porque no quería ser un experto más de java trabajando en algún banco. Pudo ver que existen compañias de Drupal excelentes y  porque no agregar una más que permita hacer Drupal mucho mejor.
  - Acquia Drupal:
     - es el core más una selección de los mejores módulos de la comunidad con licencia GPL y desgarga gratuita
     - módulos: Views, ImageCache, Topnoch Themes, etc y 3 módulos que integran drupal con la Red de Acquia
  - Acquia Network:
     - provee servicios de red, permitiendo conectar y monitorear sitios drupal. Por ejemplo poder activar el cron de forma sencilla y poder ver un estado del sitio con gráficas.
     - debido a que el sitio está integrado con la red, los ingenieros que dan soporte pueden conocer los módulos que están instalados, cuales son soportados por la red y no, permitiendo sugerir soluciones como activar ciertos módulos que pueden estar causando problemas.
     - tiene varios paquetes de suscripción según tiempo de respuesta y medios para recibir soporte
  - Participación en la comunidad:
     - Participación, Promoción, Organización y Patrocinio de eventos Drupal
     - Hacen seguimiento a los módulos contribuidos a los que dan soporte
     - Dries en particular dedica tiempo ha revisar módulos contribuidos para que mejoren en favor de que la adopción de Drupal crezca

- Mollom
  - Servicios de bloqueo de Spam para los manejadores de contenido: Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, Radiant y SilverStripe, además de librerías para los lenguajes de programación más usados en internet: PHP, Ruby, Python, Perl y ColdFusion
  - Servicio de Captcha para formularios
  - Permite bloquear comentarios por idioma
  - Seguimiento de reputación de usuarios (indentifica trolls)
  - Utilizan módulos de reputación de texto basado en estadística y monitoreo de datos de internet
  - Soporta OpenID de tal forma que pueden hacer seguimiento de la reputación de una identidad entre varios sitios web
  - La plataforma está basada en Java

 - Drupal 7
  - El code freeze depende de:
    - cuan buena es la comunidad en Unit Testing
    - El nivel de adopción de Drupal 6 por parte de los desarrolladores
  - Que se puede esperar:
    - Totalmente nueva Capa de Abstracción de Base de Datos
    - Require PHP 5
    - Enfoque en Usabilidad: Drag & Drop
    - Varios perfiles de instalación para facilitar la configuración inicial: sitios de ejemplo o sitios limpios
    - Integración de Fields API (parte de CCK)
    - Rendimiento: JSON, JQuery, agregación
    - XML Semántico (RDF)
    - First Class Objects: Comenzando con files



Anexo

Transcripción inicio de podcast:

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Lullabot podcast 65 - 16 Oct 2008

0:24: Hi it's Jeff Robins back with episode 65 of the Lulabot Drupal podcast. We get together every couple of weeks, we talk about Drupal, your favorite Content Management System and mine.

0:50: This week on the podcast we've got Dries Buytaert, who's the Drupal project lead. He's the guy, he's the guy who started Drupal and he also started Acquia and he also started Mollom, since we've got them on the podcast last time. And we're going to talk to him about Acquia and Mollom and find out more information about both of those things and we also get a chance to talk about Drupal at the end so stick around if you want to hear about Drupal 7 and that kind of things.

1:30: Drupal seminar advertisement

2:25: Alright let's get to this interview with Dries. So I think the last time you were on the pod cast was like a year and a half ago. It seems like less time. I guess because we keep running into each others at various events and stuff but we haven't actually done a podcast interview in a year and a half.
D- Wow
2:44 J- Yeah, the Drupal association was just starting up. At the beginning of that Podcast we also mentionned that the DrupalCon that was happening at Yahoo was coming up in Sunnyvale. What have you done since then.

3:11 D- A couple of things really. I finished my PhD, for one, which was a fun ride on its own. Started two company as well. Acquia is one of them and the other is mollom.

3:28 J- Let's talk about those two companies. We're not going to focus on this podcast on Drupal core work as we have on previous podcasts but we're going to focus a bit more on Acquia and Mollom. I guess we'll just start with Acquia because that seems to be the one that people get hum... well there's a lot of excitmenet about Acquia, so what is Acquia and what does Acquia do?

4:00 D- Acquia is a ... the company I co-founded with Jay Butsom I guess like 9 to 10 months ago. The role of Acquia is basically to be a provider of commercial support for Drupal and we do a couple of things... we actually opened for business and launched our first product last week and so the things we made available last week are first of all the Acquia Drupal distribution, which is actually a Drupal Core with what we believe are the best modules from the Drupal community, bundle together and make these available for free under the terms of the GPL so that's available for everybody to download from our website. We want to make it easier for people to get started with Drupal so that's why we bundle things together. The other reason why we bundle things together is sort of draws the border around the things we want to provide support for, which is our core business. So Acquia Drupal is the first thing we announced. The other thing is the Acquia network and we think the Acquia network sort of completes the Drupal experience by under one hand providing a set of electronic services and on the other hand providing you with Drupal support. I guess some of the other services that we have are the automated site management which allows you to receive a mail notification. It also has the mollom spam blocking which we'll talk more about later. It also has a cron service which makes it easy for people to run cron, which has always been one of these small things when setting up Drupal

5:52 J- I think everyone out there as one website that's never run cron

5:56 D- Right. Indeed. It's a small service that we have but we think it's going to be useful for a lot of people for exactly that reason, you know having to go to your command line to setup a crontab is one of these steps which, if we can avoid them, it's going to be easier for people to get started so.

6:03 J- Sure

6:05 D- You also have some visibility into your site so we have a dashboard which shows the health of your site like is it up or not. And if your site is down it sends you a notification. You have some statistics on stuff like that.

6:27 D- These are the electronic services and then you have the support component and that's depending on how much you pay you can get access to different levels of support going from e-mail support to actually being able to call somebody on the phone 24/7, so that is in one minute the summary.

6:52 J- Alright, so Acquia Drupal is actually the software, right, and the network is the services, so basically the software speaking back to the mother ship and various things happening, and then you also have a support layer on top of that.

7:17 D- That's correct

7:19 J- Alright so... how did Acquia get started, where is Acquia based. I think a lot of people don't really quite know the story behind Acquia. Is there one?

7:35 D- There is one. I guess as I said at the beginning of the podcast I finished my PhD last year and this year as well actually. But you know, before finishing my PhD I was wondering what should I do and what was the next thing for me, and I decided I didn't want to be an employee like work for a company on some banking system.

8:05 J- Your PhD is in Java, so you actually got opportunities to go work in banking.

8:16 D- Yes but, as today's financial climate illustrates not going into the banking system was also the right thing to do.

8:35 D- I also wanted to get Drupal to the next level as you probably know I am quite passionate about Drupal and I wanted to make Drupal more succesfull and if you look at all the big open-source project they're all backed by really great companies and so why not add another great company to the Drupal ecosystem and try to make Drupal even better. so that's what I did.

9:11 D- I first met Jay at the DrupalCon at Yahoo in Sunnyvale, and so I was with these ideas of things I wanted to do and Jay approached me and he had also been thinkin about starting a Drupal company. He had done some Drupal consulting before and basically we started talking and over the course of the next 6 to 9 months we kept brainstorming in the background and he flew over to Antwerp a couple of times and we kept talking and brainstorming, went out, made a business plan, raised money and started the company at the end of last year.

10:00 J- Cool. So Acquia is based near Boston.

10:00 D- Yes, the headquarters are in Andover and right now we're about 25 to 30 people in the company and I would say roughly 20 people are based in Boston so most of the people are in Boston and then some of the engineers and support, some of the support people are remote. So for example we have gobor in Hungry, Robert Tuckles in Germany, Curam (he's not actually in the engineering team) but he's based in San Francisco. We have some support people in different part of the states, we have a guy in Russia so...

10:19 J- Cool, and you are still living in Belgium?

10:20 D- I live in Belgium yes. Going back and forth quite a bit though.

10:28 J- Oh man, that's red eye flag. It's a tough one.

10:32 J- So let's talk about the Acquia Drupal software distribution. What's included in that distribution. How is it different from what people download at Drupal.org.

10:45 D- Right, so... We're trying not to fork Drupal at all, so it's basically us assembling a number of module and bundling them together, so wev'e included things like CCK Views, Image handling features ,stuff like that so some of the most popular modules if you will. We also worked with ...? themes to add a new theme to the distribution and we also made a new theme available on ...? on the themes' page, stuff like that.
It also comes with 3 Acquia-specific modules which are required to actually talk with the Acquia network. So that's essentially what it is and over time we hope to add more functionnality to Acquia Drupal and to do really a couple of things if you go to our website you have a roadmap of the features we are planning to have but we are always to more feedback on that as well. Some of the things we're planning to add are a kernel module, a WYSIWYG editor and a workflow module, a custom pager module, some wiki funcionality, organic groups, we're thinking about stuff like that. And we also want to add a couple more themes to the distribution so people can easily setup a good looking Drupal site. Going forwad we're also thinking about maybe providing people different ways to install Acquia Drupal, maybe do an Amazon EMI or maybe a one-click installer or things like that. We haven't really decided that yet but our main objective is to make it really easy for people to get started with Drupal

13:02 J- Cool that sounds great. So now what if people wanted to install other modules, Drupal modules. They're free to do that, right?

13:20 D- Yes,sure.

13:22 J- And how does that integrate with the support stuff. You guys have the modules that you have as part of your distribution. If people write their own modules, it's difficult to support those. How does that... What's sort of the plan around that whole thing.

13:40 D- Right, it's something which I'll have a little bit of learning to do around of course, but one of the things Acquia Drupal currently do is if you're connected to the Acquia network (if you create an Acquia subscription) you actually send over a list of all the modules you have installed and the versions to us and when you call a support engineer he can actually see which modules you have installed and which modules might be unknown for us if you will and basically that we will see on a case-per-case