Blog: Team

The Development Seed Holiday Party

Last Friday the entire Development Seed team converged on our old local hangout Haydees for our holiday party. It was great to have most of the crew come together with Ian Cairns coming in from Boulder, CO, and Steve coming down from New York City, and Will taking a night off from college life to join us. We did miss Jose and Aron. Next year we'll have to set up a web cam for them : )

Thanks everyone for coming out and being such good company!

More photos after the jump. 

Join Us Thursday at 2:00 pm in Barcelona or Online

Everyone who wants to integrate Drupal with an sms campaign should come to tomorrow's session SMS and Drupal. It's starting right after lunch at 2:00 pm in the Picktek room. The goal of the session is to let people know about some of the exciting things you can do with sms and about some of the great tools that already exist. There will be a live stream of the talk from the official DrupalCon website.

I'm moderating tomorrow's session and had a great meeting today with all the players to prep for it. Will White, the Summer of Coder who worked on sms integration, and his SoC mentor Ian Ward planned out a demonstration of the new sms API, while Jeff Miccolis flushed out some of his past experiences with sms campaigns to talk about, including one with Planned Parenthood. We also got to meet Chad Phillips for the first time, who was a huge help to Will this summer in getting sms to email integration working (which allows small Drupal sites to have free sms integration). Chad will end the presentiment with a demo of his work on a two-way email gateway functionality.

Everyone who was at the Google Summer of Code presentations today got to hear a short teaser of the work Will has done. Tomorrow you'll get to hear all the details and see a live demo. You can watch Will's screen capture SMS Email Gateway + Send to Phone Inline SMS Filter for Drupal if you want to get another sneak peak. 

Best DrupalCon Ever?

Over 420 members of the Drupal community were at Citilab this morning to kick off DrupalCon Barcelona 2007. Among them were eight members of the Development Seed team. After a busy and exciting summer, it's great to have a group of us here for a week of pure Drupal.

Today's sessions include an introduction to Form API 3, an in-depth look at the state of internationalization, and the Google Summer of Code Showcase. We're lucky to have several SoC students attending and we'll get to share some of the great work that we did this summer. I'll talk briefly about the SMS Framework project, but I'll go into further detail on Thursday during the SMS and Drupal session. We'll also be recording that session and posting it here on the blog.

This is an exciting year for DrupalCon. The slogan for the show is "the best DrupalCon ever." With the large number of quality sessions, the ideal location, and the number of motivated attendees, I think this will be possible.

Meet Our Metrics and Strategy Ninja

A couple weeks Steve Olson officially joined the Development Seed team and boy are we excited. Steve will be helping us build smarter communications solutions. He’ll spend most of his time measuring the success of the online tools we build and helping us to maximize their impact. He’ll also be using this knowledge come up with creative, results driven communications approaches that we know our clients will love.