lior's blog

We're very proud to see the first fruit of several months of work and several year of building the Drupal enterprise eco-system in Israel.
The first site shipped, http://shituf.gov.il is a site which exposes the latest rules and discussions from the government to the public.
That way legislators get a very short feedback loop on the current activity and the public gets to state it's opinion and vote up or down on the stream of new rules and political activity.

I'm attending Startup Weekend in TLV which is turning out to be a really great and colorful event.
One of the coolest things is that I finally got to meet Tim Cullen which is leading the development of a local Drupal community in Ramalah.
I'm a big believer in the epic power of open-source to enable communication where none exists or where barriers (technological or political) might limit communication and innovation.
I took ( a low quality and shaky ) video of Tim's presentation.

In the following week we've developed an android application to manage drupalcon oriented information.
Currently we only have the sessions info in place but our vision to the next drupalcons is to add twitter based activity streams, relevant map info and to become a one stop shop for your mobile experience using android.

To find the app search for drupalcon in the android market.

After Drupalager and Drupalager 2009 we decided to explore new directions for this meta category we've created - Drupalcohol.

Shlomi Tsadok, one of our newest recruits, who is leading the team integrating Drupal in the Israeli government, is a big wine fan - so big that he quit the computing business to open his own winery in 2003.

In one of the most epic chapters of Sienfeld - George and Jerry are confronted with the Dillema "Tuck or No Tuck"?
A brave group has decided that this Dillema must be resolved and that blankets (like people, data and source) should be free!

Sparkeo is a new e-learning platform that has made a big splash in LaWeb (One of the largest french web conferences) and on techcrunch.
The cool thing about our relationship with Sparkeo is that as it evolved it covered many of the sales pitches I give to other customers of why they should choose drupal.
This in a way is a great Drupal showcase because it walks through all of these issues sequentially.

One of the coolest events we participated in ( coolest's definition is the best ratio between price/quality of the wine) DrupalCon Paris was an after-party in "LaCantine" a collaborative workspace in paris.
AF83 one of our partners and Ori Pekelman their CTO where instrumental in building the place and it serves several startups that deal with Open source and lets them share resources and sublet a space for a reasonable (and subsidized) fee.

37 days to go and as we lift our heads from the crunch of delivering projects, working with clients, and raising families we finally have some time to outreach about what you can expect from Linnovate at DrupalCon paris...

Drupalager take 2

The beer is fermenting as we speak, this timed brewed by "DrupalHager" - yhager - the guy from imagefield crop fame, and one of the most talented Drupal developers we know.

I just saw this Kaltura Christmas special in TechCrunch and it finally spurred me to write a bit about an interesting battleground that is forming between video platform solutions which are releasing access to their platform through drupal modules.

In our effort to grow drupal in the local foss and commercial scene, we decided to spice up one of the bigger opensource conferences in israel - August Penguin.

One of our developers makes a really cool homemade beer and we decided that we should take these two passions (alcohol + drupal) and brew them into one...
So we present you with DRUPALAGER!