To market, to market...

Submitted by kattekrab on Sun, 19/02/2012 - 15:55

 

My apologies for arriving a little late to the party. 
 
Thanks to the latest DrupalEasy podcast I've just read these 2 articles on Drupal Marketing, and most of the comments. 
I was also lucky enough to be present in London to hear Dries' call to the faithful to step up our marketing efforts and really help Drupal succeed.
 
There's been some attention paid to business focussed events, and the creation and collation of "marketing materials". But how much attention is being paid to the market itself?

No body scanners please

Submitted by kattekrab on Sun, 05/02/2012 - 18:37

I've just written a letter to the Minister for Transport. By hand, on paper.  As soon as I transcribe what I wrote there, here, I'll put it in an envelope, address it, stick a stamp on it, and wander down to the post box and hope the lovely  people of Australia Post will deliver it to Canberra by Tuesday.

Storify Drupal Downunder 2012

Submitted by kattekrab on Sun, 29/01/2012 - 15:57

Playing about with Storify for the first time as a way of shaping the post event report for Drupal Downunder. It claims to have an export to Drupal site feature (or tumblr, or wordpress, or posterous or mailchimp) but I couldn't get that to work. Instead - I've used the embed code. On balance, I'd say Storify is a pretty nifty web app.

This post is very long, mostly cos it has lots of pix, embedded vids of each of the the keynotes and is interspersed with tweets and other snippets about the conference. Hopefully, it gives a taste of the event and the fun that was had.

Support Ada. Donate

Submitted by kattekrab on Sun, 18/12/2011 - 13:05

Support women in open tech and culture - Donate to The Ada Initiative

"Women hold up half the sky"

But they aren't involved in half of the decision making that matters. There are not enough women in power. By that I mean women in politics and critically today, not enough women in technology.

Drupal Downunder Attendees

Submitted by kattekrab on Thu, 08/12/2011 - 15:29

Graph showing role of DDU2011 attendees

A couple of people have asked about the kinds of people likely to go to Drupal Downunder.

So we dug into the stats from DDU2011 and discovered that 71% of people registered on the site identified themselves as Developers.

We've very actively tried to expand the appeal of Drupal Downunder to attract the broader Drupal community too.

Drupal7

Submitted by kattekrab on Sat, 05/11/2011 - 19:00

I've finally upgraded my blog to Drupal7

Huzzah!

heritage and hysterics

Submitted by kattekrab on Thu, 27/10/2011 - 08:21

This gorgeous photo of The Queen in Melbourne on the Royal Tram made me smile this morning.

I've long been a proponent of an Australian Republic - but the populist hysteria of politicians, this photo, and the Kingdom of the Netherlands is actually making me rethink that position.

At least for today.  Long may she reign over us.