acquia

If you want to blackout your site in protest of SOPA/PIPA, here's what you gotta do:

(hat tip to http://www.zachstronaut.com for the blackout page).

Important: Keep the url mysite.drupalgardens.com/admin/content handy. 

Once you follow these instructions, your site will go dark (if it is January 18th 2012).  If you want to get it back, you will need to delete the block later.

1. Navigate to Structure -> Blocks
2. Click on "Add Block"
3. In the "Body" use the dropdown to change from "Safe HTML" to "Full HTML" (the buttons will go away)
4. Make the block show by setting a region.
5. Copy the following and paste it into the body:

<script type="text/javascript">
    var a = new Date;
    if (18 == a.getDate() && 0 == a.getMonth() && 2012 == a.getFullYear()) {
        window.onload = function () {
            var cover = document.createElement('div');
            cover.style.position = 'fixed';
            cover.style.zIndex = 9999999;
            cover.style.width = window.innerWidth + 'px';
            cover.style.height = window.innerHeight + 'px';
            cover.style.top = 0;
            cover.style.backgroundColor = '#000';
            cover.innerHTML = '<iframe

I presented at DrupalCon London on contributing to Drupal.  The talk is called “How to have an open relationship… with software.”  Sadly, there is no nudity, polygamy or even dirty jokes.

 Nope, it’s just about how it is strategic to contribute to Open Source software and techniques for sales, marketing, management and developers. I did the same talk at Drupal Camp Montreal in September (video and Slides - not matching video).

• Engineers have good stability and income
• Managers are scared to death we aren’t really working hard
• We had a boss screen in DOOM and it worked, etc.

My employer Acquia is a commercial open source company.  That means that they make money (commercial) off of software they don't own (open source) and there are more than one of us (company).  It should be clear then that Acquia's survival is totally dependent on the success of the software it provides services around, Drupal.  

Drupal has been doing exceptionally well as of late.  In fact, Acquia just relased "the showcase"; it is a website detailing over 1000 high profile Drupal sites.  To name drop a few, The Whitehouse, Amnesty International, NCAA, The Economist, www.jacobsingh.name, and many, many more.  Drupal is charchterized by having a very robust community of thousands of developers, rapid innovation, successful conferences, local community organizing and a thriving ecosystem of service providers.  

The main thing threatening Drupal's growth right now is a lack of expert Drupal talent to meet the demand.   We now compete with the very largest proprietary systems and software companies in all industries.  We have the tech, it's proven, but we need enough people to execute.