Probably this single most important announcement at DrupalCon Denver last week (let's face it, the single most important announcement in the universe last week) was that the 2013 DrupalCon will be held in our very own Portland, OR.
ThinkShout is proud to announce that we will be helping River Network organize the first ever "Techno-Lounge" event at the 2012 National River Rally in Portland, OR. This reception on the evening of Saturday, May 5th, will provide an opportunity for technology leaders in the river protection and conservation community to show-off their wares, their maps, their apps and other web-based tools. By participating in this event, organizations can help their fellow watershed advocates better understand how they can leverage technology to support our shared goals of conserving rivers across the country. Also...participants will have the opportunity to drink great PNW beer, as the Techno-Lounge will be a cornerstone of the Rally reception on Saturday night.
Well, we're at it again...our team is growing as we're continuing to build more and more tools to help our nonprofit clients achieve their worthy goals and we a talented developer to fill out the ranks.
Are you passionate about Drupal web application development? Do you want to be paid to make significant contributions to the open source community? Do you want to go to sleep each night proud of the clients you serve? Are you looking for an employer who will invest in your professional development? Are you looking for a cool geek community with a great location in an awesome progressive town? Do you enjoy organic burritos and acupuncture (both available downstairs from our office)? Do you want you want to take your dog to work? Do you want to help choose the Spotify playlists we listen to in the office?
ThinkShout is proud to announce that we are facilitating the first ever Drupal Day for Nonprofit IT Professionals event at this year's Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) April 3rd, 2012, at the Hilton Union Square in San Francisco.
Historically, the Signup module has been the go-to solution for managing event registrations (i.e., sign-ups) in Drupal. This venerable module has nearly 8000 reported installs, 14 contributors, and a vibrant ecosystem of additional contrib modules (such as Signup Integration for Ubercart). Signup is also a key component of the Conference Organizing Distribution.
All this considered, only 500 of Signup's installs are in Drupal 7, for which the module still does not have a tagged, stable release. And since the module must maintain an upgrade path for all those users, taking full advantage of Drupal 7's new features, such as the entity system, is very challenging.
Given ThinkShout's comittment to Drupal innovation, last year we began work on an entity-based alternative to Signup, drawing significant inspiration from the amazing work that was already done there. We were very excited about the benefits offered by an entity-based registration system, namely the ability to add custom fields of any type to a registration, along with hooking into the various entity APIs. We launched an early version of the tool on Manhattan Kayak Company's new website and started a conversation with the Signup team about possible collaboration. While productive and receptive, things were moving a bit slowly, so we started up a new Entity Registrations project on Drupal.org and have recently pushed the code to a point where we want to share and discuss it with the community.
When I started at ThinkShout in June 2011, Responsive Web Design by Ethan Marcotte had just been released. I read an excerpt of the book, Fluid Images, on A List Apart and was intrigued. I immediately bought the book and devoured it.
At the same time, Lev Tsypin, one of the partners at ThinkShout, and I started talking about HTML5 themes in an effort to choose a new standard HTML5 Drupal theme for ThinkShout to work off of. We decided to see what HTML5 themes had momentum in the Drupal community and we tested out and reviewed many current HTML5 themes out there.
Implementing truly gorgeous online maps still requires some custom code and technical know-how – but, the cost and learning curve involved has dropped considerably.
Almost exactly a year ago, after over a year of flirting with the idea of partnering, Sean and I finally tied the knot. Our initial goals when starting ThinkShout were modest:
We certainly have a long ways to go, but we're proud of how far we've come and are even more excited for what the year ahead holds.
Alas, the "we should blog about that" queue is getting pretty heavy here at the office. It's been a busy ten months since Lev and I officially opened the doors here at ThinkShout, Inc. And as we've been talking with developers this month about coming on board with the team, we've realized that we're missing an opportunity to share with the community what's been inspiring us in our own work, as well as in the Drupal community at large.
This blog post does a poor job of addressing that fact. But here goes...
We're at it again...our team is growing as we take on more and more exciting Drupal web application development projects. ThinkShout is looking to hire both a senior Drupal engineer and a site-builder with project management skills.
