DrupalEasy Podcast 56: Going Vertical

Sean Larkin, one of the maintainers of the Watershed Now Drupal distribution, joins Andrew, Ryan, and Mike in this week's podcast. Watershed Now is a highly targeted (vertical) distribution whose goal is to help conservation organizations get useful web sites up-and-running quickly. Sean talks about his background in various watershed projects, some of the features of the distribution, as well as the business model for this type of Drupal product.

In addition to the interview with Sean, the group discusses Acquia's push for more usability, April Fools Day in the Drupal community, a potential competitor for Views, as well as a few other topics and their picks of the week!

Five Stories

Watershed Now
- Watershed Now distribution - http://watershednow.com/
- Watershed Now demo site - http://demo.watershednow.com/
- Watershed Now project page - http://drupal.org/project/watershednow
- ThinkShout, Inc. (Sean Larkin's company) - http://thinkshout.com
- Drupal for Good group - http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-for-good
- Posterous - http://posterous.com
White House releases source code for IT Dashboard - http://buytaert.net/white-house-releases-source-code-for-it-dashboard
A More Usable Drupal - http://acquia.com/blog/more-usable-drupal
Drupal April Fools
- Certified to Suck - http://tomgeller.com/announcing-certifiedtosuckcom http://www.certifiedtosuck.com/
- Drupal Without Functions: A Proposal for D8 - http://technosophos.com/content/drupal-without-functions-proposal-d8
- Announcing the Drupal Retail Store - http://www.palantir.net/blog/announcing-drupal-retail-store
Competition for Views?
- Apache SOLR Pages - http://pingv.com/blog/announcing-apache-solr-pages
- Entity Field Query - http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes--entity.inc/class/EntityField…

Picks of the Week

Mike - Fast Permissions Administration module - http://drupal.org/project/fpa by Corey Aufang (corey.aufang) (via MetalToad.com)
Ryan - EtherPad - real-time collaboration - http://etherpad.org/
Andrew - Admin Theme module - http://drupal.org/project/admin_theme by Davy Van Den Bremt
Sean - http://cloud9ide.com/

Thanks to Webenabled for sponsoring this week's podcast. Create, develop, and deploy Drupal applications entirely on the Webenabled platform.

Site of the Week

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New Watershed Now website launched today

It was /really/ fun doing this podcast with team DrupalEasy. Awesome learning about Web Enabled too. I can't wait to try their product.

I also wanted to let folks know that we just launched a new website on Watershed Now this morning. Check out http://potomacriverkeeper.org of what our clients are doing with the distribution.

Cheers,
Sean Larkin
ThinkShout.com

pingvision no longer is in operation

You mentioned pingVision a few times. They no longer operate as a company. They "ceased operations" in the fall of 2009 after growing to about 19 people.

There is a different company called PINGV Creative whose website is pingv.com (which is somewhat confusing because pingVision LLC also used the domain pingv.com). PINGV Creative has the same management team and one employee who worked for that management team at pingVision.

April 13, 2011