Searching for the next watershed moment for the Drupal project. This is the version of this talk I gave at the Cologne Drupal user group and Kölner WebTreff meeting on September 22nd, 2011.
"Subclassing and Composition – A Pythonic Tour of Trade-Offs", Hynek Schlawack
Drupal for e_commerce-005_dugk_220911
1. Drupal &
e-commerce
How Drupal products
are good news for us all.
Jeffrey A. “jam” McGuire
Acquia Manager of Community Affairs
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3. Drupal is transforming business
This has happened before in other open
source communities and ecosystems.
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4. “Linux is a transformational technology.
Jim Whitehurst, CEO of Red Hat - http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/17/red-hat-ceo-at-linuxcon-i-have-no-idea-whats-next/
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5. “The technology of Linux empowers
advancements and innovations that have
nothing to do with the technology of Linux.
That is to say ...
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6. “Linux supports the development of
new business models, as well as
new technologies.”
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19. Dries Buytaert,
Drupal Project Lead
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20. Drupal 7 is being
adopted more rapidly
than any other version
of Drupal before.
DrupalCon London
Keynote, August 2011
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21. Thanks to the
innovations in Drupal 7,
we're starting to see
great things happen.
DrupalCon London
Keynote, August 2011
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22. The Commerce module
is a great example
of leveraging Drupal 7.
I think it's going to
expose Drupal to a new
world.
DrupalCon London
Keynote, August 2011
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23. Drupal Commerce 1.0
was released August 30th, 2011
at DrupalCon London
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24. As of August 21st, 2011,
2934 websites are doing business
using Drupal Commerce
http://drupal.org/project/usage/commerce
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25. Drupal Commerce
empowers us all ...
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27. Where are we
coming from?
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28. 1980s:
Early experiments
mson Ho l i days, UK
1981: Tho
2B online shopping
B
2: Minite l, France
198
1985: Nissan UK
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29. 1990s: !!
t co m!
The web era
Do
ebpage o rdering
994: Pizza Hut w
1
Dell, eBa y - .co m
1995: Amazon,
aba Gro up & ATG
1998: Alib
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55. Global E-Commerce Technology Market Size 2011
36.4B€
E-Commerce
Technology
Market
Global
492B€
E-Commerce
Market
Based on Gartner, Forrester and Internet Retailer
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56. Global
E-Commerce Drupal – Services
Technology & related products
Market 0.6B€
36.4B€
E-Commerce
Software
3.3B€
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57. But ...
We need to
get our act together.
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69. e-commerce ... Drupal
Business-driven Developer-driven
Open Source? Open Source!
Now In a few months
Buy Develop and Contribute
E-Commerce Culture Web culture
Products, Revenues Content, Community
Roadmap mandatory Roadmap optional
Site down: lose revenues Site down: lose traffic
B2B/B2C B2C
Moving fast into Mobile, POS Moving slowly into Mobile
No religion Love Web standards
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71. Don’t sell Drupal.
Sell solutions
to real business problems.
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72. T hank yo u!
Jeffrey A. "jam" McGuire
jam@acquia.com
Acquia Manager of Community Affairs
drupalcommerce.org
commerceguys.com
acquia.com
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