Why Drupal

Why Drupal is part of the "State of Drupal" presentation 2012 by Dries Buytaert at DrupalCon Denver.

Source: http://buytaert.net/state-of-drupal-presentation-march-2012

Choosing An Open Source CMS - Walpole - Drupal from Jeff Walpole

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Ask for Task

"Ask for Task is a canadian online service platform where, rather than relying on classified website`s or putting off until it’s too late; you can now just post a task on Ask for Task and get it done faster! All you have to do is signup and Post a task for free. Local reliable people in neighborhood or as we call them "Taskers" then bid and the lowest gets selected. Once the task is done, The “Asker” marks the task as completed and gives feedback to the tasker. http://www.askfortask.com/ then releases the amount reserved by Asker and transfers it to Tasker. "

Wicked Problems: Problems Worth Solving

"A wicked problem is a social or cultural problem that is difficult or impossible to solve for as many as four reasons: incomplete or contradictory knowledge, the number of people and opinions involved, the large economic burden, and the interconnected nature of these problems with other problems. Poverty is linked with education, nutrition with poverty, the economy with nutrition, and so on. These problems are typically offloaded to policy makers, or are written off as being too cumbersome to handle en masse. Yet these are the

How do Big US Firms Use Open Source Software?

"Looking at the types of organizations that adopt OSS we found that companies using an OSS system have significantly higher revenues and assets than users of proprietary systems. These facts probably indicate that OSS adoption is driven by economies of scale and scope, and that it is also associated with better performance. Furthermore, we saw that an industry sector's IT capital stock share was positively correlated with its OSS adoption ratio, indicating that the adoption of OSS benefits from a high intensity of IT usage as measured through the IT capital stock share.

Breakthrough in High Altitude Wind Power

"Boston, MA – March 27, 2012 - Altaeros Energies, a wind energy company formed out of MIT, announced today that it has demonstrated high altitude power production from an automated prototype of its airborne wind turbine.

Icelandic government makes a push for open-source software

"The Icelandic government has launched a project to get all public institutions using free and open-source software. This means switching from Windows to Linux, and ditching Oracle and Word in favour of open-source alternatives."

Munich Has Saved €4M So Far After Switch To Linux

"Mayor Ude reported today that the city of Munich has saved €4 million so far by switching its IT infrastructure from Windows NT and Office to Linux and OpenOffice. At the same time, the number of trouble tickets decreased from 70 to 46 per month. Savings were €2.8M from software licensing and €1.2M from hardware because demands are lower for Linux compared to Windows 7."

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