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Drupal Voices 15: Dave Cohen on Drupal for Facebook Knight Grant
Listen online:
- DrupalVoices015.mp3
Dave Cohen talks about his suite of Facebook integration modules that he is working on for his grant proposal that received funding from the Knight Foundation.
For more information:
Drupal for Facebook module
Drupal for Facebook site
Comments
Have to check out the Drupal
Have to check out the Drupal for facebook module. Please fix the link to the http://www.drupalforfacebook.org/ website in your show notes.
Fixed.
Thanks!
Facebook does support open source
Contrary to the comments about "community" and "culture", it should be noted that Facebook is a major open source contributor. The memcached code that many Drupal sites run has a huge debt of gratitude to Facebook.
In addition to the 16 projects listed on their open source resources page
, they also have open sourced their platform and API.Facebook is perhaps the most sophisticated and innovative website that there is, and Drupallers stand well to study their architecture and how things work. Thanks Dave for carrying this project along so well and securing its future. Thanks KDI for your well placed support.
well said
Good points, Robert. Listening to myself talk it sounds like I'm talking about the Facebook company itself. But I intended those comments about the developer community meetings I've attended. That is, not Facebook employees but outsiders building apps with the APIs. In that community, people usually keep what they're working on secret, until its live at which point they want to demo it as much as possible. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that. It's reasonable business practice.
I don't mean to downplay Facebook's significant open source contributions. And I feel fortunate to be involved in the Drupal community, which is extremely active, responsive and open. More so than any project I've been involved with.