PRONOVIX

Drupal executives clearly expressed their interest in learning about company best practices regarding software use at the 1st DrupalCXO meetup in Brussels in 2010.

This is a crosspost of the wiki I create at http://groups.drupal.org/node/109119

In February LeeHunter posted his wish list of features for "an awesome technical communication CMS". I've copied his list and processed the comments in the discussion and some of my own, and added our current status implementing these features and ideas of how any missing features could be implemented in the near future.

We've published the first version of our DITA Integration module wich allows to handle DITA documentations with Drupal. It's still being developed and we would not suggest to use on a live site, but as a proof of concept, it's ready for testing! For now, we have the following features:

After stimulating discussions at DrupalCon Copenhagen, a ’new breed of Drupal events’ came to life: the Drupal Executives Meetup (DrupalCXO).

As a concrete outcome of the 1st Drupal Executives Meetup (DrupalCXO, Brussels, 8-10 October 2010), Kristof Van Tomme, the main organizer of the event, asked me to put together the survey “Software Used in Drupal Development” to get an overview of the types of software Drupal companies use, and to get a feel how efficient the different packages are for use in Drupal companies and how they could be improved.

At Drupalcon Copenhagen other business leaders told me over and over again how they are interested in an intensified collaboration with other Drupal shops. Several people also pointed out that this is an urgent matter, a lot is changing in the community: in the last year a number of Drupal shops and freelancers have been merging into bigger companies, many companies have been hiring at exponential growth rates, lots of big new opportunities have become available and the elephants have entered the game. Things are evolving dramatically fast.

This small extension to the apache configuration is part of the standard Drupal distribution. It starts with a dot, so it's considered hidden in unix-based systems. It's not really important, is it?
Well, the truth is, it's one of the most important files.

Recently we discovered that a pretty high profile Drupal-based site, forgot to deploy that small file, which enabled everyone to list the /sites/ directory. You could even get to the /sites/default directory, where there was a "backup" file of the settings.php with the database settings!