A rather nice vide from Pink Elephant on the past of future of IT featuring kinetic typography.

With the release date of Drupal 7 known, it is time to start the marketing campaign at full force. There is a master ticket -that should be the last critical- on making as much noise as possible to all target audiences. Please add your ideas there and work on them in a separate issue.

So far it has lead to a couple of extreme cool ideas that will become reality. For example, a 100 meter high animation on a skyscraper in Rotterdam. Note that for a short periode of time, your animation is still welcome! See the issue and previous blog entry. Another extreem cool idea realised By Baris and Roy is the drupal7releaseparty.org websites with dozens of parties around the world.

But we need more. Pressreleases, translations, videos.. And for example a banner like the one above (flickr) hinting at the appeal of Wikipedia. With a link towards a text like wikipedia's but then why (according to Dries who should okay this) people should download / upgrade Drupal 7. Please help in the issue queue at 1005178 and with Dries’ permission we can run this banner on 1.5% of all the websites in the world. But why stop there? :-)

update: be sure to read Write the Drupal 7 release announcement as well

The demand for Drupal developers is extreme, much higher then the supply and given the fact that Drupal is still increasing in popularity and getting from "A Good PHP Developer" to a "Drupal Developer" will take you some time, it is likely to stay so for some time. Demand and supply are not in balance. It is even unlikely that we will ever get into a "Porc cycle" (CoWeb model), so /do/ study to become a Drupalista!

Due to this extreme demand, Drupal shops have to search hard for real talent and do post this online and want as many relevant eyballs as possible to see their job opening. There is nothing wrong with that by itself, but since many shops are on the d.o/planet, the planet became polluted. Everybody is hiring.

Therefor an issue was filed resulting in new rules on how / what to post on the planet, http://drupal.org/about/drupal-planet. One of the new rules is:

No hiring announcements

A couple of companies posted hiring announcements -in good faith- not knowing about these new rules. Their intend was not bad. But if you are posting to the planet, please read the new rules and keep them in mind before you submit your article.

Good content is welcome at the planet, jop openings can go to many places and is very welcome at http://groups.drupal.org/jobs.

Speaking of the Planet, if you haven't posted for a long time to the Planet, or your site has been taken offline, please look at "clean up the planet" and file an issue if you think your site can be taken off the planet. On behalf of future generations, thank you :-)

Friday March 19 (9:00-18:00 CET) the Dutch Drupal community will organise the 6th "DrupalJam".

A DrupalJam is a place where anyone interested in Drupal can get together to discuss about one of the best Open Source CMS-es out there. A friendly palce where users, coders, business people as well as people interested in web technologies. This time the Jam will be helded at the StayOkay hotel in Amsterdam, Timorplein 21. More information about the StayOkay location can be found on Maps as well. We expect over 200 people (up to 300!) visiting the DrupalJam and we will have attendees form over four countries.

It only seemed like yesterday.. The first DrupalJam I co-organised was in a basement with 50 or so people (top left). Not unlike the second DrupalCon, held in Amsterdam (right).

And now, 6 editions later we have reached the scale of the third DrupalCon in Brussels as can be seen on Dries' site. And this is a global trends. While DrupalCons get bigger and bigger, there is also a trend to localise DrupalCon's that are reaching the same scale as DrupalCon's were only a a few editions ago. And with that the global DrupalCon problems get local as wel, continuity, professionalism en sponsors.

I am proud to say -not meant to toot my own horn- that the organisers of the DrupalJam so far did an excellent job. The very healthy ecoshere around Drupal in the Netherlands made that we have the following premium sponsors; Microsoft, Radio Radio Netherlands Worldwide, Dutch Open Projects, Internet Unlimited, KPN, NCRV, OneShoe and Sogeti. Other sponsors include VLC (gold), Lucius, Acquia, Synetic, Wizzlern (silver) and Merge (bronze). Looking at this list there are at least two key things to note. The first one is a classic one, the distribution is skewed to the left meaning we made the premium sponsorship to cheap.

The second one is more important. The ecoshere around Drupal grew and outgrew the standard Drupal implementers. KPN (fortune 500, telephone, mobile, ADSL, high end webhosting), NCRV (public broadcaster using Drupal a lot), Radio Netherlands Worldwide (public broadcaster using Drupal, see Dries' site) and Microsoft are not the "standard" sponsors of an Open Source project. It shows that the market around Drupal is maturing and that parties that have an indirect stake are willing to invest and give back. And we do thank them for that, as well as thank our other sponsors!

Dries once told me he wanted to have local DrupalCamps in every city around the world. We are not there yet. But I do think there is a (bi-)yearly DrupalCamp in every free country around the world right now. And when these will become too big, there will be a DrupaCamp in every major city around the world by 2015 for sure.

Drupal is coming home in 2015, your home! But if you can not wait that long, sign up for the DrupalJam in Amsterdam, look the sessions and propose a session (login required). Please do contact me or Bart Feenstra if you have any questions. DrupalJam will rock!

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As you might know, I am a big fan of using EyeTV as well as Plex on my mac mini hooked to my telly. Plex is the best mediacentre for the mac, EyeTV a way to view live TV on your Mac with EPG and much more.

Sometime ago I posted about integrating them, watching live or timeshifted TV on your mac within Plex on this post. Though the code is very rough and far from finished and seems to be orphaned already, I would like to suggest a cool feature.

Wath EyeTV in Plex and have Plex look in to the EGP and searches for tweets about the program you are watching, live or timeshifted. I do not watch much TV let alone live TV, but part of the joy of watching TV is seeing what others have to say about this via twitter. And watching this on a TV with live tweets updates about the program you are watching sure sounds something that TV's will have in half a decade.

BTW: follow me on twitter on @bertboerland.