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The Acquia Podcast
by Jeffrey A. "jam" McGuire - Evangelist, Acquia
The Acquia Podcast: Jeffrey A. "jam" McGuire and guests in conversation on topics in and around Drupal, open source, technology, community, and business. Meet people and hear stories at the interface between the digital and the real. Hear about challenges, successes, and how open source thinking and practice is changing the world.
Episodes
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256: Drupal 8 Certification Crash Course at Texas Camp 2017!
At DrupalCon Baltimore, I got the chance to chat with David Porter and David Stinemetze from Rackspace. Listen to this conversation to learn a little more about the Daves, Drupal at Rackspace, and the value of Acquia's certification program to individuals and organizations. If you can make it,...
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255: No one wants a website - Don't sell Drupal, move up the value chain!
Episode 255: Jeffrey A. "jam" McGuire - keynote address, Drupal Camp London, 2017 See the conversation video at the Acquia Developer Center: https://dev.acquia.com/podcast/255-no-one-wants-website-dont-sell-drupal-move-value-chain Subscribe to the Acquia Podcast in iTunes and rate this episode!...
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254: Mumbai Memories - meet Rakesh James
My trusty microphone, camera, and I recorded a few great conversations at DrupalCon in Mumbai that have never been released until now. Today, a conversation with Rakesh James, who credits Dries for giving him a way to live and support his family with Drupal. Rakesh is an extraordinary and…
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253: Mumbai Memories - meet Abhishek Anand
My trusty microphone, camera, and I recorded a few great conversations in Mumbai that have never been released until now. Today, talking about full-time contribution to Drupal 8 while building the Acquia Lightning distribution, passion for community and paying it forward in open source, and…
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252: Mumbai Memories - meet Neetu Morwani
My trusty microphone, camera, and I recorded a few great conversations in Mumbai that have never been released until now. Next up in "Mumbai Memories", taking Drupal 8 from awesome to super-awesome with Neetu Morwani! Neetu landed a Drupal-related job right after graduation, as she explains:...
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251: Mumbai Memories - meet Ujval Shah
My trusty microphone, camera, and I recorded a few great conversations in Mumbai that have never been released until now. So lets' get started with a little thing I'm calling "Mumbai Memories". Meet Ujval Shah from the state of Gujarat in India. He's been doing and evangelizing Drupal for a long...
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250: What's in a Driesnote? Meet Suchi Garg
Suchi Garg is an IT professional through and through and happened upon PHP and Drupal essentially by accident at work. As of 2017, she has been working exclusively in Drupal for a decade and is still very passionate about code, contribution, the community, and passing on her knowledge through...
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249: Changing lives, changing the world
DrupalCon Dublin keynote community voices - In Acquia podcast 248, Acquia Office of the CTO Multimedia Designer, Alena "ASH" Heath and I talked about helping capture stories of contribution and change from the Drupal community. In this quick follow-up, here are the soundbites that were featured…
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248: ASH 'n jam talk about collecting Drupal community stories.
Acquia Office of the CTO Multimedia Designer, Alena "ASH" Heath and I collaborated in 2016, collecting stories about contribution and changing lives from members of the Drupal community. Soundbites from some of those conversations were included in Dries Buytaert's "Driesnote" keynote address at...
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247: Diversity, Differentiation, Value(s)
While passing through London in late 2016, I sat down with Tim Deeson, lead at the Deeson agency. We talked about the history of his company, delivering value with Drupal is more than delivering code, and Tim's revelations and action regarding diversity at his company and in the tech industry.…
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246: Come to Drupal Camp London 2017!
A conversation about the event and why you should be there, too, this time around with Ben Wilding and Waliur Rahman, members of the 2016 Drupal Camp London organizing team. Come along March 3-5, 2017, to Europe's biggest (best?) community event on the calendar! Tickets and information here:...
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57: Godspeed, webkenny - rebroadcast and commentary
Acquia Podcast 57 rebroadcast + commentary - Kenny "webkenny" Silanskas passed away in late 2016. Kenny was a Drupalist, a colleague at Acquia, a musician, and a good, funny person who touched my life and the lives of many others. Godspeed, Kenny. We miss you and your huge laugh. Here, Robert...
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245: Drupal Association Board Community Elections 2017 - meet Megan Sanicki
In this podcast and video, Megan Sanicki, Executive Director of the Drupal Association, and I talk about what the DA Board is all about and why you might want to run for a community directorship. The 2nd half of the podcast is also a chance to get to know Megan. Megan fell in love with the...
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244: PHP FIG, unsplintering PHP for us all - meet Beth Tucker Long
This conversation with Beth Tucker Long (@e3bethtl) is the one of a series of interviews Campbell Vertesi (@CampbellVertesi) and I carried out in preparation for DrupalCon Asia in Mumbai. Now, we're sharing all the good stuff we captured but didn't have time to cover in 40 minutes in Mumbai. Our...
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210: Visit the dorm room where Drupal was born! - Rebroadcast
Rebroadcast: Drupal launch interviews, one year on. 18 minutes audio & video with Dries in Antwerp, visiting the dorm room where he invented Drupal for the first time in 15 years. Read the full post and see the conversation video at the Acquia Developer Center:...
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243: A walk through New Orleans with Shyamala Rajaram
A conversation with our newest community representative to the Drupal Association Board, Director at Large, Shyamala Rajaram, recorded walking to the New Orleans Convention Center during DrupalCon NOLA 2016. Read the full post and see the conversation video at the Acquia Developer Center:...
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242: Meet Paul Johnson, Drupal Social Media Lead
I sat down with Drupal Social Media Lead, Paul Johnson at Drupal Camp London 2016, a few weeks after DrupalCon Asia in Mumbai. Paul runs the official community social media accounts on Twitter and elsewhere. I feel Paul is a kindred soul, since he and I both love highlighting and celebrating the...
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241: "Nothing About Us Without Us"
Following her inspiring keynote on diversity, inclusion, and equality at Drupal Camp Costa Rica 2016, I got the chance to speak with Nikki Stevens on front of my mic and camera. Along with sharing some fun Drupal memories like the time young Nikki broke production when Steve Rude was out for the...
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240: How Indigo Herbs runs (almost) everything on Drupal!
In December 2015, I sat down with Michael Hanby-Director-and Tawny Bartlett-Website Coordinator-from Indigo Herbs in Glastonbury, England and dug into their history with Drupal and just how much of their business they run with it. Tawny is really inspiring: she learned Drupal and its component…
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239: Drupal 8 Content Workflow Initiative - 2/2
Jozef Toth talks about the Drupal 8 CWI - I got the chance to follow up on my conversation with Dave Hall and Dick Olsson about the Drupal 8 Content Workflow Initiative (Podcast: Drupal 8 Content Workflow Initiative - Part 1). This post includes the video and full transcript of our conversation…
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238: Personalization Happens - Acquia at dmexco 2016
Conversations about delivering business needs with digital tools, or "How to get Drupal into the conversation without talking technology." Acquia and several partners had a successful presence at the 2016 dmexco trade show for digital marketing and advertising. By "successful," I mean we spoke…
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237: Drupal 8 Content Workflow Initiative - 1/2
I got the chance to talk with Dave Hall and Dick Olsson from Pfizer at DrupalCon New Orleans about the Drupal 8 Content Workflow Initiative. This post includes the video and full transcript of our conversation, as well as links to many of the people and topics we touched on! Read the full post…
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236: Live from DrupalCon Mumbai: Meet Acquia Pune!
A conversation from DrupalCon Asia DrupalCon Mumbai 2016 with members of Acquia's Pune, India office: Prassad Shirgaonkar, Prassad Gogate, Prafful Nagwani, and Jeffrey A. "jam" McGuire in which we touch on Drupal and community in India, the history of the DrupalCon Prenote, Drupal's multilingual...
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235: Mastering Drupal 8 Views - Meet Gregg Marshall
Gregg Marshall contacted me while he was finalizing his book, Mastering Drupal 8 Views, for Packt Publishing. Flatteringly, he asked me whether I'd be willing to write a foreword for it, after having a look at a late draft. I had a look, I liked it, I wrote the foreword and was pleased to run…
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234: Come on down to Drupal South 2016!
Vladimir Roudakov and I sat down at DrupalCon New Orleans to talk about an event close to my heart: the 2016 edition of Drupal South. This year, it'll be held in Australia's Gold Coast. Knowing the Australasian Drupal community, this will be a very high quality event in terms of what you'll be…
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233: Drupal 8 for beginners - meet Brandon Relph
I met 15-year-old serial entrepreneur--CEO of goCreative--and budding Drupalist Brandon Relph at the inaugural ThinkNation event in Canterbury, in December 2015. In this podcast, we talk about how he got to know Drupal 8 and what he thought of it. And I was surprised to learn that there is a…
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232: Acquia U and career changers - meet Doris Wong
Doris Wong and I sat down at Acquia's Boston HQ to talk about her interesting journey through HTML and frontend work, to UX, to fitness, and finally to Drupal and Acquia, and how even at Acquia it took time, Acquia U and three jobs (!) to really settle in. Here, we talk about that path and what…
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231: So how is it working with Drupal 8 every day, Michael Schmid?
Michael Schmid, Group CTO at Amazee, sat down in my Cologne office in March 2016 with the idea of comparing the promise of Drupal 8 to the real life experience of him and his teams. The conclusion? It's already great and will keep getting better. With so many Drupal 8 projects now underway, I...
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230: Acquia U, before and after - meet Ally Gonthier
I sat down with Ally Gonthier the first time I visited Acquia's then-new downtown Boston headquarters in mid-2015. At the time, she was preparing to leave her job as Support Coordinator at Acquia to enter Acquia's Drupal/tech bootcamp, known as Acquia U. When I returned to Boston in the spring of...
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229: BigPipe in Drupal 8: Better Perceived Performance for Free
Wim Leers, Senior Software Engineer in the Acquia Office of the CTO (aka "OCTO"), has been busy in the last few years making Drupal 8 amazing! His contributions include working with Fabian Franz on aspects of Drupal's new caching and rendering systems to make Drupal 8 performant. Today's podcast…
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228: Drupal 8 Lightning Distro and Module Acceleration Program
John Kennedy and I spoke about two exciting Drupal 8 projects he's running at Acquia in 2016. He's the Program Manager of the $500,000 US dollars Acquia is investing upgrading important modules from Drupal 7 to 8 as part of the Drupal 8 Module Acceleration Program. He's also the Product Manager…
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227: How Laura moved from Sales to Tech - a Drupal story
Laura Caraker's remarkable journey at Acquia. In this podcast, she and I talk through how she joined Acquia Sales, wanted to know more about Drupal and ended up joining the technical side of the house via her stint at Acquia U, Acquia's Drupal and tech boot camp. Read the full post and see the...
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226: Co-Podcast from Mumbai! Introducing The Geek Voice with Parth and Hussain
Welcome to the first of six podcasts I recorded in Mumbai as DrupalCon Asia 2016! It pleasure to record this conversation with an old Drupal friend and Acquia podcast guest--Hussain Dehgamwala (aka Hussain Abbas)--and a new Drupal friend and guest--Parth Gohil--both from Axelerant. And it was my...
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225: Drupal Association Director at Large 2016 Election Commentary
How does the Instant Runoff Voting system actually work? How could we make the Board elections better for the Drupal community? Thanks to everyone who put yourselves out there and ran in this election and congratulations to our newest board member, Shyamala Rajaram! I'm certain you will use this...
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224: So how was it? Recent graduates talk about Acquia U
I spoke with Matt Dooley and Colin Packenham at Acquia headquarters in downtown Boston about Acquia's tech bootcamp program, Acquia U. Both are career changers and were more or less new to Drupal when they got started with the program and I was interested to see what motivated them to make the...
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223: Benefits of Testing, PHP FIG, Drupal 8 - Sebastian Bergmann 2/2
Part 2 of 2 - Sebastian Bergmann, the maintainer of the PHPUnit testing framework, came to our office in Cologne, Germany to talk with Campbell Vertesi (@CampbellVertesi) and me about PHP, PHP FIG and the PSRs, and of course testing. It is another in the series of interviews we carried out with...
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222: Drupal, meet PHP FIG and PHPUnit - Sebastian Bergmann - 1/2
Part 1 of 2 - Sebastian Bergmann, the maintainer of the PHPUnit testing framework, came to our office in Cologne, Germany to talk with Campbell Vertesi (@CampbellVertesi) and me about PHP, PHP FIG and the PSRs, and of course testing. It is another in the series of interviews we carried out with...
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221: "Acquia U takes you from Good Cook to Restaurant Chef"
Erica Schroder joined Acquia in 2012 as a graduate of the Acquia U Drupal training bootcamp and is an inspiration to me as a successful career-changer. As part of running arts and dance businesses, she's had a hand in with Drupal since Drupal 5 days, but Acquia U and her subsequent experience has...
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220: Drupal, meet PHP FIG: PSR What? 2016 with Lorna Mitchell
PHP FIG? PSR Standards ... What are they? What are they important? This conversation with Lorna Mitchell is another in a series of interviews Campbell Vertesi (@CampbellVertesi) and I carried out in preparation for DrupalCon Asia in Mumbai. We are building the world's longest DrupalCon session…
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219: Around the Drupal World in 120 Days with Enzo
Listen to Drupal developer, contributor and businessperson, Enzo Garcia talk about how he is traveling around the world for 120 days in 2016, spreading the word in India, Asia and Australasia about building community and identity, the importance of Drupal 8 in the developing world, and the Drupal...
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218: Drupal, meet PHP FIG - Larry Garfield
This conversation with Larry Garfield (@crell) is the first in a series of interviews Campbell Vertesi (@CampbellVertesi) and I carried out in preparation for DrupalCon Asia in Mumbai. We are building the world's longest DrupalCon session and packing all 6+ hours of it with information and...
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217: Acquia U: "Making the world a better place, one Drupalist at a time." - Amy Parker 2/2
Part 2 of 2 - Amy Parker, the Director of Acquia University, and I sat down in Acquia's downtown Boston headquarters to talk about Acquia's technology boot camp, affectionately known as "Acquia U". In this podcast we talk about the diversity of candidate backgrounds, the candidate selection...
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216: Acquia U: "Jump in and own it. Kickstart your career." - Amy Parker 1/2
Amy Parker, the Director of Acquia University--aka Acquia U--and I sat down in Acquia's downtown Boston headquarters to talk about Acquia's technology training program. The course covers much more than Drupal; the curriculum is designed to produce people able to work in tech companies: Besides a...
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215: What the geeks got right - #HROS - Ambrosia Vertesi - 2/2
Part 2 of 2 - Sharing is good for business. Ambrosia Vertesti, Global VP Human Resources at Hootsuite, and I sat down to talk about how open source models are spreading to human resources and other, non-code parts of business today. In part one, I strove to understand HR's needs, terminology, and...
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214: Open Source Beyond Code: #HROS with Ambrosia Vertesi - 1/2
Part 1 of 2 - Getting beyond the talent war. I was thrilled to have the chance to sit down and have a conversation with Ambrosia Vertesti, Global VP Human Resources at Hootsuite. It's part of my exploration of how open source thinking and practices are spreading beyond the world of code to...
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213: Art, PHP, Sculpin & more at SymfonyLive Berlin 2015
I sat down with Rebekah Simensen & Beau Simensen as SymfonyLive Berlin 2015 was wrapping up. Beau is the maintainer of the Sculpin PHP static site generator and was until recently a voting member of PHP-FIG. Rebekah is the artist known as ninjagrl, whom I had heard of because of her #ossart,...
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212: Drupalsnack interview from Internetdagarna, Stockholm 2015
Something a little different this week: In cooperation with the Swedish "Drupalsnack" ("Talking Drupal") podcast, Leander Lindhal, Robert Douglass, & Jeffrey A. "jam" McGuire get together at the 2015 Internetdagarna in Stockholm. Read the full post and see the conversation video at the Acquia...
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211: Building digital government services? Drupal is the proven choice.
Jeffrey A. McGuire explains why Drupal is the open source, community software powering successful digital government around the world. I had the honor of speaking about Drupal and government to a packed room at the Internetdagarna in Stockholm, in November 2015. I used the opportunity to…
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210: Drupal 8 Release Mega Episode - 3/3 - Bonus Behind the Scenes!
Part 3 of 3 - VIDEO! Spend 18 minutes with Dries Buytaert and Jeffrey A. "jam" McGuire behind the scenes in Antwerp as we drive back to the dorm room where Drupal was invented and Dries seeing it for the first time in 15 years. Read the full post and see the conversation video at the Acquia...
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209: Drupal 8 Release and Happy Birthday Dries Mega Episode! 2/3
Part 2 of 3 - I got to spend a half a day with Drupal Project Lead, Dries Buytaert, in Antwerp recently. This was a rare pleasure, given the success of Drupal and Acquia in recent years and how busy we both are. In between shots for some professional video material, Dries and I sat down in front…
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The Acquia Podcast: Jeffrey A. "jam" McGuire and guests in conversation on topics in and around Drupal, open source, technology, community, and business. Meet people and hear stories at the interface between the digital and the real. Hear about challenges, successes, and how open source thinking and practice is changing the world.
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