DrupalCampLondon 2013: KeyNote speaker Robert Douglas
Channel: DrupalCamp London
Date: 2013-07-11

DrupalCampLondon 2013: KeyNote speaker Robert Douglas (CommerceGuys) on "Step 4: Distributions could help, if we do them right".

For the past eight years trumpets have sounded the coming triumph of Drupal Distributions and Installation Profiles. Virtually every large or ambitious Drupal company builds them. The promise and potential benefits of shortening development time and breaking into vertical markets remains as strong as ever. Yet not many sites are actually built on distributions. Are we doing distributions right? Will they ever help us reach the promised land?

Biography

 

Robert has worked with Drupal, full-time, since 2004. He wrote the first book that was published about Drupal ("Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB and Wordpress"), has been the technical editor of all three editions of "Pro Drupal Development", and was a contributing author to "The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7".

 

Robert was one of the first members of the Drupal Association General Assembly, a position he held from 2006 to 2011.  In 2008 he co-founded the Drupal-Initiative, Germany's non-profit for the promotion of Drupal. After 2-year tenure as the Vice President of that organization, he helped coordinate the election of a new Board and handed over control in 2010. 

 

As a developer he is best known for his contributions to the Memcache and Solr modules.

 

Role

 

As Director of Product Strategy, Robert guides the main product development initiatives, including the Commerce Kickstart distribution, Commerce Marketplace, and the cloud hosting product, Commerce Platform. Robert has been an advisor for Commerce Guys since the company was founded.

 

Employment history

 

Before joining Commerce guys, Robert was Senior Drupal Advisor and Solutions Architect at Acquia.