1 – You can receive an MMS and publish it in your site as a node (VozMob project). The only thing that prevent us from doing it better and faster is the lack of a clear standard in MMS, or to be more precise, phone companies just don't like standards, so a filter must be written for every phone company. The community provides with filters in a regular basis.
2 – Drupal is becoming a base for more specific distributions, the same way Linux does, so Drupal is becoming a base to create products. Some of the most prominent projects are:
Open Atrium: A basecamp-like project management tool. Although less usable than Basecamp, a huge effort has been done in the user interface and theme to make it user-friendly. Expandable like Drupal, but targeted at managing projects, not trying to do too many things at once. Worth a look.
Smallcore: a skimmed down D7 distribution, reduced to 50% or less. They have not released anything yet as it's based on D7, but there's some buzz on it.
D7UX – Drupal 7 Usability Experience project: A Drupal distribution for the 80% of the users that are not tech savvy. A huge effort on building a new user and admin interface for Drupal having usability as #1 priority. Very, very interesting.
Drupal Gardens: Drupal offered as SAAS, by Drupal's founder new company, Acquia. Shooting at the same customer profile SquareSpace or other services of the sort, but having Drupal as backend. Not interesting for us, but looks very, very promising.
3 – Drupal Migrate and Table Wizard is the Zen for migrations. You can migrate sites from other versions, other CMSs or even get content from an Excel file without writing a line of code. It's soooooo cool! No more customers trapped in an old Xoops 2.something site with crappy modules not supported anymore.
4 – Many people had the same idea as me: building a “send SMS” module. But while they were thinking about it, I wrote the module and released a notice. Haha! And the fact that this works as an action just raises the 'wow!' factor, as this makes the module really useful. Now I plan to adapt this module to the Click-a-Tel SMS platform, much cheaper than the spanish ones.
5 – It's good to be a themer in a world of coders.
6 – I also learned how to accomplish the Spanish Digital Privacy Law on Drupal, which is very strict. If you can accomplish that, you can accomplish any country's privacy law.
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