As part of a Drupal workshop that I'm teaching (the Drupal Career Starter Program), we've been discussing Acquia Commons. Our discussions led us to decide to have a local meetup specifically to learn more about it.

Since we expect a number of newbies at the meetup, I figured I post a quick video showing how to get Commons up-and-running using Acquia Dev Desktop. I found it to be a little bit tricky, mainly because the memory requirements for Commons are a bit higher than for core Drupal. The video shows how to tweak a couple of memory setting in the php.ini file.

Andrew Riley, Ryan Price, and Mike Anello interview part of the team from Droplabs, a Los Angeles-based Drupal-centric co-working facility. In addition to the usual latest Drupal news and picks, we spoke with Christefano Reyes, Blake Senftner, and Lee Vodra about the genesis of Droplabs, its place in the LA Drupal Community, and how they’re feeling their way in making the space successful in the long term. 

Ryan Price and Mike Anello are joined by Chris Shattuck from BuildAModule.com to talk about Drupal’s talent gap, Drupal 8 discussions at DrupalCon London, and a bunch of other stuff that’s been going on in the Drupal community over the last couple of weeks.

This week, a very special episode of the DrupalEasy podcast has Jacob Redding and Paul Suway of the Drupal Association join Ryan, Andrew, and Mike to talk about recent happenings, changes, and new programs in the Drupal community’s official support organization.