A brief case study on how we have built an online test of spoken English using Drupal + Flash + Webcams.

Topics covered:
- Why we used Drupal
- Flash <-> Drupal data exchange
- Flash Media Server and bandwidth considerations
- Demonstration of test

I will review the business case for using Drupal vs rolling your own code, using our experience rewriting the fourth version of one of our main applications using Drupal.

Topics covered:
- Things you will (likely) need when building a big project
- Things Drupal + community can provide
- Things Drupal does not provide
- Contributing back to Drupal

Anyone else who has something to share about the financial / business benefits of using Drupal is welcome to join in.

You found a module and its great but it doesn't do this one little thing that you need for your project. No problem you say, I'll just take the code, modify it, and then your all set.

but now what?

What are the next steps?

Lets talk about how we collaborate on Drupal, custom modules, and our projects.

Is the issue tracker and patches all we can do? Is there more?