For Better Performance, Don't Use AJAX in Views
Get the most out of (and into) your page cache: Leave AJAX disabled in your Views, especially with exposed filters.
Ground Zero Master Planner Daniel Libeskind's Web Site Launched on Drupal 7
We received the go-ahead from Studio Daniel Libeskind to take their web site live a few weeks ago, but it was presenting here at Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit that we realized we should mention it to the world.
Definitive Guide to Drupal 7: Correction
There is an important correction to be made to the top-selling Drupal book, the Definitive Guide to Drupal 7.
Agaric is Not Hiring (but for you, we might make an exception)
Agaric, as a worker collective, does not have bosses and employees. We have skilled, hard-working teammates coming together to figure out and do ... everything.
First Annual May First People Link Membership Meeting
Congratulations to the new leadership committee for May First People Link!
In Chicago? Don't Have a DrupalCon Ticket Yet? But You're Reading This on a Weekend?
Update: Ticket taken. But if you want to come, please read below the fold.
See Permissions' Machine Names (and much more) with Xray Module for Drupal 7
With Drupal 7's third and final release candidate unleashed on us all this morning, it is long past time to help the #D7CX movement with a seasonal offering of our own.
+1 to Ending comment-to-subscribe on Drupal.org
As starving authors we at Agaric don't have a lot of cash to burn right now, but we've thrown $25 in the project to make it possible to subscribe to drupal.org issues without commenting. (On top of whatever we donated when this request for funding went out a year and a half ago).
Drupal Work Collectives
Agaric proposes the creation of a new kind of workplace, essentially a Drupal commune, but really more like an open source free software idea & brainstorming commune, kind of along the same lines as an artist's or writer's colony.
We're Writing a Book!
Yes it's true, for the past few months we've been hard at work with a lot of other co-authors on The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7.
Agaric Backs Community Coworking Center in NYC
Thinking it would be a great place to work a day or two while in New York City for clients or DrupalCamps, Agaric dropped a few dollars in the Kickstarter fund for New Work City: Community Coworking Center for Independents in NY.
Agaric Sponsors Modulecraft for the Building of Drupal Shared business, Development, and Training Tools
For community shared business, development, and training tools, Agaric throws a little sponsorship at modulecraft.
Agaric Provides Very Minor Assist in Readying Insert Module for Drupal 7
Benjamin Melançon of Agaric helped with a patch for the Drupal 7 version of Insert module.
Agaric?
What the word agaric means and why Agaric took it for our cooperative's name.
Designed to Life
Functionality designed to your life is the Agaric Design signature. Utilizing open source, free software from around the world, Agaric Design websites are impeccably crafted with a modern, sophisticated and understated spirit.
The Story on Agaric
I've always had a passion for good design and healthy coding, even back in the days of owning a web site cart in downtown Natick. Back then, my business partner and I made all natural HTML roll-up web sites and, as an incentive for customers to wait in line, we baked Drupal into different flavored designs.
- Define the parameters of your cooperative environment.
It could be in Articles of Organization, ByLaws or a simple contractual agreement between members or even a handshake. A cooperative or collective is defined by the members.
- Find co-workers in your industry that value cooperative principles.
Talk to people in your personal network about your goal.
Let former co-workers know you are forming or seeking to work with a cooperative.
- Go to events where you will meet members of cooperatives and ask them how they are structured internally
There are meetups (meetup.com) or you could start one in your area.
Reach out to mailing lists you are on and ask if people are interested in working collectively.
- Search for cooperatives that are listed in online directories and research their strategies
Food:
Worker coops:
usworker.coop - member-directory
Open Directory search for all types of coops:
and Twitter - https://twitter.com/hashtag/cooperatives
- Join in the Free Software movement so we are building a cooperative society on a free, not proprietary, foundation.
- Invest in other cooperatives.
Encourage pooled funds from successful cooperatives to help bootstrap new proposed cooperatives
- Join a cooperative network or 2 or 3...
- We invite you to join the Show and Tell mailing list
Get involved in conversations, and create conversations. Let others know you are interested in cooperative work experiences and you are seeking information and connections.
