Add mediacurrent to Drupal Services directory

Hello,
I mainly wanted to bump this request, and see if feedback or action could be provided. In addition, we have been very active in the Drupal community since this original inquiry. To summarize, we have:

* Contributed a 30 page, Best Practices for Drupal guide that other developers and customers can utilize:
http://www.mediacurrent.com/blogs/mediacurrent-releases-free-best-practi...
* Organizing and sponsoring the first Drupalcamp Atlanta this Fall (200+- attendees expected) - we developed, designed and are hosting the website (www.drupalcampatlanta.com)
* Worked on a number of high profile Drupal sites including one (www.in-fisherman.com) that is currently featured on the front page of drupal.org
* Have led and organized the past 9 Atlanta Drupal User Group (ADUG) meetups (www.groups.drupal.org/atlanta)
* Organized a code sprint (14 attended) to redesign the Atlanta Drupal website
* Contributed 3 modules and are in the process of more. Those three modules can be found at:
http://drupal.org/project/css_rules
http://drupal.org/project/jquery_dropdown
http://drupal.org/project/role_subscription
* Actively started blogging about Drupal since the original post (feed is on Planet Drupal) - www.mediacurrent.com/blog
* Rather than sponsor Drupalcon DC, we provided a scholarship to a Drupalcon attendee (Alex Borque) who otherwise would not have been able to attend (and sent 4 employees).

Please let me know if any additional info is needed to help in the evaluation of our inclusion on the services directory.

Thank you,
Dave
Mediacurrent

@ Heine - Thanks for the feedback. If you could please elaborate on what you would consider more of a WOW factor.
I do think Drupal portfolio examples, and more importantly references, has direct relevance when someone is contemplating what service providers to choose. Also, the press releases we have sent out tried to incorporate the value of Drupal more than tout us. Thus, PR related activities like this do help from a marketing contribution standpoint. We certainly do not mind incorporating the best practices guide somewhere on drupal.org - the opportunity has never come up and not sure what the protocol would be. However, the guide is available for free on our website and was recently mentioned on an Acquia blog posting.

@ greggles - Thanks for the input. Yes, we are excited about the positive traction with DrupalcampAtlanta - it seems like your suggestion is that we revisit our submission until after the camp has been completed. In the meantime, we will also work on some of those other module contributions.

@Alex UA - thanks for re-opening this.

Let me know if any additional info is needed or what the next steps would be - its been over 2.5 years since the profile piece was written and I can update. If needed, I can also put together a recap of high-level contributions that have been made since the original request.

Thanks, Dave

Hi Alex,
Per your suggestion, here are some updated contributions and additional background:

• Drupal Association Organization Members since 2008
• Primary organizers for Drupalcamp Atlanta 2009 and 2010 (sold-out, 200+ attendee events). All sessions were recorded and videos contributed back to the community: http://www.vimeo.com/search/videos/search:drupalcamp%20atlanta/1dde9478
• Primary organizers for the last 3 years of the Atlanta Drupal User Group meetup – attendance has gone from 5+- people to 60+ (last month). In addition to helping with logistics, planning, finding speakers, etc. Mediacurrent has presented over 10 times – the slides can be found here: http://www.slideshare.net/mediacurrent/edit_my_uploads
• Subsidized and mentored 2010 Google Summer of Code participant, Issac Sukin. Isaac interned at Mediacurrent and continued work on many of the modules he maintains including his GSoC project (Facebook Style-statuses). A recap of his work/experience can be found here:
http://www.mediacurrent.com/blogs/my-drupal-google-summer-code-experience
• Additional Drupal marketing efforts included 36 blog posts about Drupal in 2010, writing 3 white papers on Drupal (third one to be released next month), and sponsoring numerous Drupalcamps (Florida, Texas, and San Diego in the past 5 months). We have been Drupalcon sponsors in D.C., San Francisco and Chicago – note: in Boston, we gave away a scholarship to an attendee (Alex Borque) v. sponsoring. We have written two case studies and submitted the lessons learned back to the community (one is on the front page of drupal.org now, the other can be found at http://drupal.org/node/497008).
• Recently started a Drupal Training division to help with education and expanding the Drupal talent pool. We just completed our first public workshop in Washington D.C. last month - http://www.mediacurrent.com/blogs/mediacurrent-drops-in-on-drupal-training
* In October, 2010 Mediacurrent team member Jeff Diecks started the Louisana Drupal User Group http://www.meetup.com/louisianadrupal/
• If more code contributions need to be highlighted I can post Mediacurrent employee drupal.org IDs; Mediacurrent’s Brent Ratliff was the main site builder for Drupalcamp Atlanta (www.drupalcampatlanta.com) and has been working with the Camp Organization Distribution (COD) team. The most active Mediacurrent code contributor is probably Jay Callicott (jaykali), who released his own Drupal distribution last week called OpenChurch http://drupal.org/project/openchurch

As I understand, the next step is approval from the webmasters? We could then update and edit our out-dated company profile within the Services section (note: have since updated company profile in comment #21). Again, if more information is needed please let me know.

Thanks,
Dave
Mediacurrent

@Mojah - Thanks for the positive feedback. I've taken you up on your suggestion to update the profile.

Company Profile:

Mediacurrent was founded in 2007 by two life-long friends, and is based in metro-Atlanta, Georgia. Today, we are home to a team of Drupal experts, who have a proven track record of building amazing websites. Mediacurrent has worked hard at setting the bar high and has the portfolio to prove it. We can build any kind of website – from a simple blog to an enterprise-level Drupal site with millions of visitors.

We are a complete, one-stop Drupal services provider that assists with all phases of a web project. Our core competencies include module development, theming, training, site architecture planning, and post-launch support. Our team is focused on helping customers achieve their goals.

Mediacurrent strongly believes in open-source principles, collaboration, and sharing knowledge to strengthen the Drupal community. We organize Drupalcamps, meet-ups, generate white papers, blog, give presentations, sponsor events, and provide training.

We are an Enterprise and Authorized Training Partner of Acquia. To learn more about Mediacurrent, please visit our website at www.mediacurrent.com

bumping...any feedback on next steps or approval? Thanks, Dave

Its been another few weeks and no movement...any feedback on next steps or approval? Thanks, Dave