BrainStorming : Community products usable out of the box : How is Drupal able to "compete"?

BrainStorming : Community products usable out of the box : How is Drupal able to "compete"?

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Drupal has now at least two community products usable out of the box. http://commons.acquia.com & http://openatrium.com
+ http://drupal.org/project/voicebox targeting targets community media (that should go out shortly)
+ facebook like feature http://sndemo.dev3.webenabled.net/node/1

There is a need to see how those projects compare and are able to "compete" with non-Drupal products.

The output of this brainstorming session could be a list of features based on a competition analysis focused on the most successful of each targeted audience :
-With enterprises in mind we could focus on http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/ & in SaaS mode http://www.jivesoftware.com
-With a general audience in mind http://buddypress.org or in SaaS mode http://ning.com.

That way we may be able to coordinate our efforts and see what our weaknesses and strengths are.

This opening informal session is meand to complement the sessions of the official shedule :
http://cph2010.drupal.org/sessions/acquia-sponsored-session : accelerating drupal adoption through SaaS, distros and more
http://cph2010.drupal.org/sessions/15-modules-help-you-build-community-w...
BOF sessions :
http://cph2010.drupal.org/sessions/drupal-commons-social-business-software
http://cph2010.drupal.org/sessions/federated-social-web-and-drupal
(The BOF session just before hand)

Reshedule from unconference session Monday that was canceled

Based on previous discussions on GDO

http://groups.drupal.org/node/53268
http://groups.drupal.org/node/45468

There are lot of participants who could give a valuable input outside of the conference. We will use Ustream and I schedule it at 3PM European time / 9AM in the US.

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