Building Groupanizer on Drupal

Hi guys,

I'm the CEO of Groupanizer. (www.groupanizer.com). I'm posting this in the "business" track but it might belong elsewhere.

Over the past seven years (starting with Drupal 6!) I have built a business to serve the million+ choirs in the world, and after many lessons learned at a business and technical level, we're the biggest in the space, and we have reached profitability. I have much to share about what worked and didn't in building, maintaining and hosting 1,000+ sites in a Drupal 7 multisite environment. I could tailor this talk any number of ways, but seven years as the CEO of a niche SaaS provider using Drupal has taught me a lot.

A few highlights:

• The perils of features, views and fields in a large multisite environment, and what we did about it
• Why multisite is better for us than the typical multi-tennant SaaS solution, and the pitfalls
• How we translated and then backed away from non-English customers until we can migrate to Drupal 8
• How we give our customers more than one theme, and why we ultimately dropped overlay
• Strategies for upgrading a thousand sites "on the fly"
• How we solved group mailing lists and email
• Why commerce fees will eventually become our largest source of revenue

I could go on and on. It's been one hell of a journey!

Attendees might need some tech background if we decide to take this talk in a technical direction.

Attendees will learn a ton, regardless of the focus chosen.

I look forward to hearing from you.