Drupal Guru is a social networking site for Drupal Developers, Architects, System Administrators and even Content Writers. Everyone who loves Drupal , eats and breaths Drupal would love this site and use this for information sharing, networking, finding job opportunities as well as making this as their principal source of information.
Like any Gloscon venture, this product will also be profitable.
Revenue source will be primarily – sponsored advertisements and google ads.
Every Member can create his blog post, upload images and videos in that post and link to external videos. Moderators can review any post and make good posts as featured posts. Featured Posts could be syndicated by others as well as they will have service links for social marketing so community can push the content across internet domain. This will only be available for featured post.
One section of the site will also have content aggregated and mashed up from various other sites and presented in more structured way.
There will be a very detailed individual profile that will be his personal profile, his company profile(if any), background, work experience, fans, friends, blogs, videos, photo gallery, user points(based on his activity on the site), Drupal contributions, project portfolio with testimonials, projects done – ajax gallery, code snippets contributed. User Profile should also have capability to have personal resume uploaded as well as announce his rate and availability, Timezone in which work is done, Year first started working in Drupal. If it is a company, company should also have similar profile. User can rate his personal expertise in Drupal Area and other signed members can also rate his expertise. An algorithm has to be then put in place to calculate based on userpoints, ratings, number of contributions etc on who is the top Drupal Guru. Top DrupalGuru in USA can be different than Top DrupalGuru in India and there could be a different Top Drupal Guru in world, city, state, etc. Drill Down Search of a Top Guru based on technology competency, availability, rate, First Language, etc should be made possible.
Groups – any member can create a group – Moderator has to approve it – Group posts are visible to everyone but only group subscribers can add comment or post in group
Job Posting/ Resume submission from Kinchuk should be integrated in DrupalGuru to bring a slick product.
- Advertisements - Sponsors + Google Ads
- Individual Blog post ( featured story gets Live)
- Top Drupal Stories - Voting, Rating
- Code Snippets
- Events Annoucements
- Jobs
- Declare Availability (Individuals)
- Resume Posting, Rate
- Company Performance Feedback (Parameters to be defined)
- Country, English (Written, Spoken, Understand) Friends, Friends of Friend, Projects Done, Specialization, Project Name + URL in Portfolio - User profile
- Year got in Drupal. Total hours worked in Drupal (Needs Client Approval in Every Project - Validated by Judges to be fair)
- Modules Contributed
- Onsite or Telecommute
- Timezone Availability
- Are you presently working? What % of your time? How many hours/week are you available?
- Full Time v/s Part Time

Home Page
- Current Resources Available ( Total # v/s Available )
- Average Hourly Rates by Country
- Top Rated Resources by Country
- Resources by Total Hours Worked
- Search Code Snippet by Drupal Version, Category
- Resources Available onsite
- Resources availability by TimeZone
- Resources by Type (Module, Theme, Architecture, Performance Tuning, Server Administration, Upgrade, Migration to Drupal, Project Management)

A Key feature of this product is SMS Integration with Ubercart and in backend using SMSCountry. User can buy SMS Credits to receive SMS when anything they want is made available. They can configure their personal messages to receive their Personalmsg inbox events they like automatically and also sent an SMS.
e.g SMS me when a Job in NY is posted. Or SMS me when someone posts comments on this article, etc – this integration should be at Node level or flexible.
Lots of custom modules needs to be developed.
Drupal6 has lot of features in watchdog/syslog and is preferred