I recently attended the first Drupalcamp South Florida and the Key Note speaker was Brian House from Acquia. His talk involved community building with Acquia Commons.
I had heard of Drupal Commons, but I wasn't aware of all of the features that it provided out of the box.
A client with an initially small budget approached me about a need for a site. Brian Kocher Consulting needed a site completed quickly on a limited budget.
His initial functional needs were for a user blog, an events calendar, and some standard static pages along with a few social networking links.
Utilizing Webenabled, who is now offering git in beta, his site was complete and functional in less than two weeks.
Image by Roborovski
With all of the great work being done in the Drupal.org Sandboxes, there are often fifteen or more projects being born on a daily basis.
It can be hard to keep track of and look at all of the great new projects and modules being released.
For the past five or six months, I've been itching to write a Drupal module. It seems to me to be the final step in attaining that Drupal nirvana, and you gain instant street cred as well at the monthly meet-ups. I've heard it also can up your certified to rock score too, since you get commits added to your history.