Start:  2010-03-13 08:00 - 17:00 America/Chicago Organizers:  jlmeredith dougvann Regional conference

Drupal Camp Nashville registrations are open! Come join us for a full day of Drupal goodness!

Capacity is limited, so sign up now! More details coming soon!!

We are also seeking sponsors for the event. We have three sponsorship breakdowns at $1000 / $500 / $250. We are tight on time as we are only 2 weeks out, but the need is small! We only need one of each to meet the needs of the camp. If you can help, please get in contact with us by visiting http://drupalcampnashville.com/contact .

http://drupalcampnashville.com/

Missouri

I'm excited to announce that the Google Summer of Code is happening again in 2010! Last year Drupal went a perfect 18-for-18, meaning that all of our students passed the SoC, and we even got a "bonus student" who worked on Drupal module for the Creative Commons.

Please help get the SoC started by joining the Google Summer of Code 2010 group, and by posting project ideas to the group! Student Proposals should be marked as such in the "Project Type", as the students will get first dibs on that project idea once the voting starts. All other project ideas should be marked "Community Proposal" and will be open to all SoC applicants.

If you are a student thinking of applying to the program I highly suggest you do the following things:

• Carefully read the GSoC 2010 FAQ
• Sign up for an account on Drupal.org and fill in your profile information
• Ask questions here or in #drupal, and start looking for potential mentors

And if you are thinking about becoming a mentor, please do! Not only is the SoC a great way to get more involved in the community and/or groom the next Drupal superstars, but it's not a ton of work and is a whole lotta fun! There are also many other ways to get involved, including: student outreach, mentor and student checkins, group administration, project reviewers, and more. Please contact me if you'd like to get involved! (And if you'd like to help with the application, it would be great to have help)

Drupal's application will need to be submitted by March 12th, and proposals will begin being accepted on March 18th. Please see the SoC Timeline for more information about other due dates.

Google Summer of Code 2010

Start:  2010-06-05 (All day) - 2010-06-06 (All day) UTC Regional conference

Drupal Romania Association (http://drupal.org.ro) currently organizes its first major event, the Timisoara 2010 Drupalcamp, taking place during 5th and 6th of June, 2010. Registration is now open, and we will launch the call for submissions soon.

The event is organized in partnership with the "Politehnica" University of Timisoara. Timisoara is situated in western Romania, at the border with Hungary and Serbia and has easy access from all CE European countries. We are prepared for 350+ participants, and expecting users and developers from Romania, Hungary, Ukraine, Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia and other Central and East European states, as well as speakers from the global Drupal Community.

You can now register on http://drupalcamp.ro. Hope to see you in June!

Drupalcamps Europe [international & english]

Start:  2010-02-20 09:00 - 2010-02-21 17:00 America/New_York Organizers:  liberatr DamienMcKenna Andrew M Riley ultimike Regional conference

The Florida Drupal User Group is proud to announce our second annual DrupalCamp! Registration has been open for quite some time as of today, so don't delay, as our space is limited!

http://2010.fldrupalcamp.org

We're very excited to be creating opportunities for the local community as well, with an event we call Coding for a Cause. A local non-profit will get a free website on the second day of our camp, built by the community.

Special guest Addison Berry (add1sun) of Lullabot, the Drupal Documentation lead, will be our guest of honor, as well as Doug Vann (dougvann), Benjamin Doherty (bangpound) and tons of amazing Drupal contributors from all around Florida. We may also see the first ever live taping of a DrupalEasy podcast, with @ultimike, @andrewmriley and @liberatr at the helm.

We will have three tracks of sessions running on Saturday - if you'd like to present, please contact @damienmckenna for details - he is easy to find on IRC, groups.drupal.org/florida or twitter. Tracks will be split out into a beginner and intermediate track, as well as a third special interests track. We will have a big tent outside for lunch and BOFs throughout the day, as well as our traditional install-fest in the morning.

Lunch on BOTH days is included with your $5 reservation. If you're coming to the community service part on day 2, we will need to know in advance.

Visit http://2010.fldrupalcamp.org for information, schedules, registration info, and to get involved with Coding for a Cause. We hope to see you there!

Gainesville

Start:  2010-06-13 08:00 - 18:00 America/Indianapolis Organizers:  dougvann Regional conference

A call for presenters AND attendees
PLZ reply with ideas and comments. All input wlecome!

The organizers of SouthEast LinuxFest have asked me to volunteer to organize a FREE one day Drupalcamp to take place on day2 of the SouthEast LinuxFest. http://www.southeastlinuxfest.org/
WHEN: Sunday June 13th
WHERE: Spartenburg Marriott at the Renaissance http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/SPAMC?groupCode=slxslxa&app=resvlink&fromDate=6/10/10&toDate=6/14/10
Spartenburg SC
TRAVEL: The hotel is 10 min away from Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport (GSP) which serves most air lines.
REGISTRATION: Opens soon and will be on www.southeastlinuxfest.org

We can have as many as three tracks and we have a FULL DAY to fill up. The response I get from potential presenters and attendees will aid in determining how many tracks we will have.

This is a group effort. Chime in and be a part of the 1st DrupalCamp in SC!

If you will attend this event PLZ register as attending on this post so I can get a preliminary idea of the initial interest level. :-)

Thanks!
- Doug Vann
- Drupal Developer & Trainer for www.DuoConsulting.com
- http://www.dougvann.com My Blog
- Skype: douglas.h.vann Skype Me
- http://www.twitter.com/dougvann Tweet Me

Local User Group Organizers

Registration is open for the first DrupalCamp ever in Spain. Yes, you are right, it will not be the first drupal meeting in Spain: we had a GREAT Drupalcon in Barcelona on 2007. However, this will be a Camp, the first DrupalCamp in Spain. It will be held in the same venue as the event in 2007, the Citilab, so some of you already know what this means: an excellent venue to have hundreds of drupalistas talk, work, sharing, hiring, eating, learning, etc. on Drupal.

We already had 430+ pre-registrations and REGISTRATION is now OPEN! (the venue can hold "only" 400 people, so....)

Don't miss it. There will be 4 session tracks. At least one of them in English. It might be two tracks in English if enough sessions are proposed. We will also have a job fair and already know that many web shops will be hiring. Don't miss it!

Check the schedule for the three days of camp: 26, 27 and 28 of February, 2010, in Barcelona, and then propose and/or vote your sessions.

Drupal Event Organization

The Drupal Association just approved the proposal from the Danish team to organize Drupalcon 2010 in Copenhagen. The conference will take place in August, the exact date will be finalized in the coming week.

If you wonder what kind of greatness is waiting for you, check out their proposal at http://drupalcon.dk/cph/node/35 or http://drupalcon.dk/cph/node/35?print&book_recurse

Congratulations to the Danish team!

European Regional DrupalCon Organizers

The testing phase is over... 3281d Consulting is extremely pleased to announce that the new distribution packaging system is now deployed on drupal.org. The announcement on the front page of drupal.org contains lots of details about how the system looks for end users of Drupal distributions, including lots of nice UI changes to project pages and release nodes.

If you maintain an installation profile on drupal.org please read the How to package a profile on drupal.org handbook page. It's really not that hard, but there are some very important things you need to read and understand to make use of the new system. Support requests and "bug reports" from people who just didn't read the handbook page won't be well received. ;) Oh, and speaking of issues, if you find one, please search the packaged install profiles tag before submitting a new one.

Exciting times -- go forth, yonder profile maintainers, and make Drupal more usable!

Thanks!
-Derek

Packaging & Deployment

Start:  2009-11-28 09:30 - 16:30 America/Lima Organizers:  develCuy Regional conference

english below

DrupalCamp Perú #2 se llevará a cabo éste 28 de Noviembre, de 9:30 a 16:30, en el Auditorio Ollantaytambo de la Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Ricardo Palma, Lima - Perú.

Ingreso y Coffe Break Libre ¡ INSCRÍBETE YÁ !

Programa

• ¿Qué és Drupal? - Danny A. Montalvo
• Ya tengo una web ¿Cómo la convierto a Drupal? - Marco A. Villegas (@marvil07)
• Usando Extensiones jQuery para Efectos Visuales en Nuestros Temas Drupal - Nicolas Borda (@ipwa)
• Features + Feature Servers + Drush Make + Aegir - Ian Ward
• Oportunidades Drupal en la Era del Web 2.0 - Juan Camilo Lema
• DrupalChix - Rosa María Orellana M. (@assoritam)
• Mesa Redonda con Yannick Warnier(@rcechang), Ricardo Chang(@rcechang) y Fernando P. García(@develCuy). Presenta Cesar Sóplin

Más información...

Auspician

• Moving Interactive
• Social Media
• Development Seed
• CONDESAN

Organizan

• LINURP
• Drupal Perú

Apoya

• Datanoia.com

¡ INSCRÍBETE YÁ !

-- ENGLISH VERSION --

DrupalCamp Perú #2 will be held November 28, 2009, 9:30 to 16:30, at the Ollantaytambo Auditorium of Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Ricardo Palma, Lima - Perú.

Registration and Coffe Break are Free ¡ REGISTER NOW !

Agenda

• ¿What is Drupal? - Danny A. Montalvo
• I have a web page already ¿How do I convert it to Drupal? - Marco A. Villegas (@marvil07)
• Using jQuery Extentions for Visual Effects in Our Drupal Themes - Nicolas Borda (@ipwa)
• Features + Feature Servers + Drush Make + Aegir - Ian Ward
• Drupal Opportunities in the Age of Web 2.0 - Juan Camilo Lema
• Open Discussion with Yannick Warnier(@rcechang), Ricardo Chang(@rcechang) y Fernando P. García(@develCuy). Presented by Cesar Sóplin
• DrupalChix - Rosa María Orellana M. (@assoritam)

More information...

Sponsored by

• Moving Interactive
• Social Media
• Development Seed
• CONDESAN

Organized by

• LINURP
• Drupal Perú

With the help of

• Datanoia.com

¡ REGISTER NOW !

Local User Group Organizers

The last few weeks have been busy for groups.drupal.org maintenance and the work came to a head today. As always, if you notice any problems please report them (here or in irc or via the infrastructure queue).

All synch requests completed (but not all accounts synched)

With help from Michelle and the normal g.d.o admins we were able to synch all the accounts that had requested a synch the proper way. But, there's still thousands more who need help.

Bakery has better help messages and self serve!

The Bakery module now has a self serve mechanism thanks to work by bdragon and a review from Josh K. This took a lot of work and it's great to have.

If you are having trouble logging in, you should now be able to fix it yourself!

I also added a nice link from the profile page to the users profile page on the master site, so that spam fighters can block them on the parent site (that's how you're supposed to do it, by the way). And there is some help text to let people know that they must edit name, mail, password on the parent site, not the local site.

Views update, "unread" is truly unread!

If you are one of those folks who uses the unread tab to keep track of content you'll be pleased to find that it is actually unread content now. Imagine that! Thanks to Earl for adding that filter back to Views 6.x-2.7.

Next steps

There's another patch I'd love to get lose on the site to make Bakery work with page caching turned on. We should probably also install the Usermerge module so that people who had multiple accounts in the past can merge them together, but that module needs a little more review. There's also some discussion afoot to get better mapping on groups.drupal.org. And Steve has been hard at work bringing back the e-mail headers that folks have missed so much.

Want to see more features on the site? Sure! Let's brainstorm and start fixing the I also created a tag called gdo love for issues that will help improve this site, so feel free to use that to help people keep track of what you want to work on.

Groups.drupal.org

Start:  2009-12-12 09:00 UTC Organizers:  Slurpee

You are invited to attend Drupal Camp Chicago on Saturday and Sunday, December 12 & 13, 2009.

Who/Why:

For more than 3 years the Chicago Drupal Meet Up Group has highlighted the benefits of an open source initiative. We have built resourceful bridges between Chicago and Mid-West establishments including non-profits, entrepreneurs, Drupal development companies, independent consultants, hobbyist, and others. The objective of Drupal Camp is to bring everyone together for open communication, education, fun, and industry networking.

What:

An attendee-driven format with advanced resources available makes this event unique. Need help with a problem, looking for work, or looking to hire Drupal talent? Find someone with a solution at Drupal Camp Chicago.
Multiple presentations addressing beginners through advanced developers will run simultaneously throughout both days. All skill levels are welcome and laptops are encouraged. Seating is limited, register now.

Where/When:

Hotel Orrington
1710 Orrington Ave
Evanston, IL
Saturday, December 12, 2009, 9 am - 5 pm
Sunday, December 13, 2009, 9 am - 3 pm

hotel map

Pricing:

• Pre-Registration for 2-day event: $25
• includes Saturday breakfast, Saturday lunch, Sunday breakfast
• Volunteering is fun! Contact us
• Exception: Participants can request a scholarship and explain their circumstances.

Sponsor:

• Platinum – $1,000
• Gold – $750
• Silver – $500
• Bronze – $250
• Community – $50

View our sponsorship page to let us know your level of commitment.

Speaker:

• Interested in presenting? submit a session.
• Highlight your Drupal knowledge to the mid-west
• Share your experience and contribute to the growth of Drupal

Register Today!

• Matthew@Lechleider.com
  CDMUG Organizer
  http://cdmug.org
  http://drupalcampchicago.org

Regional conference Chicago

DrupalCamp Austin 2009 will be held November 14-15, 2009, at the Norris Conference Centers in Austin, Texas. Admission is limited, so register today!

Session submissions are open to all attendees. So far, we've lined up several excellent speakers:

• Josh Koenig of Chapter Three
• Matt Cheney of Chapter Three
• Ben Finklea of Volacci
• Nathan Smith, creator of the 960.gs grid system

A big thank-you goes out to our sponsors, without whom this event would not be possible:

• Volacci
• ENTERMEDIA
• Do It with Drupal
• Commerce Guys
• The Economist
• ...and you? Sponsorship packages are still available!

DrupalCamp Austin is brought to you by Four Kitchens, Lauren Roth, Lynn Bender of Geek Austin, and the Austin Drupal User Group.

Central Texas

Note: This draft document is to help get together guidelines for Drupal Association sponsorship of code sprints. Please review and edit. Thanks!

As part of its role of supporting the Drupal project, the Drupal Association (DA) offers occasional help in planning and organizing and funding Drupal code sprints.

Code sprints are an important way that advances are made in Drupal development, both in core and in contributions. Sprints are generally self-organized and self-funded: individuals interested in participating communicate with each other, choose a time and place, and get sponsorship as needed for travel expenses, a venue, etc. from their employers, clients, and other sources.

The DA also has a small amount of funds available to provide support for sprints where it has not been possible to find funds elsewhere. The DA's sprint sponsorship budget is very limited - $5,000 in the current year (excluding funds dedicated to drupal.org upgrade sprints) - so we'll only be able to provide a small amount of priority support.

These guidelines cover how decisions will be made to provide DA funding for Drupal code sprints.

Apart from its general sprint support, the Drupal Association may also directly fund development or sprints as needed for the drupal.org websites or infrastructure.

Application evaluation criteria

• Sprint addresses a recognized need in Drupal development.
• Sprint is producing improvements in Drupal core, or a particularly high priority issue in contrib, or drupal.org.
• Sprint includes an action plan for integrating the results into released code.
• Sprint is timed appropriately in terms of the Drupal release cycle (e.g., is not producing new core features during code freeze).
• Sprint has been planned in an open and inclusive way, inviting participation.
• Sprint includes the participation of recognized leaders in the area being addressed.
• Applicants have sought other sources of funding; the DA is covering only a portion of the total cost.
• If the DA recently sponsored a sprint in the same area of development, the new sprint builds on the progress of the prior sprint.

Eligible expenses

• Travel costs that participants are unable to otherwise cover.
• Meeting space costs.

Ineligible expenses

• Pay or stipends to sprint participants.

Commitments and expectations

• Except when specifically agreed otherwise, sprints that have been approved for DA sponsorship are responsible for initial outlays and will be reimbursed following the sprint.
• A sprint coordinator is expected to report on outcomes along with receipts for all approved sponsored expenses for reimbursement.
• Payment for approved expenses will be made in the form of one cheque to a sprint organizers (not various reimbursements to different sprint participants).

Application format

Please provide some brief, quick notes to help us evaluate your request. Point form preferred. When done, please post in the Drupal Event Organization forum at http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-camp. Thanks!

1. What's the sprint date and location?
2. How does your sprint address a recognized need in Drupal development?
3. What outputs are you aiming for? How will they be incorporated into Drupal core or contrib?
4. Who is participating? drupal.org user profile links.
5. Link to e.g. a groups.drupal.org page where you've been planning, if available?
6. What's the total cost of the sprint? And what specific costs would you like the DA to cover?
7. If the DA recently sponsored a sprint in the same area of development, how does the new sprint build on the progress of the prior sprint?
8. What is the name and contact info for a sprint coordinator who will take responsibility for reporting?
9. Are you willing to post a brief follow-up report on groups.drupal.org about the sprint?

Drupal Association

As part of the big update to Drupal 6.0, groups is now running the latest and greatest OG Panels stack, including Panels 3.0, Chaos Tools 1.0 with the awesome Page Delegator, and the newly independent and 6.0 compatible OG Panels module.

This is a great thing for our future as a dynamic community, and it means that group maintainers can continue to use Panels to trick-out their Organic Groups. However, the complexity of the update and the changes from Views 1 to 2 mean that much of the content that was previously configured in panels no longer worked as it previously had. Unfortunately, groups admins will need to refurbish and/or recreate their homepages.

All your old pages are there, and the UI should be familiar. There are also some nice new options and more coming soon. However, all panels pages are un-published and no homepages are in effect, so you'll need to review them and republish when ready. Please use this thread to ask questions on the topic of OG Panels.

Groups.drupal.org

As you may have noticed today, we are busily upgrading this site.

We, in this case, is the g.d.o focused team of Moshe, Josh, Greg with support from David Strauss, Narayan Newton and a few other special guests here in Paris.

We have a longer explanation/announcement post coming up and are just waiting for a couple more fixes we hope to make in the next few days. Until then, though, one big announcement:

Logins Switch to Single Sign on - May be Broken :(

Good news! Logins are now driven off of drupal.org logins. If you're looking at this as a logged out user, click the user link and you should be all set. We're still sorting out how to make the links all work perfectly.

Bad news! We matched up most of the existing accounts, but there are about 8,000 of you that won't be able to login here. If you are one of those people, please file an issue with links to your user profiles on both sites. If you have multiple accounts, now is the time to pick the account you want to use.

Please help test

We believe we have fixed many old bug reports in this process and probably introduced some new bugs. Please post comments on this thread with your experiences.

Groups.drupal.org

I'm at DrupalCon Paris right now, and between the amazing people, interesting sessions, and gorgeous City of Lights, I only have a few moments, but I wanted to make a quick (and exciting) announcement. The Google Summer of Code officially wrapped up last week, and the Drupal students and mentors did an amazing job this year. “How amazing?," you ask. Well, not only did all 18 of the students that worked directly with Drupal mentors successfully complete their projects, but we got an extra bonus successful student. Blaise Alleyne who worked with Creative Commons and the good folks at Denver Open Media on a new version of the Creative Commons Drupal module.

Congrats to all of the students and mentors on a successful summer!!!

Crossposted from my company blog

SoC 2009