Only about 1.5% of the people involved in open source are women, leaving us terribly underrepresented. In the Drupal world, we're up to a whopping 7% 10% 17%, which only gets us to awfully unrepresented. ;) This group is for anyone (male, female, or otherwise) who believes that we can do better and wants to help.
So if you:
- are a woman who needs some help/guidance in order to get (more) involved with Drupal and the Drupal community
- are a woman who wants to network and get to know other women involved in Drupal
- are anyone who has ideas on things we can do to help encourage women to participate in Drupal
...then this is the group for you. :)
Surrey Drupal Meetup - Mar. 14, 2013: Mapping in Drupal 7 with Open Layers
Join us on March 14, 2013 at 6:30 pm for Mapping in Drupal 7 - Using OpenLayers
Our next meetup is Thursday, March 14, 2013. We are back to our regular meetup day (Thursday).
We are excited to have a guest speaker, Renee Stephen of http://www.reneestephen.com/ at our next Drupal meetup. Renee will be presenting on:
- Create interesting, attractive location-based maps
- configure a map to use different layers or tilesets (even add your own!)
- use maps to input location-based data
- create maps in Views that show multiple location markers
Boulder Drupal Ladder DBUG
Boulder Drupal Ladder DBUG Meetup, which takes place on the third Thursday of every other month.
I am looking for someone to take over the Boulder meetups so we can start doing these monthly.
Don't forget your computers, this is a working meeting! We will be working on the Learn Drupal Ladder, which teaches everyone how to be able to successfully and confidently contribute to Drupal, and specifically to Drupal core.
Agenda:
* 6:30 - 7:00 Socializing, Food, Drinks, & Introductions
* 7:00 - 8:15
New Drupalistas Study Group project forming...
Hey there all...
Our Drupalistas Study Group tripled in size this last round (from 5 to 15 !! :) ). We are not a big group, but we ARE having a good time learning Drupal in quick, bite-sized chunks. It has been loads of fun. So much fun, in fact, we are starting another "track" of learning.
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Women in Drupal Dinner - DrupalCon Sydney
During DrupalCon Sydney, dinner and drinks will be held at Elmo's Restaurant at the Coogee Legions Club for Drupal women, but men may attend as guest of a woman in Drupal.
Please RSVP via email if you're planning to come.
As this dinner will held at a club, please bring a photo ID - Club rules and regulations
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DrupalCon Sydney ticket for sale
Hey everyone
I can unfortunately (!) not attend our awesome DrupalCon Sydney, so I need to get rid of my ticket for this.
A bit last minute I know, but. Is there still people out there who need a ticket?
If so, then either contact me here or on twitter: tinefin.
Would love it if I can find someone.
Cheers
/Tine
Our Drupalista Study Group is back at it!
On the menu for this go 'round is multi-sites. We'll be learning how to set up a multi-site live, how to configure our local machines to work with multi-sites and multi domains, set up git branches & repos for the sites, update the variety of sites with Drush and best ways to handle individual configuration of modules as required.
Read moreExcellent Blogs About Drupal
Last updated by rickdonohoe on Fri, 2014-01-10 17:29
This wiki page is being created in response to a request for a list of good Drupal blogs on the Women in Drupal outpost on Facebook. There is an uber-list here: Drupal Planet. This is intended to be a smaller list, with a focus on quality, not comprehensiveness. What are your fave blogs about Drupal? Blogs you get the most out of reading? If you've got a fave and it's not here, please add it to the list.
General Drupal Blogs
Read more"Free as in Sexist"
Via the awesome Programmers Being Dicks... as PBD put it, "An epic critique of the failings of the 'free culture movement' as regards inclusiveness. Essential reading." I concur.
From "Free as in Sexist" on First Monday:
Read moreGlobal Youth Open Source Project - Looking for ideas from kids/youth
Hi,
I'm a long-time Drupalista, but more recently spending the majority of my contribution time as a Mozilla Rep, and Mozilla's Webmaker project teaching kids web and digital literacy.
We're launching (what we think is) the first Youth Open Source project (GenOpen) through our global network of Mozilla Reps running webmaking hackjams, and we need ideas FROM kids about what we should build.
My blog post looking for ideas: http://tiptoes.ca/?p=925
More on the project itself: https://wiki.mozilla.org/GenOpen
Read moreDBUG Drupal Ladder Issue Sprint Meetup
Denver Drupal Ladder DBUG Meetup, which takes place on the third Thursday of every other month.
Don't forget your computers, this is a working meeting! We will be working on the Learn Drupal Ladder, which teaches everyone how to be able to successfully and confidently contribute to Drupal, and specifically to Drupal core.
Agenda:
* 6:30 - 7:00 Socializing, Pizza, Drinks, & Introductions
* 7:00 - 8:15
- Continue/Begin to "Climb the Drupal Learn Ladder", http://drupalladder.org
- We will also have the Issue Queue spreadsheet for anyone who has made it through the ladder and would like to work on issues instead.
* 8:15 - 8:30 Feedback, Questions, and Answers
Damned lies and statistics...
Couple of weeks ago I tweeted about some wholly unscientific "research" I'd done. (With much thanks to Jennifer Hodgdon for suggesting a methodology to get at this data quickly)
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@adainitiative just crunched numbers for Drupal.org 14% of accounts identify as female. 33% of core committers are women.
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How to arrange content nodes using content type articles
Is there a way to arrange the order of articles that are "posted to front"? Or in a view? I have a view called Fall Happenings on the left side of this page and it would be nice to arrange the order of these. http://vacountrylife.net/ Am I missing something? TIA! The Fall Happenings is a block but also a view - all of my articles post there as well as in the middle (if I click Post to Front on the article). I have rearranged blocks no problem. I want to rearrange articles in a view or just ones Posted to Front. Has anyone tried Nodeorder Design? That looks like what I'd like to do.
Read moreLooking for a "Guest Expert" for online study group
Our online study group, http://drupalistasgroup.com, meets via Skype for 1 hr on Monday nights. We concept a module & then create it. Each week we add to the complexity of the module. Then we go forth and create! When we meet again on the next Monday we share code and process. It has been quite the enlightening process!!
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Drupal life after kids
For those who missed it, there's a new addition to the webchick family coming soon. This of course is a time of incredible excitement and incredible terror and all of those things that I believe are natural when one crosses this threshold. :)
But something I've been spending a lot of time pondering about is what my Drupal life looks like post-webchicklet, and how other parents (particularly moms) have handled this.
Let me paint a picture for you.
Read moreMultiple Jobs at Advomatic
I'm posting this here because I don't work for Advomatic--I'm just a messenger. But my impression of them has always been that they are an excellent shop.
http://www.advomatic.com/jobs
Begining a virtual co-learning group
Hey all...
Last year a group of us started a virtual study group to learn how to make custom modules. We had a handful of people join the group. It was fun and I, personally, learned a lot. I'm still not an expert, but I know more than I did then.
Read moreProcess and recourse when dealing with harassment
As some of you know, I was recently harassed on Twitter by a male member of the Drupal community. I talked to some folks and it was recommended I file an issue to encourage a process be defined for handling situations of harassment in the community. So please give your input and support, I don't want to see this continue to go un-dealt with!
http://drupal.org/node/1815958
Read moreAda Lovelace Day
Today (Oct. 16) is Ada Lovelace Day, which is about sharing stories of women — whether engineers, scientists, technologists or mathematicians — who have inspired you to become who you are today. The aim is to create new role models for girls and women in these male-dominated fields by raising the profile of other women in STEM.
You can add a story at http://findingada.com/.
Read moreBoulder DBUG Drupal Learn Ladder Meetup
Hello Denver Area Drupalistas --
This is the bi-monthly Boulder DBUG Learn Ladder Meetup, which takes place on the third Thursday of every other month.
Don't forget your computers, this is a working meeting!
We will be working on the Drupal Ladder, which teaches everyone how to be able to successfully and confidently contribute to Drupal, and specifically to Drupal core.
Agenda:
- 6:30 - 7:00 Socializing, Dinner, and Drinks
- 7:00 - 7:30 Introductions
- 7:30 - 8:30
-- Continue/Begin to "Climb the Drupal Learn Ladder", http://drupalladder.org/.
Looking for female roommate for PNW Drupal Summit, Oct. 20-12 in Seattle, WA
The PNW Drupal Summit is coming up soon. I'm a professional Drupal Developer and I'm looking for a woman to share a room at Hotel Deca for the Summit in Seattle, WA. The room has 2 queen-size beds and I'm quiet, neat and tidy! Contact katy[at]seascapewebdesign.com.
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