Barcelona Drupal Developer Days: deadlines, sponsors & volunteers
As the Drupal Developer Days in Barcelona getting closer, we are nearing some deadlines that you might want to know about.
Sessions
We have a bunch of excellent session proposals http://barcelona2012.drupaldays.org/program/sessions/proposed that have already been submitted so far, but there is still plenty of room for more.
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Drupal Government Day in DC - May 18 2012
On May 18th, Government Drupalers in North America will be chillin for good drupaly awesomeness at the Department of Commerce.
It's an all day event and the event is now open for partnerships as well as session proposals. YEAH!!
Thanks to the work of our friends across the Atlantic who pulled together the first Drupal Government Days event last year, we're building on their success and putting on a North American version this year!
Read moreA couple of youtube videos about CRM and Drupal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TSqtoAumpE - Re-imagining Drupal CRM Trellon 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APlfTPVzISc&feature=related - Drupal as a CRM 2011
Usability Report from the Drupal 7 UX Study at Google
This past February Garen Checkley, Jen Lampton and I ran the Drupal 7 Usability Study at Google. We created a handbook page on drupal.org to share the exhaustive list of usability issues. While we learned about a lot of specific interface and module-level problems, we also saw broad trends that called for a higher-level analysis.
You can view this report here.
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Google Summer of Code is Back for 2012
Some of Drupal's Summer of Code success stories include:
 Angela Byron (webchick) the Drupal 7 co-maintainer, Director of Community Development at Acquia, a Google-O'Reilly Open Source Hall of Famer and a Drupal Association board member. She originally got her start in Drupal writing Quiz module for GSoC 2005. |
 Sumit Kataria, started as a GSoC student back in 2009 working on OAuth module, and now not only is one of the foremost experts in the Drupal community on mobile (look for his mobile apps for DrupalCon Denver in an app store near you!), but co-manages Drupal's involvement in GSoC. He works as a Drupal consultant with companies like CivicActions and Lullabot. |
 Bojan Zivanovic (bojanz) became a preeminent contributor to views and contributed to EntityFieldQuery for Drupal 7. |
 Gábor Hojtsy, the co-maintainer of Drupal 6, and the Initiative Lead for the Drupal 8 Multilingual Initiative worked over GSoC in 2006 to get i18n in Drupal core in Drupal 6. He is now an engineer for Acquia. |
 Jimmy Berry (boombatower) was instrumental in the development of Drupal's automated testing framework, and he and his father Jim Berry (solotandem) were the first Google Summer of Code father/son team! :) They both offer testing-related services at http://boombatower.com. |
 Lin Clark (linclark) created SPARQL Views, making it possible to query SPARQL endpoints from Views, as part of GSoC 2010. Her demonstrations of Linked Data capabilities in Drupal have been published on IBM Developer Works. She is now an independent consultant working data publishing and consumption using Drupal. |
Boston Drupal Meetup - MIT - May 1, 2012 @ 6:30 pm
We will be hosted by the MIT Drupal Group in Cambridge in Building E51 - Tang Center in E51-145.
Parking and Transportation:
After 5pm, there is an unattended MIT lot called Hayward: http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=P5
Read moreThe Drupal Association 2012 Drupal.org plan [draft]
Thanks to everyone who voted on Drupal.org ideas! Based on that, as well as a few conversations with some key Drupal.org infrastructure maintainers, here's a draft of the proposal for the board meeting next week, for your review!
(Original at https://docs.google.com/a/acquia.com/document/d/1_kTZrxPHArdDeyAZvV3-mj_...)
Read moreDesign iterations for the content creation page
Over the last few months we have been working with Jared Ponchot, on redesigning the create content page. Based on our research and further discussion we chose a direction for which we developed more detailed designs.
Read moreAustin Drupal Bash (March 12 during SXSW): Ask an Expert session and party
During the second weekend of March, tens of thousands of tech and creative geeks descend upon Austin for SXSW -- yet this year's conference doesn't offer an official Drupal-focused session. We've decided to take matters into our own hands!
Join us Monday, March 12, to confer, shake hands, and share enthusiasm with those in the Drupal community. There will be experts. There will be camaraderie. There will be beer.
You don't need a SXSW badge to get in, but you do need to RSVP via Eventbrite.
Read moreSubmit and vote on your Drupal.org ideas!
Two of the Drupal Association's 2012 priorities are to make Drupal.org awesome: both for site builders and for developers. We want to hear from you about what improvements you'd most like to see on Drupal.org.
Please let us know your thoughts at http://drupal-association.ideascale.com/. You can propose new ideas, vote on existing ideas, and also leave comments. When we have the more discrete list of things we plan to cover in 2012 and when, we'll share it with the community for feedback.
Important things to note:
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