Drupal Camp Seattle

Come to the second Seattle Drupal User Group Meetup! (it is sort of the first, and sort of the second, and some might say the third, but you should come regardless!)

We will meet at 5pm at Red Line located at 1525 Olive Way, Seattle, WA 98122 (that is in Capital Hill, right near summit).

Bring a laptop, a question, a site you want to demo, an open mind and anything else that you think might be useful or interesting.

The meeting will be rather informal, but here is a crack at a draft agenda

Introductions
Meeting Schedule and Locations for the next few months

I want to thank everyone for coming to Drupal Camp this week. IT was great to see so many poeple so excited about learning more about drupal!

If you are local to seattle, be sure to join the Seattle group, we'll start getting together soon.

If anyone picked up a plantronics blue tooth headset, please let me know. I lost it sometime on wednesday and hear that it was floating around.

-Gregory

Meant to mention this request for a drupal developer on Robert Scoble's blog from yesterday (for a friend of his) -- leave a note in comments on his blog if you are interested -- details are at --

http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/06/27/watching-the-grass-grow-drupal-developer-needed/

Love to have some Drupal sessions (2-5 minute lightning talks, demos, discussions about questions, all the way to full blown presentations) at BarCamp Vancouver (a 24 hour period probably starting the evening of Friday August 25th)

A "Bar Camp" is a "unconference" like DrupalCamp Seattle. Everyone is expected to participate (blog, discuss, lead a session, give a demo or lightning talk, etc.) and the schedule is planned the "day of" at the start of the event (although you are encouraged to put up your session topic on the

Hey All;

Listed below is a link to a directory showing 911 Media Arts Center here in Seattle. 911 Media Arts Center was incorporated in 1984 and is considered Washington State's premier Media Arts Center. Our mission is to support the expressive use of innovative media tools by providing the access, training and environment needed to create/exhibit works of enduring merit and artistic excellence. On this note, it seems appropriate that we offer our facilities for any future Drupal camps, and/or monthly meetings that we may hold in the future. Please take a look and let me know your thoughts, questions, etc. Thanks...

Drupal Camp Afternoon Session
· Bootstrapping your site
· http://defectivebydesign.org - bootstrapped live
· Expectation setting. Boris’ comment about 4 month – clients have time to do the tasks they have to do that they had no idea
· Defective by design – get into public’s mind that DRM is being pushed on us, it is wrong, we can push back, to get press, to sign up members and to convert members to Free Software Foundation
· F2F work with online coordination and some online interation
· Started with 24 people and one month later there are 5000. In the last week signed up 1500. Did a call in day against the RIAA, direct calls to executives, 200 people logged their call, was dug, slashdotted right away. Crossposted within 3-4 hours. Digg suppressed the story after it got on the front page and banned Henri Poole for a violation but they did not specify the violation.

Drupal Camp

· Is a CMS, can create community, but can be used for other things. Do whatever you want if you have the resources. Developer/programming skills. Out of the box is ok to have forums, blogs, users on the system, public or password protected.
· Theme layer – you can make it look like anything you want. Rain City does a lot of different kinds of looks and layouts using Drupal.
· Not terribly easy to learn, but all documented on how to create a theme.
· Event registration – there is an event module. Plug in additional functionality. Section on Drupal site called projects or downloads. Can add forums- you enable module.

For all you Drupal Gurus and Newcomers currently attending the conference, Raincity Studios, one of your lovely sponsors invites you to a Day One wrap-up soiree at 6pm this evening, just down the road from Hugo House at the Elysian Brewing Company @ 1221 E Pike St.

Enjoy the rest of your day and we'll continue the sessions into the brewery!

Check out more Drupal Camp info and live blogging on our sessions on Raincity's blog The Standard.

I'm making the jaunt from Calgary. I had aranged to stay at a friends house, but that's fallen through. I was wondering if anyone has a couch that I could surf on. Otherwise I'll stay at the HI hostel.

I thought it would be good if before the event, everyone got to know a little more about what each other has already done with drupal (if any) and what we are really interested in learning / doing.

The 2 sessions that are basically just hacking sessions are a chance for you to really do what you have been wanting to do and have a bunch of drupal guys all around you.

This could even be a chance to work with others and have a collaborative effort on a module or theme?

I would really love if some people would like to sit down and help pave the way for JQuery. As of the other day, The AJAX Developers group made a final discussion with the help of Steven Wittens on choosing a library to attempt at implement into core and there many tasks to accomplish this.

I know this is a rookie question, but I've never set up a personal sandbox on my laptop, can anyone give a brief overview on how to set up a php environment?

Mac or PC?

On the new Macs I think, but am not sure, everything is pre-installed. I have an older Mac and I had to install MySQL and enable PHP in Apache. It was a while ago so I don't remember the details.

On Windows I believe people are having good results with xampp: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html

Or you can do the installs individually, You'll need Apache, PHP and MySQL. I took this route because I hadn't heard of xampp.

I'll be coming down from Vancouver and am wondering if anyone involved has some extra floor space to share (or even a back yard to camp in! ;-) for sleeping arrangements, or if anyone else is also figuring out where to stay and would like to share a hotel room to cut costs? Please post or contact me for either.

Cheers,
Jordan Lewin

Please post if you are interesting in car pooling arrangements.

This is the Pacific Northwest and we have a reputative to live up to :-)

You can now buy the DrupalCamp Seattle t-shirt from the CivicActions Goodstorm store. The design (shall we call it "Druplicon destroys Seattle"?) was done by Crystal of Raincity Studios.

Please buy directly from the store OR leave a comment here that you would like one, and Greg will have them at DrupalCamp. We need to get orders in pretty quick -- Greg, please let us know any other details you need.

For Canadian folks, we'll definitely need to order through Greg, since Goodstorm doesn't ship to Canada yet.

Details needed will be:

• Men's or Women's, Fitted or not
• Heavyweight or Lightweight
• Size: S, M, L, XL

A question for fellow Canucks heading south: Business or Pleasure?

In as much as I'm taking vacation time and my day job isn't sponsoring this trip, it's pleasure. In as much as I would take money for Drupal work if it were offered, this is business training. Is there a "best" answer to give the nice customs official while he or she holds the fate of my next 3 days in the balance?

Since there isn't a registration confirmation document should I bring along a strategic print out (time/place) from the web site?

Cheers.

As you may have noticed from the huge number of postings, Petrina took all the individual sessions listed in the agenda and turned them into separate events. For convenience sake, we also put them in a book outline - see the sessions outline for an easy overview of all the sessions.

Please use the signup function to indicate which sessions you are likely to attend.

Are there other topics you want to talk about? Leave a comment! (or find likely co-conspirators to talk with over beer...)

For all those heading to Drupal Camp Seattle that have yet to find accomodation check out these hotels which are near Hugo House :

-> Silver Cloud Hotel
-> Max Hotel Seattle
-> Inn at Virginia Mason
-> W Hotel **179 per night with this url

How to combine Drupal with existing web services (like flickr, youtube, del.icio.us and rss feeds) to create a kickass website in just a few hours! This is a great session for the online coordinator, webadmin, communications director of a non-profit organization to come and hear about lightweight strategies for becoming more web-savvy (as an individual and an organization). You can come to just attend this session if you want.

This session will provide an opportunity to continue coding together, as well as asking and answering any un-answered questions.

Writing documentation, testing, use cases, module recipes, install templates

In this session we'll look at some itches, yours and others already in the community and talk about and code some modules, work on others that might have some bugs as well as tackle some core and administor issues, we'll work in pairs or small groups. Come with your itch, we'll help you scratch it. If you don't have an itch, we'll give you one. (for example http://dev.civicactions.net/moin/DrupalAdminInterfaceImprovements)

you decide!

Hooks, apis and the the Drupal way of doing things

Your organization needs a database, can CiviCRM satisfy your needs? We'll give you a tour, and answer all your questions about using this powerful new cms as part of Drupal or on its own to meet you organization's database needs.

Learn all about themable functions, the views module and the crazy things you can do in the theme layer to make your site super cool.

You'll learn about various existing themes, modules, and module recipes (ways of setting up modules to work together to achieve a greater purpose). This session will involve dissection of existing sites, talking about how they do what they do, as well as advice on what modules to use to do what you want to do. So come with your site's requirements! If you have a web host, we can even set up a Drupal site for you, and get you started with your own site. But if you are not a coder, don;t worry, you will learn plenty about the capabilities of Drupal.

What the hell is a theme? dissecting php template themes: This starts with a tour of a few themes, dissecting as we go. Then you will learn to create a theme, come with your theme comp, if you have valid css/xhtml that will expedite things, you could find one online.

You already know some Drupal, you want to get involved in the community, help by filing patches, and fixing bugs etc... This session is for anyone with Drupal experience. It will start with a discussion of how the Drupal community works on a very operational level (CVS access, filing patches, maintaining modules etc), the second half or more will be dedicated to getting real help with your module, and or fixing some annoying bugs/functionality etc.

What is it? What is the Drupal way? What's the development community like? How does it work? This session is designed for developers and non developers looking to understand Drupal as a concept, a project and a community. There will be some heavy discussion of coding and the Drupal way

June 28 & 29, 2006
Location: Richard Hugo House

Drupal-Camp Seattle is an opportunity to learn about the Free and Open Source Drupal Content Management System (http://www.Drupal.org). This community driven event will focus on the PHP Theme Engine theming system, theme-able functions, Drupal 4.7 modules, module development and CiviCRM.

Who Should Attend:

Some ideas on space:
Seattle Public Library: ballard branch or central branch (www.spl.org)

The Community Living Room ( The Community Living Room is located at Phinney Ave North, in Fremont. It is the former Redhook Brewery, at the SE corner of 35th & Phinney, between 36th and the canal. It's the first door in the red brick building on Phinney just south of 35th under the sign, "Brewery Tours & Offices". There is a pay lot across the street if you can't find free street parking.)

Richard Hugo House: http://www.hugohouse.org/ (referred by sam moscheck)

RiseUp.net (i have contacted som

A 2 day community-run event.