drupal北京1.19meetup手记

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（一）
Jacob介绍了一下drupal association 的组织基本架构以及drupal.org的大致架构。
drupal 创始人是Dries
steven还有另外三位（具体名字忘记了） 是core team
400+开发人员

jocob提到：所有参与dupal的人都是没有工资，大家都出于奉献。（个人理解：你奉献了，其他人在你的基础上进行优化并再次奉献，这时候你就收获了）
drupal是一个共产主义社会（By Jhon）

drupal的费用均来自捐款.扣除日常开支，如服务器带宽外。若有盈余会转捐给其他公益事业，如大学社团。

jacob提到的drupal association是一个与drupal.org相对独立的组织，这个组织的主要任务之一就是维护合法的drupaler的权益。比如你做了一个完善的drupal产品,某个人把我的产品拿去卖钱，并宣称这是他的东西。这个association就会出来维护你的权益。这个组织近期会有一个选举，不出意外Jacob将是我们这的代表。

（二）
回顾了jhon公司的上次发起的Bootcamp活动：
1、由于不能租赁到相应的场地，Bootcamp二期及三期的讲座需要推迟到节后了。
2、Jhon 让我们参加过上次讲座的回馈一些建议，收集到了以下建议：
A) 讲座内容方面能结合实例更佳
B) 讲座前分发相应文档，让参与人更好的做相应准备，如了解一些课上会用到的基本概念、涉及内容等
C) 会后能够把相应音视频记录存档并且给其他未到现场网友分享。期间rick?（具体名字有点对不上号了）提议视频画面以讲师的屏幕内容为主。
D) 会前对大家期望了解的drupal内容进行调查，选出大家感兴趣的主题由专长人员进行讲解交流等。
e)Andy(我)建议更多的人参与到整个培训工作协作中来，贡献一份自己的水滴。如，联系培训场地、 会前有一些人提前到场安装机器上的环境、会后有人组织相应视频发布等等。
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（三）
Jacob提出关于drupal的汉化问题，具体细节比较多。我没记太清楚。大致意思是需要大家参与，并且围绕一些在线协同工具展开工作。

（四）
自由讨论
主要形式是，有问题的提出自己的问题，知道的领取问题，最后各自沟通。

这是我第二次参加drupal在北京的meetup，第一次是参加小兰他们公司发起的Bootcamp第一期讲座。今天更加清晰的知道durpal 的文化，期间本次meetup的发起人。

感谢小兰以及他们公司付出的努力。

以上内容完全凭借自己的理解以及大脑回忆记录，可能不准确。大家补充。

------ And now for my writeup (Jacob) --------

Although we switched dates from a Thursday to a Saturday the turn out was still pretty good. A solid 15 people showed up to discuss how they were using Drupal including a visitor from Vancouver, B.C that discovered the meetup via groups.drupal.org! The new location (the Study English bar) turned out to be a nice change as we were able to use the private room which made conversing much easier.

With some help from Ben (circleoflife) and Andy (andygong) we had a short but sweet Agenda. We started off with introductions which were really great as we had a few new people joining us. There are a lot of good projects in the works in Beijing, I'm excited to hear them all.

After introductions I began with an overview of the Drupal Association. What it is and why it exists. To be brief we talked to the roles and responsibilities of the Association which is to (1) protect Drupal (2) promote Drupal (3) provide services to the community. The association does not write code or direct the Drupal project. Drupal is in the hands of the community. The association is simply there to ensure that the work of the community (YOU!) is protected.

The discussion of the Drupal association also led into a discussion of how Drupal core is created. Although there are only 4 people with commit access to core there are well over 400 people that have contributed to the core project in the form of patches, issues, bug fixes, etc. Its important to understand this as it demonstrate the power of the community and how easy it is for someone to plug into that community and affect change. If you want something YOU can make it happen.

The discussion was quite nice and I was really glad to hear all of these questions.

Next up was Amber and an overview of her AMAZING bootcamp held last weekend. If you weren't able to attend the FREE bootcamp Amber did an absolutely amazing job. I attended despite not being able to understand much of it.
--Amber and her crew will be providing more bootcamps so be on the lookout!

Translation!!
We talked about the translation efforts that are currently under way. dami 大米 (Drupalchina.org), kzeng, and a few others did an absolutely amazing job into translating Drupal into Simplified Chinese. Utilizing the new l10n Server project we are going to try and get individual modules translated in a method that we can all share translations.
We also talked about setting up a central translation dictionary so that translations are standard across sites.
More on this to come...

After this discussion John (and the Kenny, Amber, Vanessa Power team) asked everyone to ask a question to the group and we then broke into mini-groups helping to solve each others issues. It was great to see everyone helping each other!

Thanks to everyone that came out! I will see you all at the next meetup!