Growing Drupal

As a supplement to the Media group, I launched Drupal Media today to help with the ongoing Media sprint efforts. On its front page, you'll see a map to the next sprint (which is at Mansueto - 7 World Trade Ctr, New York, NY this Friday-Saturday, October 23-24, from 9-5). Tabs are also available for discussions (add your own), videos, and a feed to the Media module issue queue. Please give me any feedback or desired functionality that would be useful for the site. (Including long-term plans for the useful domain, contributed by the good folks at Development Seed.)

Don't forget that you have to pre-register if you plan to come to the sprint, with your full name. Hope to see you there, or at #drupal-media in IRC!

[Note: This workshop is a component of this Drupal Kata Master Class.]

Topics to cover

• How to create a sustainable learning and training program
• Funding strategy and staffing requirements
• Proposal writing
• Creating engaging sessions and events
• Interfacing with the Drupal community without being bogged down by politics

Issues/tasks

• Identify program stakeholders and potential sponsors - benefits and opportunities

The Media module is progressing along nicely! We have a FAQ and a Roadmap in place, and an Alpha launch planned for the Sprint at the Open Media Camp in Denver.

This session will give a brief demo and overview of current progress. We'll also spend some time talking about how YOU can participate!

Where

There is a lot of teaching content out there, but there is no central place that can get you to all of it.

Yesterday we had a discussion about the future of resources aggregation and moderation for Drupal (e.g. videocasts, recordings, audio, write-ups,...). I've got a part (the first 30 minutes are missing) transcript of the IRC session at http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgtrwwgw_1dtmqc5c2

There were basically 3 use cases:
1) Drupal Dojo where people come to teach and learn - sort of social network for learning and mentoring
2) A Drupal materials aggregator - that collects everything and that is community moderated
3) A moderated content list - where a list of comprehensive materials is made available

[This is a wiki - please don't hesitate to update, revise, and contribute your ideas!]

Overview:

• Showcases, case studies, industry discussions, discussions about the business of consulting, and the business of open source.
• Local community building and focus on efforts such as the Drupal Dojo, Drupal Kata, Google Summer of Code and GHOP.

Goals and Objectives

• Promote a sustainable business ecosystem in the Drupal community
• Educate businesses about the benefits and costs of using Drupal as a platform for their business

Hello everyone,

In my pastime, sometimes I jump into inkscape, and this time I decided to do something for the Dojo.

Since it has helped me so much in the past and the group is working hard to get it back in full force, (mind you, joshk already did an awesome lesson in November), I decided to do something hoping to inspire this process, and well, hopefully be of some use also in promoting the group.

If you are using another resolution, do drop a comment, and I will provide it, no problem =)

If anyone has suggestions, (I didn't include the url, because I like my wallpapers clean, for example), go ahead and fire away, we could make a different version, no problem =)

Hope you like it!

This will be the 2nd planning session for what could be a new site/profile for the Drupal Dojo. We'll pick it up where we left off and plot a course for the next week. These are a few items we'll cover:

Development environment

BlakeLucchesi (http://groups.drupal.org/user/3107) has begun putting up the new dojo site on a development environment. We'll go over over that in more detail.

Planning, setup and configuration

We're trying to raise $495 so we can get a DimDim pro account whichwill support 100 simultaneous users in a single room. Click here to ChipIn.

The $99 version lets you have 100 total users, but only 20 to any given room. Click "details" on the DimDim product page next to "Annual Price" to see what we're talking about.

We're having a informal planning session regarding the short term and long terms goals for what could be a new site/profile for the Drupal Dojo and how project ties into the larger goals of growing the Drupal project, community, and economy.

Discussion points may include -

• Desired outcomes for the new website, associated deliverables, and the Dojo itself (what are the Dojos requirements)
• Potential use cases for the website and major components (Repository for learning materials, Virtual classroom and collaboration space, Patterns)
• Requirement Gathering

Hello Drupal Dojo people!

I'd like to extend a 10% registration discount for The Do It With Drupal Seminar to everyone in the Drupal Dojo group. To receive the discount enter the code DRUPALDOJO at the checkout. This discount code expires on November 21st.

Do It With Drupal is a large-scale conference-style learning event happening in New Orleans, December 10, 11, and 12th. We've got a lot of superstar speakers from both Drupal and the greater web community. The event is being organized by Lullabot and features speakers such as Earl Miles (Views), Karen Stevenson (CCK), Moshe Weitzman (Organic Groups), John Resig (author of jQuery), Chris Pirillo (Lockergnome), Heather Champ (Flickr Community Manager), Chris Messina (Flock, DiSo, etc), Angie Byron (Drupal 7 maintainer), Addi Berry (Drupal Dojo), and many more.

For more information about the event please visit http://doitwithdrupal.com . Be sure not to miss the latest schedule and the blog for the latest news.