Workshop, sprint, or project

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!

Fellow Media Moguls,

We're shaking off the dust from the Media module, which was sadly neglected during the heady Summer of Code, where we got Stream Wrappers into core! I'm excited to meet now with my fellow Drupalistas, and get the module presentable for Drupal 7 (and Drupal 6, if anyone is interested in helping on that front).

[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

This will be a progress report for the ongoing Media Sprint, for the Media Module, including How You Can Get Involved™!

Note this immediately follows 8Tracks & Emfield.

Where
We're using Dojo's Dimdim - click this link at the time of the session.

When: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 4:00 PM (EST)

[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

Arthur and I will co-present a recap of last week's exciting Media Code Sprint, held in various offices in NYC! We'll be doing this with the Drupal Dojo, using DimDim.

Media Code Sprint Recap
Tuesday, January 13, 2008 at 3:30 PM (EST)

Why You Want to Be There

• Because you want to learn about the future of multimedia in Drupal.
• Because you want to help transform multimedia handling for Drupal.
• Because everything you thought you knew about Drupal and multimedia is about to be obsolete (and why that's a good thing)...

I'll post a synopsis and schedule in the morning, so stay tuned!

(Cross-posted at AaronWinborn.com.)

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 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