Vision for a new support.drupal.org - share your ideas and expertise
The http://groups.drupal.org/support-infrastructure group was created to focus discussion and, hopefully, development. There's been a lot of ad hoc discussion so far, in various places. We want to focus that energy.
So far, davidhernandez has started a wiki page at http://groups.drupal.org/node/133494 outlining some fundamental goals — namely to replace the forums as a support center with something much more effective and useful. (It's a wiki! Be bold!)
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Drupalcamp Bucharest 2011: Open for Registration
We announce that Drupalcamp Bucharest 2011 is open for registration on the event website at b2011.drupalcamp.ro.
Drupal Romania Association currently organizes its second major event: Drupalcamp Bucharest 2011, taking place during 7th and 8th of May, 2011 after the successful first Romanian Drupalcamp organized in Timisoara - last year.
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This is meant to act as a first step for getting information about DrupalCamp Colorado 2011 June 11th and 12th in Denver, CO.
Do you...
want to attend DrupalCamp Colorado?
Drupalcamp Colorado will be June 11th and 12th at Denver's King Center facility on the Auraria campus.
The best resource for more information on the Camp is the website itself: http://2011.drupalcampcolorado.org/
want to help organize DrupalCamp Colorado?
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Wake up community - Wordpress.org should scare you!
Drupal is quickly becoming a product where less and less custom coding will be required for new sites. With modules such as Views, Panels and Webform combined with advanced, and user friendly, themes, sites will be possible to build without knowing anything about coding in PHP etc. Drupal Gardens and Buzzr are great examples of this. Distributions is also making site building much easier to get started without coding.
Hosting companies are making Drupal very easy to install with just a few clicks. I'm not talking about the traditional one-click installs of old versions. Now these companies understand that providing good Drupal support gives them en edge on the market.
I think that we do realise that this is going to attract the same kind of users that today download and install WordPress. A lot of these new users will have very limited coding skills. In fact, most them couldn't care less about it. The only thing they are interested in is to get a software they quickly can build a site with.
Unfortunately most of these new users will run away from Drupal!
This is why:
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Butler in Chicago
I'm a bit late in getting this out, but such is life when moving and attending a wedding. :-)
We had a good Core Conversation on Butler in Chicago. Sadly Dries ended up not being able to attend, but just about everyone else was on board with the roadmap. The roadmap itself hasn't changed much since Copenhagen, but things are moving again. There was also considerable talk of very, very interesting tie-ins to the configuration/deployment core initiatives, as having a more robust pre-database configuration option should help resolve a lot of the challenges we were looking at.
Slides from the presentation are attached below.
Next steps:
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Drupal Camp @ Stanford
Please join us @ Drupal Camp at Stanford University
https://drupalcamp.stanford.edu/
DrupalCamp at SouthEast LinuxFest in Spartanburg SC 6/12/11
Last year ROCKED so we've been invited back!
A call for presenters AND attendees AND sponsors!
PLZ reply with your session proposals
The organizers of SouthEast LinuxFest have again asked me to volunteer to organize a FREE one day Drupalcamp to take place on day3 of the SouthEast LinuxFest. http://www.southeastlinuxfest.org/
WHEN: Sunday June 12th
WHERE: Spartanburg Marriott at the Renaissance http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/SPAMC?groupCode=slxslxa&app=resvli...
Spartanburg SC
Drupal Dojo Session: DrupalCon Chicago PREVIEW
Going to DrupalCon Chicago? Co-chair George DeMet will be joining the Drupal Dojo for this special preview! Find out what you need to know before next week!
Archived Webinar: http://drupaldojo.com/session/drupalcon-chicago-preview
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Drupal.org Scheduled Downtime Thursday, February 24, 23:00 UTC
Reposted from the Drupal.org Front page to be available during downtime. During down time, check https://twitter.com/drupalgitgremln for periodic updates.
Drupal.org will have approximately 12 hours of scheduled downtime, Thursday, February 24, 23:00 UTC (3PM PST, 6PM EST). We will be performing the CVS to Git migration. This is the most comprehensive and extensive change to Drupal.org in recent history - perhaps ever, therefore, the Infrastructure & Git Migration teams need an adequate time buffer to perform the migration, verify the data, and check for and resolve any issues.
What does “downtime” mean?
The following parts of the *.drupal.org will be inaccessible for the duration of the migration:
- The main drupal.org website, including all download pages, issue queues, forums, and search.
- Write access to cvs.drupal.org.
- Account creation on any of the Drupal.org sub-sites, including groups.drupal.org, api.drupal.org, and chicago2011.drupal.org.
Some areas of the drupal.org infrastructure remain unaffected, including:
- Drush commands such as
drush dl. - Read-only access to cvs.drupal.org. CVS repositories will be maintained in read-only mode for at least a year following the migration.
We regret that it was not feasible to provide a read-only copy during the downtime and apologize for the inconvenience this extended downtime will cause to the community, but it’s hard to overstate the incredible transformation this move will enable for our community’s collaboration. With Drupal 8 development kicking off soon, and code sprints happening in DrupalCon Chicago in just over a week, having a strong platform from which to work is vital for our project’s future.
Thank you very much for your patience and understanding. Please keep your eyes on https://twitter.com/drupalgitgremln and http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-org-git-migration-team for updates.
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Drupalcamp Colorado 2011 June 11th and 12th in Denver
Howdy folks!
Very exciting news here that Drupalcamp Colorado will be June 11th and 12th at Denver's King Center facility on the Auraria campus (next door to the building where it was in 2010).
After a 300+ turnout last year we hope to have 400 people this year and have a limit of about 500. Can we sell out again?
The official camp site is http://2011.drupalcampcolorado.org/
Announcements will also be posted here as we get close to ticket sales, session submission, session voting, and schedule announcement.
Yay Colorado!
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