Call for registrations, presentations and sponsors for Drupalcon Barcelona 2007
Drupalcon Barcelona 2007is now open for registrations, sessions and sponsors. It promises to be the best DrupalCon up to this date in one of the nicest cities in Europe. So please go to the DrupalCon site and sign up!
The Drupalcon Barcelona 2007 promises to be our best DrupalCon ever for many reasons:
- We are expecting 400 attendees
- The venue is a newly refurbished building to service the IT community:
- Plenty of space with 4 big rooms for presentations, some small rooms for coding corners, a big sharing room for meeting other Drupalers, having a drink or a lunch, restaurant, hall, library...
- great wifi connection
- screens and beamers in all rooms
- streaming video
- simultaneous translation
- You will enjoy one of the most beautiful European cities
So really, do you want to miss this?
Read moreComparison of product shops
It seems that there is a desire from folks to be able to buy "official" Drupal products of various sorts. CafePress works OK, but doesn't really work great outside the US (too expensive).
This is a request to compile a list of such product shops, make a list of pros and cons, and recommend 2 - 3. Please edit this wiki directly.
- monthly cost of running shop
- typical margin / profit per item
- types of products available (e.g. t-shirts, pins, etc.)
- countries supported / typical shipping costs to different countries
- other basics we should find out from each store?
Proposal: End of Life the Gmap Macro
Hello mappers,
I have a proposal that I think will make the gmap module stronger, but I wanted to solicit other opinions before I start writing the patch.
I recently was working on two additional gmap functionalities for a client: the first was the ability to load KML files located at an offsite URL as overlays, and the other was a "click to add nodes" functionality so that users could add images by simply clicking on their locations on a gmap.
In both cases I started trying to build my functionality as add modules to gmap. This quickly broke down as I discovered the macro processing was hard coded and not easy to work with. Additionally, I attempted to modify the gmap module itself, but again working with the macro processing was such a headache that I abandoned that idea as well. Finally, I developed these tools as stand alone JavaScript additions, with not UI in Drupal. Not an optimal situation, but I had to get these features out in a reasonable time frame.
I've been thinking about my experience since then, and I have come to the following conclusion: the gmap macro hinders development of the gmap module and prevents additional module development. Therefore, it should be discontinued in favor of a simpler, UI and data model driven alternative, similar to Views.
Read moreJune 07 Newsletter
Just to bring Robin's link to the forefront, the June 2007 newsletter skeleton wiki is at http://groups.drupal.org/node/4075.
It was buried in one of Robin's comments, and I think it'd be more straightforward if it was given more exposure in the Newsletter group.
I've done a preliminary look-over of the content, and I like it. I'll be writing up a short recap of DrupalCamp Toronto.
Read moreOpened web registration and Design contest for Drupalcon Barcelona 2007
We have opened registration to the web site of our next Drupalcon in Barcelona. By registering at http://barcelona2007.drupalcon.org you will be able to post your session proposals and post in the site's forums. Conference registration is NOT yet open but it will be soon. Keep an eye on it!
Also, a logo design contest has been opened. Deadline is June 10th. You can read all the details about the contest on http://barcelona2007.drupalcon.org/news/2007/05/11/design-contest-drupal...
Go for it!
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Mini design project for the Drupal Association
Greetings.
I am a volunteer fund raiser on the Board of the Drupal Association. We are working on better integration between the main Drupal.org website and the association.drupal.org website. One of the obvious things we are working on first is a 'Spotlight' image for the Drupal association - these are the graphics that show up in the rounded box on the upper right of drupal.org; 'Drupal Planet' 'Security Announcements' etc.
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Seen Any Good UI Lately?
In the quest to bring book.module to the next level as outline.module in Drupal 6.0, we're confronting some UI questions. Currently the form for adding a post to a book hierarchy becomes unworkable for sites with lots of book nodes (e.g. drupal.org). We need something more innovative than a simple dropdown for this new release. But what?
I'm a big believer in taking advantage of the state of the art, and I know there's a lot of interesting stuff out there online already.
Read moreFinished my site Launchlab
This site uses nodeprofile/nodefamily and usernode. It's a site for members of the east london arts community to represent themselves,
each user has an associated CCK node which they use as a profile, when the users create there profiles they tag themselves with there artistic skills and styles.
The site has a advanced search and tag cloud for potential employers to quickly find relevant artists and see samples of there work.
It also has a section called 'the lab' with the usual community networking tools (forums, messages, links etc)
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FrOSCon Germany 2007
The FrOSCon conference is a fun conference that takes place at a technical college in Sankt Augustin, Germany (near Cologne and Bonn). The conference is well attended by many open source groups such as Debian, Zope, PHP, KDE, X Org and NetBSD.
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community.civicrm.ca directory
I registered civicrm.ca some time ago because it was available, and have just gotten around to setting up a basic 5.1 install with the links module on the community subdomain with the goal of having a directory of Canadian organization installs of Civicrm.
So - if you are a developer or site administrator of a Canadian organization using civicrm - please add yourself to the directory! I've left the registration open for now, but I'll probably have to moderate it when the new breed of drupal comment spammers discover me.
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