Boston

REMINDER: "Success with Drupal Web Development Vendors" Survey
(We have had a great response! Thanks to all that have already completed the survey.)

As more organizations are adopting Drupal as their platform of choice for complex web projects the number of development firms offering services is increasing rapidly. How often do relationships with Drupal web development vendors succeed? How often do they fail? Why?

(Registration: http://tinyurl.com/vd-hackaton)

On Saturday, November 19, we are organizing an open Hackaton to provide Drupalistas with an opportunity to get their hands dirty with VoIP Drupal and push the limits of the platform.

VoIP Drupal (http://drupal.org/project/voipdrupal/) is an innovative open source framework that makes it easy to build Drupal websites that literally pick-up the phone, make calls, record messages, broadcast audio, and more. By enabling the creation of hybrid systems that combine web, SMS, email, and touch tone phone technologies together, VoIP Drupal takes “community plumbing” into a new dimension, facilitating the implementation of community outreach initiatives, phone-based polls, voice menus, audio blogs, click-to-call systems, and much more. Features include:
* Common API that facilitates interaction with different Internet-telephony providers such as Twilio, Tropo and Plivo (FreeSWITCH)
* Simple dialplan scripting language for the creation of interactive phone calls with voice menus, conference calls, audio recording and more
* Sample code and sandbox that help people explore and play with the different aspects of the platform (http://voipdrupal.org/)
* An already-existing suite of modules that extends and builds upon VoIP Drupal capabilities (http://drupal.org/node/1078790)

Last night, more than 30 people participated in the Boston Initiative between 6:30 and 7:30 at our monthly meetup. We had 8 breakout groups, 9 group leaders, and 23 group participants (not including late arrivals). And our initiative contributed to 7 issues in the Drupal core issue queue.

Breakout groups included:
Local environment setup
Re-rolling patches
Database system
Reproducing and confirming bugs
Installing Git
Testing patches
Drafting summaries
Bartik

This is just a reminder that we have an amazing event planned for this weekend! With over 250 attendees, 30 sessions, 6 BOFs, 1 training, 1 keynote speaker, and 1 after-party!! Oh yeah, and free coffee, lunch, snacks and beer!

If you haven't already done so, Register Now!

http://drupalcampnh.org

Can't wait to see everyone there,
Michelle

As more organizations are adopting Drupal as their platform of choice for complex web projects the number of development firms offering services is increasing rapidly. How often do relationships with Drupal web development vendors succeed? How often do they fail? Why?

The purpose of this short anonymous survey is to gain insight into the dynamics between Drupal website development firms and their clients. Basically, as a community, we want to take a quick temperature check as to how things are going. If you complete this survey, we’ll share the aggregate results with you.

November 1st will be the second of five meetups where we dedicate one hour, from 6:30 to 7:30, to learning about and contributing to Drupal core. (Until we have a better name for this contribute-to-core-and-work-your-way-up-the-ladder project, I’m just going to refer to this as, “The Boston Initiative”.)