Portland (Oregon)

I created a Flickr set of the pictures I took while at DrupalCon. It includes the Field Museum party, the Lullabot Geek -> Chic show (including Jeff Robbins' band, Orbit), a few snapshots of the actual conference as well as bits of Chicago.

By the way, Portland represented itself well at DrupalCon this year, with over 30 people from our city attending.

We are pleased to announce that our most excellent stickers for the PNWDS 2011 in Portland have arrived at DrupalCon!
See eliza411, halstead, jhedstrom, grendzy, mikey_p, skjalf, rocksoup, or grantkruger for your very own.

Also, the splash page is up at http://pnwdrupalsummit.org/--add your email address to be notified when our 2011 site goes live.

Many thanks to the Design Team (Brett and Marlene) and Annabella and team extrordinaire at NorthStudio for making the stickers, design, and splash page happen before DrupalCon. High fives all around.

For those of you who are agnostic about open source CMS or who sometimes find yourself needing a Joomla resource, you might be interested to know that a new PDX Joomla! user group has started. They have had one meeting and their next meeting is this month. Sadly, of all the days in the month they picked the exact same day of the month as the Drupal User group for their meetings. Poor form, but aside from that it now means that the big 4 open source CMS (Drupal, Wordpress, Plone and Joomla!) now all have PDX user groups.

Any thoughts about a PDX gathering at a watering hole in Chicago? Anyone up for meeting the evening of Tuesday (March 8th)?

Edit: As was suggested in the comments, Theresa set up a page with a PayPal button. Please use that button to make any size donation. However, if you want your name or your organizations name to also appear on the "free buttons" notice, then please let me know by using my contact form.

Those of you who were at our OSCon table or at earlier events run by this group might have seen our awesome pinback buttons that Theresa Pridemore made for our group. You know how we geeks are at conferences, so the buttons have tended to be very popular and get snapped up very quickly. For those of you who would like to see them, you can see them on Skitch (designs include bleed). At OSCon, Dries said the "Don't Hack Core!" button was destined to become a Drupal classic. Even at non-Drupal OSCon we ran out of those "Don't Hack Core!" buttons before the end of day 1.

Theresa and I wanted to order a batch of at least 2 of the designs ("Don't Hack Core" and one of "Developing Harmony") of these buttons from One Inch Round -- a local button-maker that was one of the sponsors for our 2008 DrupalCamp and who make excellent buttons -- and then take them to DrupalCon and give them away to attendees. The idea would be to put them on a freebie table with a sign that reads something like, "Free buttons. Courtesy of the Portland, Oregon User Group." We can even have the group URL printed on the edge of the button (not visible from the front), or just stick with drupal.org.

Why do this? Well, it's fun and adds a fun benefit to the broader community, plus it raises our DUG's profile and it might even help us find new members (I met a number of Portland folks at the SF DrupalCon who had never even heard of our DUG). Plus we'll see those buttons reappear at conferences for years to come, as past experience has shown.

We'd buy 1" inch buttons, which, including shipping, are $65 for 200, $130 for 500 and $225 for 1000. More than 1000 would probably be overkill, even at a conference that likely will have over 3,000 attendees. We'll buy 200 ourselves for sure, but we're looking for others to chip in so that we can take even more with us. So, any takers? Please reply here, or contact me through my contact form.

For all of the amazing people whom I have met at the Drupal Party, Brewpal, and the Meetup 'after party' saying you wanted to help with Summit, I salute you! And apologize that I have not tracked you down sooner. :) Now's your chance to join the volunteer pool and declare yourself available to help with Summit when we have fun and not so fun things to do throughout the next 9 months and/or during the event!