Wellington Drupal Hackfest

I'm keen!

I am more than happy to spend the day hanging out and testing any patches people care to work on :)

Go go Drupal Hackfest!

I'm happy enough to work from ... well, work but anywhere with decent (free) wireless access would be workable

i'll organise some beer then!

I've never touched Drupal, but am keen in taking a look at it, so will be along.

I'm always keen to learn other CMS's and just increase my general knowledge of things. Plus I'm a noob student and have nothing better to do :P

fun

I'm afraid I will be in San Francisco. I'll happily come to #2; seems Madman's going though, so at least there will be one SilverStriper attending :)

I'll be at SuperHappyDevHouse Silicon Valley #20

We could have this in my living room - there's room for 10 people with tables, chairs, couches, wifi, wired.
(I live in Aro Valley)

Hi Guys

Great job you are doing in the Drupal community. I am new to Open Source, and I am impressed with your incredible culture. I am present to an amazing group of generous people with a high sense of community, creating a culture of information sharing that is very inspiring. Your hackfest seems to be a lot of fun.

My name is André Cymbalista, I am originally from Brazil, living in Wellington. I am working on a project for CAN (Cycling Advocates Network - http://www.can.org.nz/). CAN is New Zealand's national network of cycling advocates. We are a non-profit, and we work with government and local authorities on behalf of cyclists, for a better cycling environment. We take a stand for the environment and for improving the quality of life in our communities.

We received a grant to implement a project that has a community software component, and we decided to use Drupal.

I was wondering wether you would be interested in having fun in your hackfest while implementing some interesting modifications in existing modules that would be useful for us, and potentially to many other groups?

One of our ideas is about recontextualising bike routes in Googlemaps format that are available from other websites (e.g.: bikely.com and mapmyroute.com). We would like to mashup these routes with our own user generated content (e.g.: where are the blackspots, the parking places, the bike shops, the most recent changes, etc). This module is where Googlemap meets a Wiki.

We need another module, which is less challenging from a technical point of view, but more useful to all advocacy groups. It is a submissions engine that allows anyone to create a submission in response to a public consultation, and have it sent to the accountable official channels at the council or government. Other users can learn about previous submissions, and support them with a mouse click, adding their own comments, and explaining why that specific issue matters to them. The beauty about this module is that, if well implemented, can be made available as a standalone webservice, quite useful for any group who is interested in encouraging people to participate more actively in the public planning processes. Think of a poliicized shoulddothis.com on steroids, and you will have an idea of the potential of this module.

Does that sound inspiring to you? If it does, and if you feel that this is something that you would like to hack on in your fest, I would feel very much privileged to receive an invitation to hack with you. I cannot program, but I can draw models and detail requirements on the go, and of course, I can do the testing. And I can also contribute to the hackfest bringing some cases of your favorite beer.

Please let me know which of the suggested modules you would be most interested in.

Cheers,

Andre