Design Initiative - Design Brief Proposal
Last updated by silverwing on Sat, 2011-12-17 16:45
Over the past months we've had many discussions here in the d4d group, at various Drupal camps, IRC and in the issue queues. I have kept notes and references to most of these discussions and based on those prepared a proposed design brief for the design initiative. It would be good if someone can enable comments on this wiki page, so we can discuss this and make changes etc to the brief. This is my initial idea - what is missing is a link to a demo site (I am setting that up today, I have a pretty good boilerplate site thats a good starting point).
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Conference Organizing Distribution (COD) code sprint on October 8 & 9, 2011 in Downtown Los Angeles #CODD7
Join members of the Los Angeles Drupal user group in the Drupal community's second code sprint for updating COD (Conference Organizing Distribution) to Drupal 7. This is a joint event produced by LA Drupal's Pro Drupal 7 Development book study group and Droplabs, a Drupal coworking / hackerspace in Downtown Los Angeles.
Join us in person or online!
During the code sprint, we'll be gathered in the #drupal-cod IRC channel and all are welcome to join us. The event organizers and attendees will also be checking Twitter for feedback and questions that mention @UseCOD or use the #CODD7 hashtag.
About COD, the Conference Organizing Distribution
COD is used for building conference and event websites. It's built on Drupal, the highly-regarded open-source web framework and content management system, and each component is independent of each other. This means you can disable the features you don't need, whether it's selling tickets or listing sponsors or allowing session voting.
Just like Drupal, COD is free and can be used by anyone. There is a very long list of sites that use COD, from the DrupalCon Chicago and DrupalCon London conferences to RIACon, Brisbane Innovation Camp, the Meego Conference, the Bay Area Drupal Camp, and our own Drupal Design Camp LA.
Here are just some of the great features in COD:
- Session submission, voting and moderation
- Session schedule grid
- Personalized attendee schedules
- Easy event registration and attendee management
- Community features (forums, friending, etc.)
- Easy sponsors management
We're already using COD on Drupal 6 for the Drupal Design Camp LA 2011 website and we plan to use COD on Drupal 7 for Drupal Design Camp LA 2012. COD is not yet ready for this but we're not afraid of rolling up our sleeves and getting our hands dirty.
Help us improve COD and you'll also be helping numerous Drupal contrib projects, including Location, Signup and Commerce, as well as other organizations and conferences, such as DrupalCon, SCALE 10x and DrupalCamps around the world including our own Drupal Design Camp LA.
COD on Drupal 7 Battleplans
- Find a venue (done! we're meeting at Droplabs)
- Gather interest and sponsorships
- Set up a hosting environment for group collaboration
- Add contributors to our version control system
- Download COD, set up the team with tools, including Quickstart
- Get up to speed on work that has already been done:
- San Diego COD sprint on May 7, 2011
- Notes on Lullabot's Etherpad instance at http://lullapad.com/h12fYizetk
- Upgrading COD to Drupal 7: Sprint 1 - San Diego
- COD roadmap
- Porting COD to Drupal 7
- COD on Drupal 7 How-to
- Debate Commerce vs. Ubercart 3 (just kidding: the COD roadmap lists Commerce)
- Code! Code! Code!
- Update the COD issue queue with current progress
- Write a summary for Planet Drupal to thank our sponsors and contributors, aid any future CODD7 sprints, etc.
Pre-sprint discussion and planning
We've already begun discussing and planning several parts of the code sprint during the first 15 minutes of each Pro Drupal 7 Development book study group meeting. To join the conversation, click the Signup button below, post a comment below, contact any of the event organizers at the top of this page or just drop by the Pro Drupal 7 Development study group some Monday night.
The attendance of the book study group is already capped for this book group cycle but you're more than welcome to drop by, talk with us and work on your projects at Droplabs alongside other Drupaleros.
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DrupalCamp Derry
The next Drupal Ireland event will be DrupalCamp Derry on October 22nd and 23rd 2011.
The weekend will include: Drupal beginner training, focussed, lightning talks for experienced Drupal developers, problem solving, discussions and a practical build workshop. Drupalers on the island of Ireland and from far beyond her shores are welcome!
Please sign up at www.drupalcampireland.org
Looking to start contributing to core?
A lot of people have expressed desires to get involved with core, but don't exactly know where to start. If you are one of those people, this post is for you! Here are three helpful tips.
Read moreTo those doing responsive web design in #drupal, what base theme are you starting with?
I posed the following question on Twitter, and thought the answers might be helpful to others (as well as a place to archive further discussion that's actually searchable :P).
Here were some of the more detailed responses. This is a wiki, so feel free to add additional ones, either in the post or comments!
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Documentation and Docs Team Proposed Restructuring
As a (partial) follow-up to Towards Docs Sustainability... Here is a proposal (or the beginnings of a proposal) for a major structural revision to how we do documentation on Drupal.org, and to the Documentation team.
Your suggestions and ideas are welcome! Please comment below, and then I'll go back and edit this proposal to incorporate the great suggestions I'm sure you will have.
Note: This is a work in progress, and may have been edited since you last looked at it, or since someone made a particular comment... sorry for any confusion!
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Drupal 7 Media sprint
Many of the current maintainers of the Media module are meeting for a week-long sprint in Chicago on September 24-28 (Saturday to Wednesday) to help push the module to a stable 1.0 release, work on important features for the 2.x branch, and help plan a potential Drupal 8 media initiative.
Because space is very limited, virtual participation in the #drupal-media IRC channel is highly encouraged and welcome! If you are very interested in attending in person, please contact Dave Reid.
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DrupalCamp Guatemala 2011
Todos están cordialmente invitados a participar en el DrupalCamp
Guatemala, Sabado 29 de Octubre de 9:00am a 5:00pm Centro Tics
Intecap, Ciudad de Guatemala .
Please join us in Guatemala, the land of the Eternal Spring
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala) on Saturday, October 29th
from 9-5 at the Tics Intecap Center in Guatemala City for the first
Guatemala Drupal Camp!
Si están interesados en patrocinar el evento o quieren más información
sobre los patrocinios, favor enviar un mail a:
correo[at]drupalguatemala[dot]org
Does Acquia exert inappropriate influence on Drupal core?
Sun's blog post yesterday and some of the comments on it raise the concern that Acquia, a single commercial company, exerts inappropriate influence on the direction of Drupal core.
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All Day Community Directory-building Sprint and Meetup Tue Sep 6 11am-11pm
Following on Iconothon Boston on September 3rd, Code for America fellow Chach Sikes is working with Boston-based community organizer/technologist/Drupalistas Benjamin Melançon, Ben Sheldon & Ben Mauer to launch a public directory of community groups. (Ben Sheldon will be a Code for America fellow 2012.) We invite you to join us to kick off this community directory, built on a Drupal 7 distribution, at 11am at MIT, Room E51-151.
CityGroups
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