North Texas / DFW

Hello everyone,

Well, after 2+ years of participating primarily (exclusively?) on the receiving end of the Drupal project, I'm finally giving back. My first contribution, Celadon, was recently accepted as a Drupal theme project. Despite some frustrations learning the intricacies of Drupal CVS, a project page has been created (equipped with the requisite issue queue!) and an initial development snapshot is now available for download.

DrupalCamp Austin 2009 will be held November 14-15, 2009, at the Norris Conference Centers in Austin, Texas. Admission is limited, so register today!

Session submissions are open to all attendees. So far, we've lined up several excellent speakers:

• Josh Koenig of Chapter Three
• Matt Cheney of Chapter Three
• Ben Finklea of Volacci
• Nathan Smith, creator of the 960.gs grid system

Tom McCracken will be presenting on Geoblogging:

Geoblogging is one of the hottest trend in the citizen journalism revolution. Tools for the roving citizen journalist are evolving rapidly. Flickr, YouTube and many other services enable you to geotag your photos, videos and blog posts. Come learn how you can integrate all this content with geo location information into a geoblogging Drupal site.

We'll also have "Lightning Talks" for some collaborative learning, and some good Drupal times!!!

Monday, 10/19 at 7:00

LevelTen Interactive
4228 North Central Expwy
Suite 210

Hello friends, I've come to beg...or at least ask. I just moved down from Nashville, and wonder if anyone has a working xp machine with at least 1 meg or ram hiding out in their closet that they'd like to sell or donate?

I am an Americorps/Peace Corps volunteer assigned to KNON community radio, and need a machine for the DJ's in the studio to twitter with. They used to have wireless access in there, but one of the dj laptops downloaded a virus that got to the station's network, and all h*** broke loose.

I work at channelAustin, a non-profit 501(c)(3) in Austin that is embracing Drupal. Our current web site is a Drupal site. More importantly, we are partners in the Open Media Project and are working collaboratively with other community television stations nationally on Drupal-based tools and are establishing a new channelAustin site. My wife is a board member of a non-profit, the Save Barton Creek Association, and they have recently converted their web site to Drupal. I’m aware of a handful of other Austin non-profits using Drupal, such as Texas Impact. Within the broader open source community in Austin, there is definitely a connection to non-profits and within that connection there are Drupal developers and implementers. It’s not hard to find reports on Drupal and non-profits, like Drupal for Nonprofits, or, How to Build Social Networks for Change and How Drupal Will Save The World. I periodically learn about large national non-profits that have made the switch to Drupal.

Since we recently changed our group website from www.DrupalJedi.com to www.DallasDrupal.org, and with DrupalCamp Dallas coming up this weekend, I figured it was time for a new look for our groups.drupal.org site! As you can see, this new site showcases the events more prominently, and the emphasis in on the community- you! A bit limited on what I could do with the site, but hopefully everyone likes the new look.