Northern VA Users Group

I do some podcasting on topics of interest to entrepreners, and early next week I am going to do a podcast interview with someone from a firm that is in the business of accounts receivable financing (http://tinyurl.com/atfoz4). If you have a development shop or are a lone developer, I'd be interested in hearing about the types of organizations you work for - associations, small commercial companies, larger commercial companies, etc. Company names are not required.

Hello everyone, here is a great way to market your Drupal services to the non-profit community. Phase2 Technology is participating in this effort by sponsoring the Drupal portion of a new research report done by Idealware.org on the subject of comparing Drupal, Wordpress, Joomla and Plone. Of course, we want the Drupal community to be well represented so please consider adding your support by registering to be listed in the Drupal portion of their services directory.

Come listen to Tony Byrne, Founder and Executive Editor at CMS Watch, as he speaks about the latest open source web content management developments relative to the WCM space as a whole. The presentation will be followed by networking.

Please note - Tony tends to draw large audiences. Please don't delay in registering!

To register: http://yeatonpartners02-09.eventbrite.com/

Any meetups planned? I'm new to the Northern Virginia Group and its been silent in the New Year since I joined. Was t something I said.... :)

• Sandeep

We thought the Apps for Democracy contest was a great way to show the DC government that Drupal is the leading open source platform for government project and a great chance to get them familiar with the platform. So we built a Drupal site and entered it in the contest. You can vote for it here. You don't need to log in so it only takes three seconds to vote, but voting closes tonight at midnight, so vote soon!

The site we built is called DC Bikes and you can check it out here. It's a guide to biking in DC and puts mostly city data on a map so people find detailed bike routes in DC, monitor bike theft in real time, and buy bike equipment on Craigslist. This site is built on Drupal and is the only submission that is 100% open source - we used open source Mapnik for our maps rather than Google Maps. Specifically we used <a href="http://drupal.org/project/feedapi>FeedAPI and Feed Element Mapper for the site's aggregation, and the spaces module allowed us to build it pretty quickly.

As some of you may know, I've been neck-deep in Drupal's Doc team work. The doc sprints that we have had at the last two Drupalcons have been a ton of fun and very productive. I'd like to run a local sprint down in DC sometime before the end of the year. The basic idea that I am thinking right now is to find a location that will let us camp out with wifi for about 4-6 hours on a weekend. I'd be there the entire time but others could just drop by as they had time. I'd be there to help folks get situated, find docs tasks that they find interesting and generally answer questions.

Hi All, I wanted to share the results of the feedback we've received from the group about changes to the venue, format, and topics of future NOVA meet-ups.

After collecting a lot of feedback and having several discussions with our friends at WorthPoint, who organized our first meet-ups and have provided us with most of our topics and leadership to date, we have decided to try some new things. Going forward, we are entertaining the creation of two co-operating groups: