General discussions

At a recent LA Drupal coffee meeting, I proposed that interested LA Drupal participants join forces to form what I uncreatively called Ninja Squads with the mission of taking on modules that are this >< far from being releasable or stable, and getting them over the hump. This would be unofficial, and would not involve actually taking over modules, although that might be an option for individual participants.

As a follow up from a question at the May 26 meeting, I looked into what it takes to become PCI DSS compliant.
I thought I'd share what I learned. (PCI DSS = Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard)

Summary:
I don't think Ubercart needs to be PCI DSS compliant. However, if you use a partner like Authorize.NET to process the card, you can be considered PCI DSS compliant if you perform and attest to a self assessment.

More info below:

I wanted to reset this discussion on how Public Access and related media initiatives would benefit from collaboration in a wide range of areas from development, documentation, training, funding/fundraising, marketing, promotion, business, hosting, sales, and services.

This story is about Drupal, I swear...

A few years ago I found someone who has the same name as me had been replacing my ranks on Google. I immediately declared war and started my recon. I found out this person was up in Canada and is a politician. I felt at the time that a search ranking war was about to grow, on both ends. While I applaud anyone who helps in community and their local governments, I didn't want to loose any Google karma.

Our last meetup had record numbers and it was clear that we've outgrown our current venue. Does anyone have recommendations of where we can hold future meetups?

Man I'm bad with names, but someone gave a lightning talk at the March 31st meetup about how she created a blood drive signup sheet using, I think it was, Views. I'm just now learning Views and I'm curious about the details. Was a special content type created? How was it put together in Views? Etc.

Thanks!

Thanks for the opportunity to present at the LA Drupal Users Group meeting. This was an introductory talk on how some of the technologies Sun is working on are relevant to the Drupal community and how it is all open source. Technologies covered included:

Are you going to DrupalCon in Washington, DC?

It would be nice to find a rallying point at the con. Feel free to suggest one. I will post something here on the 4th.

I know the Chapter Three folks did some work on this site, and it turned out terrific. Not just from a web design and usability standpoint, but it's a very easy cause to support.