drupal 8

Hi all,

There is a new page on Drupal.org with Drupal 8 marketing materials for anyone to download and use. The page has downloadable versions of the Drupal 8 logo (stacked, inline and isolated) in a wide variety of formats, and standard and widescreen presentation templates for Google presentations, Keynote and PowerPoint.

Feel free to use these and spread the word.

What else would be good to have on this page for people to grab and use?

Joe Saylor
Drupal Association

We've got several events on the schedule, leading up to the end of the year. Check them out on Meetup.com: http://www.meetup.com/dug-to/

Toronto Tech Wrap-Up Party 2013 (Charity Event Supported by DUGTO)
December 3rd
https://groups.drupal.org/node/377558

December Meetup: Case Studies
December 16th
http://www.meetup.com/dug-to/events/148966502/

Hi everyone, Drupal 8 is coming soon! Below link contains an overview of the features and capabilities of Drupal 8, guidance on where the release is in the development cycle, and information on how you can get involved. Enjoy!

https://drupal.org/drupal-8.0

I found a post today called Drupal 8 Ready: What's new for Site Builders?
and it's making me want Drupal 8!

Who can be scared away with all of the projected great new features?

The two must reads are: http://previousnext.com.au/blog/drupal-8-ready-whats-new-site-builders and http://previousnext.com.au/blog/drupal-8-ready-whats-new-developers

On the other hand I'm also following quicksketch and BackDrop!
https://github.com/backdrop/backdrop

Are you brave or cautious?!

The last time a major drupal version was released, Drupal 7, the SMS Framework was way behind in releasing a 7.x version. This led to the inability of lots of users to switch quickly to gain the benefits of the new drupal release.
I would like us to put some effort into having a 8.x version of SMS Framework ready at the time of D8 release. I'm starting this discussion because I have used SMS Frameworks on a couple of sites and I am also quite excited by the prospects of D8 and the features it brings along with it.

Hi,
I would like to ask if panels will be ported to Drupal 8.Or maybe this job is done by the Blocks and Layouts initiative?
thanks

I like to summarize the Drupal 8 code sprint which has happened recently at QED42.
It was really a productive sprint for all of us and as we expected good crowd has shown up in code sprint. Vijay chandran presence was helpful for all of us in order to get good direction for doing contribution in Drupal 8.

You can check out the tasks we worked on in code sprint.
http://drupalmentoring.org/tasks/punejune13

It was well planned, executed code sprint.

Last Saturday (1st June) Drupal meet was great and productive. we like to summarize meetup as best as possible.
It was good initiative by Drupal Pune Community.
1. Meetup start with session on "What's new in Drupal 8?" Which was great initiative with a motive to help everyone in exploring D8 development.
2. A discussion happened among Drupalers on changes in D8.
3. We have seen a video of Drupal conference based on D8 and had discussion on respective topic of video.

We held our Broward Drupal monthly meetup on Wednesday, April 10th from 7:00pm to 9:00pm.

Remote participant(via Skype and Join.me):
Tampa - John Everett @Agile_dot_TV
Miami Beach - Dan Denysenko
Miami - Ron Norman

In Person (Greater Fort Lauderdale, Broward County Florida):
Jay Epstein @jeppy64, Ben Groenevelt @dropfoundry, Teo Vitkaiskas, Sullivan Barzey and me @hectoriribarne

We started the meetup talking about the upcoming Florida DrupalCamp taking place on April 20, 2013. To register, go to http://fldrupalcamp.org/

I just ran across this article on groups.drupal.org. But I have not seen it publicized on the Florida group, so I though I would share it with you. (Granted it as posted on April 3, 2013 - so maybe this is old news.)

The organizers of this Google Hangout broadcast are Dries Buytaert and Shannon Vettes.

Here is the original article.