Portland Drupal User Group Meeting (June 13th)
Meeting Topic:
Presentation on the OpenID single-sign-on http://www.openidenabled.com/openid/about-openid
Location:
FREE GEEK -> Community Technology Center -> 1731 SE 10th Avenue -> Portland, OR 97214 -> 503-232-9350
Tuesday, June 13th, 6pm-8pm, then pub.
Meeting Desc:
Jonathan Daugherty will be giving a presentation on the OpenID single-sign-on protocol including usage of their PHP OpenID API and details on how OpenID can be used by Drupal.
So what is OpenID?
OpenID is a URL based identity system. An OpenID identity is simply a URL, and all the OpenID specification does is provide a way to securely prove that you own that URL.
Unlike most identity systems, OpenID is completely decentralized. The end-user may choose whichever server they are most comfortable with, and may even run their own if they choose.
Free and open to the public. Most likely hit a near by pub afterwards.
See you all there,
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Planning DrupalCamp Code Sprint near Portland July 19th-23rd
Update: We are still planning on holding this code sprint, but at different dates. We are actively working on lining up funding currently.
After talking with a lead Plone developer the other day who told me that code sprints are by and large hugely productive events for the Plone community I've decided to throw my hat in the ring to help organize one for Drupal.
Itinerary
The rough plan is to get a dozen or so serious Drupal hackers together for 3-5 days. Attendees should show up with a pretty good idea of what they want to work on and hopefully will be tackling problems that are best solved collaboratively. Every night we will go around and demo what's been accomplished during the day. If Drumm can come we'll have him help cook pancakes and big hippy/vegan dinners. We'll also make sure to have some fun outdoors.
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DrupalCon vs. SuperHappyDrupalHouse
When I was recently down in the Bay Area, I connected with some Drupal folks and talked about planning for upcoming activities.
Since our last "con" was in North America, if we follow previous series, then the next one should be in Europe.
My personal current plans around this are to organize a DrupalCon around BarCamp Brussels / EuroOSCON 2006 in Brussels. Dries is presenting in Brussels, and Colin Brumelle just got word that his talk on "Music 2.0" has also been accepted.
The "cons" generally are a mix of developer and user work, and we've had lots of presentation-style content. Coding tends to be limited to (sometimes very successfull) hallway and hotel hacking. I think the timing and place of DrupalCon Brussels is probably a good one, but how do we make sure we get some fun hacking in?
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