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The DC London Marketing Team needs to urgently recruit an Online PR person to help write press releases and distribute useful information and news about DC London to the Drupal blogging community and other interested stakeholders. The role will involve building a mailing list of Drupal bloggers, plan communications campaigns, write interesting press releases, and distribute information and goodies to bloggers. Also, importantly, get feedback from the blogger community and listen to their ideas and respond to requests for info where required.

Sorry it's taken so long to post the notes from our GRupal meetup last week (some of you know my ongoing battle with signing on to GDO/Drupal; every week, it's different). Anyway, here are some notes based on my understanding. Attendees, please fill in the gaps!

At DrupalCon Chicago there was a ton of energy around Drupal's staging and deployment problem. At his keynote, Dries identified this as one of the major initiatives for the Drupal 8 cycle, and following the keynote three Core Conversations were given on the topic by myself, David Strauss, and Howard Tyson. Those talks sparked conversations which continued through the week and generated a lot of really cool ideas. This post is intended to document the ideas that were discussed (at least the ones I heard) and to use those ideas to foster further discussion.

It looks like Palantir has made the source for the DrupalCon mobile app available on github: https://github.com/palantirnet/drupalcon_mobile

Hello everyone,

Here is the footage of last week's VoIP Drupal announcement at DrupalCon Chicago 2011:

http://www.voipdrupal.org/node/152

The video provides background information about the VoIP Drupal initiative, describes the overall organization and roadmap of the project, and concludes with potential applications of the platform.

Thanks so much to the VoIP Drupal team, to CivicActions, and to everyone who provided constructive feedback throughout this journey. We are now looking for partners to test VoIP Drupal, contribute code, and make sure it lives up to its expectations!

I was impressed to see the number of people at DrupalCon this year with a visible disability. I didn't get to speak with hardly any of them, but I do think it's worth while to look at measures that have been made to make our events more accessible. I'm hoping that London is able to learn from & improve the experiences of people attending. I don't know what feedback #DrupalChi was collecting from attenders, but...

BoF at DrupalCon Chicago 2011 3/10/2011 11:00am

Attendees:

Everett Zufelt (via Skype)
Mike Gifford
Jessica Chaiken
Kathy Kahl
Dan Mouyard
Jennifer Hodgdon
John Barclay
Brandon Bowersox

Topics

The group agreed on three topics for the BoF:

1. Gates and guidelines for D8
2. What we missed in D7 to fix for D8
3. Empowering themers and developers with documentation

In case you missed the exciting news announced Thursday afternoon at Drupalcon Chicago, next year’s North American Drupalcon is coming to the Denver Convention Center March 20-22.

This is a huge honor to have Colorado hosting this enormous event that brings together thousands of the brightest developers, designers and business leaders from the worldwide Drupal community for learning, sharing, growth and fun.

Hi everybody, if you were at the BoF today, it was great meeting all of you. Sometimes I feel like Drupal discussions are more of a "support group", but it was nice to see that many orgs are grappling with the same problems we have. The idea of Workflow/Workbench and approval processes was pretty revealing. As always, the implementation usually reveals the organizational culture. Museums sure are quirky, aren't they?

Some notes from the Drupal Commerce shipping BOF from Drupalcon 2011.