events

This just in from the awesome lwinter... mark your calendars!! We're set for the next 7 MONTHS people! :D Thanks l!!

The date and time that worked best is the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 11amET.

If folks are able to meet starting next week - Oct 9th - let's go for it. Otherwise we can wait until Tuesday, Nov 13th.

Please mark your calendars with the following dates:

Nov 13th - 11amET
Dec 11th - 11amET
Jan 8th - 11am ET
Feb 12th - 11am ET
March 12th - 11amET
April 9th - 11amET

Yes, I am going to purposely make a silly acronym for everything :D

As with Drupal itself, there is never one answer for what type of events we need for Drupal. Then there's timing - some people can't make Mondays, some can't make evenings, etc. I'm a great believer in what one of the Drupal London guys said in Munich about having more, smaller events. That doesn't mean we shouldn't have the big ones too, but we can achieve more being small pieces loosely joined.

As you may have heard by now, the 4th annual Design for Drupal Camp is happening in Boston July 14th and 15th at MIT's Stata Center in Cambridge. As a community-led camp, we need your session submissions! The sessions this year will focus on four primary areas: Visual Design, User Experience, Theming, and Site Building. Submissions are due by Tuesday, July 3rd, 2012, and we'll be posting a draft of the session schedule by Sunday, July 7th.

I am in the process of revising our church website from D6 to D7, almost certainly using OpenChurch. In the D6 version I have used a custom-PHP way of adding the events for each week because the normal Drupal way of adding one event at a time is too cumbersome and would not be acceptable in our church office.

I have found previous posts about this and a D6 module called 'Multi Node Add'. Does anyone know of a D7 module or proposal that might help? I only need one targetted at adding a set of events (perhaps 10 at a time) adding initial content to 'title' and 'when' fields.

We are offering a special discount for Drupal Group members. Members of Drupal Groups or other technology related groups qualify for our special group rate of $50. Simply register online and use the promo code: DRUPALGROUP2011. http://www.drupalonthebayou.com/register-bayou

Managed hosting provider NeoSpire, a Hosting.com company, and LevelTen Interactive are the organizing sponsors of
the Drupal on the Bayou Summit, an event for members of the technology community to be held December 8-9, 2011
at Harrah’s in New Orleans, LA. This summit will feature Drupal experts like keynote speaker Angie Byron, Director of
Community Development at Acquia, core co-maintainer for Drupal 7.

Drupal on the Bayou is not only for avid Drupal users, web developers and designers, but business owners who want

The next SoCal Code Camp conference at Cal Sate Fullerton was just announced. This is a great conference for networking and learning. I participated in the last conference back in October and made an introductory presentation on Drupal. The audience response was excellent. In fact the organizers of the conference talked to me and asked to promote the conference with the drupal community. They would like to see more drupal content at their conference.

I just wanted to remind everyone that there are two Drupal events coming up. The first is this weekend's DrupalCamp Austin, and the second is Drupal on the Bayou in New Orleans, which is December 8 & 9.

Tuesday, October 4th, Rasmus Lerdorf, the creator of PHP will be speaking at the Seattle PHP Meetup. He will be talking about the state of PHP and developer best practices.

This event is sponsored by HasOffers and is free, but you must register on Eventbrite if you wish to attend.

You can find more details and register here:
http://hasmeetup.eventbrite.com/

Today sees the launch of the new http://bad-ass.org.uk site, with tickets now available for our Drupal Discovery Day in Brighton on 16th September, part of the Brighton Digital Festival. Please go and book your tickets now before we run out of places - also helps to show support in the attendee list so others can see there's a few people coming along!

I built the site in a few days using the Conference Organising Distribution. We originally had talked about charging a small cover for the afternoon event, however in the end I decided not to, because: