events

Today (and night it seems!) I've been setting up a copy of COD - the Conference Organising Distribution for our Drupal Discovery Day in Brighton on 16th September and working on copy for the site and promotional material. It's 1am so thought I'd post up what I've got so far before I crash for the night in case anyone wants to give any feedback. Ignore the formatting for the minute (especially seen as I can't seem to get the ULs and LIs working nicely ;) and just think about the words and the kind of people we're trying to attract to this event.

The Drupal Design Camp Boston 2011 website is officially up! This means you can now:

1. Register
2. Propose a session-proposals are due June 12
3. Promote the session by adding a conference badge to your website, email signature, or blog.

In keeping with the spirit of an unconference, we're also inviting everyone in the community to contribute to the design of the site by submitting their own original artwork to rotate as the background of the site. When you register, go ahead and add an image to this growing rotation of stunning photos, drawings, and graphics!

Now I'm looking at the documentation where it says "Create an event for people to attend." The tool tip for "Sessions" says a session happens during an event. So I assume the "event" is the conference. Could it also be a subset of the conference, like "Friday Afternoon Workshops?" When creating a session I do not see a slot for specifying which event the session is associated with. Is it that a session is configured for a certain time slot and if it falls within the duration of an event it automatically is associated with that event?

Say Hey!

About a dozen Facebook API developers and application designers are getting together at the A's game tomorrow night (Weds - 5/18) to cheer on the local squad, have a beer or two and talk tech in a casual, fun environment. Your TICKETS are FREE, but it's first come, first serve. Weather is due to dry up this afternoon, and should be delightfully brisk by tomorrow evening. Game starts at 7pm - take BART in / out of the city.

Contact me to reserve your spot today and I'll see you at the yard tomorrow night.

Nick Cawthon
ncawthon@gmail.com
510 542 7364

A workable "Calendar of Events" for Drupal can be a baffling ordeal to try and get working and usable. Even trying to get a recipe to work can involve hours of wading through patches and comments to get something usable. In an earnest effort to try and reduce the madness, here is a recipe that works very well for our latest project for a client, and includes fixes we developed ourselves.

Hello,

I'm recently a new user to Drupal 7. I'm working on setting up an E-Commerce (Ubercart 2.0) section for this site and I need this module to let me enter events into the catalog instead of Products.

Where I'm running into problems is an event can last 5 days, but people have to option to go 1day, 3days, all days, etc.; plus they can have multiple combinations of Junior Tickets, Adult Gen. Admission Tickets, Reserved Tickets, Pit Passes, etc. I'm finding out that Ubercart's Products feature really isn't handling all the different combinations.

Hello Drupeeps!!!

If we intend to have an amazing events this year, I think its about time we started planning. The events for this year as planned by the Open Source Foundation, Nigeria would include Drupal Camp and LinuxFest. I'm presently in talks with the Vice Chancellor of the Osun State University about the same events on their campus otherwise if you have a different opinion we can work with. I think we should have the events in about two to three locations around Nigeria this year.

Let's get to work

Your opinions are welcome

We've just decided the final date for our 1st Drupalcamp in Portugal and I'm going to give a presentation on Nginx and Drupal. This will be the rework of a presentation I gave last November on a meetup at oPorto.

Hello Guys,

I just would like to inform you that Open Source Foundation, Nigeria has been launched. We have been having a lot of problems with the right domain name otherwise we would have gotten one. Your suggestions are needed.

I am converting a WordPress site to Drupal and we currently have an event registration form where you can signup / RSVP for an event. Anyone can go to the form and signup, you don't need to get invited or register on the site. I have looked at the Drupal Signup and CCK Signup modules but neither seems to do exactly what I need. With Signup, it seemed difficult to add custom fields and with CCK Signup, there was some question as to whether or not anonymous users could signup but documentation is lacking for the latter.