Austin

EDIT dated 5/30/07. If you plan on presenting something, could you please add a short blurb below as to what you will cover for next week's Drupal meetup? It's scheduled for Tuesday, 6/5, which is right around the corner.

Thanks, Walt, for setting this up, and thanks all who attended for attending. I thought I'd drop a line of encouragement to anyone contemplating coming out into the sunlight at future meetings.

I enjoyed meeting the lot of you and learning some good tips both in Drupal and site hosting in general (well, in gory detail on David's end of the table). It was good to learn a bit about load balancing and php optimization. As the meeting was breaking up, we got a nice glimpse of forms api that was like gold to see.

FYI: There was a post on the Austin Bootstrappers ListServ indicating http://www.austinfilm.org/ is looking for a "web master". Their site is built using Drupal. I don't have anymore info, but wanted to pass the lead to our group.

April 14-15 and 21-22, two non-profits, The League of Technical Voters and Knowbility.org, will host Designathon/Codeathon 2.0 in Austin. We want to make this a big event and are hoping for some representation from the North Texas crew as well!

This is the second in a series of volunteer events based to help build usable, accessible open source web tools for non-profits. Development will not be restricted to any particular platform or language, but the previous codeathon was based entirely on Drupal and we are hoping to have a strong Drupal contingent at this one as well.

April 14-15 and 21-22, two non-profits, The League of Technical Voters and Knowbility.org, will host Designathon/Codeathon 2.0. This is the second in a series of volunteer events based to help build usable, accessible open source web tools for non-profits. Development will not be restricted to any particular platform or language, but the previous codeathon was based entirely on Drupal and we are hoping to have a strong Drupal contingent at this one as well.

Well several great things came out of the first day of SXSW Interactive, well less than a half day, just registration really. Needless to say things are going really well and there is tremendous interest in Drupal. Another great thing that came out of Friday's registration is we (paretech.com, Four Kitchen Studios, and BarCamp Austin got together to create a last minute t-shirt for drupal users.