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As requested at the Wednesday BoF on accessibility, please post any and all tools that you know of that can help with accessibility inside of Drupal and for general design.

Please join me for lunch on Wednesday at DrupalCon Denver to chat opensource.com if you're available. 11:45am-1pm in room 501.

Add this to your schedule: http://denver2012.drupal.org/bof/opensourcecom

Thanks,
Jason

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

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?

Graphing data in Drupal has been around for years in various forms but with Drupal 7 now on the scene we have some choices to make on how to move forward. All those who are interested in using Drupal to graph data, I propose we sit down and see if we can combine efforts by sharing what projects we are working on.

Even if you are not familiar with the current state of graphing data in Drupal your input is appreciated.

I hope to see you there and bring your lunch! :)

The BoF is scheduled on March 10th, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, in the Missouri room.

I just got the word, I'm going to Drupalcon.

So, now, time to start the discussion and organizing for Birds of a Feather times, dates and topics.

I've been playing around with a couple of different Government based types like:

1. All Government (including contractors and all employees of State, Local and Federal at any country at Drupalcon)
2. US Government (state, local, fed including legislative and judicial branches, NO Contractors, sometimes, there are things we have to discuss and can't with contractors present.)

Hi all -
I'd love to have a chance to meet you and talk radio and drupal, so I've put a post on the Drupalcon forums about a radio BOF. http://chicago2011.drupal.org/forum/radio-bof

I'm a rank newbie as far as Drupalcons go, but I'll organize this (and by organize, I mean, put the BOF on the board and facilitate).

Please chime in on the forum if you're interested!

We had a semi-formal meetup or Birds of a Feather (BOF) gathering at DrupalCon Copenhagen. The idea was for it to be a bit like our experience of the Drupal for NGOs group in the UK.

Drupal Gardens is Acquia's Drupal 7 SaaS product.

Hosted and maintained Drupal - similar to Wordpress.com

It is promising, but is it ready for commercial use? There are already 10K+ DG sites!

Limitations such as no Calendar/Event modules are restricting its use, but it will surely grow in its capabilities in time.

Just a reminder to everyone: the first NJ Themers Play Day is coming up on 15 May 2010 in Rutherford from 12:15 pm to 4:00 pm

This will be like a BOF or a 'hack-a-thon'. People should come with questions and projects. It will be very unstructured with people just breaking out into smaller groups at different tables to work on theming 'stuff'.

I'm organizing this event along the lines of the NYC Themers Playdays. For example, summarizing the March 20 Playday Johnvsc had said:

First of all, seasoned pros, designers and devs, are truly encouraged to come and attack on a project like The Borg. Last time, Jen and Steven were jamming on Jen's core theme and they got a ton of work done. I am always in awe when I see developers work together ... and get things done. Really, I have found that artists have a hard time being so productive .
Second, alot of people came to the Play Day really wanting to hone up on skills. Lucia had a project ... a layout, it was a front page of a site and not a deep wireframe or site layout.

(http://groups.drupal.org/node/47176#comment-129808)

EMdash may be putting up a poll to find out whether we want get a bite to eat or go for drinks afterwards.

For more details go to NJ Themers Play Day .