boston

The Drupal Design Camp Boston website is launched and we are getting ready for the June 13-14 event at MIT.

The attendee list is growing, and the sponsors are almost as excited as we are!

If you plan to attend, jump in at http://boston.design4drupal.org and sign up before it fills up completely.

Attendees can submit sessions, post to forums, join live chat on IRC, make small financial donations, and check out the latest News.

You can also follow us on twitter at D4DBoston. 

The Boston sprint is dedicated to upgrading drupal.org's Drupal 5 platform to Drupal 6, in preparation for the redesign. During this week-long sprint at One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) offices in Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA, we plan to get a working upgrade path for the existing drupal.org databases, port the project infrastructure to Drupal 6, and implement Views, among other issues.

Please see the project issues list and email Susan MacPhee at susanemacphee@gmail.com to volunteer expertise on issues you can help resolve.

In your email, please include your level of time commitment, Drupal experience background, and which tasks you would like to help with.

If you have any questions, please contact Susan.

Upgrade drupal.org from Drupal 5 to 6 project issues lists:

http://drupal.org/node/362117

Sprint announcement from Dries Buytaert:

http://drupal.org/node/356002

For those of you that weren't able to attend Drupalcon Boston 2008, here are some links to some of the Presentation Slides that are hosted on people's individual blogs/sites:

Tuesday, March 4th, 1:45 to 3:15

We'll be having a followup BoF Thursday morning at 9:00 AM. All interested parties, we'll see you there.

These notes were taken during the session by John Jones, with some minor notes added in after the fact.

AUTHENTICATION

LDAP integration -- problems getting ldap_provisioning to work.

CAS working with D6, mediawiki, others. Single sign on solution. Available on Drupal.org (CAS_auth)

Also Pubcookie.

Bob Goodman presented http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/session/burn-help-manual-strategy-self-explaining-ux-design at DrupalCon Boston.

Post any thoughts or ideas you have here.

Hey all, I'm getting ready to geek out at boston2008... here's "the track" I think I'm going to follow... if you're going, look out for me,,, if not, hope to share an interesting note when I get back.

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I am very interested in the state of Social Networking direction for Drupal.
I would also be interested in writing/contributing modules if I knew how they would all fit together.

I propose a Bird-of-a-Feather (BOF) meeting on Social Networking in Drupal at DrupalCon2008 in Boston.

We can get to know all of the people working on Social Networking stuff for Drupal and create a coordinated
plan for making Drupal a top-notch Social Networking platform. (If this plan already exists, please fill me in on it.)

What do you think?

Stephen Adkins

I am very interested in DrupalMU and I am interested in learning from your experiences.
I have been working on an Installation Profile for an out-of-the-box community site (http://www.shareduniverse.net).

So here are some questions that someone might be able to answer.

General

1. What is the status of DrupalMU?

Installation Profiles

1. I think it is characterized not as a contributed module but as an Installation Profile of a bunch of modules. Is that right?
2. If so, is DrupalMU going to be a part of Drupal 6? Drupal 7?

Drupal Boston 2008 is taking place March 3 to March 6, with a code sprint on March 7 at MIT.

See details here http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/

As you can see from the budget below, the attendance fee does not cover all the costs. http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/drupalcon-budget

Therefore, any form of financial support is appreciated. If you are a Drupal user or a Drupal shop, please discuss this with your manager and find ways to spread around the word, so all the costs are covered.

Some tips here http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/can-not-afford-come-think-again

Is anyone going to Drupalcon Boston in early March?