sprint

November 3rd - 5-9pm - at Canopy.city in Somerville, 14 Tyler St.

Drutopia is a free/libre open source software project and platform cooperative for grassroots organizations— an alternative to SquareSpace and NationBuilder.

The Drutopia leadership team will give a "State of Drutopia" presentation on where the project is now and where it's going.

The idea is to organize a sprint following FOSDEM in Brussels on Feb 4 and 5.

As these dates are just after FOSDEM there might be people wanting to extend their stay in the beautiful city of Brussels to compensate for the lack of Drupal interest on FOSDEM.

The only thing we are looking for right now is a location we can use. What are the options in Brussels? Companies interested in lending a room for a day or 2?

Besides that, we need people of course, so if you are interested, let me know so we can compile a list and see what we can work on.

Back in October, we had a 'Testing testing' discussion. Six (or so) local Drupal people met up. We talked about doing a testing-related event here in the Twin Cities.

Today is December 2, and seriously, no one is going to be able to do testing a testing event until the New Year. :)
But that's cool, because I am sure that most of us would put 'learn how to write tests' on our list of new years resolutions.

So let's get it over with first thing in 2010!

Does January 9 (Saturday) or January 10 (Sunday) work for people who might like to attend or host this event?

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE...

At Saturday's most-excellent central Florida Drupal meetup, we had a discussion about what we should call day 2 of DrupalCamp. As you may or may not know, this year, we're adding a second day to DrupalCamp Florida where we're going to be building a full site for a local non-profit organization. We're going to pre-select an organization prior to the event and do some initial legwork, but 100% of the development will be done on day 2 of the camp.

Here is a bunch of information to get started with if you are planning on attending the contrib sprint this weekend, and consider yourself a non-coder/beginner/newb. If you can get through prepping all of this before the sprint, you will have a head start once you get there, otherwise I will direct people to go through this info when they are getting started.

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