BoFs

This year, there will be two Drupal government days. One in Europe (yet to be announced) and one in North America, DC to be specific.

The North American conference will be held at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. The event is a joint conference with Mil-OSS and will have multiple tracks this year and span 2 days. More information is available on our splash page http://drupal4gov.drupalgardens.com/

2012 PNW Drupal Summit Docs BoF proposed
Read more http://groups.drupal.org/node/259938

BoFs will be organized during the 2012 Summit using the unconference method. Propose topics on a whiteboard in the UW Mary Gates Hall Commons area on the 1st floor. BoFs will run concurrent with the Session topics on Saturday and Sunday.

If you have a BoF topic you want to discuss before the 2012 PNWD Summit, create a new discussion topic, or add a comment to an existing discussion.

For those of you who will be attending the Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit, who would have an interest in participating in a Docs BoF/sprint? I'm new to the Docs team, but I wouldn't mind organizing this (whenever the summit site gets BoFs up and running!). I also wouldn't mind helping someone out if they've got more experience in organizing a BoF of this type.

Thoughts?

Today I've mostly been tidying up the marketing group home page, highlighting four topics we are currently canvassing for views on:

• What is it that Drupal does so well?
• Who are our "mindset" competitors that we need to overcome?
• Who are Drupal's competitors and what do they do particularly well?
• Who is Drupal's target group? What are their demographics? Psychographics?

If you are at DrupalCon Denver this week, come by the public media Birds of a Feather session (BoF) on Wednesday at 5pm in Room 212:

http://denver2012.drupal.org/bof/drupal-public-media

Anyone interested in public media is welcome!

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.

There is an Accessibility BoF today in the Ontario Room 3:15PM - 4:15PM.

Details and comments:
http://chicago2011.drupal.org/conference/bof/accessibility-bof

@Everett, perhaps you can join us by Skype at that time (3:15 Central Time).