Drupal Code Sprint Manila

Want to meet other local Drupal users and use your Drupal skills to help a worthy cause? Please join us for Drupal Code Sprint Manila 2008!

What: One-day code sprint to build a website for a local non-profit organization in the Manila/Quezon City area.
Who: Anyone with Drupal experience
When: Sunday, July 13th, 2008 10am - 5pm (with a break for lunch)
Where: The Kubo, Center for Environmental Concerns, # 26 Matulungin St. Barangay Central Diliman, Quezon City Philippines
Why: To donate our time and skills to a great cause...while meeting cool Drupal folks!

Participation in this event is of course free, but please sign up so that we can get an accurate head count.

Tentative Schedule:
10:00 - 10:30 Welcome and Introductions
10:30 - 11:00 Non-profit's representative explains site requirements
11:00 - 11:30 Define site features and functionality
11:30 - 12:00 Breakout into groups
12:00 - 01:00 Lunch
01:00 - 04:00 Implement features and theme
04:00 - 04:45 Final testing, Bug-fixing
04:45 - 05:00 Wrap up.

Participants should bring their own laptop (with wifi capability) and an extension cord. Laptops should have the following software installed: Apache 2, PHP 5, MySQL 5, and a Subversion client.

If you are unable to bring your own laptop, there will be opportunities to partner up with others, Xtreme Programming-style.

Also if anyone's interested, some of us will meet up on the following day to train the non-profit on how to use and maintain their new website. More information on that event will be available at the Code Sprint.

If we have enough participants, we might be able to build a website for two non-profit organizations. So its very important that we get an accurate attendee count. Please vote on which non-profit we should sponsor:

1) Center for Environmental Concerns - Philippines (CEC PHILS) -

Established in 1989, the Center for Environmental Concerns-Philippines (CEC Philippines) is a non-governmental organization committed to environmental protection and rehabilitation by promoting awarenesss, knowledge and use of environmental protection and rehabilitation concepts and technologies.

2) Philippine Peasant Movement -

Philippine Peasant Movement is a nationwide federation of Philippine organizations of landless peasants, small farmers, farm workers, subsistence fisherfolk, peasant women and rural youth. It has effective leadership over a total of 800,000 rural people comprising roughly 9% of the Philippine agricultural labor force. It has 55 provincial and 6 regional chapters nationwide.

3) Amado V. Hernandez Resource Center -

Amado V. Hernandez Resource Center (AVHRC), a grassroots cultural institution, which aims to perpetuate and honor the legacy and struggles of Ka Amado. The organization was started by social activist Satur Ocampo, who is now a congressman of the Bayan Muna Party-List, as the Amado V. Hernandez Foundation. Now, the AVHRC is known for holding an annual literary contest in Ka Amado's name of works written in Filipino and dealing with working-class issues and lives.

4) Kodao Productions -

KODAO Productions produces and distributes audio-visual and related materials on relevant subjects to promote the self-determining and democratic struggle of the Filipino people for cultural, political and economic development.

...so don't forget to vote!