Women in Drupal (Formerly DrupalChix)

We often have a Drupalchix Birds of a Feather at Drupalcon. Anyone want to do this again this year? Anyone interested in helping out?

Last Year
Last year, there were 100 people in the BoF. We also met for lunch on the first day. And also for a Happy Hour (which was just meeting in one of the Drupal parties.)

In our BOF session we said our names, and got a sense of roles and histories of attendees. We talked about some challenges that some attendees had in their professional lives as technologists.

This has been on my mind lately, and I thought it'd make a nice discussion topic for this group.

When I first came to the Drupal community back in 2005, I was just out of school, and a full-on web developer geek. My days consisted of PHP, SQL, (X)HTML, CSS, and JS, plus a smattering of other languages like C# and Java. I wrote modules and themes. I wrote technical documentation. I wrote core patches.

Looking through the photos from DrupalDevDays in Brussels http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/drupaldevdays from this past weekend, I noticed something... there were hardly any Drupalchix there! I think I spotted a total of 3 or 4 (of course there could have been more not in the photos) among the sea of guys. I think there was somewhere in the vicinity of 600 people there over the weekend, so this really surprised me!

Hey all-

A while back there was some discussion about poor selection of tshirt cuts, sizes, fabrics, etc. Now that we're all ramping up for DrupalCon Chicago, I was wondering if anyone had a particular vendor and style that they've observed to work well?

Does anyone know of the perfect tee -- properly fitted but not clingy, soft but not see-through, a range of sizes to fit us all, and doesn't cost a fortune?

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Drupal is rapidly becoming THE web development framework for companies today. We cordially invite you to a Drupal workshop, SandCamp 2011, on Saturday, January 8th and Sunday, January 9th. We are expecting more than 300 attendees this year and we anticipate selling out.

This camp is excellent for developers, business owners, CIOs, developers and those who maintain a Drupal website for their company. Some of the highlights include:

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