sydney drupal news august 2012
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Ag
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a • Welcome• News – Ryan Cross• Lightning Talks• Presentation – Marji Cermak & Murray Woodman• Case Study – Geoffrey Roberts & Ryan Cross• Demo Time• Pub
Drupal Monthly Meetup
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Drupal NewsAugust 2012
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Event: DrupalCon Munich
• European Drupal Conference• August 20 – 24th • Munich, Germany• http://munich2012.drupal.org
• Key Notes Live Streamed! • 9am Munich = 5pm Sydney• http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?
day=21&month=8&year=2012&p1=240&p2=168&iv=0
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Event: DrupalCon Sao Paulo
• South America Drupal Conference• December 6 – 8th • Sao Paulo, Brazil• http://saopaulo2012.drupal.org
• First DrupalCon outside of N. America or Europe• Sponsorships Open• Sessions Open
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Event: DrupalCon Sydney
• First Asia-Pacific DrupalCon• February 6-9, 2013• Sydney, Australia• Sign up for updates• http://sydney2013.drupal.org
• Dries Buytaert will Keynote
• Announcements at Munich• Looking for more volunteers
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Call for Volunteers
• Looking for• Track Chairs• State/Regional Reps• Marketing• Customer Service• And more...
https://association.drupal.org/drupalcon/volunteer/sydney
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Release Cycle
• Core • 7.15 released• http://drupal.org/drupal-
7.15• Next expected – after DC
• Distributions• Commerce Kickstart• Spark• OpenPublish• Trekk (New for Uni’s)• Drupal API site
• Contrib• Google Site Search• Autocomplete Deluxe• World of Warcraft API• HPCloud• Multistep Nodeform• Date• Context• Commerce Reporting• Meta Tags• Form Builder• Display Suite
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Core
• Drupal 8 Feature Freeze – Dec. 1, 2012 (106 Days Left)
• Not a lot of major announcements this month in preparations for DC Munich
• Proposal for changing architecture of write/read for CMI• http://drupal.org/node/1703168
• Multi-lingual and CMI making progress• Bartik is almost fully mobile-first and reponsive
http://drupal.org/community-initiatives/drupal-core/
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Community
• Proposed New Governance Structures• http://buytaert.net/proposal-from-first-drupal-governance-
sprint
• New Events Page(s) on G.D.O• http://groups.drupal.org/events
• Drupical – Events Search• http://www.drupical.com/
• New Documentation for Drupal Mobile• http://drupal.org/documentation/mobile
• Acquia donate USD$9,500 to Views in Core• https://twitter.com/merlinofchaos/status/228914424189186048
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Fun (but also serious)
• Protect the Internet with Drupal• http://internetdefenseleague.org/• https://drupal.org/project/internet_defense_league
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Questions?....on to the more interesting people
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Learn Drupal
• http://learndrupal.org/• A site that was developed out of the Boston Initiative to
help Drupal user groups develop and share and develop materials for learn sprints and issue sprints. Looks like there is some good work being done there.
• Free Video series on Drupalize.me• http://drupalize.me/blog/201205/release-day-free-series-
learn-drupal-ladder• http://drupalize.me/series/learn-drupal-ladder
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/DrupalGive
• http://drupal.org/drupalgive
Moshe Weitzman has started a community initiative for each organization to create a /drupalgive page highlighting that organization's work for the Drupal project.
http://crossfunctional.net/drupalgive
http://www.acquia.com/drupalgive
http://chapterthree.com/drupalgive
http://drupal.org/project/drupalgive