Sydney Drupal News September 2012

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a • Welcome• News – Ryan Cross• Lightning Talks• Presentation – DrupalCon Munich Recap• Demo Time – Commerce Kickstart 2.0, Spark• Pub - *New Location*

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Drupal NewsSeptember 2012

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

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

CANCELLED

https://association.drupal.org/node/17008

Event: DrupalCon Sydney

• First Asia-Pacific DrupalCon• First DrupalCon Outside US/EU• February 6-9, 2013• Sydney, Australia• Sign up for updates• http://sydney2013.drupal.org

• Dries Buytaert will Keynote

• Announcements at Munich• Call for sessions and training proposals open

• Presentation of DCSyd

Release Cycle

• Core • Next expected • probably next week

• Distributions• CiviCRM Starter Kit• OpenDeals – 7.x-1.1• OpenChurch – 7.x-1.11-beta1• OpenPublic – 7.x-1.0-beta10• Commerce Kickstart – 7.x-2.0-rc1• Spark – 7.x-1.0-alpha5• OpenPublish 7.x-1.0-beta4• OpenOutreach – 7.x-1.0-rc5• Training• OpenideaL

• Contrib• Campaign Monitor• FileField Sources (SEC)• TAC Lite• Organic Groups• Drush Vagrant Integration• Search Krumo• Flag• Droogle (Google Drive)• Views Field View• Views Global Filter• PixGather (phone upload)• Commerce Discount• Webform

Updates & Progress

• Drupal 8 Overall• http://munich2012.drupal.org/program/sessions/drupal-8

• CMI• http://munich2012.drupal.org/content/status-configuration-management-initiative

• WSCCI• http://munich2012.drupal.org/content/web-services-and-symfony-core-initiative

• Multilingual• http://munich2012.drupal.org/content/drupal-8s-multilingual-wonderland

• Mobile• http://munich2012.drupal.org/content/responsive-design-mobile-admin-front-end-

performance-updates-mobile-initiative

• Layouts• http://munich2012.drupal.org/content/drupal-blocks-layouts-initiative-scotch-update

• Theming Layer• http://munich2012.drupal.org/content/new-theme-layer-drupal-8

Core

• Drupal 8 Feature Freeze – Dec. 1, 2012 (71 Days Left)• UPDATE• http://buytaert.net/updated-drupal-8-release-schedule/ (Code Freeze – April 1)

• CMI • Patch to re-architect file storage for CMI went in = Architecture for CMI is complete!!

Focusing on UI next• WSCCI

• Needs help with the routing system, lots of discussion/progress with Scotch at DCMunich• Multiling. - Entity translation in core patch • Mobile - http://john.albin.net/drupal/mobilicious• Layouts

• Working through lots of plumbing issues, lots of discussion/progress with WSCCI at DCMunich

• Drupal 8 will have php requirement increased to 5.3.5

http://drupal.org/community-initiatives/drupal-core/

Community

• ELECTION TIME – 2013 Community At Large Directors• http://groups.drupal.org/node/251428• https://association.drupal.org/election2013-update• http://groups.drupal.org/node/254898

• White House Contributes to Drupal• http://buytaert.net/white-house-contributes-to-drupal

• Drupal Global Training Day• New “My Mentors” Profile on Drupal.org• Lullabot Podcast Ends – Sprouts 2 new ones

Marketplace

• Acquia awarded fastest growing software company by Inc. Magazine• Mollom acquired by Acquia

• 4-way Merger• Mearra, NodeOne, krimson, Wunderkraut => Wunderkraut

• Drupal Commerce• Hosting, Marketplace and Kickstart 2.0

• Jay Batson setting up an incubator

Fun

• Periodic Table of Drupal Modules

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

Questions?....on to the more interesting people

/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