sydney drupal news may 2012
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a • Welcome• News• Lighting Talks• BoFs• Pub
Drupal Monthly Meetup
Drupal NewsMay 2012
Event: DrupalCon Denver
• North American Drupal Conference• March 19 – 23rd • Denver, Colorado • http://denver2012.drupal.org
• Session Videos Available
Event: DrupalCon Munich
• European Drupal Conference• August 20 – 24th • Munich, Germany• http://munich2012.drupal.org• Early Bird Tickets € 400 (until June 15th)
• Session & Training Proposals Closed (comments, no votes) http://munich2012.drupal.org/news/improved-selection-process-drupalcon-munich
• Features Sessions Announced• Scholarship winners announced – May 18th
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• RFP for site design available from DA• https://association.drupal.org/node/15883
Release Cycle
• Core • 7.14 security and bug fixes• 6.26 only bug fixes• Next expected - May 30th
• Distributions• Aegir-1.8• OpenAtrium – 1.4• Commerce – 7.x-1.3• NodeStream – 7.x-2.0-beta1
• Contrib• Token – 7.x-1.1• Features Tools – 7.x-1.5• LDAP – 1.3• Debut * - 7.x-1.0-rc1• AWS SDK for PHP• Media – 7.x-1.1 and 7.x-2.0-
unstable• Acquia Network Connector –
7.x-2.3, 6.x-2.4• Boxes – 7.x-1.0• Date – 7.x-2.5, 6.x-2.9• Ubercart – 7.x-3.1, 6.x-2.9
Core
• Drupal 8 Feature Freeze – Dec. 1, 2012 (197 Days Left) • New Theme System Sprint• http://jacine.net/post/19652705220/theme-system• http://groups.drupal.org/node/226219
• Mobile Navigation Prototype• http://nav.d8mux.org/
• Web Services Funding Proposal• http://groups.drupal.org/node/226479
• Spark Initiative – Core Authoring Experience• http://buytaert.net/announcing-spark-authoring-
improvements-for-drupal-7-and-drupal-8• http://drupal.org/project/spark
Community
• Drupal.org upgrade to D7 sprint• https://association.drupal.org/node/15779• https://association.drupal.org/node/16028
• Drupal Association Member Survey• https://association.drupal.org/node/15744
• GDO has new maintainers • http://drupal.org/node/1529948
• Drush now supported on windows• http://drush.ws/drush_windows_installer
• Frontend United• http://morten.dk/blog/frontend-united-we-came-rock • http://frontendunited.org/2012/slides
• Applications Open for Community Cultivation Grants• https://association.drupal.org/node/16023
Google Summer of Code
• Google sponsors people every year to contribute to open source projects. Previously, this has been a huge contribution and source for new people in Drupal.
• http://groups.drupal.org/node/218839• Results Announced• http://drupal.org/node/1548180• 13 projects = $72,000+USD Investement
Fun
• Heather James – Drupal t-Skirt
https://www.acquia.com/blog/drupal-t-skirt
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
/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
Event: Drupal DownUnder Sydney
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