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a • Welcome• News – Ryan Cross• Lightning Talks • Aimee - Scotch

• Presentation – Symfony/Twig by Piers Warmers• Presentation – CMI by Justin Randall• Demo Time – Commerce Kickstart 2.0, Spark• Pub – Clare Hotel

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Drupal NewsOctober 2012

Upcoming Camps

• Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit• October 20th - 21st in Seattle, Washington.

• DrupalCamp Rio 2012 #2• November 10th, 2012 in Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro.

• BADCamp 2012• November 1st - 4th, 2012 in Berkeley, California.

• DrupalCamp Chicago 2012• November 10th, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois.

• DrupalCamp Toronto 2012• November 16th & 17th, 2012 in Toronto.

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

• Only 112 days left till the conference starts

Only ~100 tickets left for sale

Event: DrupalCon Sydney

• Featured Speakers Announced• http://sydney2013.drupal.org/local-headliners-international-

cast

• Session Submission Deadline: Fri 26 Oct (Next week!)• Scholarship application close: 9 Nov• Volunteers need to help out with code sprint and onsite • https://association.drupal.org/drupalcon/volunteer/sydney

Event: OSDC

• Open Source Developers Conference• http://osdc.com.au/• Sydney, Australia• Dec 4th – 7th at UTS• Talk with Aimee Maree for more details

• Keynotes • Lisa Herrod (Accessibility), Andrew Cowie (Open Source

and Business), Paul Fenwick (Perl). Stewart Smith (The Future and Open Source).

• CMS Expo Day on Dec 4th

Event: LinuxConf AU

• Linux Conference Australia• http://linux.conf.au/• Canberra, Australia• 28th of Jan – 2nd of Feb, 2013• Conference Director: Michael (Mikal) Still

• Tickets on Sale Now!

Local Event: Learning Drupal

• October 25 – 7pm to 9pm • King St. Brewhouse (Darling Harbour)• Topic: Drupal 8, Twig, Symfony• Presenter: Aimee Maree

http://www.meetup.com/Learning-Drupal-Sydney/events/77796282/

Local Event: Symfony Meetup

• Symfony2 PHP User Group• Organizers: Ryan Cross & Piers Warmers• http://www.meetup.com/Sydney-Symfony-PHP-Users-

Group/

Local Event: Code Sprint

• Code Sprint & Drupal Ladder• 1st or 2nd weekend in November• Venue to be confirmed• Aimed at both people getting started with core development and

veteran contributors• Virtual Presence for remote contributors • (Melb/Bris/Perth/NZ/etc)

• Need volunteers to be mentors

• Organised by • Ryan Cross (rcross) and Justin Randall (beejeebus)

Release Cycle

• Core • 7.16 released today• Change to Release Cycle

• http://groups.drupal.org/node/260803

• Distributions• Drupal Commons – D7 alpha!!• DruStack - A Starting Distribution for Drupal Developerv• Mica – “create web portals for epidemiological study consortia”• OpenFolio – visual artist portfolios

• Contrib• Features (New UI)

• http://www.agileapproach.com/blog-entry/first-look-new-features-11-ui

• Search API (security release)• Menu Views – (2.x First RC for D7)• Quiz – New alpha for D7• Redhen (CRM) – beta3• Core CRM

• no release, active dev - http://drupal.org/project/crm_core

Core

• Drupal 8 Feature Freeze – Dec. 1, 2012 (43 Days Left)• UPDATE• http://buytaert.net/updated-drupal-8-release-schedule/ (Code Freeze – April 1)

• Drupal 8 will have php requirement increased to 5.3.5

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

Updates & Progress

• VDC is now an “official” initiative• http://buytaert.net/views-in-drupal-8

• CMI• Justin is presenting deeper overview

• WSCCI• Router has been committed!• Looking for help reviewing/cleaning up the router system

• Multilingual• Lang config patch is now RTBC & should be committed soon

• Mobile• Breakpoints has been committed!• Needs help with responsive images

• Layouts (Scotch)• Need more help to finish converting all blocks to plugins, especially custom blocks

• Theming Layer• Feedback Needed on How Themes Should Declare Their Layouts• http://groups.drupal.org/node/256213

Get Involved with D8

• Drupalize.me are running a podcast series on interviewing D8 leads

• Upcoming code sprints • D8 Code Sprints• Upcoming WSCCI Sprints, PNW Summit and BADCamp

• Drupal 8 Twig Code Sprint• DrupalCamp North West November 24th - 25th at Media

City, Manchester, UK.

• DrupalCamp Atlanta Core Mentoring Sprint• October 26th, 2012 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Community

• 2013 Community At Large Directors Elected• https://association.drupal.org/election2013-results• Morten Birch Heide-Jørgensen (mortendk) of Denmark• Pedro Cambra (pcambra) of Spain

• Help test Drupal.org running on D7• http://groups.drupal.org/node/257063

• Community Cultivation Grants• https://association.drupal.org/node/17263

Community

• Featured on the cover of Linux Journal• http://www.linuxjournal.com/special/drupal2012

• Drupal Core Contribution Statistics Generation• http://marvil07.net/blog/2012/another-try-to-automate-

drupal-core-contribution-statistics-generation

• Next Steps for Drupal Commerce• http://www.bywombats.com/blog/09-25-2012/next-steps-

drupal-commerce

• Call for Organizers: Google-Code-In 2012• http://www.drupal4hu.com/node/337

Outside The Bubble

Your Web, documented.

“We are an open community of developers building resources for a better web, regardless of brand, browser or platform. Anyone can contribute and each person who does makes us stronger. Together we can continue to drive innovation on the Web to serve the greater good. It starts here, with you.”

• http://www.webplatform.org/

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