Drupalcon Planet

In his Drupalcon keynote yesterday, Dries noted once again the necessity of increasing the number of skilled Drupal practitioners to sustain the Drupal project's trajectory. The Drupal conference itself, it has been pointed out, mainly attracts the (aging) faithful. Encouraging new talent and growing the skills of the newly interested is really the challenge. We should be taking this challenge on as our job.

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Some loved it. Some hated the sex-tape comments. Some were not sure what to make of the Tupperware analogy. All this caused a kerfuffle on Twitter, but the keynote was interesting as ever.

I was amazed by the varied tweets that came across the twitterverse that included:

"I always love the Driesnote. @Dries is a fantastic speaker. #drupalcon"

"It was good that @dries mentioned the need for more women in Drupal but unfortunate he linked it to welcoming non-engineers. #drupalcon"

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Drupalcon has started! I had the pleasure this morning of giving one of the sessions in the first time slot at Drupalcon Copenhagen.

It was treat to present "Drupal Security for Coders and Themers" with Jakub Suchy from Dynamite Heads and one of my colleagues on the Drupal Security Team. One of the goals of the security team is to help educate the Drupal community about secure coding, secure configuration, and best practices for running a Drupal site. Read full article »

Drupalcon Copenhagen is in full swing and, as you can expect, Chapter Three has made the trip from San Francisco to Denmark. We'll be spreading plenty of Drupal knowledge throughout the entire week, so whether you're looking for a session on Design, Code & Dev, or Business, we'll have someone from the team discussing a little something for everyone.

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Today, Drupalcon Copenhagen kicked off with the Core Developer Summit. At least a couple hundred Drupalistas from old school to new filtered in throughout the day, and we made tremendous progress on Drupal 7, as well as the future of the project.

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Well, the trek is finally started. Normally by now I would have written some kind of post talking about finding an apartment in the host city, the process I went through for that and how great a deal it was. This time around, I couldn't beat the prices of the hotels, especially when you double up in a room.

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I just made a Google calendar for the sessions at DrupalCon, and thought I might just as well share it. See full post for links to different calendar formats.

In the next few days a good portion of our team will be traveling to Copenhagen, where more than 1,000 Drupal developers will be gathering for the latest DrupalCon. We're looking forward to catching up with folks on what they've been up to since San Francisco, and particularly in talking about some of the recent work we've been doing around smart development and management processes, Drupal distros, and aggregation in real-time.

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My IRC client starts jumping whenever someone mentiones Rules, which is just one of the ways of telling that I like the Rules module.

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For Drupalcon Copenhagen we are doing a special action for the early bird modulecraft donors. The first 50 donors that donate 30 or more EUR (pick any of the packages except the 10 EUR package) will receive a Mr Fivestar T-shirt on top of their normal reward. If you attend Drupalcon you'll be able to get your hands on part of your reward early. Just come to show me the confirmation of your order from the ubercart shop and I'll give you your T-shirt. If you are not attending, we'll send you your shirt together with the rest of your reward.

Donate here to get your shirt.

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DrupalCon Copenhagen is a few short days away, but there are still tickets available to several of the trainings scheduled for August 23, 2010. Attendees who register for training receive a discount on the price of their conference admission, and those whose trainings have been canceled can consider transferring to an alternate training instead.

We've updated our training description with the help of our training coordinator to include the training agenda. While we'll introduce e-commerce on Drupal 7 with Drupal Commerce, the bulk of the training will focus on building a European store using Ubercart on Drupal 6. Every attendee will work with our trainers to build a community swag store during the training as we go through lessons covering everything from product creation to VAT and multilingual concerns.

Check out the updated description for more information, and sign up now for the conference discount and a great time of learning by example.

Make sure you have provided all the necessary information for the conference badge.

We'll start printing the conference badges on Thursday, so it's time to make sure that your user profile information on the DrupalCon site is up-to-date. You can take a look at the mockup of the badge

You need to fill out the following fields on your profile:

• Name on the conference badge – your real name or the name you go by in the Drupal community
• Company/organization – the name of the company or organization you represent
• Drupal.org username
• Drupal.org user ID

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Since getting a pool table last year we've probably spent more time than we should have done brushing up on our pool skills. If you fancy a whipping game of pool at Drupalcon give us a shout and if we (somehow) manage to lose we'll get the beers in! (** offer limited to 3 beers per person, just incase ;)

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DrupalCon is seeking a partner to enhance the current DrupalCon website to prepare for the growth of DrupalCon events. Integration and development will use the existing code base as a foundation for adding or enhancing features as outlined in the RFP.

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It's time for another update from DrupalCon Copenhagen! This time around we have updated information on the core developer summit, the unconference, and the code sprint.

First of all, we are happy to announce that the final version of the program is now available on the site. The few remaining slots in the schedule will be used for sponsor sessions and lightning talks. We'll try to keep schedule changes to a minimum, but if we do have to shuffle a few sessions around, this is the page to watch. Also, we'll make the entire program available as a PDF if you would rather keep it on your laptop or print a copy to keep in your pocket during the conference.

Now that the program has been finished, you can start planning your DrupalCon Copenhagen. Go to the session schedule and add all your favorite sessions to your personal schedule. You can see a list of your chosen sessions by going to your user profile and clicking the "My schedule" link.

If you're in Copenhagen on Sunday, August 22nd, and interested in helping improve Drupal core, you should participate in the Core Developer Summit. The summit will provide opportunities both for people to discuss changes to Drupal code and processes as well as people interested to move Drupal 7 closer to release. The summit will start wit three shorts sessions by Dries Buytaert, Sam Boyer, and Jen Simmons. After the kick-off sessions, the summit will break up into two groups, with plenty of space to be fruitful and get stuff done. All ideas are welcome!

On Monday, August 23rd, you can take part in the unconference and connect with the local open source community and other Drupal users and developers. The unconference will be run barcamp-style, meaning that we will create a schedule from the presentations suggested by the participants. The unconference will not be catered, but there's a mini market and vending machines at the venue if you want to grab a snack.

We have picked two sessions to get the day started: Hagen Graf, who is writing a book on Joomla! 1.6, Drupal 7 and Wordpress 3, will give a short introduction to the three CMSes, and Christian Jul from the local TYPO3 community will give an introduction to TYPO3.

On August 23rd, the day before the sessions begin, you'll be able to attend training sessions led by leading Drupal experts. We are offering the following training sessions:

* Performance and Scalability
* E-commerce & Übercart
* Module development
* Security: process, code and hands-on training
* Drupal Fundamentals: Building a Collaborative Development Environment

If you buy a ticket for a training session together with a ticket for the conference, you will get a discount of €30 on your conference ticket.

During the conference we have plenty of space set aside for ad hoc birds of a feather (BoF) sessions. These sessions will be a perfect opportunity to discuss topics which are not covered in the main program. The BoF schedule is available on the DrupalCon site. During the conference, the schedule will also be available on the official BoF Board in the lobby. See the Birds of a Feather page for information on how to add your session to the schedule.

After the last day of sessions, you can participate in the post-conference sprint. This sprint will focus on improving Drupal documentation, working on translations of Drupal core and contributed modules, fixing issues in the Drupal 7 queue and working on various front end issues. Developers of all skill levels are welcome. If you're a Drupal rock star, you already know what to do, but if you have just started working with Drupal, we'll help get you started. The code sprint will take place at the conference venue from 9am-5pm.

Finally, we want to mention the ChX Coders Lounge. This is the place to go if you would like to work on Drupal core or one of your pet projects with other dedicated Drupal developers. The coders lounge is open from 7pm to 5am Monday through Thursday.

We are looking forward to seeing you soon!

Earlier this year, for DrupalCon San Francisco, we introduced the new concept of the Core developer summit, which reaches back to the original Drupal developer meetups allowing for planning, problem solving and coding for Drupal core developers. It makes it possible to get together in one space to plan ahead and solve problems at hand.

We always keep looking at ways to improve our processes, and for the summit announced for Drupalcon Copenhagen, we’ve seen less interest in presenting improvement suggestions and more on looking at how Drupal 7 can be brought forward. So our plan for the Core developer summit in Copenhagen is twofold: provide a place to plan ahead and hammer some outstanding issues for Drupal 7 at the same time.

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A few weeks ago, CMS Report was asked to become a media sponsor for this month's DrupalCon in Copenhagen. Between the late invitation and my decrease in Internet activity this month, I have some doubts there is much time to "complete the deal". Promoting last Spring's San Francisco DrupalCon was a lot of fun and is an example of how less involved folks like me can help give back to the Drupal community. So, regardless, of whether this site is a media sponsor or not for this conference, I still want to do my part in helping promote DrupalCon Copenhagen.

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Aten Design Group is a bronze sponsor for this fall’s DrupalCon Copenhagen. The premier European Drupal event will be held in downtown Copenhagen, August 23rd through the 27th.

Scott Reynen and I will be attending, and we are looking forward to a week of sharing ideas face-to-face with such a large swath of the Drupal community. We’re especially interested in talking with people about:

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