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a • Welcome• News• Lighting Talks• Peter Cossey• Ivan Zugec• Dave Hall

• Mobile Drupal Magda Kostrzewa & Geoffrey Roberts

• Pub

Drupal Monthly Meetup

Drupal NewsApril 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 € 350

• Scholarship Application Deadline – April 27th• Session & Training Proposals Close – May 11th

http://munich2012.drupal.org/call-for-papers• Features Sessions Announced

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

Release Cycle

• No Core Releases this month • Postponed to May 2nd

• Contrib• Features – 7.x-1.0 rc2• Organic Groups – 6.x-2.3• OpenAtrium – 1.3

• !!! Distribution Packaging now fully supported on Drupal.org !!!

http://drupal.org/node/1482394

http://drupal.org/project/distributions

Core

• Drupal 8 Feature Freeze – Dec. 1, 2012• Core Contribution Mentoring• http://drupal.org/core-mentoring

• Author UX testing• http://groups.drupal.org/node/224629

• New Theme System• http://jacine.net/post/19652705220/theme-system

Blue Drop Awards

• Awards Program Focused on promoting and celebrating Drupal-based Websites.

• http://www.bluedropawards.org/

• Winners Announced• Site of the Year

http://www.eyemaginations.com/ (Unleashed Technologies)• Other Categories• Runner Up

http://subaru.com.au (Sitback)• Nominations

http://unsw.edu.au (UNSW + CrossFunctional)http://aim-nsw-act.com.au (SitBack)

http://thetravelcorporation.com (Crossfunctional)http://qldfloods.org (Volunteers/CF)

http://twit.tv (Gordon Heydon)

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.

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

Fun

• Lee Rowland• The 10 Drupal Commandments

/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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http://2013.drupaldownunder.org