Bay Area Drupal Camp

Come help get Drupal 6 ready for release. Open to everyone of every skill level. Karoly Negyesi (chx), Angie Byron (webchick) and a bunch of other Drupal luminaries have declared November 3rd to be “The Day of the Drupal 6 Critical Queue”. People all around the world will be focusing their energy on testing Drupal 6. Come join the fun.

Don’t worry if you don’t know a patch queue from pumpkin patch, there will be people to show you how it is done.

Note: This session will happen twice on Saturday. For the session that happens over lunch, food will be provided.

Session Presenter: Tao Starbow

Tao has been in the Drupal community ever since the Summer of '05 when he set up his first site for the UC Berkeley Katrina Response Team. He runs the Berkeley Drupal Users Group and helped organize BADCamp 07. He is still not sure if he should be writing this in the third person.

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While the core Drupal framework is a fantastic piece of software, just about everyone who has ever tried to build a site realizes that you almost always have to use some of the contributed add-on modules or themes. One of the great things about Drupal is the huge community of developers sharing their code and maintaining these additional contributions that make Drupal function in a wide variety of settings.

Session Presenter: Derek Wright

I first joined the Drupal community early in 2006 when I started using Drupal to build the website for the Brazilian percussion ensemble I direct, BateriaLucha.org. I now maintain and collaborate on many contributed modules, including the project module (which powers all of the issue tracking, release management, and revision control integration for drupal.org), the signup module, the update status module (now part of core), and others. I am a member of the Drupal security team, have contributed many patches to core, and am one of the CVS administrators for drupal.org. For more details, you can check out my drupal.org profile. For my day job, I've worked for over 10 years as an academic staff researcher on a distributed computing project based at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, called Condor (no, that's definitely not a Drupal site -- yet).

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some possible discussion questions:

• who has access to the knowledge and resources necessary to build an effective drupal site? who participates in the drupal community? why?
• whose needs are met by drupal? are any groups/sectors/organizations better-served than others? why is this the case?
• how have race, class, and/or gender impacted your working relationships?
• what are some examples of drupal work that seeks to actively engage oppression – both within our organizations and partnerships, and in society as a whole?

Session Presenter: ryan winell

hey everybody, i'm currently working on several sites for baddass organizations and individuals. they are in various stages of development:

• A Katrina Reader: Readings by & for Anti-Racist Educators and Organizers
• a complete redesign of the La Raza Centro Legal site, in partnership with Design Action
• http://recoveryfromreligion.org/ (very early stages)
• and a few more... ;)

i'm committed to providing long-term support for the struggle for self determination and a just reconstruction in new orleans and the gulf coast. thanks! -ryan

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After kicking off the Drupal Dojo to with Great Success in January of this year, my own involvement has waned as other concerns became paramount. With the impending release of Drupal 6, and the continuing need for quality documentation to introduce new developers (and maybe themers and power-users) to the system, it seems like a good time to start ramping back up.

So, let’s get together and talk about what we might do!

Session Presenter: Matt Cheney And Zack Rosen

Matt had the good fortune to be trained as a librarian, but spends most of his time with computers instead of books. He's served as a political consultant for several campaigns and causes, and developed online information systems to help connect attorneys in the California Death Penalty defense community. Prior to that, he was a researcher at the National Center for SuperComputing Applications where he developed communities for online learning. Matt Cheney has a B.A. in Philosophy, History, Religious Studies, and Political Science and a M.S. In Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Zack started the DeanSpace project in 2003 during his summer break from the University of Illinois. He then left school to take a job at the Howard Dean presidential campaign head-quarters in Burlington, Vermont as a web-developer and technical volunteer coordinator. He was responsible for servicing the web-technology needs of the state campaign offices, constituency groups, and grassroots web developers. Afterwards he co-founded and directed the CivicSpace project for two years. He is an active business leader in the Drupal open-source community and has freely contributed his expertise to hundreds of grassroots web projects.

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The potential of Drupal’s install profile system remains one of the most promising aspects for the platform’s future, but the process for creating these profiles remains shrouded in mystery. Join Zack Rosen and Matt Cheney of San Francisco’s Chapter Three LLC as they walk through an ambitious and featureful use-case: the development of a conference organizing Drupal site for NASA’s CoLab project, and the process for turning that site into a fully-functional install profile.

Session Presenter: Matt Cheney And Zack Rosen

Matt had the good fortune to be trained as a librarian, but spends most of his time with computers instead of books. He's served as a political consultant for several campaigns and causes, and developed online information systems to help connect attorneys in the California Death Penalty defense community. Prior to that, he was a researcher at the National Center for SuperComputing Applications where he developed communities for online learning. Matt Cheney has a B.A. in Philosophy, History, Religious Studies, and Political Science and a M.S. In Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Zack started the DeanSpace project in 2003 during his summer break from the University of Illinois. He then left school to take a job at the Howard Dean presidential campaign head-quarters in Burlington, Vermont as a web-developer and technical volunteer coordinator. He was responsible for servicing the web-technology needs of the state campaign offices, constituency groups, and grassroots web developers. Afterwards he co-founded and directed the CivicSpace project for two years. He is an active business leader in the Drupal open-source community and has freely contributed his expertise to hundreds of grassroots web projects.

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