The document provides an agenda for an upcoming Drupal meetup. The agenda includes: a welcome, lightning talks on Scotch and presentations on Symfony/Twig and CMI, a demo of Commerce Kickstart 2.0 and Spark, and concluding with time at the pub. It also shares recent Drupal news including upcoming events and releases.

1. Agenda • 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
Drupal Monthly Meetup

2. Drupal News
October 2012

3. • 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.
Upcoming Camps

4. • 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
https://association.drupal.org/node/17008
Event: DrupalCon Sao Paulo

5. • 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

6. • 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: DrupalCon Sydney

7. • 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: OSDC

8. • 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!
Event: LinuxConf AU

9. • 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: Learning Drupal

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

11. • 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)
Local Event: Code Sprint

12. • 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
Release Cycle

13. • 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
Core http://drupal.org/community-initiatives/drupal-core/

14. • 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
Updates & Progress

15. • 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.
Get Involved with D8

16. • 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

17. • 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
Community

18. 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/
Outside The Bubble

19. Fun

20. Questions?
....on to the more interesting people