The document summarizes upcoming Drupal events, recent releases, and community initiatives. Key upcoming events include DrupalCon Munich in August, DrupalCon Sao Paulo in December, and the first Asia-Pacific DrupalCon in Sydney in February 2013. Drupal 7.15 was recently released and work is underway on Drupal 8 with a feature freeze scheduled for December 1. New community initiatives aim to improve documentation, governance structures, and highlighting organizations' contributions to Drupal.

1. Agenda •
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Welcome
News – Ryan Cross
• Lightning Talks
• Presentation – Marji Cermak & Murray Woodman
• Case Study – Geoffrey Roberts & Ryan Cross
• Demo Time
• Pub
Drupal Monthly Meetup

2. Drupal News
August 2012

3. • European Drupal Conference
• August 20 – 24th
• Munich, Germany
• http://munich2012.drupal.org
• Key Notes Live Streamed!
• 9am Munich = 5pm Sydney
• http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?d
ay=21&month=8&year=2012&p1=240&p2=168&iv=0
Event: DrupalCon Munich

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
Event: DrupalCon Sao Paulo

5. • First Asia-Pacific DrupalCon
• February 6-9, 2013
• Sydney, Australia
• Sign up for updates
• http://sydney2013.drupal.org
• Dries Buytaert will Keynote
• Announcements at Munich
• Looking for more volunteers
Event: DrupalCon Sydney

6. • Looking for
• Track Chairs
• State/Regional Reps
• Marketing
• Customer Service
• And more...
https://association.drupal.org/drupalcon/volunteer/sydney
Call for Volunteers

7. • Core • Contrib
• 7.15 released • Google Site Search
• http://drupal.org/drupal- • Autocomplete Deluxe
7.15 • World of Warcraft API
• Next expected – after DC • HPCloud
• Distributions • Multistep Nodeform
• Commerce Kickstart • Date
• Spark • Context
• OpenPublish • Commerce Reporting
• Trekk (New for Uni’s) • Meta Tags
• Drupal API site • Form Builder
• Display Suite
Release Cycle

8. • Drupal 8 Feature Freeze – Dec. 1, 2012 (106 Days Left)
• Not a lot of major announcements this month in preparations
for DC Munich
• Proposal for changing architecture of write/read for CMI
• http://drupal.org/node/1703168
• Multi-lingual and CMI making progress
• Bartik is almost fully mobile-first and reponsive
Core http://drupal.org/community-initiatives/drupal-core/

10. • Proposed New Governance Structures
• http://buytaert.net/proposal-from-first-drupal-governance-sprint
• New Events Page(s) on G.D.O
• http://groups.drupal.org/events
• Drupical – Events Search
• http://www.drupical.com/
• New Documentation for Drupal Mobile
• http://drupal.org/documentation/mobile
• Acquia donate USD$9,500 to Views in Core
• https://twitter.com/merlinofchaos/status/228914424189186048
Community

11. • Protect the Internet with Drupal
• http://internetdefenseleague.org/
• https://drupal.org/project/internet_defense_league
Fun (but also serious)

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

13. • 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.
• Free Video series on Drupalize.me
• http://drupalize.me/blog/201205/release-day-free-series-
learn-drupal-ladder
• http://drupalize.me/series/learn-drupal-ladder
Learn Drupal

14. • 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
/DrupalGive