This document summarizes the agenda for an upcoming Drupal monthly meetup. The agenda includes a welcome, news from Ryan Cross, a case study from Magda Kostrewza, time for support and hacking, and then pub. Under news, it outlines upcoming Drupal conferences in Munich and Sao Paulo. It then discusses recent Drupal core and contrib releases. Finally, it provides information on an upcoming DrupalDownUnder conference in Sydney and calls for volunteers for DrupalCon Sydney.

1. Agenda •
•
Welcome
News – Ryan Cross
• Case Study – Magda Kostrewza
• Support & Hackfext
• Pub
Drupal Monthly Meetup

2. Drupal News
July 2012

3. • European Drupal Conference
• August 20 – 24th
• Munich, Germany
• http://munich2012.drupal.org
• Regular Priced Tickets (€ 475)
• Schedule Announced
• http://munich2012.drupal.org/news/session-schedule-
announced
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
• Sessions Open
Event: DrupalCon Sao Paulo

5. • Event ran last week with great turn out
• Anyone here go?
• Slides/Recordings will be posted soon
Drupal as Career

6. • Core • Contrib
• Core release was • Live Themer
postponed • Campaign Monitor
• http://groups.drupal.org/no • Spaces
de/239558 • Node Embed
• Next expected – late July • Borealis
• Distributions • Drupal Ipsum
• Commerce Kickstart • Translator Management
• RedHen CRM Tools (TMGMT)
• Drop Jobs • Drupal for Facebook
• Apache Solr (RC
candidate)
Release Cycle

7. • Drupal 8 Feature Freeze – Dec. 1, 2012 (136 Days Left)
• New Plugin System in Core!
• http://drupal.org/node/1497366#comment-6235640
• New Layout System Prototype
• http://bojhan.nl/blocks-layout-prototype
• Spark WYSIWYG Selection
• http://wimleers.com/blog/spark-update-wysiwyg-choice
• Help Needed on Multi-Lingual Content
• http://hojtsy.hu/blog/2012-jul-13/just-45-months-until-
feature-freeze-all-hands-needed-help-multilingual-content
Core

8. • Jacob Redding stepping down as DA Exec Director
• http://buytaert.net/transitions-at-the-drupal-association
• Governance Sprint
• http://buytaert.net/drupal-governance-sprint
• Documentation Team Lead Changing
• http://groups.drupal.org/node/243443 (open)
• Supporting Aaron Winborn (ALS)
• http://aaronwinborn.com/blogs/aaron/special-needs-trust
Community

9. • Drupal Star Fleet
• http://drupal.org/node/1205556#comment-6104530
Fun
https://www.acquia.com/blog/drupal-t-skirt

10. • Signup for notifications
http://2013.drupaldownunder.org
Event: Drupal DownUnder
Sydney

11. • Signup for notifications
http://2013.drupaldownunder.org
• Major Announcement!
Event: Drupal DownUnder
Sydney

12. • Signup for notifications
http://2013.drupaldownunder.org
• Major Announcement!
Event: DrupalCon Sydney

13. • Wed – Sat, Multiple Tracks, Sessions, BoFs, Training, etc
• Crown Plaza in Coogee Beach
• Sign up for updates - http://sydney2013.drupal.org
• Dries Buytaert will Keynote

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

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

16. • 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

17. • 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