The document provides information from Drupal monthly meetups and news including upcoming conferences in North America, Europe, and South America. Key releases are noted for Drupal core, contrib modules, and distributions. Updates are provided on the Drupal 8 release cycle and new initiatives for the core authoring experience and Drupal.org upgrade. Information is also included on Google Summer of Code funding, learning resources, and a new /drupalgive community initiative.

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Welcome
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• Lighting Talks
• BoFs
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Drupal Monthly Meetup

2. Drupal News
May 2012

3. • North American Drupal Conference
• March 19 – 23rd
• Denver, Colorado
• http://denver2012.drupal.org
• Session Videos Available
Event: DrupalCon Denver

4. • European Drupal Conference
• August 20 – 24th
• Munich, Germany
• http://munich2012.drupal.org
• Early Bird Tickets € 400 (until June 15th)
• Session & Training Proposals Closed (comments, no votes)
http://munich2012.drupal.org/news/improved-selection-process-drupalcon-munich
• Features Sessions Announced
• Scholarship winners announced – May 18th
Event: DrupalCon Munich

5. • South America Drupal Conference
• December 6 – 8th
• Sao Paulo, Brazil
• http://saopaulo2012.drupal.org
• First DrupalCon outside of N. America or Europe
• RFP for site design available from DA
• https://association.drupal.org/node/15883
Event: DrupalCon Sao Paulo

6. • Core • Contrib
• 7.14 security and bug fixes • Token – 7.x-1.1
• 6.26 only bug fixes • Features Tools – 7.x-1.5
• Next expected - May 30th • LDAP – 1.3
• Distributions • Debut * - 7.x-1.0-rc1
• Aegir-1.8 • AWS SDK for PHP
• OpenAtrium – 1.4 • Media – 7.x-1.1 and 7.x-2.0-
• Commerce – 7.x-1.3 unstable
• NodeStream – 7.x-2.0-beta1 • Acquia Network Connector –
7.x-2.3, 6.x-2.4
• Boxes – 7.x-1.0
• Date – 7.x-2.5, 6.x-2.9
• Ubercart – 7.x-3.1, 6.x-2.9
Release Cycle

7. • Drupal 8 Feature Freeze – Dec. 1, 2012 (197 Days Left)
• New Theme System Sprint
• http://jacine.net/post/19652705220/theme-system
• http://groups.drupal.org/node/226219
• Mobile Navigation Prototype
• http://nav.d8mux.org/
• Web Services Funding Proposal
• http://groups.drupal.org/node/226479
• Spark Initiative – Core Authoring Experience
• http://buytaert.net/announcing-spark-authoring-
improvements-for-drupal-7-and-drupal-8
• http://drupal.org/project/spark
Core

8. • Drupal.org upgrade to D7 sprint
• https://association.drupal.org/node/15779
• https://association.drupal.org/node/16028
• Drupal Association Member Survey
• https://association.drupal.org/node/15744
• GDO has new maintainers
• http://drupal.org/node/1529948
• Drush now supported on windows
• http://drush.ws/drush_windows_installer
• Frontend United
• http://morten.dk/blog/frontend-united-we-came-rock
• http://frontendunited.org/2012/slides
• Applications Open for Community Cultivation Grants
• https://association.drupal.org/node/16023
Community

9. • 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
• Results Announced
• http://drupal.org/node/1548180
• 13 projects = $72,000+USD Investement
Google Summer of Code

10. • Heather James
– Drupal t-Skirt
Fun
https://www.acquia.com/blog/drupal-t-skirt

11. • 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

12. • 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

13. • No New Announcements
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http://2013.drupaldownunder.org
Event: Drupal DownUnder
Sydney