The document summarizes updates from the September 2012 Drupal monthly meetup. Key points include a recap of DrupalCon Munich, upcoming conferences in Sao Paulo and Sydney, new releases of Commerce Kickstart and Spark distributions, and progress on Drupal 8 including initiatives like CMI and WSCCI. It also provides updates on the Drupal community and learning resources.

1. Agenda •
•
Welcome
News – Ryan Cross
• Lightning Talks
• Presentation – DrupalCon Munich Recap
• Demo Time – Commerce Kickstart 2.0, Spark
• Pub - *New Location*
Drupal Monthly Meetup

2. Drupal News
September 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
https://association.drupal.org/node/17008
Event: DrupalCon Sao Paulo

5. • First Asia-Pacific DrupalCon
• First DrupalCon Outside US/EU
• February 6-9, 2013
• Sydney, Australia
• Sign up for updates
• http://sydney2013.drupal.org
• Dries Buytaert will Keynote
• Announcements at Munich
• Call for sessions and training proposals open
Event: DrupalCon Sydney

6. • Presentation of DCSyd

7. • Core • Contrib
• Next expected • Campaign Monitor
• probably next week • FileField Sources (SEC)
• Distributions • TAC Lite
• CiviCRM Starter Kit • Organic Groups
• OpenDeals – 7.x-1.1 • Drush Vagrant Integration
• OpenChurch – 7.x-1.11-beta1 • Search Krumo
• OpenPublic – 7.x-1.0-beta10 • Flag
• Commerce Kickstart – 7.x- • Droogle (Google Drive)
2.0-rc1 • Views Field View
• Spark – 7.x-1.0-alpha5 • Views Global Filter
• OpenPublish 7.x-1.0-beta4 • PixGather (phone upload)
• OpenOutreach – 7.x-1.0-rc5 • Commerce Discount
• Training • Webform
• OpenideaL
Release Cycle

9. • Drupal 8 Overall
• http://munich2012.drupal.org/program/sessions/drupal-8
• CMI
• http://munich2012.drupal.org/content/status-configuration-management-initiative
• WSCCI
• http://munich2012.drupal.org/content/web-services-and-symfony-core-initiative
• Multilingual
• http://munich2012.drupal.org/content/drupal-8s-multilingual-wonderland
• Mobile
• http://munich2012.drupal.org/content/responsive-design-mobile-admin-front-end-
performance-updates-mobile-initiative
• Layouts
• http://munich2012.drupal.org/content/drupal-blocks-layouts-initiative-scotch-update
• Theming Layer
• http://munich2012.drupal.org/content/new-theme-layer-drupal-8
Updates & Progress

10. • Drupal 8 Feature Freeze – Dec. 1, 2012 (71 Days Left)
• UPDATE
• http://buytaert.net/updated-drupal-8-release-schedule/ (Code Freeze – April 1)
• CMI
• Patch to re-architect file storage for CMI went in = Architecture for CMI is complete!!
Focusing on UI next
• WSCCI
• Needs help with the routing system, lots of discussion/progress with Scotch at DCMunich
• Multiling. - Entity translation in core patch
• Mobile - http://john.albin.net/drupal/mobilicious
• Layouts
• Working through lots of plumbing issues, lots of discussion/progress with WSCCI at
DCMunich
• Drupal 8 will have php requirement increased to 5.3.5
Core http://drupal.org/community-initiatives/drupal-core/

11. • ELECTION TIME – 2013 Community At Large
Directors
• http://groups.drupal.org/node/251428
• https://association.drupal.org/election2013-update
• http://groups.drupal.org/node/254898
• White House Contributes to Drupal
• http://buytaert.net/white-house-contributes-to-drupal
• Drupal Global Training Day
• New “My Mentors” Profile on Drupal.org
• Lullabot Podcast Ends – Sprouts 2 new ones
Community

12. • Acquia awarded fastest growing software company by
Inc. Magazine
• Mollom acquired by Acquia
• 4-way Merger
• Mearra, NodeOne, krimson, Wunderkraut => Wunderkraut
• Drupal Commerce
• Hosting, Marketplace and Kickstart 2.0
• Jay Batson setting up an incubator
Marketplace

13. • Periodic Table of Drupal Modules
Fun

14. • 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

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

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