Creativity

Come to Drupalcon Copenhagen

With all the new people joining the CivicActions team in the past few weeks, it's easy for us all to forget an important part of the on-boarding process of new civic-minded nodeists.

Profile pictures.

An appropriate profile picture is essential to one's ensconcement into the CivicActions fold. Before you go digging through iPhoto for that winning head-shot, let me present a brief analysis of what makes a properly awesome CivicActions profile photo.

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No, Code for America isn't looking for a couple thousand gentlemen.  They're looking for geeks (of any gender) to award yearlong Fellowships (living wage, health insurance, travel expenses) starting in 2011 to build Government 2.0 apps for a number of local governments. 

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Within the next few hours, many members of the CivicActions team will start making their way from various parts of the planet to converge (along with pretty darn close to THREE THOUSAND other Drupalistas, Drupallers, Drupalgeeks, GeeksForGood, Drupalheads, Drupal enthusiasts and just about every other version of Drupalhuman you can imagine.) in the beautiful city of San Francisco to share what we've learned in the last year about working with this, dare I say, platform.

I started thinking about all this and start getting really psyched to be leaving Nashville to return "home" to t

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Quick demo of what we are going to discuss
Original session was posted here
With launch of iPad and NexusOne - iPhone/Android application market can't be ignored. Both these technologies has great potential to use our existing web based tools such as drupal. You can totally use drupal to manage/update your iPhone/Android native application.

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This year will be the first time I have been able to attend the She's Geeky Regional Un-Conference, and Girl am I excited! She's Geeky brings together women from all walks of technology, including those working in non-technical fields within technology. 

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Thank you, everyone!  To our clients on the frontlines of social change, to the hundreds of thousands of organizations we've not yet met but who are also working to improve the planet, to the Drupal Community for showing the world (yet again) how Open Source can change it, to the "undocumented Drupalers" who are silently expanding the install base of our favorite CMS platform one website at a time, to the networks of geeks all around the world lending their talent for a be

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This past year, CivicActions has undergone a transformation in the way that we organize project teams.  We've moved from a "matrix" model (people contributing to several projects) to what we call "Pods" (dedicated teams focused on one or two projects at a time). This transformation has yielded incredible results for clients and project team members. This model also means that we can more easily scale, which we are preparing to do in 2010.

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Finally iWebkit theme for drupal-iPhone websites is production ready. Theme now includes Drupal form theming and 12 different subthemes to suit your color preferences.
From Now on this theme will be maintained on drupal.org as iWebkit project.
Features added since last release are:

1. Form elements are now themed. All form elements now looks like default iphone forms. This means there is no need to add custom user-login, comments or node add forms for your iphone website, you can directly use drupal default forms and they will be automatically converted into iPhone style form elements.
   
   • Select list and Checkboxes look like-
   • Radio buttons and Text-area look like-
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