CivicActions

For its third DrupalCamp, the Paris Drupal community is performing an awesome experiment: building a website in 48 hours for a local NGO.

A very open application process drew a dozen applications from NGOs across France, with a wide variety of anti-poverty, development, and other missions. This led to the selection of Project Aurore, which is focussed on social development and "réinsertion sociale" for socially excluded groups. Aurore desire a new site to catalog social agencies in Paris (emergency housing, meals, healthe care, etc) so that their targetted communities can easily find what they need, when they need it, mixed with a video blog that reports on the same.

CiviActions is a proud sponsor of the upcoming BADCamp (Bay Area DrupalCamp) in Berkeley the weekend of October 10th and 11th.

As I've said before, CivicActions is really excited to help make these events happen with our sponsorship and our team's participation. DrupalCamps are a great opportunity for folks to learn more about Drupal, organize to work on projects and modules, and also to recruit.

CivicActions is a proud sponsor of DrupalSouth; the New Zealand Drupal Event for 2008. DrupalSouth will bring NZ's Drupal community together for the first NZ-wide Drupal event and the first ever DrupalCamp in NZ.

A collection of individual Drupal professionals in Christchurch, New Zealand are organizing the event, including our very own Bevan Rudge. Bevan will be presenting on Google Maps in Drupal; The Hub Map, in which he will showcase the Hub Map, and talk about implementing Google maps mashups in Drupal.

DrupalCon Szeged is fast approaching and though we are a sponsor, I'm sorry I won't be able to attend. A number of my colleagues from CivicActions will be there though including Doug, Robin, Kevin, Jozef, look for them in sessions and at the Day 1 Exhibition.

Last night some folks from the SeaDUG got together and we banged out the rest of the Seattle.Drupal-Camp.org.

CivicActions is really happy to be a sponsor of this event, and out entire Seattle crew (myself, Robin and Jared) are working on various aspects of the camp. An early thanks to our early sponsors Hazel Consulting, Pyramid Consulting, Poplar ProductivityWare, Achieve Internet and DrupalCamp Vancouver. We are still looking for additional sponsors, if you are interested, contact me.

Attached you'll find the latest revision of "my" IA presentation at DrupalCamp Vancouver 2008. This presentation has been evolving since DrupalConBarcelona.

Attached you'll find my slide deck from Your Introduction to Panels 2. This was a really fun talk to present, and the room was packed. I hope people found it useful and if you attended and have any feedback, please let me know so i can sharpen the presentation for DrupalCamp Seattle.

Earlier this weekDrupalCamp Vancouver Sessions were announced and 2 by CivicActioners were among them. Robin's session on "Introduction To Module Development" will be on Friday and 2pm. I heard Robin give a this talk for Six Hour Startup folks a few weeks ago, and even though I am no developer, it sounded great and others seemed to benefit from it.

DrupalCampSeattle2007 was a huge success, and a lot of fun! I just got home and figured I would post a quick note before heading back out. We had over 40 people spread across our two tacks (user/superuser admin focused and developer focused).