I felt that the networking opportunities the event offered were significant and I want to try to expand on the 30 or so people I managed to talk to. I have created a LinkedIn group called DrupalCamp Colorado. To join, log into LinkedIn and do a search in Groups for "DrupalCamp Colorado".
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...is doing a BOF on Project Workflow Management and Client Expectations.
Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, UML, Process Diagrams, Wireframes, Design Comps ... how does it all fit together into a clearly defined purpose?
...has a presentation on Advanced AHAH and Modifying Forms, which gets into that lovely UI goodness of dynamic forms generation, drag-and-drop, etc. He's also doing a presentation on Using SimpleTest to Prove Your Code. Very useful to any coder.
...has a presentation on Drupal Benchmarking and Performance, covering:
- Factors that affect performance
- Measuring performance
- Different types of hosting (Shared, VPS, "Grid", Mosso)
- Techniques used to make enterprise websites scalable (ie Facebook, LiveJournal)
- Basics of Performance-friendly Drupal Module development
...is presenting on RESTful services and Drupal, and will be showcasing his brand spanking new REST provider module which provides something of a REST API.
...is presenting on Contributing to Drupal, which is about how anyone can participate in the Drupal community. He is also presenting Drupal Lightning Demos:
Rapid-fire demonstrations of modules, themes, Drupal-powered sites, fancy Drupal code snippets and anything else Drupal related that can be demoed in 5-10 minutes. These are quick, 5-10 minutes including time for questions, demos of something you've built on or with Drupal. Unless we have very few demos there probably won't be time to go looking at code so just show how it works or what it looks like.
He's also doing a session on the Drupal Community:
I'd like to talk about the Drupal community, the ways in which we are open and sponsor participation and the ways we've push people away. Because we have pushed people away. What do we do that is right and what are we doing wrong?
There is also going to be a BOF about Making DrupalCamp Colorado better, led by Kevin Bridges and (hopefully) many other interested folks. Maybe we can pull together a DrupalCon proposal?
I was going to be joining Greg Knaddison in a session where we, as permanent members of the Drupal Association General Assembly, were going to give a little update on what's been happening and attempt to answer questions that may arise, but that proposal was rated lower than the others, so it's not going to happen. No, this is a weekend to get your geek on! See you there!
]]>Here at pingVision we have several people who serve in the sysadmin role. Our heavy lifter is Andy Lasda, who has scripted our deployments and been involved in most all of our hosting environment setups and performance tuning.
Andy Kirkham is another expert sysadmin in our ranks. Between the two Andys, there's no solvable problem they cannot solve. Yes, you can say "rubbish" and dismiss it as mere enthusiasm, but in this case I think I'm right.
;)
Kevin Bridges also does a fair bit of our sysadmin work and configurations. And of course Ezra Barnett Gildesgame, who is in fact doing a DrupalCamp Colorado presentation this weekend on performance tuning techniques for Drupal.
Thank you, Andy, Andy, Kevin and Ezra! And thank you to the Rackspace Fanatical Support sysadmins who've kept our servers running optimally.
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In case you've somehow missed the news, DrupalCamp Colorado is happening this weekend.
greggles posted a nice rundown of things to do for DrupalCamp. Registration is easy. The price is an affordable $10 ... or $25 at the door (if there's room -- the cap is at 100 people).
Hey, and we can haz stickers! Maybe your laptop wants one, too?
]]>It's also not too late to register.
As one of many sponsors of DrupalCamp Colorado*, we hope to see a full house of both the new Drupalers out there as well as the experienced veterans. There are going to host a mix of sessions and BOF's geared towards all areas of interest ... or at least your interests, if you get your session proposal in! (No pressure.)
See you there!
* We developed and host the website. The website design is TBD. Maybe that's worth a session at the 'Camp? What do you think?
]]>Designers, work your GIMP out, sharpen your Illustrator, spark your Fireworks or uncap your Photoshop (whew!) and work up a submission that represent Colorado Drupallers to the world!
Submission guidelines are here: http://drupalcampcolorado.org/content/lo...
The existing submissions are here: http://drupalcampcolorado.org/logos
Some discussion and tips can be found in the thread here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/11449
Don't dally. Submissions close on June 1st.
]]>One of the first orders of business is to decide on a logo. We already have some logo submissions on the site now, but we hope there will be many more, so fire up GIMP, Illustrator or your design app of choice and get creative! DrupalCamp logo submissions are open until 5pm on June 1. Voting will start on June 2.
(Then we can maybe have a web design submission round.)
pingVision is pleased to sponsor the initial development, hosting and maintenance of the site, but the ultimate design and all the content is up to DrupalCamp Colorado participants, in true Drupal do-ocracy community fashion.
So come on over, register on the site and join in the effort to make DrupalCamp happen.
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