CivicActions

DrupalCamps help bring out creativity. This weekend I attended Vancouver's DrupalCamp, and I really enjoyed myself. On top of it, I am always amazed by talking with others at these types of events. Other developers who I think really know their stuff said to me, "The camps are great. They remind of how much more I need to learn." I thought they knew it all!

I had the joy of attending Linuxfest Northwest on April 26 in Bellingham, WA. The weather was great (just like last year), and the atmosphere relaxed and fun.

Linuxfest is a 2-day community event, run by volunteers and free to the public. It is such a cozy atmosphere, and it is easy to interact with the speakers and the exhibitors.

An acquaintance of mine was detained by Homeland Security. His recently expired US visa landed him in the detention center in Tacoma, WA, where he had no legal counsel for 6 weeks:

Last Wednesday, our Seattle Drupal User Group (SEADUG) had the unique experience getting insight from our city's newspaper switching to Drupal.

The Seattle Times senior engineer and producer were kind enough to share their experience of converting NWSource to Drupal.

I found several concepts very intriguing during this 2 hour presentation:

• they spent about 8 months investigating 50 - 70 content management systems

A couple of engineers at CivicActions were interested in the Views Bulk Operations module. Me too! So I checked it out.

Easily installed, the most important bit I can tell you about is this:

• clone the view that comes with views_bulk_operations (admin_content)
• in the clone be sure to go to the Filters and select all content types for the Content Type filter (so you can
  see all nodes with the view)
• click Save, then start messing with it!

Are you interested in Media Mover? It is a new framework available for your file processing pleasure. Developed by Arthur Foelesche, Media Mover allows site administrators to manage and process media files like images, video, and audio. Media Mover provides an API, so developers can easily write modules which hook into the Media Mover system.

It was noted on the first day of Drupalcon that 93% of attendees are men. After talking with a couple of
other women working with CivicActions, I decided it was worth setting up a Birds of a Feather session: The Other 7% - Women and Drupal.

At lunch time today, about 12 of us met up and it was great to meet some women in the community whose names I see regularly online like karens,webchick, add1sun, Allie Micka. We took some time to introduce ourselves and discussed how to encourage more women to join the Drupal community.