CivicActions

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.

Zoey and I had the opportunity to co-present a session on information architecture and the Drupal development process at DrupalCon in Barcelona this past week. Ron helped us prepare conceptualize the presentation which we gave on Friday in the PickTeck room to a fairly large crowd.

There were many good questions from the audience, and some conversations that continued throughout the day.

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.

Day one at the Internet Identity Workshop, or IIW2007, began with Eugene Kim - Chairman-elect of Identity Commons ("2.0", now with rounded corners), asking those attending their first IIW to stand up - over two-thirds of the 150 or so people in the room stood up. This is a great trend - the word is getting out!

I’ve worked in Drupal for almost a year. The mysteries of FAPI (Forms API) and theming have unraveled. I’ve written ten contributed modules. I submitted dozens of issues and patches to Drupal, even few for Drupal core. And I just attended my first community Drupal event – Open Source Content Management Systems (OSCMS) hosted by Yahoo.

A quick screen cast of one of NINA's adminstrative features. This allows the user to selectively build indexes for the search application.

The cool part, I think, is that even though PHP doesn't have threading, using client side javsacript and jQuery you can simulate threaded message passing.

The Personal Democracy Forum in NYC at the
CUNY Grad Center
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10016

The Penguins are heading to the Pacific Northwest!

Come to Penguin Days in Seattle on March 25th
right after the National Technology Conference (NTC)

in downtown Seattle (right next to the NTC!)
Organized by Aspiration and PICnet

Register at http://www.penguinday.org

What in the world is a Penguin Day?

Penguin Day Seattle will bring together non-profit technology staff and open source software (OSS) developers for a day of learning and conversation.
We'll demystify open source for nonprofits, frankly address the challenges of developing open source tools for non profits, and celebrate strengths and successes of open source in the nonprofit sector. Leading open source innovators, including One Northwest (Seattle) and FreeGeek (Portland) will share their stories and knowledge.

The launch event for the first draft of the GNU General Public License version 3

The meeting is being convened to support communication amongst developers and the small businesses being built on the drupal platform. I am really open to your ideas about what to cover. Please contribute thoughts to the agenda.

The event will be held at the CSL office