News

Commerce Guys, a company specializing in Ubercart based commerce solutions, has been chosen by the Drupal Association to run a Drupal branded online shop. Commerce Guys will receive a 1 year license to run the shop which will take it's place among the family of *.drupal.org websites.

As part of the redesign we will be developing some new branding for Drupal.org. Once we settle on a new brand we are going to want to start promoting it. Part of that effort will including buying branded merchandise via Drupal.org with profits going to the Drupal association.

There have been community stores in the past notably:

If you are organizing a Drupalcamp you are probably finding that you are thrust into a fund raising role. As the Drupal association fundraiser, let me offer you a quick tip for raising money to meet your Drupalcamp expenses.

First, follow the rules of BarCamps and keep everything as simple as possible. Don't try to provide too many comforts. Instead, communicate what you need and then what ever you get provided with is what you will have.

The largest single, non-academy-sanctioned, barcamp-style gathering of Drupalistas yet assembled in North America just took place in Los Angeles, CA, and if you weren't there, you missed out! The Happening occurred in the freely donated LA Convention Center, and if you know anything about the convention business, you'll understand that that alone is financially remarkable! Approximately 400 people attended the two day event, and in a manner completely out of the norm for a traditional barcamp gathering, the throngs proceeded to teach and learn in a self organizing plasm!

There were several funny things that happened during the weekend. Random people kept wandering in off the street asking about this mini-conference that looked like it was thriving during a low economic time, and they all wanted to know about the cute little blue guy. One man even approached a presenter and began begging for a job doing something, anything, even though he'd never heard of Drupal but thought that "everyone in here was... cooool". Crystal Williams, one of the co-organizers of the event, lost her car in Valet World on Sunday morning right as the second day's sessions were supposed to be starting. She wasn't onsite yet, and in her pocket was the key to the storage room which held all the Workhabit cameras & audio recording gear, and the hallway projector with the morning's session schedule on it! Nobody could figure out...