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The first official Drupal-Camp will be held on April 1 & 2, 2006 in San Francisco. This intensive two day Drupal training program will focus on Drupal theme development with the PHP Template Theme Engine. Jeff Robbins from Lullabot will lead the training. The two-day workshop will be open to 10-15 developers who are experienced in XHTML/CSS web design. The training will focus on creating fully featured Drupal sites that are highly customized.

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Hello,

After inspiration by other events and some discussion over email after the last forum announcement we now have 5+ people planning to get together.

When: March 20th 2006, starting at 2:00PM (MST) (916 in swatch time)
Where: Paris on the Platte (gmap)

Agenda:

1. General introductions and "how I use Drupal"
2. Demos - event+, mailing list related tools
3. anything else? and "close"
4. Bug squashing - for those interested

The first three parts we expect everyone to stick around which is why we have a fixed start time. Step 3 includes a "close" where people can leave if they want. Beyond that, we will be doing some bug fixing (squashing!) to try and help improve 4.7, perhaps do some work on improving Events since Chad and I are both interested in it.

Date: Friday 31st March 2006, 6:30 p.m. - late
Location: BTR (Be The Reds)
39 Whitfield Street, London
Near Goodge Street station
Telephone: 020 7209 0984
Google map

We've found a great location for London Drupal meet ups: Be The Reds is an internet cafe, so both desktop and wi-fi access is available. It's the site of the first Internet cafe in the world, Cyberia, which was sold to a Korean chain three years ago.

This is a drop in event, so no need to book or make any kind of reservation, just come in any time after 6:30 p.m., everyone's welcome. If this meet up goes well, Drupal Drop In - London will be repeated again on the last Friday of every month at the same location.

A bit over a month after the release of fourth beta release the Drupal development team is pleased to announce the fifth beta release of Drupal 4.7.0! It is available for immediate download.

This beta release is hopefully the final beta release for Drupal 4.7.0 and marks a significant improvement in the Drupal 4.7.0 codebase. Since beta 4, a lot of critical and non-critical bugs have been fixed. All of these changes are detailed in the changelog. However, there are still more bugs to be found, reported, and fixed before a release candidate can be made. The good news is that, with your help, we can release Drupal 4.7.0 RC1 much sooner.

Text message powered campaigns are getting even more practical. At the Drupal Meet-up in DC last Thursday we ran up a nice $280 bar tab running our first field test of an SMS gateway module/API and a couple last-minute modules we put together to have a website (Drupal powered) talk to cell phones. As folks joined our meetup group at Busboys and Poets, they signed up on the website with their name, mobile number, and email. When they submitted their information, they received an SMS message from the website telling them to speak to the waiter with long hair to get a drink on Development Seed. Too bad Delirium Tremens was on tap – that was the cause of the larger than expected tab.

If we weren’t literally finishing the code on the module while people were ordering their beers, we could have had each person select what they wanted to drink from a menu, and then have the system send us an alert when we hit a price cap.

There are some bars that sell their beer like it’s on the stock market – when a beer is popular its price increases and you can see a live digital chart above the bar for the current price of your beer. With the SMS gateway you could use a Drupal site to send out beer stock prices to sippers in a crowded bar so when Delerium drops back down to something they can afford, they can hit buy…or you could send out real stock prices.