We're shouting it from the rooftops today. DrupalCon Vienna registration is now open. Early bird pricing is happening now until 4 August, but for the next two weeks only you can also get a conference t-shirt if you register and are a Drupal Association Individual Member. You can also receive a t-shirt if you sign up to be a sprint mentor, or you volunteer on-site at DrupalCon for a minimum of 4 hours.

The Aaron Winborn Award was created in 2015 after the loss of one of one of the Drupal community’s most prominent members, Aaron Winborn, to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (also referred to as Lou Gehrig's Disease in the US and Motor Neuron Disease in the UK). Aaron’s commitment to the Drupal project and community made him the epitome of our unofficial motto: "Come for the code, stay for the community".

The Drupal Community Working Group is pleased to announce the additions of Rachel Lawson and Jordana Fung. We began discussing the possibility of increasing the size and diversity of our group last year, and we are happy to take this important step.

There's a lot of FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) in the community these days. Let's try to quantify how people are feeling. Take the State of Drupal poll. Results will be tabulated and published during Drupalcon Baltimore. http://theaccidentalcoder.com/state-of-drupal-poll

I've just released a new private message module for Drupal 8. The module is currently in beta version, and needs some work for a full release. If anyone is interested in assisting in the remaining features for a full release, more information is available on the module page. https://www.drupal.org/project/private_message