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DrupalCon London Session Schedule and Core Conversations

DrupalCon London
The DrupalCon London Team had the task of narrowing 341 fantastic proposals into a schedule of 60 sessions, balanced across 5 tracks: Site Building and Environment Set-up, Business and Best Practices, Code & Coders, Design, UX & Theming, and Ecosystem. You can check out the schedule now and attendees will be able to build their schedule on the DrupalCon London site by logging in later this week.

This breaks down to 5 tracks with 12 sessions each. The 6th track, Core Conversations, will also have 12 sessions slots available and DrupalCon London will be opening core conversation session proposals between 14 June and 14 July 2011, 23:59 GMT+1. Core Conversations are a place for people actively working on Drupal or Drupal.org to meet and plan the future of Drupal (Drupal 8). We will announce selected Core Conversation sessions on 22 July 2011.

FLASHCOMS New demo release

In addition to our free integration modules Flashcoms is soon going to launch a demo where all our products ( Chat and Messenger ) will be fully integrated with Drupal. So you will get a chance to experience how our products actually work with Drupal in real life.

Sincerely,
FlashComs Team

Community Input Sought for DrupalCon North America 2013

One of the main activities of the Drupal Association (aside from keeping the lights on here at drupal.org) is to produce each DrupalCon, an international event that brings together the people who use, develop, design, and support the Drupal platform. Every DrupalCon features dozens of curated sessions and panels from some of the most influential people and brightest minds within the Drupal community and beyond, as well as countless opportunities for networking, code sprints, informal conversations, and more.

While we’re very excited about the upcoming DrupalCons in London in August (do you have your tickets yet?) and Denver next March, we’re already thinking ahead about where the 2013 North American DrupalCon should be. And, we’d like your help!

Please take the straw poll to tell us where you would (and would not) like DrupalCon to be held:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/drupalconpoll

Or, if you’re part of a team that would like to get more involved and organize a DrupalCon in a specific location, please submit your team’s interest via our nomination form on the Association site.

CRM page

I have set up a CRM page - please contribute!

http://drupal.org/node/1176286

Report from the University of Minnesota Drupal Usability Testing

From May 17 - 19, 2011, in advance of DrupalCamp Twin Cities, several Drupal community members met at the University of Minnesota usability lab in Minneapolis to perform a round of formal usability testing on Drupal 7. This is the fourth major usability testing for Drupal, and the first targeting the new Drupal 7 release.

People who were familiar with building websites (but not with Drupal) were observed while they worked through a number of site building tasks. This report contains a summary of the results.

Summary

The good news is that most of the changes that were put in Drupal 7 tested well. Compared to Drupal 6, Drupal 7 no longer confuses new users with basic conceptual hurdles like where the front-end vs. back-end of their site is and how to create an "About us" page, and for the most part the administrative interface is clear.

new "Web Services Client" module

for those interested in Web Services,
this new client basically works out-of-the-box. really easy UI and also works hand-in-hand with the Rules module.
strongly recommended.

http://drupal.org/project/wsclient

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