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DrupalCon Copenhagen: Scholarship recipients

The recipients of the DrupalCon Copenhagen scholarships have been selected.

We received a total of 59 scholarship applications for DrupalCon Copenhagen. After careful deliberation, the scholarship jury has decided to award scholarships to the people mentioned below.

We would like to thank everyone who applied for a scholarship, and congratulate those of you who were selected.

DrupalCamps Organizer Survey - Final Results

DrupalCamp logoThe Drupal Association has been working to figure out the most effective ways it can help local user groups organize Drupal camps. We quickly realized that there was a lack of data about how past and present Drupal camps were currently being organized. With that in mind, we created an online survey for DrupalCamp organizers that would help everyone understand how Drupal camps currently worked.

Over the course of about 7 weeks, we collected a total of 51 responses, with 6 duplicates and unusable, making our sample size 45 Drupal camps. In a previous article posted on the Drupal Event Organization Drupal group, I posted the results from the first 31 responses. Since that article was published (and because of it), we had an additional 14 responses, making the data that much more valuable.

Overall, the 45 camps that completed the survey had over 6,200 participants, a combined budget of almost $250,000, and were organized by over 400 volunteers.

The resulting data is extremely valuable to both the Drupal Association and Drupal user groups around the world. The Drupal Association now has an idea of how camps are currently being organized and can make informed decisions about how to help future organizers. Local user groups can use this data to help plan future events. In particular, the average cost-per-particpant and participants-per-volunteers data (highlighted below) should be considered when planning future camps.

Drupal 7.0 Alpha 6 released

Update: Drupal 7.0 Alpha 7 is available now!

Our fifth Drupal 7 alpha version was released a little over a month ago. Today, we're proud to announce the release of the sixth (and hopefully final) alpha version of Drupal 7.x for your further testing and feedback. The first alpha announcement provided a comprehensive list of improvements made since Drupal 6.x, so in this announcement we'll concentrate on how you can help ensure that Drupal 7 is released as soon as possible and is as rock solid as the previous Drupal releases that you've grown to love!

This release includes many critical bug fixes, a nearly working upgrade path, and a new default core theme: Bartik!

Please see the release notes for more details.

When will alpha become beta?

We have identified several "beta blocking" issues, and itemized these at the Drupal core community initiatives page. On or about August 1, 2010 (or when the upgrade path is working, whichever comes first) we will create a new official Drupal 7 release. If this list is fixed, it will be a beta release. Otherwise, it will be another alpha release. It's expected we will have a few beta versions and at least one release candidate before Drupal 7.0 is finalized. We can potentially reach beta within the next month by focusing on this short-list of issues! Please help!

Movies List module using TheMovieDB.org API

Hi,

I've made an alpha version of a module that do simple things:

  1. Search for movie
  2. Keep track of which user have or watched those movies

May my module can help anyone and may someone help me add any features to make this module better :)
The code is hosted by github at http://github.com/noomz/mymovies .

PS. sorry for some typo error in module, will correct soon

Thanks,
noomz

IKS Invites CMS Vendors to Online Survey about Semantic Technologies

Salzburg, Austria - July 9, 2010. The IKS Project invites all CMS vendors to take part in a survey for evaluating their product's general coverage of features and in particular with respect to semantic capabilities.

"Current CMS benchmarks are very diverse and only few of them give adequate coverage to novel semantic technologies which are being adopted in the market.", says Tobias Kowatsch of the Institute of Technology Management, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland - a consortium member of the IKS Project. "The online survey will allow us to assess the adoption and use of semantic technologies across CMS platforms."

The survey will take approximately 25 minutes to complete. The results will be published in a book by IKS entitled "Semantic Technologies in CMS". The book will be available in the first quarter of 2011 and is geared towards IT executives.

For more information and to take part in the online survey, please visit
http://www.iks-project.eu/iks-survey-book-semantic-capabilities-content-management-systems.

About IKS Project

DrupalCon Copenhagen: Keynote speakers

DrupalCon Copenhagen KeynotesWe are proud to announce the keynote speakers at DrupalCon Copenhagen 2010: Rasmus Lerdorf (topic to be crowdsourced), Jeremy Keith (Design of HTML5) and Dries Buytaert (State of Drupal).

The State of Drupal

Dries Buytaert, Drupal Project Lead
Tuesday, August 24th

Dries Buytaert will discuss where Drupal is and where it is going. In particular, he’ll discuss the final preparations for the release of Drupal 7, the Drupal.org redesign, and the plans for Drupal 8.

Dries Buytaert is passionate about the web, open source, and photography. He is the original creator and project lead of Drupal, an open source social publishing system. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Acquia, a venture-backed software company that offers products and services for Drupal. Dries is also working on Mollom, a service that helps you identify content quality and that stops website spam.

Topic to be decided by you

Rasmus Lerdorf, PHP Project Founder
Wednesday, August 25th

Tell Rasmus which topic you would like him to focus on by leaving a comment on the DrupalCon Copenhagen site.

Rasmus Lerdorf is known for creating the PHP project in 1995 and he has contributed to a number of other open source projects over the years. Rasmus was most recently an infrastructure architect at Yahoo! for over 7 years before joining WePay in 2010. He was born in Greenland, grew up in Denmark and Canada and has a Systems Design engineering degree from the University of Waterloo. You can follow @rasmus on Twitter.

The Design of HTML5

Jeremy Keith, Author of HTML5 For Web Designers
Thursday, August 26th

Everyone's talking about the benefits of HTML5 for Web applications but the specification also introduces an extra layer of semantic richness to our Web documents. These additions aren't wishful thinking for some far-flung future: you can start using them today. That's because the design principles driving HTML5 are steeped in pragmatism. Find out how important good design principles are to any project, whether it's a website, a content management system, or the very language that underpins the World Wide Web.

Jeremy Keith is an Irish web developer living in Brighton, England where he works with the Web consultancy firm Clearleft. He wrote the books DOM Scripting, Bulletproof Ajax, and most recently, HTML5 For Web Designers. His latest project is Huffduffer, a service for creating podcasts of found sounds. When he’s not making websites, Jeremy plays bouzouki in the band Salter Cane.

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