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Tenemos el honor de anunciar que el registro para el DrupalCamp Centroamérica 2012 está abierto! Este evento es una actividad de tres días que se realiza anualmente en un país de Centroamérica, este año Panamá ha sido elegido por la comunidad centroamericana de Drupal.

The time has come to open nominations for directors from the community at large for the board of the Drupal Association.

The announcement has been posted here:
https://association.drupal.org/election2013

The key details are:

Election Timeline

• Sep 1-16 Nominations open
• Sep 17-23 Statements, Questions, Meet the Candidates sessions
• Sep 24-Oct 7 Voting
• Oct 10 Ratify results at board meeting

How to submit a nomination

Go to https://association.drupal.org/node/add/nomination

Join us this Saturday for case study sprint on IRC.

On August 11, 2012 at 2pm UTC, we’re going to get together on IRC (#drupal-marketing channel on Freenode) to work on migrating case studies from the old content type to the new section (http://drupal.org/case-studies), as well as answer any questions and give guidance on new case studies.

You don’t need to be a programmer or have special knowledge to help, just good judgement and English language/grammar skills.
Help us promote Drupal and show off what Drupal can do!

A little over 18 months ago, Ariane K. and I started our tenure as co-leaders of the Drupal Documentation Team. We spent a lot of time working on organization, design, processes, and tools to make it easier for Drupalists to contribute to and use Drupal documentation, and I’m very proud of the many improvements we were able to make (of course, with the help of lots of other contributors!) during that time.

Drupal Camp Asheville 2012 is happening August 17th and 18th at AB Tech. We bring together developers, designers, business owners and anyone else that wants to find out more about Drupal. Register today to reserve your space to this camp.

Learn more and signup at:
https://2012.drupalcampasheville.com/

The proposed plugin system that is a foundational component for scotch is in the issue queue and has been heavily reviewed by core and plugins developers. In an effort to satisfy certain DX concerns with the Plugin system, an example plugin type module (with associated plugins) and significant documentation have been created. In the hopes that we could illicit the opinions of developers who are not currently involved in the discussion, two issues have been created with relatively simple tasks outlined.

We need a few Drupal evangelists or evangelists in training to staff the Drupal booth at OSCON on Thursday, the 19th. We have open slots from 10A to noon and noon to 2P.

Volunteers get free exhibit tix to OSCON and the immense pride and satisfaction that comes with waving the flag.

More info at http://groups.drupal.org/node/238363

Signup at http://bit.ly/LRN09H

We are pleased to announce that on September 14-15 the next conference DrupalCamp Kyiv 2012 will be held in Kiev - the main event of the year for developers on the CMS Drupal. We are faced with big plans that we will achieve together!

This year DrupalCamp returns to the good old i-klass, located in one of the most beautiful city disctricts, near the ancient and most honored monastery of the Kievan Rus — the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra. Address of DrupalCamp Kyiv — Lavrskaya st. 16 (former Ivan Mazepa st. 34), Master Klass cultural and education center.

D4D. The 4th annual drupal design camp boston, the drupal community's first camp dedicated to design, takes place on sat and sun july 14-15 at the mit stata center. each year, 315+ drupalists gather in cambridge to discuss ideas and take part in interactive sessions on the future of drupal, focusing on everything from usability to technology from a design perspective.

We are thrilled to announce back-to-back awesome keynotes this year, Angela "webchick" Byron with a talk on D8 and Jared Ponchot, Creative Director of Lullabot.

Join us!

http://boston2012.design4drupal.org/

A small team met in Paris at the office of Commerce Guys from June 3-5th to discuss Drupal's web services serialization and syndication format needs. In short, "OK, we are going to have all of this fun new routing capability, now what do we do with it?" More specifically, how do we go about serializing Drupal data for consumption by remote programs (either other Drupal sites as in the case of content staging, other non-Drupal sites, client-side applications, or mobile apps), and what protocols and APIs do we make available to manipulate that data?

In attendance were:

• Larry Garfield, WSCCI Lead
• Wolfgang Ziegler, Entity maintainer
• Dick Olsson, Deploy maintainer
• Damien Tournoud, Core generalist and gracious host
• Alex Bronstein (via skype), Core generalist

The raw notes from the sprint are available as a Google Doc, but as usual are rather disjoint and likely won't make sense if you weren't there. A more complete report is below.