dries

Since the founding of Drupalistas in Rome, I've met 4 people that work with Drupal. They all work in FAO. I also heard about the possibility of a Drupal product presentation on July 5th in FAO, and that talks are being held with Dries to come to Rome and give a presentation.
All in all very exciting news, and I want to try to organize a member meeting within the next 14 days. As soon as I have a meeting room (probably in the FAO library, otherwise in room A201 bis) I will create an event.

See you soon,

Eljay

Hi,
Here's a link to the interview with Dries Buytaert on devworx. This was during his recent visit to India. For the complete interview, visit dvwx.in/dec-11-dries. Also to stay updated on several topics and also to discuss with fellow developers, please join us at facebook.com/devworx.in and follow us on twitter: @devworx.

regards,

Nash David

Hello Drupallers,

Some of you might already be aware, Dries is visiting Hyderabad on Nov 11th. We are in touch with Acquia and are planning to organize a major two day Drupal Camp Deccan for all of South India.

All folks from Chennai, Bangalore, Pune, Cochin are welcome to make good use of this event. We will have Dries to address the crowd in person and deliver the keynote address.

Azri (www.azrisolutions.com) is co-sponsoring the event. We plan to have different tracks for beginners and advanced learning.

Is Drupal in a crisis?

This is a question which "sun" raised on his blog: http://www.unleashedmind.com/en/blog/sun/the-drupal-crisis
There were lots of interesting comments which followed too. He is a core and module contributor -here is his profile of Drupal.org: http://drupal.org/user/54136

A bit of this flowed over to Dries' blog too where there were again some interesting comments:
http://buytaert.net/does-acquia-suck-up-all-the-drupal-talent

Our team from http://www.drupal-dev-days.de calls for Drupal-Inventor
Dries Buytaert to join us at Drupal Developer Days 2010 on 8/9. May in Munich ...
with a video message:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1sCDzMUQNk

SPREAD THE WORD !!

JOIN OUR FACEBOOK-GROUP to make Dries come to Munich:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=114509115242079

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Just in case you haven't heard, Dries popped into the Drupal Dojo webchat (#drupal-dojo on Freenode), and mentioned that he has a publisher who wants to put out another Drupal book, and they need an author.

So, if you think you have what it takes and want a shot at fame and fortune, money, glamour, or hot (girls|men), contact Dries and offer your services.

Inspired by Dries posting on the powersavings one can get by having a system run on low CPU usage:

Say we would make a test with 1k nodes in Drupal and Joomla? and run JMeter with the same parameters on it against both. Both would be optimzed for caching.

It would be nice to make some MRTG/RRD stats on it with using the MIBS of Watts used and CPU's cycles burned. Then we can show that Drupal will burn less cycles and is in fact environmental friendlier then Joomla?.