drupalcon barcelona

Join us at this month's meeting when Mike Cantelon talks about taking the pain out of publishing contests and multi-page surveys with the Multiforms module, and Boris Mann gives some highlights from Drupalcon Barcelona.

As always, there will be a Question and Answer session for questions on anything Drupal and a chance to tell the group about any cool stuff you've been working on.

Date: Thursday October 18th, 6:30pm
Location: Bryght Offices, 1 Alexander Street, Suite 400 in Gastown. [Map] (Details below).

For those who don't need to leave right away there's typically a more social discussion at a local pub afterwards.

I'll be in Barcelona next week for Drupalcon and I've got a few missions.

I've got 2 websites I want to look at converting to Drupal:

1. http://www.kendra.org.uk

Kendra Initiative is a non-profit organisation that wants to see a more open and level content distribution system/marktetplace. We need quotes for building it in Drupal. We've got a skeleton project plan here:

http://www.kendra.org.uk/wiki/wiki.pl?KendraWebsiteUpdate

Any pointers, comments and questions would be useful now so that I could have answers for next week when we can meet in the flesh and discuss more.

Salut a tous.

Qui va au DrupalCon de Barcelone fin septembre (http://barcelona2007.drupalcon.org) ?

J'hesite encore a y aller... mais si c'est le cas ca serait pas mal de se faire un meeting entre francophones.

Et tant que j'y suis, le canal irc #drupalfr est un peu vide malheureusement... n'hesitez pas y venir causer drupal ;p

Hi Folks,
Sorry for the english message.
I'm brazilian, drupal developer, maintainer from Captcha module and I gonna be in Europe in September to DrupalCon, most of time I will spend in France, so I had been thinking that would be great if I meet some drupalistas there... ;)

Do you have any meetup planned?
I planning to stay +- 1 week in paris and the rest of time in Alsácia.

Cheers,
Fabiano Sant'Ana

There are a "LOT" of contrib modules out there. Even more so, there are a great deal of good modules that have been neglected. Lets be honest, a developers time is precious, and we all get spread thin and a bit scattered sometimes, and we leave our children (modules) to the way side for other things (like "bill-paying" modules/development so we can eat from time to time :) ).

I was reading about the Barcelona Drupalcon which will happen at the end of the Québec Free Software Week (SQIL) and it got me thinking... I poked Omar with the idea, but figured I might as well share it here now and see if there is any interest.

Some of the Open Office Developers in Barcelona are members of the Catalan Drupal community also and let us know that next Open Office 2007 Conference will be held in Barcelona exactly the same dates as our Drupalcon. (By the way, I like the way they choosed Barcelona - call for locations, proposals and voting. We might use this methode next time?)

We are now talking to the OO catalan developers about a possible collaboration. My thoughts are that this would be a great opportunity to have two compatible open source conferences on the same venue from which everyone could benefit (shared costs for a greater publicity). There might be a drawback: the venue we planned might not be big enough for both events, so we might have to look for another one. That's not a problem but any other venue will not be as nice, suitable and cheap. However I would like to know what you think about it. What are your comments on this? Thanks.