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Last night I attended a talk by Steve Krug ( Don’t Make me THINK ) hosted by the Puget Sound SigCHI group. Krug’s talk, a new one, was titled, “Yes, Virginia, there is a perfect web page” He focused on 2 design conventions that he believes make web pages inherently better. And while both are pretty easy to get right, he believed that designers rarely do.
A few months ago I blogged about the Greenpeace KleerCut Campaign targeting Kimblery Clark (maker of Kleenex and other paper products that are made of old growth timber). Well, some Greenpeace activists struck again, this time in Chicago, keep up the good work!
Greg Knadson organized and lead a session on drupal user groups , I joined him in facilitating the session, and these are my rough notes from the session. * about a 3rd of people fit into each category (organized a dug, attended a dug, never been to one) Some numbers: * san paulo dug: 5 people * hague dug: 10 * paris: one that was small * close to madrid: 3 Marketing * search for drupal and your local community. find users in your local area * advertise
Zoey and I had the opportunity to co-present a session on information architecture and the Drupal development process at DrupalCon in Barcelona this past week. Ron helped us prepare conceptualize the presentation which we gave on Friday in the PickTeck room to a fairly large crowd. There were many good questions from the audience, and some conversations that continued throughout the day.
Earlier today I, and a few others from CivicActions, attended a session at DrupalCon on building a Drupal Specific QA team . The presentation really focused on the existing resources for testing, simple test, selenium, etc…
A number of CivicActioneers (my self included) have proposed sessions for the upcoming DrupalCon in Barcelona (September 19-22) . Almost the entire team will be traveling to Spain a week early for our 3rd annual European Fall Retreat, so we’ll have plenty of time to polish our sessions and get input from the team. Here is a quick look at the sessions we’ve proposed:
Looks like it is Microsoft day here on the CA blog. Just heard that Microsoft did not get ISO certification for Office file formats . This is great news for OpenOffice.org and other free and open source “office” applications. From the Market Place story above: Microsoft has suffered an embarrassing rebuff. The company has tried for two years to win the prized “ISO” label for its Office file format.
On Tuesday (appropriately) Aaron, Henri, Dan and I met with Oren Jaffe and Nikki Martinez to strategize about the EcoTuesday juggernaut. The one problem with the meeting was that I was a few hundred miles away from the meeting. Thanks to technology were able to video conference. And, because of my amazing mastery of the The Force , I could tell where people in the room were, and in this picture (above), I’m looking right at Aaron, kind of like The Brady Bunch.
The LCV is raising money to run two advertisements for the presidential race. The ads don’t favor any particular candidate, rather aim to raise possibly the most important issue facing American’s today: How will we change our country’s policies to preserve the habitability of our planet for future generations.
A few people at the Seattle DUG have asked me how to drop sidebars from panels generated pages. With Panels 2 , this is made easy, just a configuration setting. However if you are using the original panels module, you’ll need to add a little snippet of code to your theme’s template.php file: // Hide sidebars on panel pages