Author: gregoryheller

Earlier this weekDrupalCamp Vancouver Sessions were announced and 2 by CivicActioners were among them. Robin’s session on “Introduction To Module Development” will be on Friday and 2pm. I heard Robin give a this talk for Six Hour Startup folks a few weeks ago, and even though I am no developer, it sounded great and others…

On Sunday I hear with much sadness about the Cyclone that hit the Irrawady Delta in Burma. With each day the news gets worse. Some 22,000 Burmese presumed dead. Sometimes an event happens that in an instant captures the attention of the world, while even larger tragedies go unnoticed for decades. Such is the case…

It is well documented/recognized that Drupal is really not very good at picking and sticking with a nomenclature that makes sense to the un-indoctrinated. The recent user testing at UMN made that pretty clear. As the person on the team who is often working on the configuration of a website and running into the language…

When I heard about the Social Tech Training being organized by our friends over at Web Of Change it sounded awesome. As the agenda and speakers came out, my expectations were confirmed.

Amnesty International has a really powerful campaign up right now called “Unsubscribe Me” (from the “war on terrorism’s” torture practices).

What follows is a slightly edited stream of emails i sent to one of our internal lists as I dove into Panels 2 Beta 3 last week. I hope to glean a more concise set of instructions and recommendations from this experience, but figured in the spirit of “Release early, release often” I would post…

Yesterday Robin Barre and I spent some time down at the Saturday House in SoDo (in Seattle) training folks involved in Six Hour Startup on Drupal for an upcoming project called SiteFinder. SiteFinder will be a community maintained listing service for available office space geared towards startups.

Today’s Module Monday is a quick one. I can’t believe that for so long so many people have lived with the “node/add” page or the “Create Content” menu items as the primary way to add a new node to a Drupal site — I can’t believe I put up with this for so long! Well,…

I want to thank all the folks who participated in the session “Communication, Cooperation, Collaboration: Can Drupal Shops Work Together”, based on the conversation during the session, and subsequently during the remainder of the conference that answer is, “Yes, we can, and we must.” What follows are notes from the session which thanks to Robin…