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In his Drupalcon keynote yesterday, Dries noted once again the necessity of increasing the number of skilled Drupal practitioners to sustain the Drupal project's trajectory. The Drupal conference itself, it has been pointed out, mainly attracts the (aging) faithful. Encouraging new talent and growing the skills of the newly interested is really the challenge. We should be taking this challenge on as our job.

Some of us do and have built a business model around the idea of sustaining an evolving Drupal ecosystem via a variety of training, collaboration and community organizing techniques.

Drupal has now at least two community products usable out of the box. http://commons.acquia.com & http://openatrium.com
+ http://drupal.org/project/voicebox targeting targets community media (that should go out shortly)
+ facebook like feature http://sndemo.dev3.webenabled.net/node/1

There is a need to see how those projects compare and are able to "compete" with non-Drupal products.

The output of this brainstorming session could be a list of features based on a competition analysis focused on the most successful of each targeted audience :

Are you sick of hearing "Drupal is ugly"? Are you devoted to change that and make Drupal sites look awesome? Join the gang of Drupal designers and start sharing and promoting your designs, write blog posts and making the Drupal side of Internet prettier.

Come and discuss the future, purpose and features of Drupaldesigners.org website, join the Beta testers, participate in the process of creating the Drupal designers community.

There are several newer Drupal projects and vendors in Norway. Maybe those who are at DrupalCon in Copenhagen could get together and get to know each other? Come with your curiousity, questions and topics to talk about. Some topics could be:

• Drupal and the two/three written languages in the populationwise small country
• Could or should we organize a Drupal BarCamp or meetup, and where?
• General networking for support and commerce. Or something like that, less cheesy.

Most people think of famine, war, disease, hopelessness and big bucketloads of sand when Africa is mentioned. That's a shame really because Africa is, in many respects, a continent on the move.

In this BOF we look at the current state of Drupal in Africa: pitfalls and possibilities. What is happing today, what is happening tomorrow and where can you fit in? Topics include geodata, local caching, capacity building, mobile app development and education.

Meet and discuss London 2011. If you are interested in helping move the London 2011 DrupalCon forward, then come along and meet everyone else.

This is a chance to meet in person if you are already helping, and a chance to find out what is going on, and to get involved if you are not already helping.

For members of Drupalchix! Come discuss issues and experiences surrounding being a woman working in Drupal. (Note: this session is for female members of the Drupal community, and Genderqueer + Trans more than welcome.)

This BOF is meant for the women of Drupal to come together to talk about:

• Women in tech/Drupal
• How sex and gender have shaped your experience of working in the Drupal community
• How we can mentor each other and increase the ratio of women working in Drupal and open source

Drupal Commons liberates you and your community from the tyranny of costly proprietary social software. A ready-to-use solution for building either internal or external communities, Drupal Commons takes the guesswork out of building a Drupal-based community site by providing:

* Freedom of assembly, giving your community members easy, familiar ways to connect with one another, and participate in your community;
* Freedom from technology limits, liberating you to extend and adapt your social community site any way you need to your or your communities needs;


Requirements:

If you don't have these things, we'll help you set them up.

The resources page in the presentation has links to places to get you started on a Git install.

Anybody is welcome to this.

It might be too high level for you if you completely hate the command line.
It might be too low level for you if you've done anything with git.

We are planning the next generation of Activism functionality for Drupal 7, integrating CiviCRM with functionality that many non-profits could really use. Letters to legislators, online petitions, "tell a friend" campaigns, and more. We are building this as an open framework, that anyone can extend to add more functionality, different CRM systems, and other advanced features.