Author Nicole Tan (better known as ‘Nikki’) is a communications enthusiast from Singapore who holds the position of Sales & Marketing Executive at OlinData, a global training and consulting firm for open source technologies.
It's been a month since DrupalCon Portland and oh what a busy month has it been! Quick notes below.
Drupal 7 upgrade
The upgrade project slowed down due to recent events. There was limited progress for 2 weeks following the security incident as everyone was working on security hardening. We started slowly to get up to speed again last week and the open issues count should be going down again soon.
Blog post author Thomas Turnbull is one of the three members of the grants committee, along with Michael Anello and Amye Scavarda. He is a web developer at Google, previously building Drupal sites at Zagat and Sony Music. He has helped to run Drupal Camps and meetups in New York City, and is co-author of Mapping with Drupal.
After each Global Training Day, we like to hear from people who participated to get a sense for how their training went and whether there are lessons learned that can be shared with the community. Here is a great example from France we recently posted on the blog. We would also love to hear from any trainees who attended, to get their perspective.
“I used to believe building an awesome website is rocket science, but drupal proved me wrong”, said one of the student who attended our workshop on Drupal.
(Apologies for how long it took me to get this post published. We had few things to deal with right after DrupalCon which made it difficult to hop right on this post.)
In our last community survey about webinars, over 400 people participated and many stated that they want more education on third party software that integrates with Drupal and tools (developer, project management, and design tools) that will help them build even better Drupal sites.
Jeremie SCHMIDT is the director of Trained People, a French based company specializing in Drupal training and consulting for more than 6 years. In addition to his Drupal passion, Jeremie is leading an NGO which help kids from third world countries, to get a better future.
The good news is there is a tremendous amount of buzz and excitement building for DrupalCon Prague! The unfortunate news is the website is still not live, which means we haven’t been able open up registration or call for papers. We wanted to let you know there is a lot of work being done to make DrupalCon Prague an awesome event, and that we are working hard to get the website up. We also want to thank you for your patience with the website, and provide a few details that will help you plan for the event.
The way that a DrupalCon comes together is similar to how releases of Drupal are produced by the community. Passionate experts in their subject matter areas volunteer tirelessly to make each DrupalCon grow and exceed the expectations of the past.
(Apologies for how long it took me to get this post published. We had few things to deal with right after DrupalCon which made it difficult to hop right on this post.)
Jeremie SCHMIDT is the director of Trained People, a French based company specializing in Drupal training and consulting for more than 6 years. In addition to his Drupal passion, Jeremie is leading an NGO which help kids from third world countries, to get a better future.
