All day code sprint at Drupalcon Boston
After Drupalcon (March 3-6 at the Boston Convention & Expo Center), the Drupal Association is hosting an all day code sprint at MIT on Friday March 7. All registered attendees are welcome. See below for details.
What’s a code sprint
A code sprint is a gathering of a bunch of programmers to complete a short, rapid development project. It allows developers from different countries and companies to work together and learn from each other. Most importantly, it’s a fun event where we can make some impressive advances for Drupal.
We’re all meeting in a big room, where we’ll code and talk smack until we get kicked out. Come chat with long-time Drupalers to learn from their experience.
What development projects will we focus on
In general, we’ll be implementing all the ideas that formed during the conference. Some juicy topics that we expect to tackle
- REST web services integrated into core
- Refactor node render
- unify identity across all the *.drupal.org web sites
- prepare a patch which moves CCK fields into core.
- Update project.module with Views integration. Donate.
- Add the Drupal 7 killer release features (as presented in Dries' State of Drupal keynote):
- Better media handling
- Custom content types in core
- WYSIWYG editor
- Better performance
- Better tools to structure/organize content
- Basic Views like module
- Automatic upgrade functionality
- Improved node access system
- Better internal APIs
- Better external APIs (import/export, web services)
- Usability
Where and When
The Stata Center
32 Vasser St.
Cambridge, MA 02139
Directions. Google map
10am - 1pm Room 32-155
1pm - 3pm Room 32-141
3pm - 7pm+ Room 32-155 (we’ll stay until building close)
All rooms are on the first floor. Just wander around and you’ll find them.
The Stata Center is a world renowned (and reviled) building designed by Frank Gehry. Read Wired’s article or view photos.
What is the dollar value of the sprint.
Roughly speaking, we expect 100 programmers for an average of 8 hours at an average salary of $100/hr. Thats $80,000 worth of investment in Drupal. (Note that this is just a value, noone gets paid.)
What about non-developers
We’d be thrilled if small teams of people worked on a Drupal slogan or a marketing piece or a proposal for Drupalcon Europe 2008. There are no rules at code sprint.
Where are the sessions?
There are no friggin sessions at code sprint.
Contact
If you have questions or proposals concerning the sprint, please contact Moshe Weitzman.
I’ll need some food
The Drupal Association will kindly provide lunch for all attendees. Dinner and midnight snack are not included.
Drupal 7 killer release
an idea:
12. Packaging related modules (for example: seo modules pack, blog modules pack, themes, etc) and make them core extentions
Re: Drupal 7 killer release
Adding stuff to core is not the primary goal of Drupal core development. If anything, the goal in core development is to make core so seamlessly extensible that functionality that once needed code scattered throughout core can become separate modules. So, core may add more hooks for SEO modules, but it's unlikely core will get a "pack" of modules included for SEO.
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looks like an amazingly cool session. im quite sorry i can't make it there
Yeah, cool stuff like this
Yeah, cool stuff like this never happens where I live..
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John Forsythe
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Ottawa Linux summit?
You sure? Ottawa Linux Symposium
Kieran Lal
Board member of the Drupal association
Coordinator of the security team
Coordinator of the test driven development team
hah!
I prefer FreeBSD ;)
After installing drupal 7
After installing drupal 7 without adding any custom modules, I can add my flv movie to my site. I can create different type of contents and use view to control the front page. Add contents, just like use MS word...
Drupal is in the right direction.
Isn't better instead having
Isn't better instead having 100 developers with 8hours, have 10 developers with 80hours?
3 to 5hours is to understand the drupal code..
Marco Sousa
http://www.max-pt.net
Value of a Hack-a-thon (code sprint)
Maybe the original post isn't clear on this point. No one is being paid to be at the code sprint. It's a volunteer effort. The $100/hr estimate is just evaluating how much worth the hack-a-thon adds to Drupal, not how much money they're going to be paying anyone.
Nathan Haug
creative graphic design w: quicksketch.org
& software development e: nate@quicksketch.org
ah, ok. Thanks Marco
ah, ok. Thanks
Marco Sousa
http://www.max-pt.net
wysiwyg in the core? no,
wysiwyg in the core? no, only not it.
support of images, galleries needed, IMHO...
and cache and localization in files, but not in a database...
"7. Automatic upgrade functionality"
Yes yes yes!
If module installation and updating becomes as simple and robust in Drupal as it is in today's desktop Linux distributions, it will be an immense boon to developers & site admins and a major draw for new users.
I hope the attendees look at the best-practices of apt, yum, rpm, yast and similar software that's seen long-term development and heavy use. Even if they're not present in a first pass, it would be awesome if Drupal's functionality could one day include:
Module upgrades
Yeah, that's possibly the best feature on the list, IMO.
PS: DrupalModules.com will be mirroring the module repository, if I can afford it.
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John Forsythe
see drush
drush module is close to apt-get and friends. see the pm install command. check it out.
Guerilla Marketing Tactic #1 - The Tshirt
First, I'd like to toast Moshe and everyone helping put both the Drupalcon and the code sprint together. BIG KUDOS to all ya rockstahs!!!
With regard to the code sprint only, since part of my background is marketing, I thought I'd throw out a "creative guerilla marketing tactic to effectively promote" Drupal at low cost...the tshirt.
If it's too late budget-wise to throw in anything swag-related like a t-shirt for the code sprint, I believe someone who is enterprising enough could design a t-shirt and put it for sale at a decent price on something like Cafe Press. In particular, I am constantly impressed and amazed with Andrew Stevenson's work (squidgy over at g.d.o). He's created dozens of Drupal-related illustrations, and I think his art is excellent!
In closing, I can envision a code sprint t-shirt that folks will wear (and market!) for years. On the front, it has the Drupal logo with an attached body and it's actually sprinting, with Boston in the background and a few words such as "Drupalcon Boston 2008 Code Sprint". Something on the back is optional, as it will add to the cost.
Anyway, just a Sunday morning idea while I'm waiting for breakfast. :)
Walt Esquivel, MBA; MA; President, Wellness Corps; Captain, USMC (Veteran)
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SXSWi
I'm already missing most of the first day of SXSWi because of Drupalcon. Unfortunately, I can't skip another day to hack away at Drupal, as fun as it would be. :-(
Sounds like a amazing event
I will try to make a trip to there, to see how crowd the scene will be.
Have fun @ http://epad.cn
Any info
Maybe you have some photo from that event?
Drupalcon proposal
I would like to work on the program/website spec/marketing plan for Drupalcon Europe. These are (more or less) independent of the exact location of the next Drupalcon, so it would be nice to do this as a collaborative effort.
May the best win ;)