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Raincity Studios has put together an excellent intro on how to contribute to Drupal as part of their prep for Disguised Drupalist Debug Day aka DDDD. If you are in the hood today October 31, 2007, come on down to 1 Alexander Street Suite 400 and 420 and join us! We'll be here until 5p.m. ish

Bryght has been helping out with Deep Rock Drive so we're thrilled at the launch of this cool music-related Drupal web app. Join today and check it out! More later!

From Come in, we’re open!–The DeepRockDrive Blog:

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Everything at DeepRockDrive revolves around the community of artists and fans, so growing that community is our #1 priority. With our doors open, we can welcome new music lovers from around the world, who can create petitions for the artists they love, and vote on the petitions that other fans have created.

Together, we want to get petitions to 1,000 votes so that DeepRockDrive can invite the artists to play a live interactive show. While we work together toward that goal, we’ll be doing some free promotional shows to help us ramp up the capacity and the interactivity at DeepRockDrive live performances.

Whether you like rock, hip-hop, jazz, country, classical, opera, folk, children’s tunes, or any other genre of music or live performance… we can’t wait to see you there!

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Smith started yesterday and will be with us until Christmas. We're putting him on the full "Web 2.0 program" (learning about blogs, wikis, RSS, flickr, upcoming, facebook, etc) and getting him to blog and add events at Bryght.com and Urban Vancouver and lots of other top secret :-) fun projects and tasks. I'm stoked to have a younger person in the office again because I love the perspective and sensibility of youth. Welcome Smith!

[cross posted from Roland Tanglao.com]

I'm helping a wee bit with the re-launch on October 1st in a more informal style like Steph and Bryan did for the original Mobile Monday Vancouver way back in January 2006. Register today, it's free; see you at Granville Island Brewing Company at Granville Island on October 1st at 6p.m!
From MOBILE MONDAY VANCOUVER, October 1, 2007 | Bryght:

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Roland Tanglao is helping organize MoMoVan October 2007! (event on upcoming)

Every first Monday of the month 100 of the smartest local minds will share their ideas in places that we all love. The new WINBC Mobile Monday Vancouver (MoMoVan) starting Monday, October 1st is going back to its grass roots origins. FROM HELSINKI’S MOMO GLOBAL SUMMIT TO VANCOUVER’S LOCAL INNOVATORS Are you an interested, opinionated developer, entrepreneur, CEO, Ph.D or student ready to share with others your thoughts, ideas, and solutions around our local wireless industry and Web 2.0 community? Are you ready to have fun? How about free pizza, free beer (1st round), and free parking? We have listened to people like you and developed an event that YOU want:

There's no need to wait for the mythical City of Vancouver WiFi. Build your own WiFi mesh today with a Meraki box imported by Mike West with some help from NetEquality. Bryght in combination with the folks at Outcome3, Nitobi, Donat Group Enterprises, Communicopia, Elastic Entertainment and more daily are "unwiring" our very large extended Gastown block (Alexander to Abbott-ish initially with the goal being everywhere in Gastown eventually) of tech friendly companies. This means that anywhere you are in the mesh you will be able to use WiFi.

Raincity Studios social media maven Dave Olson explains what this means:

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When considering the usage patterns (home users at night, business user by day) there is certainly abundant redundant bandwidth available and yet no reliable way to just get online without trying a bunch of SSIDs, risking cleartext password, hacking through a backdoor or other scheme.

DrupalCamp LA was wonderful thanks to the incredible organization of Crystal (and others who I am too lazy to name here) and to the participants. Here are some thoughts on DrupalCamp LA and this part of California in general:

• People - loved meeting up with our close partners at WorkHabit (great to finally meet Earnest and Dominic) as well as meeting some new folks like Markus, Jen, Mike, Steve, the army from Achieve Internet (thanks for the drink and food on Saturday!) and many others
• Drupal Install Profiles - not only do you want one, but if you are a consulting shop, you need one, watch for Boris's follow-on presentation at DrupalCon Barcelona
• Deployment - as ably presented by Jonathan of WorkHabit and Mike - What happens if you have hundreds of sites and need to upgrade them? What do you do if you have a popular social media Drupal site with content being added continuously and users being added continuously and you want to upgrade it? Bryght and WorkHabit have been dealing with these issues since 2004, it's now hitting other big time firms in the Drupal ecosystem like Lullabot, Warner Brothers and Achieve Internet. DAST, AutoPilot, and Hostmaster 2 are the keywords to watch.
• Theming - I enjoyed the beginning of Milind's Drupal theming presentation. I wish I had time to synthesize all the Drupal theming presentations I have seen into one Godzilla kick a*s one :-)
• Venue - AOL Beverly Hills was spectacular. Great conference rooms, kitchen and lots of places to sleep, recharge and hold informal meetings and the bandwidth rocked. I uploaded many many photos at consistently at 100KB/second!
• Cars - shiny, big and expensive (many many Mercedes and BMWs) seems to be the order of the day. I drove brother in law Andy's 2001 BMW 330 for 20 minutes; I am not into cars but if I was it would be BMWs - I'll stick to cheap, cheerful and economical Japanese cars like Hondas. The taxi driver of Armenian heritage who took me to meet my Mom was thankful to his Filipino doctor and when he heard I was of Filipino heritage and meeting my Mom, he drove very fast and very safe in his big American taxi.
• Mirror World (à la Gibson's Pattern Recognition) - LA seems to be a subtly different mirror of those days in Vancouver when it's sunny: every street is big and wide unlike Vancouver, the sun shines perpetually unlike Vancouver which bizarrely had the same weather as LA but a few degrees cooler, there are freeways everywhere unlike Vancouver (which could have gone down that path but through hard work and accidents of history did not)
• Food: My brother in law took good care of me: delicious Japanese organic food at Fukada in Irvine, great coffee at Abbot's Habit, great Mexican food, yummy retro Italian American at Andre's with my Mom who happened to be in town and my aunt, can't wait to go back to Glendale and eat some seriously delicious and inexpensive Filipino food
• Capitalism: 15 million people with lots of entertainment money and geeks meant great shopping: Samy's rocks for photo stuff (bought a FireWire 800 Compact Flash Reader to replace my broken USB one) and I went to two Apple Stores and Fry's

[UPDATE: download the original high quality MP4 file from our awesome friends at blip.tv]

 

A portion of Jonathan's portion of the Drupal Deployment Session at DrupalCamp LA September 9, 2007 at AOL Beverly Hills. The full session was recorded by Jonathan on his cool 3 chip camera and will be posted later.

Judging by the feedback I received in person and from thund3rbox, my Anatomy of a Drupal Install Profile session at DrupalCamp LA last Saturday was well received. I have updated it with the update Keynote, PDF and Powerpoint presentation that I actually used. Next up will be some Drupal install profile screencasts as requested by the people at the session in LA. Got suggestions, feedback, etc? Please edit the Anatomy of a Drupal Install Profile wiki page

[Cross posted from my personal blog]

Have you ever built an awesome Drupal website or webapp and wanted to share it with others or clone to save you config time? Then Drupal Install Profiles are for you! I'll be leading a session called Anatomy of a Drupal Install Profile at DrupalCamp LA (organized by super organizer and super everything Crystal Williams) this Saturday September 8, 2007 in Los Angeles at AOL in Beverly Hills. The presentation is already available (I reserve the right to drastically modify it :-) !) on our public wiki page, AnatomyOfADrupalInstallProfile as a Keynote, PDF and PowerPoint attachment. Feel free to edit the wiki page with your thoughts, etc.

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What if a Drupal developer could easily develop Facebook apps the "Drupal way" without having to learn the "Facebook way"? What if Drupal site admins could easily integrate their Drupal sites into Facebook? Boris has the full scoop about Drupal commodization of Facebook apps as well as the Facebook apps with Drupal presentation at the August 2007 Vancouver League of Drupalers from our friends at Project Opus / Donat Group who are developing a cool social playlist Facebook app that will be out soon.

Want more? Check out the video on viddler below (register with viddler to add your comments and tags in the video timeline below, full high resolution version on blip.tv)