brussels

Last Saturday August 1, members of the Hackerspace Brussels gathered to build a job database for the NGO Zuiddag.

Third World Relief Fund is a Belgian NGO active in development cooperation in Palestine, Congo, the Philippines and Latin America. In Belgium, TWRF works with "intal", a North-South solidarity movement.

TWRF is looking for an IT collaborator for its Brussels office, for a part time contract starting 15 September 2009.

Main responsibilities :

Webmaster
- further development of intal.be "community" website : technical responsibility and strategic advice
- later on : further development of m3m.be/g3w.be websites

Users' support
- fix IT problems of the staff staff

All this import/export malarky is actually part of a problem I identified many years ago, while writing FAPI.

FAPI in it's current state was always meant to be the first phase in a much larger project to fix a lot of the inherent design problems we have been bumping heads against now.

If the code looks 'non-drupal like' to you, keep in mind when this presentation was done, FAPI itself was new, and such sweeping changes still had an opportunity of being taken seriously. Unfortunately I suffered from burnout shortly afterwards, and extracted myself from doing serious core development.

FAPI3 - AKA Data API presentation

Read below for some comments on this :

Let's organize somethig on Saturday night. We might have a Drupal-dinner together, or go for some beers in the Brussels region.
Any ideas ? Any proposals ?

Fosdem is organizing a BeerEvent (in Brussels city):
http://fosdem.org/2008/beerevent

Who is going ? And how will we recognize each other ?
Or will we organize another event ? Any ideas ?

I've landed in the lovely overcast city of brussels, and will be staying at 2go4 for the week.... while i don't have tickets for Euro OScon, I would love to participate in any post-convo discussions. if your interested in chatting or viewing the city, i can be reached via SMS at +1.917.657.6999 or on skype at nonecknoel / +1.718.312.8453

n^3

I've just posted this request to the front page of the Drupalcon site:

We've already had both Development Seed and CONSEN step up and commit some money at the Silver sponsor level in order to get video coverage of DrupalCon.

However, having looked into getting coverage by a firm that specializes in such things, it looks to be 900EU for one cameraperson for only one day of the conference...which would only cover one room as well. This looks to be too expensive for us.

So, we are looking to the community to come up with some ideas. One person in a comment said they could bring their camcorder, but we need commitment from people to setup and run such coverage.

Anyone have other ideas regarding video coverage?

Other ideas and/or organizing to get full coverage -- please post below.

Final info --
WHEN: Sept. 22nd and 23rd (Dot Org Day on the 21st, BarCamp on the 24th); see schedule for more details
WHERE: Brussels, Belgium, at the SAP Lounge

Sign into the Drupalcon website and fill out your profile to indicate you're attending.

To do:
* acommodation: Mixel is looking into a block of rooms at hotels -- other recommendations are welcome
* sponsors: get sponsors to use the http://drupalcon.org/contact form, or contact me (Boris) directly
* Dot Org

I want to nail down dates so we can start promoting and organizing around those dates.

• EuroOSCON goes Sept. 18 - 21st.
• Friday, the 22nd should be a full day DrupalCon
• additional Drupal "stuff" -- especially coding related -- should run concurrently with BarCamp, Sat/Sun 23rd/24th

What do you think?

When I was recently down in the Bay Area, I connected with some Drupal folks and talked about planning for upcoming activities.

Since our last "con" was in North America, if we follow previous series, then the next one should be in Europe.

My personal current plans around this are to organize a DrupalCon around BarCamp Brussels / EuroOSCON 2006 in Brussels. Dries is presenting in Brussels, and Colin Brumelle just got word that his talk on "Music 2.0" has also been accepted.

The "cons" generally are a mix of developer and user work, and we've had lots of presentation-style content. Coding tends to be limited to (sometimes very successfull) hallway and hotel hacking. I think the timing and place of DrupalCon Brussels is probably a good one, but how do we make sure we get some fun hacking in?