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DrupalCampWisconsin Shirts

DrupalCampWisconsin is this coming weekend… On Saturday, January 19th, 2008 at Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) we plan to geek out with Drupal for 12 straight hours.

DrupalCampWisconsin Shirts

One of the enjoyable parts of planning an event like this is the design aspect. Typically, I’ll kick out a logo design to get things going, and hope that others voice their opinion and maybe throw out some ideas as well. Well, the opinion part usually happens, but sometimes no one else presents design ideas, and we go with mine. (Or mine are just so awesome it intimidates people!)

For the DrupalCampWisconsin logo, I started out with an idea I used for BarCampMilwaukee2, using the outline of the State of Wisconsin…

BarCampMilwaukee2 Logo Ideas #1

I pushed it a bit, and ended up with a versions I (and others) seemed fairly happy with…

DrupalCampWisconsin Logo Idea #004

At some point, Bob asked about shirts, and from there Mike Rohde picked up the ball and ran with it. He tweaked and made adjustments, and took what I did and improved upon it, until we had what we have today… which I love.

It was really great working with Mike on the design process, and while I’m not paying him, I can honestly say that I’m sure his clients feel the same way.

So now that we’ve got a great logo, and the event is all set, you can buy the shirt from Goodstorm. (Oh, we did not markup the price, so all costs go to just covering the materials. Also, Goodstorm runs on Drupal. ;)







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January 2008 Web414 Meeting

The January 2008 Web414 Meeting was held last night, and it was fun. Someone yesterday said it didn’t look like very interesting topics, but hey, it’s as interesting as you make it, I always say.

We had about 23 people in attendance, even with the snowy weather conditions. I think the community is really beginning to gel. We’ve got a lot of great people involved, doing a lot of really cool things, sharing their knowledge, working together, it’s a nerdy love-fest…

Jeramey on Greasemonkey

Jeramey showed off Greasemonkey, and showed how he uses it on Flickr. I mentioned the Greasemonkey script I wrote for WebGrader. (If you are unfamiliar, Greasemonkey basically lets you re-write web pages in your own browser, so you can add new features, or disable things you don’t like.)

Game Software

Next up I demoed the Asus Eee PC, the little laptop that runs Linux. I showed the default interface, the full KDE Desktop running on it, Firefox, Penguin Racer, and Potato Guy, which was quite the hit. I then passed it around the room so everyone could get a chance to see how light and small it is, and give the keyboard a try. By the time I got it back, it was running Ubuntu and streaming video of the meeting. (I’m just kidding.)

Kevron checks in via video

There was some video streaming and such though… Thanks to Media Master Gabe for setting up Ustream (though it silently failed a bit, that’s ok, it was the first attempt.) Gabe and Tracy also showed off Seesmic and the silly video conversations they have there. (KeVroN missed it!)

Photo

Oh, and there are a ton of photos in Flickr’s Web414 pool thanks to Tracy Apps and John December.

Chumby

And the Eee PC was not the only little Linux device, as Tracy brought a Chumby, but sadly, we could not get it on the wifi because we could not authenticate it to the network.

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Elias Holman of Distance Software gave a “running a business” talk Pecha Kucha style, which involves showing 20 slides for 20 seconds each and talking over them. I thought it turned out really well, and we should consider the Pecha Kucha thing again.

The new v. the old

Wait… more? Oh yeah, held a Book Swap &amp Loan, where people could bring in a book and let someone borrow it, or just give it away. Sadly, I brought like 80% of the books, but it looks like we just started a Web414 Library.

(Cross-posted to Web414.)







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DrupalCampWisconsin (Soon!)

DrupalCampWisconsin is happening soon! Saturday, January 19th, 2008 at Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. We’ll be running from 10AM to 10PM and dealing with all things Drupal.

DrupalCampWisconsin

So far some of the topics to be covered are:

  • Drupal for Users
  • Building a group blog political site with Drupal
  • Druplash and Druplex: Content Managed Flash/Flex using Drupal
  • Building a shopping cart with Drupal and Übercart
  • Build a custom Drupal theme on Yahoo UI

If you are interested in attending, please add your name to the wiki page. If you are interested in sponsoring this event, please get in touch with me.




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2008: The Keys

2008: The Keys, I Have Them

I do not have the keys to 2008. I wish I did. I feel this year will be as uncertain as all the rest. That just seems to be the way things go around here, at least for me. Survival sometimes seems the only recourse we have left. It’s fitting that the days become dark so early this time of year, light is not to be found. Still, we struggle on, as we have no choice. No choice at all.. Have fun people, have fun…