Hey everybody,

Just a reminder that registration for Florida DrupalCamp 2016 is now open! Early bird tickets are only $25, so please register today. The camp takes place on Saturday, March 5 at Florida Technical College in Orlando with three amazing well-known featured speakers from the Drupal community:

• Jesus Manuel Olivas - Drupal 8 module development with Drupal console
• Karen Stephenson - Drupal 8 site building
• Morten DK - Drupal 8 theming

We're looking to order t-shirts and swag by the end of the week, and the more people that are registered, the better we can guarantee that we have your size!

Please help us to spread the word by following us on Twitter (@fldrupalcamp) and liking us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/FLDrupalCamp/)!

Thank you!

-mike

Join us for one of the best attended and best loved Drupal Camps in America.

This annual three-day camp is aimed at Beginner, Intermediate and Expert Level Drupal users, and organizations that rely on Drupal. You can expect a complete program that includes free training, informative sessions, inspiring keynotes, social events, BOFs, sprints, networking, usability testing and more.

No Drupal expertise or knowledge is required, as this event will provide an excellent introduction. However, if you are a seasoned pro you will learn from experienced Drupalers and meet some of Drupal’s top contributors and influencers. This is also the premier local event for job seekers and hirers to meet and network.

Please share this email with others in your organization and anyone else who might be interested.

Stay tuned. More details to follow.

Join us for one of the best attended and best loved Drupal Camps in America.

This annual three-day camp is aimed at Beginner, Intermediate and Expert Level Drupal users, and organizations that rely on Drupal. You can expect a complete program that includes free training, informative sessions, inspiring keynotes, social events, BOFs, sprints, networking, usability testing and more.

No Drupal expertise or knowledge is required, as this event will provide an excellent introduction. However, if you are a seasoned pro you will learn from experienced Drupalers and meet some of Drupal’s top contributors and influencers. This is also the premier local event for job seekers and hirers to meet and network.

Please share this email with others in your organization and anyone else who might be interested.

Stay tuned. More details to follow.

Hello Minnesota Durpal users,

I am a recruiter with Digital People and have a freelance job for you. I have a client looking to redesign/develop their website which is used in Drupal. This would start right away and go 3-4 months. Please contact me for details. ashley.allen@digitalpeople.net.

Thanks,
Ashley
612-373-2626

Today Drupal becomes a very big part of the Web. It's a very powerful tool for creating a small or medium site of any kind with minimal effort. It may satisfy almost all business needs on the market.

But there is a big gap between business card website which have 50 visitors per day on 10 pages and a high performance site which should handle 1k+ visitors per day and serve 500k+ pages.
Right now I can see a lot of contrib modules which are solving some of the performance problems that will certainly appears while your site traffic is growing.

There are several different approaches for making Drupal core able to handle a lot of traffic, but I believe that optimizing layers outside Drupal core is not efficient. The core should be optimized as much as possible by design.

So why not to gather all those modules, use that experience and make a separate "Drupal-HA" core which will include all community solutions?

Right now I'm talking about D6 and D7. All the high-performance stuff seems not ready for production in D8 yet and seems like work on contrib modules (which will make D8 high-performance-ready) is only began.

Here how I see it:

• Better caching API. D8's cache tags and cache contexts engine looks promising and may be implemented in some way by using procedural approach in D6 and D7 as separate cache implementations.
• Include the D8 strategy about "caching all". In ideal a simple request should not make a database call at all. That will opens a lot possibilities for horizontal scaling.
• High-Performance-ready installation profiles that will include Memcache/Redis/APC support out of the box.
• Core-provided tools for cache warmup. I think when client opens the page it should be already in cache. If page is static then entire cache could be fetched by using default Drupal cache system. If page is dynamic then all the objects/arrays/data that are needed to build and render the page should be cached. It's crucial for user experience when "everything works fast" on your site and it also define positions of your site in SEO Ranking.
• Provide entry point to separate database storages in the same way as cache storages. For example, all data which is needed for bootstraping Drupal may be stored in a small separate sqlite database file. All content-related stuff may be moved somewhere else, even to NoSQL storage thus Drupal could be less SQL-dependent. Results from this is that database connections, cache connections, other storage connections should be opened only on demand, that will give the additional speed boost.
• Support of Master/Slave installations out of the box as in autoslave module by core (probably for Master/Master too). Database replication is a key for High Availability and Data Reliability.
• Load modules by demand. When you have a big site with a lot of functionality with 50+ installed modules, each page request is making a vain inclusion of all of them. There is a workaround: menu router contains data which module and files it should load and module itself contains dependencies list in .info file. Also module_exists() and module_invoke_all() may load necessary modules.
• Refashion and add into the core some developer tools and profilers in the way when they may be launched on a production site without hitting performance for your visitors. It could be very useful to discover bottlenecks that may appear only on production.
• Make simple clustering tools that will work with other software for HA, e.g. health check url for HAProxy or Nginx.
• Simple lightweight console that shows cluster nodes status and entire cluster status will be very useful. It also may monitor all resources status that cluster is using in a realtime, e.g. Database availability, Master/Slave status, Cache backends status, free space left on disks and memory, CPU usage. Also some custom pluggable user metrics via hooks should be supported. Yes, I'm aware about the bunch of existing monitoring systems but most of them are very heavy and hard to configure. Drupal knows about itself much more and may provide a complete working solution out of the box.
• Entry point to change core elements theming. That will allow to include some modern libraries easily (like Bootstrap or Foundation).
• Documentation and guidelines for different optimization strategies and environment setups. Examples in which cases one or another optimization strategy or tool may be suitable.
• Since D6 will be closed on Feb 2016 and D7 support will be ended in 2-3 years, the both HA-branches should have a LTS (Long Term Support) feature.

For the better chances to persuade Drupal community to make a right decision I've gathered some statistics from our local Web counter about "big", "medium" and "small" websites in Kazakhstan.
As a "Big" site I mean a website with more than 50k visitors. "Big" site companies usually have a big developers department, they develop and support their own engines, they use a stack of different solutions and not interested in Drupal. As a "medium" site - all sites between 50 and 50k visitors per day, they are a "target group" for Drupal-HA.
Yes, our country is a very small part of WWW and not yet growed as well as Europe/US/Japan segments does but I think the statistics could be representative.
The numbers for one day are:

• "Big sites": 36 sites total, 43,9 million hits per day total;
• "Medium sites": 1316 sites total, 6 million hits per day total;
• "Small sites": 2270 sites total, 92k hits per day total ("business card website");

As you can see there is a big number of small (possibly Drupal) sites but it's a drop in the ocean.
Drupal can't be used by "Web Giants" but a lot of the "medium" sites may use Drupal if it will possess appropriate tools and experience. Yes, in the "medium" sites list there may be Drupal sites with a lot of hits per day but they probably have only static content (with agressive caching) or already went through painful optimization process.

If you doubt in supporting of "obsolete" D6 I already done the nasty job and backported D7 tests into D6. That's my private D6 fork with performance fixes. I don't suggest to use them, it just can be an example how everything may work. Slightly modified D6 with core tests and core modules tests may be cherry-picked.

Thank you for the attention.

If it's the third Tuesday of the month, it's time to have a pint and talk some Drupal! Come join us in the Bath Arms for our monthly pub meetup.

Location: The Bath Arms
http://www.shepherdneame.co.uk/pubs/brighton/bath-arms

Map: https://goo.gl/maps/4ztcH

Dear All,

I was checking out the IKS Content Enhancement Demo for Drupal 7 [1]. This involves annotate.js [2] in conjunction with Wolfgang Ziegler's combination of Drupal, Apache Stanbol, and VIE.js [3].
I like what the code makes possible, but I would like the change the substitution that jQuery gives for each annotation.
Right now I see markup that does not serialize to RDF inside the "content:enconded" tags. I believe changing line 895
for newElement in [2] would allow me to add some RDFa content.

I believe the question I should be asking is how do I structure the syntax so that I could add the necessary HTML tags to get the markup above?

Once I get this started, I'd like this RDFa to be indexed by the ARC2 store. Will this happen automatically when I set one up as in "Indexing RDF data and providing a SPARQL endpoint" [4], or do I need to do something special?

Thanks,

-Brent

P.S. For some reason I was unable to add the XML markup and code snippets that I was referring to. It was stripped by the spam filter. If this is a problem, let me know.

[1] https://www.drupal.org/project/iksce
[2] https://github.com/szabyg/annotate.js/blob/gh-pages/lib/annotate.js
[3] http://wolfgangziegler.net/semantic-content-enhancements-drupal-apache-s...
[4] https://www.drupal.org/node/2028111

Join the Boston Drupal Group on March 1st 2016 for a night of Drupal focused conversations, presentations and talks.

Call for Lightning Talks

This month we are again putting out a call for themed lightning talks. Volunteers get between 5 to 10 minutes to present a talk. We are looking for talks on the following topics:

Access for Everyone

Accessibility is a big topic in the world of web development. How can we make sure we are designing and developing for the greatest number of people? Present a talk on the topic of accessibility and Drupal. Tools or modules to use, design or ux best practices, regulations and guidelines to follow.

Theming: Because looks matter

An important part of every Drupal project is how it looks to users. Present a talk on the topic of themes and theming. Is it better to start with a blank theme or a base theme? What is your favorite starting theme? What are some best practices for developing a theme? What are some new tips and tricks for themeing in Drupal 8?

If you have an idea for a lightning talk on one of these topics, sign up by leaving a comment below.

General Lightning Talks

Along with our themed presentations we will have a call for general lightning talks. This is an open floor to ask questions, present recent work or lead other Drupal discussions. No preparation is required.

Location

The March 2016 meetup will be hosted at Genuine, located at 500 Harrison Ave. 5R, Boston, MA 02118.

Parking and Transportation

The Genuine office is accessible by many means of public transportation.

• A 10 minute walk from the Broadway T stop on the Red Line.
• A 10 minute walk from Tufts Medical on the Orange Line.
• A 5 minute walk from the Silver Line (SL4 or SL5) Bus stop East Berkley st @ Washington st.

On-street parking (free & metered) may be available on many surrounding streets including Harrison Ave, Randolph Street and Washington Street. Parking lots are also available for $7 per car.

Dinner and Drinks

During the meetup, pizza, salad, and drinks will be generously sponsored by Genuine. ** Please RSVP via this posting's Sign up button below so we have a proper headcount for dinner order. **

Sponsors/Feature Guests Wanted

If you would like to sponsor future dinners or meet-up locations, please reach out to organizers. You will be recognized at the meeting, given the chance to do a featured talk for 15 min., and promoted to our Boston list of over 1500 subscribers.

Pencil in 1st Tuesdays!

The first Tuesdays are designated Boston Drupal Meetup nights unless noted. Look for future announcements and reminders!

はじめまして。
初心者です。
昨日Drulap８をインストールしたのですが、
デザインが反映されません。

PHP 5.6 MySQLバージョン5.5

さくらインターネット
です。
原因などおわかりになる方がいらしたら、教えていただきたいです。

ちなみに、同じサーバーにDrupal7は普通にインストールできました。

よろしくお願いたします。m(__)m

Drupal is at a critical point in its history. To justify an upgrade to the now production-ready Drupal 8, the Drupal development community have implicitly asked the 1m+ website owners, developers and authors to trust that Drupal will continue to be their engine of innovation for the next 3–5 years. Historically Drupal has been a Lego box for site builders and developers, enabling complex use-cases via a mature and sophisticated module eco-system. The last major version of Drupal had barely any adoption until 6 months after its release when the module eco-system caught up.

Full Story Here: https://www.acquia.com/blog/accelerating-drupal-8-adoption/27/01/2016/32...

Drupal is at a critical point in its history. To justify an upgrade to the now production-ready Drupal 8, the Drupal development community have implicitly asked the 1m+ website owners, developers and authors to trust that Drupal will continue to be their engine of innovation for the next 3–5 years. Historically Drupal has been a Lego box for site builders and developers, enabling complex use-cases via a mature and sophisticated module eco-system. The last major version of Drupal had barely any adoption until 6 months after its release when the module eco-system caught up.

Full Story Here: https://www.acquia.com/blog/accelerating-drupal-8-adoption/27/01/2016/32...

Modules for uploading and managing files, and associating them with content.

These modules actually have relatively little overlap, so you should consider this a guide in choosing the right module(s) for your needs, rather than a complaint about duplication. Just sayin'.

Automatic Filesystem Structuring

• Do any automatic-filesystem-structuring modules currently support comment_upload.module? There are several open feature requests for this.
  • As of 2009.05.26, FileField Paths now supports comment_upload.module.

Am dritten Märzwochenende lädt yousign jeweils von 10 bis 18 Uhr alle Interessierten in seine Büroräume ein, um gemeinsam drupalberlin.de von Drupal 6 auf Drupal 8 zu aktualisieren. Soweit die Zeit es erlaubt, werden wir außerdem die bestehende Seite auf Herz und Nieren prüfen und überlegen, wie wir sie moderner und zugänglicher gestalten können.

Weil die Zahl der Arbeitsplätze begrenzt ist bitten wir euch um frühzeitige Anmeldung, damit wir entsprechend planen können.

Vor Ort

yousign stellt unter anderem WLAN, einen Beamer, eine große Magnet-/Kreidewand und Getränke zur Verfügung. Zur Verpflegung gibt es zahlreiche Restaurants in der näheren Umgebung. Wer mag kann auch gern in unserer Küche Kulinarisches zaubern. :)

bonjour j'ai crée un bloc que je veux personalisé j'aimerais mettre une image à coté du Tittre du bloc, malheureusement j'ai quelques problemes?

Dear All,

We are pleased to announce that we are bringing the Drupal Higher-Ed Summit to Mumbai on18th Feb 2016. Event will be conducted alongside with DrupalCon Asia and focuses on the Drupal and Open Source in Education.

The Higher-Ed Summit 2016 will primarily focus on creating an awareness of Drupal and Open Source in the educational institutions across the country by getting several top academicians and university leads in IT under one roof to strengthen and promote Drupal Open Source Community while collaborating effectively on how Drupal and related technologies can be used and promoted in educational institutions. The event will provide the first of its kind platform in Asia pushing all boundaries of technology and innovation while enabling advances across an array of industries, functions and disciplines. A plethora of opportunities waits to be discovered and utilized to its optimum ability at the Summit.

The Higher-Ed summit is a part of DrupalCon Asia which is the largest gathering of Drupal developers sharing the latest and the best practices in web hosting. It will be attended by more than 1000 delegates which will include IT Professionals, Senior Executives part of the Open Source community, Government leaders, speakers from highly renowned organizations across the region speaking on pressing topics pertaining to the Drupal industry and engaging in panel discussions, etc.

Event Details

• Event Url : https://events.drupal.org/asia2016/higher-education-summit
• Registration Cost : INR 1300 + Service Tax
• Registration Link : https://events.drupal.org/asia2016/registration
• Last Date for registration : 12th Feb

Who Should Come

1. Faculty and IT managers from university / colleges interested in Open Source
2. Placement and training officers of universities and colleges
3. Recruitment head of placement agency and Drupal organizations
4. Admins and university staff who are involved in maintaining college web-infrastructure
5. Students working on Open Source and Drupal
6. Others who are related to the education industry and are using Drupal

Contact : For any further query please write to info@drupalcap.org or contact 9920058185.

Regards,

Organizing Team
Higher-Ed Summit

The Higher-Ed summit is a part of DrupalCon Asia which is the largest gathering of Drupal developers sharing the latest and the best practices in web hosting. It will be attended by more than 1000 delegates which will include IT Professionals, Senior Executives part of the Open Source community, Government leaders, speakers from highly renowned organizations across the region speaking on pressing topics pertaining to the Drupal industry and engaging in panel discussions, etc.

Are you a developer or designer of a mobile website or native app, but don't have access to the tablets, smartphones and other devices you need for cross-device and cross-platform testing and development? Now you do!

Mobile Device Lab is Droplabs' program designed to accommodate the needs of freelancers, independent contractors, remote workers and and indie developers. All equipment is available to use free of charge, although Droplabs' standard day passes or membership fees may apply.

Devices are being added on a regular basis and are listed on the Mobile Device Lab page. Our wishlist of devices we'd like to add to the program are on our Wishlist page. You can either donate your unused devices or make a long-term loan (we'll put your name on it and store it securely). Donations are preferred.

Mobile Device Lab Events

During a scheduled Mobile Device Lab meetup, you're encouraged to bring your devices to share with other attendees. When the meetup is over, just take your devices home with you. These "crowdtesting" events make it possible for everyone to get the most out of their time!

Help Us Grow!

Our goal is to be the premier mobile device testing lab in the Los Angeles area and any forthcoming help from LabUp and Open Device Lab can only get us so far.

If you'd like to lend or donate any unused iOS, Android, BlackBerry or Windows Phone devices for use in this program, please Contact Us. Thank you for your support!

Bonjour,

Le prochain Drupal Meetup de Marseille est là, et c'est dans 2 semaines !

Cette fois on vous donne rendez vous à Marseille chez Natural Solutions le Jeudi 25 Février à 19h30.

Adresse :
Natural Solutions
68 rue sainte
13001 Marseille

Plus de détails et inscription sur : http://www.meetup.com/fr-FR/drupal-france-francophonie/events/228749820/

On vous attend nombreux !

Hello

Liip Fribourg is looking for a Senior Drupal Developer (full or part-time). Have a look at the following job offer:

https://www.liip.ch/en/jobs/senior-drupal-developer-fribourg

Då är vi igång igen i norr. Drupalnorr-träff den 18 februari uppe i Umeå. Vi kommer hålla till på universitetet. Mer information inom kort.