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This year’s DrupalCamp will be held November 19-20 (Sat-Sun) at the AT&T Conference Center near the UT campus. We WILL sell out, so please register soon. Registration includes breakfast and parking as well, making this the CHEAPEST DrupalCamp Austin yet!

Only $30 gets you access to:

• 30+ sessions
• Amazing speakers from the local and global Drupal communities
• Free parking and breakfast
• An exclusive after-party at the Violet Crown Social Club

This year’s speakers include:

Four Kitchens is headed to the big D for Dallas Drupal Days on July 8–9 and we’re bringing a big batch of presentations with us. Nine to be exact. Four of them are just on design and theming, which we’re especially excited about as we continue our push into the arena of mobile and responsive design.

We’re only 90 days away from the next great Drupal gathering, DrupalCon London. That also means it’s time to vote on the sessions that you want to see. Below is the list of proposed sessions that our web chefs have prepared — so take a look and if you see any you like, please go vote for them. Hurry: Voting ends at 6PM Central on May 25th!

Four Kitchens co-founder Todd Nienkerk will be speaking at this week’s at DrupalCamp Stockholm. He’ll actually be speaking on two topics, so if you’re lucky enough to be in Sweden, check them out:

Drupal 7 has been released! At the time of this writing there are 308 parties planned in 97 countries including our very own release party here in Austin, TX. That means today a lot of people will be talking about Drupal.

Web chefs Todd Nienkerk and Robert Ristroph will be making their way to San Diego this weekend to attend SandCamp 2011. If you happen to see them at the camp give them a high five, hug, or other socially appropriate display of affection.

The Vancouver Planetarium. Photo by Qole Pejorian.

chx and I gathered last week in Vancouver’s West End for a two-person performance sprint during the final code slush days, allowing us to finish several key improvements to Drupal’s database layer. Right afterward, many more people joined us for another sprint to port key modules to Drupal 7. People worked in-person, voluntarily over IRC, and involuntarily over IRC (lost passport).

I can say — without reservation — that our work was successful. We kicked off the weekend with Drupal 6 versions of Coder and Views. (Though there had been a touch of prior work on the Views port to Drupal 7’s new database layer.)

Photo by Franco Folini on Flickr (CC-Attribution-ShareAlike)

Despite being held on a Saturday, more than 15 dedicated Drupalers showed up for Day 4 of the San Francisco Drupal.org redesign sprint. Here’s what was achieved.

Web Chef Aaron Stanush “mugs” for the camera. Get it?

Drupal themer extraordinaire Morten.dk, currently ranked #7 on Google for “king of Denmark”, has been bugging us for a Don’t Mess with Texas mug. Well, “bugging” may not be the right word. “Profanely demanding” is more appropriate.

Finding one was surprisingly difficult. While (lesser) cities like Dallas and Houston are lined with shops hawking rattlesnake heads and scorpions encased in plastic, there doesn’t seem to be much demand for Texas memorabilia in Austin.

Except at the airport, where you can find your name stamped on a fake Texas license plate or worn chunk of fencepost.

So, after scoring the great city of Austin for tacky crap, we proudly present Morten.dk’s Don’t Mess with Texas mug:

Morten.dk’s Don’t Mess with Texas mug

Congratulations to David Strauss, Four Kitchens co-founder and Drupal scalability guru, who was elected yesterday as a Permanent Member of the Drupal Association.

David’s goals as a member focus largely on improvements to infrastructure, community-building, and reaching out to other open-source projects. Details can be found in his his application:

What are the primary goals you would like to work on?

I would like to advance the infrastructure for development and sprints by working with the community to drive development and deployment of next-generation (read: not CVS) tools, both for issue tracking and version control. I would like to participate in discussions surrounding the membership software for Drupal Association membership, including CiviCRM (the current tool) and alternatives. I would like to work with major free culture and free software organizations to establish partnerships.