Ignite DrupalCon Chicago Line Up

For the first time Ignite is coming to DrupalCon! We have a short slot on the Day Stage, Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 and will feature nine Ignite Talks. Ignite talks are strictly limited to five minutes, and twenty slides, that advance automatically every 15 seconds. In no particular order, the presenters will be: Hello, Drupal? Building Drupal sites that make and receive phone calls – Leo Burd MIT Center for Future Civic Media http://www.voipdrupal.org A Shot In The Arm – Greg Dunlap of NodeOne http://nodeone.se  0 to 1M+ in 24hrs: The Queensland Flood Respons – Ryan Cross of CrossFunctional http://crossfunctional.net The short history of the barcode – Scott Falconer of JAGTAG http://www.jagtag.com Drupal Faster with Eclipse – Rich Yumul of Sage Tree Solutions http://www.sagetree.net Using WYSIWYG Editors in a Microsoft Word World – Thomas MacLean of NorthPoint Solutions LLC. http://thomasmaclean.com Being the best at giving the worst talk ever – Kitt Hodsden  http://ki.tt Driving the user experience of Drupal via Drupal Gardens – Jeff Noyes of Acquia http://www.acquia.com Low Footprint UI – Shai Ben-Yehuda of ArtwareSoft http://www.artwaresoft.com I was overwelmed by the 28 submissions (even on short notice) for Ignite talks, and wish that there was more time to feature more talks.  Thank you to everyone who took the time to submit a talk, and hopefully at the next DrupalCon we will be able to have more time. You can find out about more fun stuff happening at DrupalCon in this post from George Demet. If you want to learn more about Ignite, and see talks from around the world, check out IgniteShow.com (a Drupal Site, built originally by...

Heading To DrupalCon in Chicago

<p>Next week I will be in Chicago for <a href="http://drupalcon.org">DrupalCon</a> where I am organizing <a title="Ignite DrupalCon Chicago" href="http://chicago2011.drupal.org/news/submit-your-application-ignite-drupalcon-chicago">Ignite DrupalCon</a> on Tuesday afternoon at 4:30pm.  I'll also be at the CivicActions booth (#70). So drop by and say hello.  In addition to DrupalCon, I will be at CiviCon on Monday.</p><p> </p><p>Check out this awesome widget for finding sessions, created by one of the Ignite presenters, <a href="http://light-ui.blogspot.com/">Shai Ben Yehuda</a>.</p> <style> .aa_text { color: black; padding: 3px; } </style> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://buss-art.appspot.com/jquery.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://buss-art.appspot.com/jbart.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://sites.google.com/site/jbartwidgets/widgets/drupalCon.js"></script> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://buss-art.appspot.com/default.css" /> <div class="jBartWidget jBartWidget_DrupalConLectures"></div>...

Ignite 11NTC Line Up

Ignite is back for the third year running. We’ve scheduled Ignite talks for the first night of the 2011 NTC, so everyone who sees your talk will have a chance to catch you in the halls and ask you more about your presentation. Ignite is the purest dose you can get of the passions of NTC attendees. Ignite is a fast-paced, fun, thought-provoking social event that educates and entertains. The evening will be split into two sets, each under an hour. Refreshments will be served before, during, and after. Talks by (in no particular order): George Weiner of http://Dosomething.org @Georgecaweiner: Tech Fiefdoms Aaron Pava of CivicActions http://civicactions.com @pava: Non-Profit Technology Does Not Equal Good Technology Jacob Smith of Masterworks.com http://shoeinthedoor.com @j8ke: From DC with Love Devon Smith of 24 Usable Hours http://www.24UsableHours.com @devonvsmith: Guerilla Research & Analysis Tools to Rock Your Social Media World Steve Heye of YMCA of Metro Chicago http://www.ymcachicago.org @steveheye: Technology is killing our community Jason Shim of Mosaic Counselling and Family Services http://www.mosaiconline.ca @jasonshim: Mosaic Counselling and Family Services: A Case Study in Using Social Media for Outreach Ruby Sinreich of HASTAC http://lotusmedia.org & http://hastac.org @ruby: Think like a network Joe Klem of Urban Land Institute http://ULI.org @josephklem: Self-Inflicted Simplicity Peter Genuardi of Soapbxx http://www.soapbxx.com @petergenuardi: Data, Who Cares? Estrella Rosenberg of Big Love Little Hearts http://big-love.org @charityestrella: How we’re saving 3,000 lives instead of 300 for 1/10 the cost! Shari Ilsen of VolunteerMatch http://www.volunteermatch.org @VolunteerMatch: This is Your Brain on Social Media: How to Target the Giving Cortex Scott Bechtler-Levin of IdeaEncore Network http://www.ideaencore.com @IdeaEncore: Curation: Why it matters who “likes” you? Linda Ziskind...

VOIP Drupal Released

In recent months we have been collaborating with a brilliant research scientist at the MIT Center For Future Civic Media (a client of ours from a few years back), Leo Burd.  Leo has been working on making Drupal more friendly for the billions of people around the world who only have access to basic telephony rather than smart phones and the web. Today, Leo announced the first release of the VoIP Drupal platform. VoIP Drupal is an innovative framework that brings the power of voice and Internet-telephony to Drupal sites. It can be used to build hybrid applications combining regular touchtone phones, web, SMS, Twitter, IM and other communication tools in a variety of ways, including: Voice- and SMS-based Get Out The Vote campaigns 2-1-1 and 3-1-1 lines (information hotlines) Phone-based community surveys PTA or any meeting reminder calls Story recording / playback Group voicemail Geo-based call-blasts aimed at specific streets or locations And much more! As Leo writes: Technically speaking, the goal of VoIP Drupal is to provide a common API and scripting system that interoperate with popular Internet-telephony servers (Asterisk, FreeSwitch, Tropo, Twilio, etc) dramatically reducing the learning and development costs associated with the construction of communication systems that combine voice and text technologies together. The following VoIP servers are currently supported: Tropo, through the voiptropo.module (available soon) Twilio, through the voiptwilio.module This project is under continuous development. If you would like to get involved in the project, or ask questions discussion is taking place on the VoIP Drupal Group. You can find more information in the VoIP Drupal Handbook. The VoIP Drupal platform has originally been conceived and implemented by...