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8.0.0 ways you can participate in the Barcelona Drupalcon Prenote - even if you're not there!

Robert Douglass — Sat, 12 Sep 2015 19:41:21 +0000

The "Prenote" is a time-honored DrupalCon tradition; it is the first session of the conference, directly before the Driesnote, and it is loads of fun. This year, everyone has a chance to participate in the Prenote, even if you're not coming to Barcelona. Here are 8.0.0 reasons how you can pitch in and make this Prenote totalmente excelente.

1.0.0, Come to the show: If you're attending DrupalCon Barcelona, come to the show! It's at 8:00am on Tuesday, Sept. 22, in the same room as the Driesnote, so you get good seats to see Dries. You also have a good motivation not to drink yourself into oblivion Monday night, and start the DrupalCon bright and early.

2.0.0, Watch the livestream: This is for those of you who won't be there in person. Thankfully, you can watch the live stream and be with us in spirit. 8:00am is 2:00am Eastern Standard, so it's just right for you night owls on the East Coast.

3.0.0, Make a video cameo: We wil be incorporating video volunteers into the show. Sign up below and indicate that you want to be a "video volunteer" and you'll get a set of instructions to follow to make a few very short, very easy videos that we can use. No et preocupis, és molt fàcil!

4.0.0, Be an offstage volunteer: We need a few people who will be at the session who can help us run some critical systems offstage. You get to be part of the show but you don't have to memorise any lines.

Onstage volunteers: We need people who can rehearse with us on Monday (and possibly Sunday) and actually be part of the show. We've got big roles and small roles, so if it sounds like fun, let us know by filling out the form below, and we'll do our best to work you in. In particular, we definitely need people who can be the following:

5.0.0. Spanish language and cultural guides
6.0.0. Catalan language and cultural guides
7.0.0. Musicians and dancers of all sorts

8.0.0. Send us photos of yourself:
That's right, we're going to make a cool photo montage that has special meaning in the show, and you can be part of it by taking pictures of yourselves in these poses and sending them to us. Detailed instructions are below, but let's just say that it's significant that this is point 8.0.0. =)

Photo instructions: Take all four photos with a white wall behind you, ideally as devoid of visual features as possible.

Photo 1: Stand with your left arm to the wall, look forward (not at the camera), cupping your hands together, as if you're expecting a present from Dries. Who knows.... maybe you are?
Photo 2: Stand with your left side to the wall, look forward (not at the camera). Right leg forward, left leg back, bend at the knees. Right arm forward, fist facing up. Left arm back fist facing down.

Here are the poses for Photos 1 & 2.

Photo 3: Stand with your left side to the wall, look forward (not at the camera). Put both arms forward and git push. Important, make sure to stick out your bum towards the rear!
Photo 4: Stand with your left side to the wall, look at the camera and grin like a fool. In a half squat, pump both fists, elbows in at your sides, and think Drupal 8.0.0. ROCKS!.

Here are the poses for Photos 3 & 4.

The DrupalCon Amsterdam Prenote : Drupal Memories (with full video!)

Robert Douglass — Sun, 05 Oct 2014 21:28:24 +0000

Rob, Jam, and guests tell the history of DrupalCon, from Antwerp to Amsterdam, from the point of view of those whose lives were changed by them. This video includes "Oh, and one time, at Drupal Camp", "The Drupal 8 Bug Elimination Challenge", a guest appearance by Captain Drupal, a performance of "The Drupal Song", a re-enactment of the genesis of Acquia, a "Never Marry Me" proposal, and a stunning performance of "Memories" by Bryn and Campbell Vertesi.

It also concludes with the inaugural instance of "Selfieception", the culmination of the underlying metaphor behind this show. Inspired by Daniel Kahneman's TED Talk about "the future as anticipated memories", Rob and Jam set about to create a show that ties our collective experience to "the experiencing self that lives in the present, the remembering self that maintains the story of your life", and to use "storytelling as a function of what we remember from our experiences".

As we tell the stories of our DrupalCons, and how they defined us (remembering self), we engage in a dialog with the audience, who has to pay close attention to capture every moment (experiencing self), as indeed we'll have to do through the coming days of sessions, meetings, chance encounters, and business opportunities. But in a tip-of-the-hat to our remembering selves, we decide to take selfies to remember the moment by. However, to frame the shot in an optimal way, we must all turn our backs on each other, and thus the conflict between experiencing self and remembering self is embodied: the remembering self demands that the experiencing self sacrifices the performer-audience dialog, and turns the back to the present in anticipation of a future memory.

Thanks to the Drupal Association for supporting our ongoing tradition of the DrupalCon Prenote, thanks to the 1,500 people who got out of bed to be at our show at 8:00 in the morning, and thanks to everyone who stood up to tell their story.

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The Drupal 8 Bug Elimination Challenge

Robert Douglass — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 05:31:02 +0000

In the style of the ALS Ice Bucket challenge, we'll lick those bugs, one at a time! The three people I nominate to also take the challenge are Tom Erickson, Dries Buytaert, and Josh Koenig. You've got 24 hours!

Prior to the DrupalCon Amsterdam Prenote (where this video was shown), I had captured a few reactions from some of my friends (a sort of market testing, if you will).

Jam and friends react.

Shannon reacts.

Mike reacts.

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Drupal Coder vs Themer: The ultimate DrupalCon trailer?

Robert Douglass — Wed, 24 Sep 2014 14:43:56 +0000

Campbell Vertesi and Adam Juran are at the top of their game when it comes to coding and theming Drupal. They're also deeply involved in and shaped by their study of martial arts. That's what makes this DrupalCon trailer so very good: they make an analogy for working with Drupal that pits the coder vs the themer, and it becomes the basis of their whole DrupalCon session. This trailer (which is meant to get butts into seats next week in Amsterdam), is a tribute to B-grade Kung Fu movies, and is true to Drupal's tradition of approaching technology with a good dose of levity and humor. I, for one, really enjoyed working with Campbell and Adam while shooting this, and am looking forward to their session.

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How did DrupalCon change your life?

Robert Douglass — Sat, 06 Sep 2014 16:54:09 +0000

DrupalCon is the heart and soul of the Drupal Community. Thousands of us have attended over the past 9 years. Many of us, myself included, have had life-changing experiences at DrupalCon. How did DrupalCon change your life? Now is the time to share your story with thousands of your closest friends! ... or the Drupal community.

What is this for? It's for the "Prenote" session at DrupalCon Amsterdam. Every DrupalCon, Jam and I collaborate to show some aspect of the Drupal experience through humor, drama, song, cheesy costumes, and famous Drupal guest stars. We'd like to include some of these stories in Amsterdam!

Thanks for sharing!

Your name *

Tell your story *

What happened that changed your life? Was it meeting a specific person? Attending a session? Being in the right place at the right time? What aspect of your life now would not have been the same if you hadn't attended DruaplCon.

Will you be attending DrupalCon Amsterdam? *

Yes

E-mail *

Skype or phone

How can we contact you? What's your Skype ID or phone number?

Robert Douglass takes the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge in Köln

Robert Douglass — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 18:23:31 +0000

Baris Wanschers called me out, and here it is, my ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.

Thank you to the Drupal Community for 10 years of prosperity: I hope you take this challenge too, and find it in your heart to give to ALSA.org or a charitable organizations of your choice.

This video is dedicated to Aaron Winborn. Aaron's family could also use your donations, as he is suffering from ALS.

Finally, I expect to see Dries Buytaert, Kieran Lal, and Jeffrey "jam" McGuire complete this challenge within 24 hours!

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Attention Drupal Super Heroes! Your powers are needed!

robertDouglass — Tue, 27 May 2014 18:19:50 +0000

Calling all DRUPAL SUPER HEROES: it is time to assemble! The CMS is threatened by Lord Over-Engineering, and only you can help save humanity!

We're looking for volunteers to participate in Rob and Jam's pre-keynote opening session at DrupalCon, Austin, in 1 week. If you don't know what I'm talking about, just imagine yourself having this much fun:

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Not fun enough? How about THIS MUCH FUN:

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You get the picture?

~~Just fill out the following form to sign up~~ for the most important Drupal adventure of your lifetime.

Submissions are closed - thanks!

I hereby attest to posession of DRUPAL SUPER POWERS which I will use to serve the good of mankind and defeat LORD OVER-ENGINEERING at DrupalCon, Austin. I am fully aware that this obligates me to not only attend the ~~showdown~~ pre-keynote session, which takes place at the inhumanly early hour of 8am on Tuesday, June 3, but also to disguise my true identity and dress as is appropriate for a DRUPAL SUPERHERO to dress.

My contribution to the DrupalCon opening session

robertDouglass — Sun, 29 Sep 2013 13:48:49 +0000

I wasn't in Prague on the first day of DrupalCon, but that didn't stop me from contributing to the opening session. Here is the "song" that I "sang", with all of the lyrics. Enjoy!

My contribution to the DrupalCon, Prague, opening session.

I am the very mo-del of a Dru-pa-list de-vel-o-per

I’ve pu-blished code, and had some beers with every core con-tri-butor

I know the seven function stack, I’ve got it in my memory

From al-tered forms to en-ti-ties, oh these are el-e-mentary!

I’m very well a-cquain-ted too, with da-ta-base ab-strac-ter-y

and all the boot strap sta-ges through, of that I have a mas-te-ry

Debug-ging is my mi-ddle name and o-o-p my favorite game

An object can in-stan-ti-ate from this here sta-tic fac-tor y !

For clear-ing cache I’ve got a trick, a

py-thon script that's really slick it

it-er-ates on foreign keys,

and JOINS them using P-H-P

While laun-ching sites I say out loud

Your code de-serves to see the cloud

Where sca-ling is co-mmod-i-ty

and ba-ckups come for al-most free

If selling's what you want to do

I have the best most modern clue

you kick-start sales and save time too

when co-mmerce is your sho-pping tool

And now you are at Dru-pal-Con

where code sprints form a ma-ra-thon

and A-cqui-a and Lull-a-bot and Co-mmerce Guys and Wun-der-kraut

Are won-de-ring day in and out

what Dru-pal 8 is all about

Are won-de-ring day in and out

what Dru-pal 8 is all about

and A-cqui-a and Lull-a-bot and Co-mmerce Guys and Wun-der-kraut

Are wondering day in and out

what Dru-pal 8 is all about

A web site needs some mo-du-als to get you lots of vi-si-tors

a task that Drush makes tri-vi-al but make sure you have sem-a-phores

And theming is a sim-ple task with C-S-S and Ja-va-script

but Eaton says you should not use the en-ti-ty con-stru-ction kit

Now if you want some firm advice you need not ask me even twice

I’ll offer it at half the price because I see you’re rather nice

A warning stems from ancient lore

That junior devs should not ignore

The wrath of Dries and much much more

befalls thee should you hack on core

I am the very mo-del of a Dru-pa-list de-vel-o-per

I’ve pu-blished code, and had some beers with every core con-tri-butor

I know the seven function stack, I’ve got it in my memory

From al-tered forms to en-ti-ties, oh these are el-e-mentary!

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Open Source Music - Video from the DrupalCon Session

robertDouglass — Sat, 28 Sep 2013 20:14:59 +0000

The "Bach to the Future" session at DrupalCon Prague was fun, and a success, I think. Together with my wife, pianist Kimiko Ishizaka, I presented the concept of open source music, showed how Drupal is enabling the MuseScore project to thrive and treat musical scores as semantic content, and gave a demonstration showing the cool things you can do with digital scores and live performances. Kimiko Ishizaka played a selection of pieces from the Well-Tempered Clavier on the venue's Steinway grand piano, and it was a lovely way to start the final day of DrupalCon.

Here's the video of the entire session, as well as a link to the related project - The Open Well-Tempered Clavier - which is our latest contribution to open source music. Enjoy!

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Bringing Bach to DrupalCon and beyond

robertDouglass — Mon, 05 Aug 2013 23:38:34 +0000

Open Source Bach. It was an idea so simple yet completely audacious that it made the front pages of BoingBoing and Slashdot, was written about in Wired, The New Yorker, F.A.Z., Spiegel, La Stampa, and brought together a diverse team that included a publisher, a piano manufacturer, and a notation software company. At the center of it all was pianist Kimiko Ishizaka, my wife and muse. Now, after 11 years of dreaming about it, I'm bringing Kimiko to DrupalCon to perform for you, the Drupal community.

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The session is one of 12 lecture/concerts, representative of the 12 keys of the piano, that we're performing from September to November this year. In order to take open source music to the next level, we're travelling around the world, reaching out to diverse audiences, and explaining why electronic scores and high-quality public domain recordings are worth investing in. Each of the events will have a different focus, a different audience, and will be broadcast to the world via Google Hangouts On Air, Studio Mode (which sounds awesome!)

Prague isn't the only Drupal related stop on the tour. On October 16 we'll be travelling to Hamburg to perform from the offices of Comm-Press, home of the pianist and music aficionado Ralf Hendel. Open Source will also be a focal point when we perform in the Manifold Recording Studio in Pittsboro, North Carolina. The studio was built by Michael Tiemann, author of the G++ compiler and Vice President of Open Source Affairs at RedHat.

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In order to come to DrupalCon, and to perform at Comm-Press and the other locations, we're running a Kickstarter campaign. One of the interesting creations that came about as a result of last year's project is a set of 32 fractal animation videos made by a Swiss artist called Landscape Windscreen. These computer generated fly-throughs of infinite fractal worlds is tranquil, mesmerising, and utterly beautiful. Each video is set to one of the tracks of the Open Goldberg Variations, and the inspiration clearly came from "Open Source Bach". We're offering this new video as an HD download or as a DVD. We're also offering Supporter level tickets to many of the concerts, the opportunity to join Kimiko Ishizaka for dinner afterwards, as well as the opportunity for corporate sponsors to underwrite the whole tour with logos and messages on the programs, websites, and broadcasts.

A successful Kickstarter will help pay for expenses like the piano rental during DrupalCon, the travel to Prague and Hamburg, and Kimiko's O1 visa to perform in the USA. Whether you're attending DrupalCon Prague or not, you can help us in our quest to create open source music, and you can watch all 12 performances on the Google Hangouts, or view them later on YouTube. Thanks for your help!

PS - see if you can spot Richard Stallman in the Kickstarter video!

PSS - the photos are Kimiko playing at the OHM2013 festival, and the Manifold Recording Studio's music room.

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