CivicActions

A few months ago I joined a new coworking space in Seattle, Giraffe Labs. Giraffe Labs grew out of a Seattle group called Saturday House. Well both got a mention on John Cook's Venture Blog over at the Seattle PI.

As founder Anders Conbere was quoted:

DrupalCampSeattle2008 started this morning at the Youngstown Arts Center in West Seattle. We have a great crew of folks here, and the sharing and learning is well underway. I just finished an intro to Drupal talk, it was billed as a "101" but I think that we hit some 102 and 103 level topics (CCK, Views, permissions and taxonomies). Arthur Foelsche is talking about Media Mover and Rich Media in Drupal to a rapt crowd, while a talk about CCK is going on in the theater.

Yesterday Robin Barre and I spent some time down at the Saturday House in SoDo (in Seattle) training folks involved in Six Hour Startup on Drupal for an upcoming project called SiteFinder. SiteFinder will be a community maintained listing service for available office space geared towards startups.

This weekend I had the pleasure of a visit from everyon'es favorite roving gnome, Noel Hidalgo (NoNeck) from LuckOfSeven.com who has ben traveling for a bit over 120 days so far on his opensource journey around the world. You can help support Noel's travels and an travails as he collects video for his documentary and book.

DrupalCampSeattle2007 was a huge success, and a lot of fun! I just got home and figured I would post a quick note before heading back out. We had over 40 people spread across our two tacks (user/superuser admin focused and developer focused).

Pack your bags, its summer time, and that means time for Drupal Camp!

CivicActions will be participating in and sponsoring two upcoming Drupal Camps, one in Seattle (the second annual DrupalCampSeattle on June 29th, and the other in New York City on July 14th.)

I'll be one of the "camp counselors" in Seattle, and Arthur and Ethan will be heading down to New York to talk about MediaMover and some other cool modules we've been working on recently.