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The London drupal community has thrown a bid into the hat to host DrupalCon 2011. It is a strong bid from a strong team for one of the best cities in the world. So just vote in the poll The preferred venue is Southbank Centre. It tickles me silly to just compare that to a leg of lamb. Don't ask. Ok. Fine. won't be that cruel. Just imagine a pub and food - that's one memory from the first Drupal meet in London. And now Southbank...

There are community polls out on g.d.o for DrupalCon2010 and DrupalCon2011 in Europe. These polls do matter, but are not deal breakers. They are there to reflect the community preference.

And just one last note - I would love Berlin for 2010. I love that city, especially East Berlin. Sorry Copenhagen =(

I've been involved in the organisation of a number of scientific conferences over the past few years. For example 4m/ICOMM 2009 (submissions), I*PROMS 2009 (submissions). The conference sites are usually powered by drupal, the submissions using OpenConf. Managing the submission and peer review of papers is a chore, unfortunately, as is often the case, software gets in your way. So here I try to skim over some of the experiences I had with OpenConf - the good and the bad.

I've tested indico, which looks like a very good system, but it is heavy and over-engineered, especially if you want to run a couple of events, and not hundreds or thousands. It might be good for organisations managing a big number of events, but not for us.

After going through a number of trials I've settled on openconf. It was simple. It fitted the current web infrastructure - LAMP. I reckoned, I could eventually integrate it, or simply transfer some of the data into drupal, and maybe even benefit from code reuse. Surprisingly, I ended being both pleasantly surprised and not so.

HAI
IM IN UR BUCKETS MAKING UP FORMATS
GIMME FEEDS
   I CAN HAS FEED DRUPAL PLANET
      ITZ AT http://drupal.org/planet/rss.xml
      INVISIBLE METADATA
      LOL
   I CAN HAS FEED DRUPAL GROUP POOL
      ITZ AT http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?group=35237091376@N01&lang=en-us&format=lol
      INVISIBLE METADATA
      LOL
   I CAN HAS FEED VERTICE'S PHOTOSTREAM
      ITZ AT http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?photostream=44124348472@N01&lang=en-us&format=lol
      INVISIBLE METADATA
      LOL
I IS BORED
KTHXBYE.

thanks slashdot, reddit, youtube for starting me this morning

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#member_match
LISTS=`list_lists | cut -f1 -d- | xargs echo`
for list in $LISTS ; do
  echo $list
  list_members $list | grep $1
done

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