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Drupal Downunder Video

Posted by cafuego on Thursday 23 February 2012. In categories &conference  &drupal  &video

Update: Internode have graciously offered to host all videos on their mirror server, please check http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/drupaldownunder/

It's been a while since Drupal Downunder and unfortunately some hardware problems (which will be resolved in the next two weeks or so) have prevented us from posting the conference videos in an easy to download format.

As a work-around, we've decided to make all the videos available for download via bittorrent. The torrent files for the 7.7GB Ogg Theora format and 18GB H264 (MP4) format downloads are attached below. To help seed (please do!) the torrents, please check the instructions on the Drupal Downunder 2012 site. 

... and last but not least, a huge thankyou to Brian Gilbert for pushing the Ogg files to the high bandwidth server, so I don't have to seed them via my poor ADSL connection only :-)

Drupal Downunder - Drupal Training

Posted by cafuego on Monday 12 December 2011. In categories &conference  &drupal  &training

As the year rapidly draws to a close some of you might still have access to funds for professional learning.

If you do, and are doing Drupal, or thinking about doing Drupal in 2012 then here is an opportunity to level up fast before and after the conference.

Pre- and Post-conference training is on offer in association with Drupal Downunder. Details follow - please help spread the word. There's also an iPad up for grabs - all who register for DDU2012 before Dec 31 go in the draw.

Drupal Downunder 2012

Posted by cafuego on Thursday 10 November 2011. In categories &conference  &drupal  &web  &framework  &design

With voting for DrupalCon Denver sessions now open, I thought it would be good to remind people that session proposals for Drupal Downunder will close on Monday November 14th. If you have something you want to share, get your session proposals in!

For those of you who don't know what Drupal Downunder is, it's Australia's national Drupal conference. Running in Melbourne on 13, 14 and 15 January 2012, this will be the second Drupal Downunder. In January 2011, 160 drupalistas from near and far came together in Brisbane to create the biggest antipodean Drupal event to date, building on the success of DrupalSouth in Wellington in 2010.

Though run by Australians, it's run for everyone. Early bird tickets are still available, so if you're looking for a great Drupal event to attend in a warm climate early next year, come to Melbourne and join your friendly Aussies and New Zealanders.

"Drupal Downunder 2011 was a great event. A lot of people flew out from other parts of Australia and New Zealand to attend so it was very much a national event. There was a great vibe that reminded me of early Drupal events. It is clear that Australians are passionate about Drupal, and that Drupal is getting a lot of traction. — Dries Buytaert"

Drupal Pronunciation Guide

Posted by cafuego on Tuesday 25 January 2011. In categories &open source  &conference  &drupal  &ddu2011

To avoid misinterpretation of the project name, Linux has had a pronunciation guide for quite some time.

At Drupal Down Under in Brisbane, Australia, kattekrab obtained one for Drupal as well. So if you hear people mispronouncing "Drupal", you can now point them at an authoritative example :-)

Taswegia

Posted by cafuego on Monday 10 March 2008. In categories &open source  &conference  &linux.conf.au  &marchsouth  &GREEN

The ghosts of conference(s) past meeting took place in Hobart over the past weekend and some members of the Mel8ourne team as well as a few other previous LCA organisers all got together with the LCA09 team to pass on information and share experiences.

I had been to Tasmania for a few days many moons ago, but had forgotten what Tasmania looked like. Wonderful, even though the grass is a sickly green instead of a healthy brown like on the mainland. If nothing else, 2009 will be the most beautiful LCA to date.