Tri ang u lus

Triangulus was there at DrupalCon in Barcelona September 14th through the 18th. There were more than 400 Drupal developers, fans, geeks and gods from Europe, The USA, India and Africa at the conference at the Citilab technical school.

The Conference had lots of great presentations on where Drupal is going, the latest improvements and developments, high profile Drupal sites, and much more.

There was much geek comraderie, consumption of fine Spanish beer and partying at the Festival of Merced. The metro ran 91 hours straight for the festival and bands were starting off some morings at 3 am! See the Barcelona photo gallery here soon.

People are excited about Drupal and the Drupal community is thriving. Preparations are in the works for the next DrupalCon and folks are planning on 1000 attendees!

May 19th: There were about 100 people in attendance at the PDF unConference. Many had been at the PDF conference earlier and were involved in politics, blogging and community action with technology.

An unconference is like a conference run on web 2.0 principles. Information flows in all directions, not the standard one to many model like TV or flat websites. It's kind of like democracy in action, or town meeting in Vermont. There was no set schedule prior to the unconference and most of the topics were suggested spontaneously by attendees who thought they had something cool to present.

May 18: GML was at the Personal Democracy Forum in NYC at Pace University. PDF is a gathering of technopoliticos involved in blogging, politics, technology and how they all work together in our democratic process.

The keynote speaker was the oft unseen Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google. He covered many topics in his wide ranging discussion with Thomas Friedman, including memes and confirmational bias. Schmidt wondered whether the proliferation of information online allowed anybody to confirm their suspicions or prove their point. He was unsure if the internet and Google were supporting more open minded or close minded world views.

We are happy to be working with the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) in Burlington as they move their web presence to a Drupal based system. The Center for Media and Democracy runs Chittenden Community TV, the Channel 17 public access television station, CyberSkills Vermont, and CCTV Productions.

Triangulus has been involved in an ongoing Drupal development project with CCTV to come up with a system for building TV schedules, generating airtime and production reports and much more. This work forms the basis of the Pegevent module.

The mission of the Post Carbon Institute is to assist in the effort to Relocalize communities and adapt to an energy constrained world.

Post Carbon Institute is a think, action and education tank offering research, project tools, education and information to implement proactive strategies to adapt to an energy constrained world.

We enjoyed working with the Vermont Peak Oil Network and helping them consider options for energizing their community through their website. Their website is intuitive and easily navigable and has a wealth of useful information for their networking members. They were interested in bringing in an interactive component to allow their users to synthesize, cooperate and share to build ideas and connections online.

The VPON Regional Groups have a lot of folks with great ideas who have done valuable research and thinking on the topic of Peak Oil. Allowing their groups to share ideas and viewpoints online helps VPON members accomplish their goals and will provide valuable information to others around the globe. Some of the initial consultation on the site and the underlying architecture was done in collaboration with the Post Carbon Institue, of Vancouver, British Columbia.

Some of the local groups of VPON are affiliated with PCI and we wanted to be able to maintain connections between their site the new VPON site.

See a letter of endorsement from the VPON Editor here.

We wish VPON all the best in their endeavors.