创建网络社区

Roland has done a great job posting videos and other content about the Drupal Camp Toronto. Friday was an absolutely fantastic day. It took place at the Centre for Social Innovation, ably facilitated by Jason Diceman and Philip Smith.

There were two tracks for the day, roughly split into talks between newer and advanced users. From the round the room intros of who was attending, I figured there was a need for a "I don't fit" track, so I volunteered to lead the rooftop gang. This was an interesting cross section of folks that talked about lots of things, and led to the realization that a session on CiviCRM was needed.

Joe Murray facilitated the second session, talking about CiviCRM and we found out that there are a lot of people in Canada looking for solutions in this space. I encouraged Joe, Alan Dixon (likely also Mike Gifford, who wasn't in attendance), and others to step up and promote the concept of "CiviCRM.ca". The main CiviCRM team is necessarily focused on US-centric issues, so this would be a chance to tackle issues like localization and non-US mapping.

The site recipes section at the end was great -- everyone stepped up and showed a little something that many people had never seen before, showcasing sites and/or features of Drupal. I demoed the Liquid Wiki module, which implements a Mediawiki parser and the accompanying functionality. We've got it running at test.bryght.com, sign up for an account if you want to test it. I also briefly showed off groups.drupal.org, which is showing great promise as a way to further collaborate and organize.

We wrapped the day by gathering for dinner, which actually progressed into a fairly lengthy night -- several of has a pre-BarCamp induction at David Crow's place, waiting for Chris Messina and Tara to arrive.

The first day of BarCamp TDot went by in a bit of a blur after the late night. I did give a brief talk on identity, which Alexei of eBusiness Apps quickly whipped up a blog post about in real time. It served as a bit of a wrap on my thoughts on identity at the moment, which I will be putting up in a more complete form real soon now.

Lots of great meetings and discussions through out the day. I especially enjoyed some riffing on mobile use cases with Sutha Kamal of Ambient Vector, who are building some interesting tools for sharing photos and videos from your phone. Albert Lai's impassioned discussion of Bubbleshare is going to make me look at it again more closely -- I'd love to see it able to be used with photos anywhere (*cough* Flickr *cough*).

For now, off to bed...another half day of BarCamp TDot awaits.