... and just a little silliness

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/cafuego/8883316759/in/photostream/]

Trumpets and drums. Hear the call!

[TL:DR - read this instead: Twig Status Update and Call for Contributors and start here: Convert core theme functions and templates to Twig]

The Drupal7 Theme system is impenetrable.  Drupal8 will very hopefully change all that, but we really need to rally the troops now and get it done.

I need to get up to speed on fundraising, and non-profit revenue generation.  This hasn't been something I've focussed on much before, and suspect I've generally succeeded in this space more through good luck than good management. 

Congratulations @kattekrab on winning the Rusty Wrench award for service to the open source community at #lca2013. You rock!

You will almost certainly need a visa  if you are overseas and planning to travel to Australia to come to one of these awesome geeky events:

Three weeks ago I headed off to The Alexandra Show. It was an absolutely gorgeous day.

The Royal Melbourne Show just ain't what it was so I stopped going. But something in me missed the annual ritual, so I resolved to seek out and attend country shows instead.

I've got family in Alex, and grew up holidaying in Eildon, so bumping into an uncle is likely.

Kay Thorne worked with Australia's first computer, CSIRAC. She wrote a short article for the Museum of Victoria CSIRAC collection and said this about women in computing:

I've been organising the community elections for the Drupal Association.  I put out a call for nominations, ran sessions to Meet the Candidates, and have just announced that....

Voting is Open!

Voting is open until 23:59UTC 7 Oct 2012 at https://association.drupal.org/vote2013