Last week I completed scrum master training... and now need to prepare for the exam to become a certified scrum master. This makes me a scrum padawan at this point. Right?

So... first up, commit to heart the key statements of the Agile Manifesto.

Thought I'd have a play with a bleeding edge pre alpha 4 development snapshot of Drupal 8. I hit a minor documentation/installation snag. This is probably frustrating for people, so I'm documenting it here in order to later find the right place, right person, right way to report it, and perhaps improve it.

I've nearly finished installing D8! Yay. Now I'm at the "Configure site" stage where I get this helpful message suggesting I ought to consult the "online handbook."

The Drupal Association board has two positions for members elected by the community.

Voting is open now, but only for a couple of days. Voting closes midnight Thursday 19 September 2013.

Don't procrastinate...

It's that time again... the Drupal Association needs new board members!  

Nominations for the community elected positions close at midnight UTC on Friday 6 Sep 2013

Check out https://groups.drupal.org/node/314373 for all the details... 

Note: you will need to login to the Drupal Association website before you can access the nomination form!  Don't let that "Access Denied" message stop you ;)

This Petition of Victorian residents implores the Legislative Assembly of Victoria to abandon plans for a costly and unsustainable East West Toll Road and Tunnel in favour of funding urgently needed public transport priorities including the Doncaster Rail Link.

Drupal 8 is around the corner!  And there's a lot of goodness coming. I wanted some of that goodness now, so I've just updated the theme here to Responsive Bartik so it's now mobile friendly.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke, "Profiles of The Future", 1961 (Clarke's third law)

... 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.