Sprint for Drupal Global Sprint Weekend 2016!

On January 30th and 31st, Drupal users all over the world are going to get together to participate in "sprints" as part of Drupal Global Sprint Weekend (https://groups.drupal.org/node/488988). Drupal414 will join in the fun by hosting our own on Sunday, January 30th!

A "sprint" is an event where a group of people get together to work on something for a few hours. So, normally we have presentations, hang out and talk - but this would be actually doing something together as a group!

Sprints aren't limited to technical people or coders - at our sprint there will be tasks for people with any skillset allowing everyone to contribute equally.

The topic of our sprint: Panopoly (in Drupal 7 and 8) and Drupal 8 module exploration!

Here is a documentation describing all the ways you can contribute to Panoploy:

http://bit.ly/panopoly-sprint

But we'd like to also use this as a time to explore contrib modules in Drupal 8, so that we can get a feel of where everything is, and report/fix bugs where we find them.

While the event is scheduled from 10am to 4pm, you don't have to participate for the whole time - just join us when you can, for as long as you can!

Food WON'T be provided, but there is a restaurant in The Hudson business lounge where you can order food and have it served in the conference room where we'll be.

What should I bring to the sprint?

• Your laptop or computer

• A power strip

What should I have installed on my computer?

You'll need to have a Drupal development environment so that you can run Drupal locally. A good one if you're just getting started is Acquia Dev Desktop:

https://www.acquia.com/products-services/dev-desktop

Or, if you're looking to contribute to Panopoly on Drupal 7, Matt Glaman created a great VM just for this purpose that we'll have available on a USB stick at the event.

Of course, if you DO already have a Drupal development environment that you're comfortable with, you're free to use that instead.

Hope to see you there!