Dear Drupal Association - you do know that I love you, but i have to get this off my chest. I have been critical, shouted, pleaded,cried, demanded, wished and I once (almost) gave up! I have tried all the ways I could to open up you eyes. Even that i disagree with so many things you do - Im still loving you.

You have done good!

I cant keep my admiration for the South American Drupal Community down! Both my arms are in the air. The reaction of the cancelation of DrupalCon Sao Paulo is to take matters into own hands, and setting sails for a 500-1000 attendees South American Drupal Event: DrupalPicchu in January 2014 “To celebrate the freedom and cultural diversity of the Drupal Community.”

Its time for the electing the 2 members that can help the Drupal Association as they asked: … the community is asked to step in with strategic direction and new and fresh ideas through the nomination and election of at-large community representatives. In the last 6 years of hard community work ive gathered ideas & concepts that I truly beliv

Tonight at 22:00 CET im gonna be at “meet the candites” call, where you can ask me and my fellow 5 candidates all the things you wanna know. Fx. why each of us will be perfect candidates as the Communitys Voice on the Drupal Associations board, or who makes the best coffe or whatever.

No seriously you should drop by the call and listen in.

Its now time for the yearly election of 2 Drupal Community members to step on the Drupal Association board - Heres a quick n dirty run down & is why you have to vote: It has been decided that if you DONT vote for the Drupal Associations Community members you are not allowed for the next year to complain, moan or cry over anything Drupal related - If you do vote you have that right!

Today the Drupal association presented a new initiative for getting more students & grow the talent pool for the Drupal Project. This is done by setting x number the tickets for Drupalcon munich to half price of the 400€ - well that is if you're a student. This raises big problems about the future the event I see as the Heart & Soul of the Drupal Community.

Apparently my reputation is not as bad as i have feared!

I did a talk at the Yearly CommunityDay Event in copenhagen A cozy leaned back tech event sponsored by microsoft. This time instead of just standing n talking smack with Mr Hartvig Umbraco I got booked to do a little talk about the css preprocessor SASS.

This weekend we had the first Frontend United (FU) conferences- the logical successor to the European baased "Drupal Design Camp" thats the European answer to Design 4 Drupal, where we wanna focus harder on Developerment than on Design, cause you might not know it - but Drupal theming is actully a ton of development where we dont use an ide!

So im here in Denver, all tired after a first great great day at Drupalcon here in Denver
As promised heres my slides from the html4S session: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/51287/2012-drupalcon-denver-html4s.pdf

Thanx you all that came & watched it seemed like you all enjoyed it :)
& check out the http://mothershipthe.me

The European Drupal Design Camp have now officially changed its name to "Frontend United"
This time its gonna be the epic city of Amsterdam, that will follow up the last 2 camps in Berlin & Prague
If you take Amsterdam add a little Drupal & put some Frontend Love on top - What can then possible go wrong?

Hello IE7 it was nice knowing you - but Enough is enough so now from 2012 me or my company geek Royale wont support ie7 for clients unless they are willing to pay for that "extra service".

Sometimes you get a really good question like: "Hey morten can you come and speak about some cool stuff at Drupalcamp Stockholm" see if theres a thing I can do & do it kinda okay - then its talking for days about cool stuff - The coolest stuff imho in the drupal world is offcourse Display Suite - yup its not the mothership its epic cool 24-7-365!

Sometimes it happens that a talk about "all thats wrong" fires up my mind - Tonight was one of those nights. I sat down, dropped the sleep & plotted out a very rough draft for a Dogme Ruleset. Its been discussed numerous times over the last 3 years in quite dark corners, between those called themers in the Drupalsphere that there needed to be somekind of manifest.

Now we have it again in the Drupalsphere and for the next couple of weeks there will be an endless promotion of drupalcon session from the speakers or their companies to enhance their chances for getting a spot as a speaker at DrupalCon.
when we finally get the session selection, there will be an outcry of angry, pisssed of & sad people in our community.

The way Drupal have been handling css styles up until recently have been to say it nice "Problematic" Theres been a lot of unessasey barries for new & experienced frontend developers alike, fiddeling with the css files can even caused functionality to break.
Now in D7 theres a hidden gem in the very core that needs to some spotlight on it: the filenaming rules of drupals css files.

Dries wasn't kidding when he talked about the Drupal8 Design initiative. The initiative to change the look of Drupal Forever is gonna take of in Berlin in about 3 weeks. That is just one of the really good reason that if youre a "Frontend" Developer & even the slightest interested in Drupals future you should drop by Berlin the weekend of 25+26 June.

One thing i always promise myself after have been giving talks at conferences is to make sure that the material is coming out quickly right after.
What im always ending up doing though is off course not that :(

I finally got my shirts home to copenhagen from the awesome Drupalcon in chicago
So now its time to fulfill one of the promises I gave - selling the tshirts online so people could order them.

The epic geek Röyale tee shirt store

Its Drupalcon time again - this time the American Drupal conference which is in Chicago. Offcourse the mighty geek Röyale is here with a couple of awesome & sexy tees!

The Drupal association have opened up a Drupal store (not an app store i mind you...) where all kinds of good drupal related stuff will be up for sale. I was invited to sell some of my Drupal tees.

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