I'm pleased to announce the first ever world-wide Drupal Developer TeleConference! All Drupal developers, those wishing to become developers or just those with an interest in Drupal's development process are encouraged to attend. Also, all SoC students and mentors are requested to attend.

The conference line will open at Noon Pacific(GMT-7), 3PM Eastern, 4PM Atlantic for introductions and chatting, and the "official" conference will begin at 12:15Pacific and will last for approx. 45min. Dries will be talking about Drupal's beginnings and the future of Drupal, Karoly will talk about projects and code and Angie will be discussing SoC. There will also be a question period after each speaker.

Also Jeff Robbins from Lullabot will record the conference as a podcast which will be made available on drupal.org. Thanks Jeff & Lullabot!

For more information about how to attend this conference, including the free skype number and call in numbers for the US, UK, France and Germany, read on.

AgendaDrupal Teleconference 25/05/06GoalsTo develop community unity and to create and discuss new ideas for Drupal (4.8) going forward.  Also to allow the Drupal community to meet the SoC group and for the SoC group to meet some of the old(er) hands.Items1) TeleConference begins with meet-and-greet before actually conference (15min) 2) Dries speaks on a topic he'll decide (10-15min) 3) Questions for Dries (10min) 4) Karoly speaks about ongoing projects, upcoming projects and such (10min) 5) Questions for Karoly (5-10min) 6) Angie Byron talks about SoC projects, etc (5-15min) 7) Questions for Angie, students get to introduce themselves (10min)

To participate in the conference via Skype

The skype conference number is +99008275513296. You will not be charged SkypeOut credits to call this number, no matter which country you reside. The conference line will open at 12:00PM Pacific (GMT-7) and will remain open until the end of the conference, feel free to try out this number beforehand and listen to beautiful hold music :o)

PLEASE NOTE!
Skype users are asked to please mute their mic during the official conference unless they need to speak. Headsets tend to pick up more background noise then they are given credit for.

To participate in the conference via telephone

If you are located in the US or Canada and you wish to participate via telephone, you can email me (devlinks A.T gmail D.OT com) or anyone else participating in the conference via skype to have them use the free skypeout server to locally conference you in with the skype conference number (each skype user can conference in 3 people, plus themselves and the skype conference number).

If you want to call the US conference number directly, call:
1-712-432-4000 (long distance charges will probably apply)
And enter conference room number: 5513296

Or choose a number closest to where you live:
UK: 0870 119 2350 (long distance charges will probably apply)
France: 0826 100 266 (long distance charges will probably apply)
Germany: 01805 00 7620 (long distance charges will probably apply)
And enter conference room number: 5513296

You may call these number prior to the conference to test, but you will only hear hold music until the conference starts at Noon Pacific (GMT-7) on May 25th.

PLEASE NOTE!
If your phone has a "mute" button, please use it unless you need to speak.