PariSoMa is a co-working space in San Franncisco. Some of the people that work there are hosting a drupal meet-up tonight. I took my bike on the train and road it to their loft space to hear Chris Bryant give a presentation on a module he and his brother developed called 'Patterns'. I will be live blogging it here, pretty much just as an exercise for myself since no one is really refreshing this page.

Patterns by Gravitek Labs

•as far as I know from Chris explaning to me, Patterns is basically a good user interface for the concept of 'install profiles'.
•4 of us from last months meet-up, 6 new
•guy from lynda.com, graphic app training vids, is here going to be producing 6-7 hours of drupal training.

Chris starts...[I am mixing in my own context]
•every drupal site is very different in the way it is set up, from a common core
•[The history of install profiles is that it became a very needed, but hacky way to automate getting particular types of sites up and running very fast, before doing the fine tuning.]
•[these guys are on the bleeding edge of development for drupal.] asked themselves how to make it better, more manageable solutions.

This has to reach mass production somehow! Drupalager is exactly the sort of thing the Drupal community would create. These guys are bringing some to Szeged, Hungary where Drupalcon will be held at the end of the month, to give to some of the key contributors and of course a cold one for Dries.

Well, the term 'plumbob' has reached the top of the list on a yahoo search! It is still on page 8 of a google search though. It is very interesting how these search engine giants work. I highly recommend reading a book called The Search, if for no other reason than google is now a conerstone of the market you and I are a part of. Even if you don't use google, the company is shaping the economic landscape you inhabit. It's absolutely astounding.
*UPDATE* I Drupal's core reports, there is a page view of the 'top referers' or places that people clicked on a link to this site. For example, if I emailed you a link, and you opened that link from your gmail acount, the referrer would show that it came from a gmail account. More exciting is if someone does a search on Google or Live or what have you, and they click into your site, the referrer entry shows what the search was and where your site appears on that search result. As it is, the term 'plumbob' is also at the top of the list on a MS Live search as well. And it has started to climb and is the first entry at the top of page 8 on a google search now.

Drupal
I have been determined to learn how to use Drupal for several years now. The Drupal experience can be broken into three groups of understanding. The development or software writing, the design and layout, and the end user administration. It's possible to be all three of these at once, but generally someone is a mixture of these three at varying degrees. Drupal is an infinitely flexible infrastructure; it can literally function as any form of media; from phone system, message system, application framework, financial system, etc. And further, it can be all these at the same time, interwoven at the core. This is a far cry from the systems we work with today, where everything has a separate nexus of it's own, which leaves humans as the transit between systems which are often sitting on the same desk in front of us. Is the system the boss of us? or are we the boss of the system?

Arcosanti is a real construction site north of Phoenix Arizona. It is the product of Paolo Soleri's architectural and societal theory of Arcology. In his philosophy, architecture is society and visa versa.