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"Mr. Yunus is 85 years old and started to use the Web several years ago to stay in touch with family and friends, and to read about art history. He has reduced vision, hand tremor, and mild short-term memory loss.

In 2014, when naming the newly founded “New England Drupal Camp” (NEDCamp), the vision was to have a regional camp.  After two successful years of hosting NEDCamp in Rhode Island, it’s time to explore New England.

Members of the New Hampshire Drupal community have joined forces with the NEDCamp team.  We are happy to announce -

A few notes for those attending NEDCamp at Brown University on Saturday October 10 & 11. 

Schedule - The session schedule and room assignments are available online at the Schedule Page.  

Venue and Rooms - We have five rooms we will be using for the day and they are located in three buildings.  While the buildings are close to each other, please plan for extra walking time between session.   A map will be provided when you register. 

Tim Dickens is a font-end developer at Parallax, and a member of the #NEDcamp organizer team. Tim's been instrumental in the development and upkeep of the NEDcamp site and we're thrilled that he's a part of our efforts. 

1. Your favorite module or best experience with the platform?
Semantic Views, Display Suite, Elements, and anything that optimizes HTML output. Long live the HTML purist!

We're so pleased to have Damien McKenna as a New England Drupalcamp advisory member. As a very active #Drupal community member, Damien provides us with valuable insight that will only better our #NEDcamp efforts.

Let us introduce Damien...

1. Favorite module: 
Panelizer

2. What piece of advice would you give to someone just beginning to learn Drupal?
Look into the issue queue of a module/theme you like, see if you can help out a little.

3. Mac or PC? / iOS or Android?
Mac, iOS.

Leslie Glynn is a New England Drupalcamp advisory member, and volunteered last year at the inaugural camp. Meet her here through her responses,and then meet her in person on Ocober 10th at NEDcamp!

1. Favorite module or best experience with the platform?
Entity reference, Drush, Simplytest.me, "Get involved with Core" sprints

There is so much to do in Providence and the surrounding area, why not consider bringing the entire family!   Come up on Friday and stay for the entire weekend!  There are some special events happening in the area the weekend of NED Camp:

There is great work being done by developers in the New England Drupal Community.   The NEDCamp Showcase is where you can learn about projects coming from this community.    

Anyone sponsoring or attending the New England Drupal Camp can submit a project for the Showcase.  One project per agency please!  SUBMIT SHOWCASE NOW. 

We are super happy to have Linode as a sponsor this year.  And how cool is the name "Stormy", Linodes Events and Sponsorships Manager.  Their answers to our five questions: 

Last Call Media has sponsored every NEDCamp and they are great advocates of the open source community.   Their answers to our five questions: