October's Denver Drupal meetup was focused on "DevOps," with a presentation by Ned McClain from Applied Trust. Ned had given a similar presentation at the Boulder meetup last month, and kindly agreed to make the trek to Denver for those of us who missed the first one. Ned started by talking about changing approaches to development, quickly explaining the difference between the traditional "waterfall" approach with bigger release cycles, and the "agile" approach with smaller release cycles.

A month ago, Drupal.org moved from CVS to Git for version control. There's a good chance you already knew that, as it's been widely discussed. Another significant change happened at the same time, and hasn't received as much attention: every Drupal.org user can now create "sandbox" projects on Drupal.org. Before this change, creating your first project on Drupal.org required someone to review the project, read and test your code, and make sure it's up to the standards of the Drupal community.

Data on the web is increasingly location-specific. Between the rapidly expanding mobile web and the new geolocation API in browsers, it's easier than ever to attach locations to users and the content they create.

It's less easy to display location data in a way that is usable. There are plenty of free mapping tools, but which to use?

As Jon mentioned in his Copenhagen recap, one topic we discussed with several people at DrupalCon was campaign websites. Between the Activism project and the NGP Campaign Features, there's already a lot going on in this space.