Are you a Drupaler? Tropo’s going to be at Drupalcon next week in Chicago and would love to meet with you.

We’re sponsoring Drupalcon’s module developer contest and hitting up some sessions while we’re there.

Module Contest

Are you a kick-ass module developer? Got an idea that you’ve been itching to build? New this year at Drupalcon is the module creation contest. Monday at lunch you’ll learn the contest theme and then have 24 hours to create something awesome. It’s like Iron Chef for Drupal modules.

Your modules will be judged by a panel of Drupal experts and a rockstar. No really. An actual rockstar, Morten Dk, is judging, along with Drupal luminaries Robert Douglass and Jeff Eaton.

What do you win?

  • 1st Place – Apple iPad and $200 Tropo Credit
  • 2nd Place – Amazon Kindle and $100 Tropo Credit
  • 3rd Place – Apple iPod Shuffle and $50 Tropo Credit

Full contest rules should be up on the Drupalcon site soon.

Drupal Modules for Tropo

We’ve recently released a couple of Drupal modules for Tropo for your hacking pleasure. Send out content notifications or turn SMS messages into nodes with the Tropo Drupal SMS Framework plugin. It comes with an optional patch to SMS Framework that lets you use Tropo’s multichannel capabilities and do IM and voice with Drupal, too.

Drupal comes with a built-in polling system, and you can turn polls into mobile apps using Phone Poll, the Drupal module that adds voice and SMS voting to Drupal polls.

And while not yet released (although it’s on Github), the Tropo module for Drupal is a developer framework that makes the entire Tropo API available from within Drupal. Launch calls, create applications, add phone numbers, and even serve a Tropo application from within Drupal.

And while not Tropo related, we released Passkey last week. Passkey handles all the heavy lifting of replacing Drupal logins with external authentication. Write one function and log into Drupal with an external user store. We’re using it internally in Tropo HQ and hope you find it useful on your own sites.

Sessions

With all the speaking we’ve been doing recently, our vocal cords are falling off. We’re sitting this one out, and we’re planning on attending a lot of great sessions and soaking up some learning instead.

Some of our favorites are “Drupal as a Framework” vs. “Drupal as a Platform”, Drupal Security for Coders, and Introducing OpenPublic: the Government Drupal Distribution!. We’ll probably hit up Coder Module: Easily Port Modules to Drupal 7 because we’ve got to get our own modules ready for D7, too.

Originally from Voxeo Blogs