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We are looking for volunteers to help us promote Drupal 8 at OSCON next week. Now that Drupal 8 finally has a release candidate, this is one of the most important moments to be promoting our project, and you can help.

This year saw the renewal of Pronovix’s ITraining program open to university students, recent graduates or those seeking a change or new career. Members of the Pronovix Recruitment lab selected three participants, who were then given the chance to learn about web development and observe the Pronovix workflow environment. We ended the program by interviewing our trainees regarding their reasons for joining, their experiences and their overall impression. Read on to learn what Kitti had to say.

To get site owners to start thinking about upgrading to Drupal 8 and to build anticipation for the upcoming release we are organising an upgrade Bingo and we want the whole Drupal community to benefit from it. If you want to get leads for site upgrades, Drupal 8 hosting, or paid Drupal 8 module development, you should not miss out.

Voting just opened for the Popular choice prize of the Context.IO App Challenge on DevPost. We’ve submitted a [Drupal module](https://www.drupal.org/project/contextio) for the competition and it would be really great if we could win the Popular choice prize. We are however not asking you to vote to support us, instead we would like you to **vote for the Drupal community**: if we win the prize we will use it to prove to developer tool companies that Drupal is a market worth investing in. Should we win, **we’ll split the 5k$ prize money over 2 sponsorships for upcoming Drupalcamps**.

Building a large Drupal site may be a complicated task, but building small parts of it as prototypes helped us to build [Go Ask Alice!](http://goaskalice.columbia.edu/), a flagship site of the [Columbia University in the City of New York](http://www.columbia.edu/). If you are about to build such a large site, then continue reading why, what and how you should build using prototypes. (This is a transcript of my part from our presentation at [Drupalaton 2015](http://2015.drupalaton.hu/) with Kristof Van Tomme.)

We’ve just released [Context.IO](https://www.drupal.org/project/contextio), an API module with a [Feeds](https://drupal.org/project/feeds)] plugin submodule that uses the context.io API to import emails into a Drupal site. If you build something interesting with the module in the next 6 days, you can participate in the [Context.IO App challenge]( http://contextio.devpost.com/) and make a chance to win 50k USD.