[Webpub] Free O'Reilly drupal webinar Friday 12/3

[Lisa C. Mayer]

Hi everyone,

Thanks to all of you who came to today's presentation.  I will have  
notes up on our blog soon from the meeting.

In the meantime, if you've got a free hour tomorrow at 1pm tomorrow,  
O'Reilly has the following free webinar.  Registration is limited, so  
sign up quick...

https://oreilly.webex.com/mw0305l/mywebex/default.do?nomenu=true&siteurl=oreilly&service=6&main_url=https%3A%2F%2Foreilly.webex.com%2Fec0600l%2Feventcenter%2Fevent%2FeventAction.do%3FtheAction%3Ddetail%26confViewID%3D278151788%26siteurl%3Doreilly%26%26%26

Date and time: 	Friday, December 5, 2008  1:00 pm
Eastern Standard Time (GMT -05:00, New York)
Panelist(s) Info: 	Jeff Eaton and James Walker, authors of Using Drupal
Duration: 	1 hour
Description: 	Everything you Wanted to Know About Drupal but were  
Afraid to Ask

In this live, online event, Drupal developers Jeff Eaton and James  
Walker will guide newcomers through the nuts and bolts of Drupal's  
content management system, content management framework, and  
community. They'll cover the evolution of CMSes and how Drupal fits  
in, discuss some of Drupal's philosophies towards concepts such as  
content management and software architecture, and explain some of the  
fundamentals about Drupal's extensible APIs. Finally, they will muse  
about Drupal's thriving community and how best to leverage and  
participate within it.

About Jeff Eaton

Jeff Eaton has been building Internet and desktop software for over a  
decade. He's participated in projects ranging from web-portals for  
communities and nonprofits, to enterprise client-server applications  
for retail industries, to large-scale web applications for companies  
like Dow AgroSciences and Prudential Real Estate. In 2005, he began  
developing solutions based on the open-source Drupal content  
management framework. In the years since, he's become a core developer  
for the Drupal project, specializing in architecture and API  
development. In his capacity as a consultant for Lullabot Consulting,  
LLC, he's helped plan and build the software infrastructure for Drupal  
sites including MTV UK's music portal, SonyBMG's artist site platform,  
and Fast Company's groundbreaking business networking site. Jeff is  
known as "eaton" on drupal.org.

About James Walker

Passionate about both technology and teaching, James Walker is  
Lullabot's Director of Education where he oversees the company's  
public workshops, seminars and private Drupal trainings. A leader in  
the Drupal community, James is a founding member of the non-profit  
Drupal Association and the Drupal security team. As a long time member  
of the Drupal community, James maintains over a dozen modules and has  
contributed countless patches to Drupal core. A long time believer in  
Open Source and Open Standards, James has spent years co-ordinating  
Drupal's involvement with other communities such as Jabber/XMPP and,  
most recently, OpenID. An engaging speaker, James is a frequently  
requested presenter at many types of technical conferences. His  
humorous and informative lectures have been among the most well- 
attended at DrupalCons, starting with the first - four years ago.  
James is known as "walkah" on drupal.org.



Lisa C. Mayer
MIT IS&T - DCAD
Web and Database Consultant
lmayer at mit.edu
ph:  617-452-4225
fax: 617-258-6875

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