[SoCoSA/notify] Meeting Tonight: Drupal (June 5)

[SoCoSA notifications and reminders, primarily of events]

So, first off, we have a special prize drawing tonight:
Free USENIX '07 Tech Session pass.
http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix07/tech/tech.html
The event is in Santa Clara; June 20-22 (W-F) are the days covered by the
free pass.  Show up before the speaker starts to get a chance at the prize.

Anyways, on to tonight's meeting details:

Topic:   Drupal Content Management System
Speaker: Steven Peck; Documentation Team Lead for the Drupal Project
Time:    7pm for the talk; 6pm for pizza/social hour.
Date:    Tonight, June 5th 2007
Pizza:   not free tonight; sorry; show up before 6:10pm to get in an order
Where:   usual location, O'Reilly in Sebastopol
URL:     http://socosa.org/node/209

Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community
of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on
a website. AKA, an "open source content management system." Tens of
thousands of people and organizations have used Drupal to power web sites,
including SoCoSA.org. It works on a variety of platforms including Unix and
Windows.

Steven is the Drupal project's Documentation Team Lead, one of the leaders
of the Drupal Association, a user of Drupal since 2003, and a fellow System
Administrator.

Steven will cover such topics as:

* What Drupal is and why you might want to use it.
* Setting up a Drupal site
* Administration
* Upgrading
* installing modules
* Picking the right modules so that upgrading or migrating are easy
* theming your drupal site
* letting your users create and edit content
* Drupal is written in PHP and uses a SQL (usually MySQL) backend, but you
  won't need to know any PHP or SQL to understand any of this talk.
* Things SoCoSA's website could do to use Drupal better.  ;)


Our July 3rd meeting a month from now will be our own Augie Schwer talking
about PowerDNS: http://socosa.org/node/213

August is still up in the air, but there's some talk about doing a talk on
the puppet unix configuration management system.
-- 
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