SoCoSA.org Sonoma County System Administrators

Augie will discuss MySQL replication, including:

• Why replication.
• Types of replication and clustering.
• Replication on an existing server.
• Replication files.
• Filtering out what you don’t need.
• A Live demo.

• Monitoring and statistics gathering.

Still working on the details, but here’s a bit of info:

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