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O'Reilly is On Board as a Media Sponsor!
Submitted by walkah on Tue, 10/14/2008 - 12:35pm
We are very excited to announce O'Reilly Media as a media sponsor for Do It With Drupal! O'Reilly are the top tech book publisher and organize some of the top technology conferences worldwide such as OSCON and Web 2.0 expo.
We at Lullabot have been working for the past year on their first Drupal book. The book is in production and you can pre-order Using Drupal now! O'Reilly will be providing discounts for all attendees. Who knows, you might even get a free copy of the book! Thanks, O'Reilly!
Chris Messina and Distributed Social Networks with Drupal
Submitted by walkah on Mon, 10/13/2008 - 2:29pm
We are very excited to announce that Chris Messina from Vidoop will be joining us at Do It With Drupal. Chris is a co-founder of the DiSo project, focusing on distributed social networks.
Known online as "factoryjoe", Chris has been at the heart of some of the most interesting developments in social networks, open standards and community organization. From his leadership role in the BarCamp and Coworking movements to his central involvement in technologies like oAuth and Microformats, Chris is without a doubt an internet rockstar.
Chris has a long history with Drupal. He did the theming work on the original Spread Firefox site and was an early member of the CivicSpace Labs team. While his work is not exclusively Drupal focused these days, "community plumbing" is still very important to the DiSo project and Chris' work. Come find out more about the exciting work happening and how it relates to your Drupal site.
jQuery Adopted By Microsoft and Nokia
Submitted by jjeff on Tue, 10/07/2008 - 9:27am
One of the great things about Drupal adopting an outside JavaScript library is that while we focus on PHP and back-end needs, we get to benefit from the great work of a community focused specifically on JavaScript and front-end development. And jQuery is being used by many projects and websites including Digg, Netflix, Technorati, WordPress, and even Google.
Last week, jQuery creator, John Resig, announced that both Microsoft and Nokia will be adding themselves to this list. Read more »
Announcing Gorton Studios as an Affiliate Sponsor!
Submitted by lizak on Mon, 10/06/2008 - 2:43pm
We are happy to announce that Gorton Studios has signed onto Do It With Drupal as an affiliate-level sponsor.
Gorton Studios is an award-winning full-service web design and development company based in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis and St. Paul) of Minnesota. They build user-friendly, owner-friendly, results-oriented websites based on the Drupal platform, and also offer expert Drupal consulting.
Gorton Studios has won awards and praise from many organizations, including Yahoo, USA Today, Newsweek and Time Magazine. They've been further honored by the Drupal community itself - winning the overall #2 showcase award at the annual 2008 Drupal Convention for our work on the Rake Magazine.
We're glad to have them on board!
Making Whuffie with Tara Hunt
Submitted by walkah on Fri, 10/03/2008 - 12:02pm
Drupal may be "Community Plumbing" - but what does it mean to build these communities and how can we learn to make the most of it? Enter social capital - or "Whuffie" as coined by Cory Doctorow.
We are thrilled to have Tara Hunt, who wrote the book on whuffie, presenting at Do it With Drupal. Tara spends her days with her company, Citizen Agency, dedicated to helping other companies work with their communities. Drupal can provide you with the tools, come learn how to make the most of them to boost your whuffie.
As an aside Cory Doctorow is interviewed in the current issue of Linux Journal (our media sponsor) - check the issue for our ad for Do it With Drupal!
Come learn from Gábor Hojtsy
Submitted by walkah on Tue, 09/30/2008 - 11:59am
2008 has been a big year for Gábor Hojtsy: he started working full-time on Drupal (with our presenting sponsor Acquia), he got married and was one of the principal organizers for DrupalCon Szeged. However, Gábor began the year with the release of Drupal 6.0.
One of the major goals for Drupal 6 was to improve Drupal's multilingual support: i.e. make it easier to support multiple languages and non-English languages in Drupal. Since that release, Gábor has spent the year as the branch maintainer for Drupal 6 - reviewing patches, making releases and ensuring the overall quality of Drupal's latest release.
Is there a multilingual site in your future? Come learn from Gábor how to Do It With Drupal!
Benefitting the Drupal Association
Submitted by jjeff on Mon, 09/29/2008 - 8:45am
We'd like to remind people that $50 from each registration paid for The Do It With Drupal Seminar will be donated directly to The Drupal Association.
The Drupal Association is Drupal's non-profit entity and is tasked with paving the roads and running the power and water lines that make Drupal happen. Donations to the Association are used to purchase the hardware which runs drupal.org, to finance the current redesign of drupal.org, and to organize biannual DrupalCon events. For Drupal to continue to grow and flourish both as a platform and as a community, we need a strong governing body of decision makers with the finances to get things done.
Of course, we always encourage anyone involved with Drupal to donate to the Association whenever they can. But for those with several layers of management above them, we realize that it's often difficult to make a case for a donation like this. By sharing the profits from Do It With Drupal, the success of this event can also be a success for the Drupal Association.
Chris Pirillo is Doin' It
Submitted by jjeff on Tue, 09/23/2008 - 10:36am
We're pleased to announce that Chris Pirillo will be keynoting day two of the Do It With Drupal seminar. Chris is probably best known for running the website Lockergnome and the Gnomedex conference. (He is also the #1 result for "Chris" on Google!)
Chris will be speaking about the issues he has faced building his web success and general online celebrity presence, how he sustains his communities, and what it takes to make a site that stands out in 2008. Read more »
Last Chance To Be Early For DIWD
Submitted by jjeff on Fri, 09/19/2008 - 10:34am
Just a quick reminder that today (Sept 19) is the last chance to register at the first early-bird rate of $895 for the seminar. Price includes breakfast, lunch, and a bag full of goodies. Rates jump up $100 tomorrow, so get in today if you want to save yourself some money.
Announcing Palantir as a Gold Level Sponsor!
Submitted by lizak on Wed, 09/17/2008 - 7:04am
We're happy to announce that Palantir will be supporting our event as a Gold Sponsor. Palantir has done a great job of promoting Drupal to the greater technology world, and we are pleased to have them on board. Read more »
