Register @ http://cmsexpo.net
Hotel Orrington Conference Center
Evanston, Illinois
April 30th - May 1st, 2009
Come for two packed days of training on top CMS solutions Joomla, Drupal and Alfresco. With over 45 CMS Training Sessions in six Training Tracks, you can focus on your favorite core CMS for both days or jump tracks to explore other avenues. Created for all members of the content management team - administrators, businesspeople, content creators and developers - CMS Expo has a lot to offer people in the professional content management arena.
CMS Expo has many of the world's top professionals, coming to Chicago to instruct on Core-specific subjects such as: Web Theme & Template Creation, Site Building, Site Administration and Site Development. Plus, we've got an entire Training Track devoted to Business learning. Come learn about web based marketing, SEO, innovation, evaluating CMS solutions and more.
If you're new to the CMS world, we're also offering eight Training Sessions on CMS Foundations, such as PHP tips and Tricks, Linux fundamentals, MySQL, CSS Must-Know Techniques, Photoshop and more. There's also an optional 4-hour pre-conference KickStartTM Training Session, created just for beginners, so you can get up to speed, and get the most out of CMS Expo training on Thursday and Friday.
Finally, CMS Expo offers a whole track devoted to help you extend the power of your website with leading Power Partners, no matter what CMS you're driving. Come for cross training on WordPress blogging, Magento e-commerce, KickApps social media and more. See our full listing of all 46 Sessions for CMS Expo 2009.
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Matt and Doug will be presenting.
Matt and I will be co-presenting on Wednesday the 29th for the Kickstart Sessions of the CMS-Expo.
This presentation will be a much more rehearsed, and longer, version of a session we did twice at the www.chicagodrupalcamp,org event last October.
Come out and see us!
Does anyone have experience with these Expo?
I am trying to decide if I should try to go this Expo. I am new to Drupal and am loving it. I still have a lot that I need and want to learn. I am thinking this Expo would be good way to learn and to help confirm what I have been teaching myself. However, I have no experience with this kind of Expo. Does anyone have any input/experience with going to an Expo like this? Will I really be able to learn and get enough out of it to be helpful?
Does anyone know of any other training options coming up in the Twin Cities area? What about another Twin Cities Drupal Daze? Or any companies that have training on Drupal in the Twin Cities area?
Any input would be appreciated. Thanks.
It should be great!
Colleen Carroll, Larry Garfield, and Matt Butcher from our team will be presenting sessions on Drupal theming, Drupal sitebuilding, and Javascript/jQuery. I believe that Jeff Eaton from Lullabot will also be presenting. All of those folks are really great speakers with a lot of experience educating and training people on how to use Drupal.
I'll also be doing a pre-conference "CMS Showdown" session that takes a look at what happens when teams of all-star Web developers from the Drupal, Joomla!, Alfresco and WordPress communities are asked to build the Web site in each of their chosen platforms. It'll be a fun and hopefully informative look at the strengths and weaknesses of building sites for each CMS.
I live in Evanston and can tell you that the Hotel Orrington, where the Expo will be held, is a really great, recently renovated hotel. It's just a few feet away from Northwestern University's campus, and is right in the middle of downtown, which has a ton of fantastic restaurants in just about every style of cuisine.
It should be a really great expo, and if you're looking to learn more about Drupal I'd definitely encourage you to attend!
Twin Cities Drupal
Pam,
There is a monthly Drupal Group in Minneapolis. You can find it under groups on this site. Also, check into www.AdvantageLabs.com for training.
Good Luck!
Tammy Tucker
Creative Manager
Sweet Tea Design
www.SweetTeaDesign.com
Go to the CMSexpo! :-)
Pamreed,
Matthew and I will be co-presenting the Drupal Kickstart session on Wednesday the 29th from 1pm - 5pm. Our mission is to prepare you for the next two days so that you can make sense of it all.
tamtuck met me in Minneapolis last May and she saw my 1st ever Drupal presentation. I hope she has good memories from that?!?! :-)
Lastly Pamreed, go hang out in FREENODE IRC #drupal-support and ask some questions. Get a sense of whats going on and see just how friendly Drupal and the Drupal Community really is.
Good luck! I hope to see you at the expo!
- Doug Vann
CMS Expo Drupal Sessions
Drupal users of the midwest. I wanted to let everyone know about Drupal related sessions at CMS Expo. Event is coming up fast, sign up soon!
http://cmsexpo.net
Session: Drupal KickStart
Date: Wedenesday, April 29th, 2009
Time: 2:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Instructor: Matthew Lechleider and Doug Vann
Audience: Content Creators, Businesspeople, Administrators & Developers
Find out why Warner Brothers, NASA, SONY, The Whitehouse, Harvard, Popular Science Magazine and many others have chosen Drupal to deliver there message online. Learn the terminology, methedology, and start-up tips you need to get your first site developed. Learn why Drupal recently won two prestigious Packt Publishing 2008 Open Source CMS Awards - the Overall 2008 Open Source CMS Award and the Best PHP Open Source CMS.
Those who attend this session will learn how to:
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Session: Ultimate CMS Showdown II: Find the Right Solution For The Job
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Time: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Instructor: George DeMet
Audience: Content Creators, Businesspeople, Administrators & Developers
Deciding which open source content management platform to use for your Web site can be difficult, especially because most offer similar functionality. This session seeks to provide an in-depth look at the strengths and weaknesses of developing sites in each of the leading open source content management platforms (Drupal, Joomla and WordPress) through an unprecedented apples-to-apples comparison.
Drawing inspiration from “Project Runway” and “Iron Chef”, this session seeks to provide an in-depth look at the relative strengths and weaknesses of the leading open source content management platforms through an unprecedented apples-to-apples comparison. We’ll take a look at what happened when teams of all-star Web developers from the Drupal, Joomla! and WordPress communities were asked to build a Web site in each of their chosen platforms using the same design concept and project specification.
Attendees Will Gain:
The target audience of this session is any administrator, businessperson, or developer who's considering using an open source content management system for their Web site or Web-based software project and would like to know the differences between the leading products in the field. The session is aimed at people with a beginning-to-intermediate experience level.
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Session: Drupal SiteBuilder I
Date: Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Time: 9:30 am -10:30 am
Instructor: Larry Garfield
Audience: Content Creators, Businesspeople & Developers
Drupal offers a plethora of tools for building nearly any type of web site or web application imaginable. Whatever it is you're doing, odds are someone has already done it, or as the saying goes, "Oh yeah, there's a module for that!"
But which module? Or rather, from which component modules can you construct a site? This first session will cover the building blocks of a modern Drupal site from a programmer/site builder's perspective and how to go about architecting a site to minimize the amount of code you have to write.
Drupal Learning Session Goals:
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Session: Drupal SiteBuilder II
Date: Friday, May 1st, 2009
Time: 8:30 am - 10:00 am
Instructor: Larry Garfield
Audience: Content Creators, Businesspeople & Developers
Drupal SiteBuilder II will build upon the elements laid out in Drupal SiteBuilder I.
In part II, we implement the architecture we developed in the first session. That includes building out the site in an actual Drupal install and seeing it come together. The main focus will be on how to leverage the building blocks we covered in the first session to make the site functional without having to write any code. We will also cover when you do need to write code, and the right way to go about it sustainably.
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Session: Drupal Theme Design I
Date: Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Time: 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Instructor: Colleen Carroll
Audience: Content Creators, Businesspeople & Developers
The first task to theming in Drupal is learning to know what to look for. Drupal's most powerful asset is its community of developers. This means that potentially hundreds if not thousands of different people maintain code. Because of this Drupal development has some pretty predictable standards in terms of HTML markup and CSS theming.
We will focus on taking a design and breaking it down to its essential parts, discussing what Drupal does well, and what takes some custom code. We like to call this "De-constructing Boulton" because the theme we will de-construct is the Austin theme designed by Mark Boulton and built out by Palantir.net. The process of de-construction will involve both architecting from the design as well as looking at Drupal's core markup structure and how to begin the process.
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Session: Drupal Theme Design II
Date: Friday, May 1st, 2009
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Instructor: Colleen Carroll
Audience: Content Creators, Businesspeople & Developers
In session II of Drupal theming we will walk through the steps of creating a theme using Drupal CMS. We will use the Zen theme as our core theme and build a sub theme off of it. Creating a theme from scratch is a daunting task, so starting with a minimal core theme is always advised. Zen gives us a minimal theme with print support and IE 7-5 support already built in. We will begin with a raw Drupal site and start to apply snippets to the theme layer building up the site design.
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Session: Drupal Development I
Date: Thursday, April 30th
Time: 10:30 am - 11:30 am
Instructor: Jeff Eaton
Audience: Developers
Have you built plugins or extensions for other CMS packages, and want to make the leap to Drupal? Have you been building Drupal sites and hit the limits of existing plugin modules? This session will explain the fundamentals of Drupal's page building system and its core APIs, then walk attendees through the creation of a simple module. Attendees will also learn about key development tools to accelerate the Drupal coding process.
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Session: Drupal Development II
Date: Friday, May 1st, 2009
Time: 10:00 am - 11:30 am
Instructor: Jeff Eaton
Audience: Developers
Take the next step with Drupal development! Learn secure coding techniques to protect your site from malicious hackers, understand how to improve your Drupal site's performance, and work with the Drupal development community to improve your code.
Attendees will discover Drupal development best practices, and learn about the Drupal community's support system for developers and site builders.
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Session: Drupal Administration
Date: Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Time: 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Instructor: Matthew Lechleider
Audience: Administrators
Unleash the awesome power of Drupal by properly configuring Linux, Apache, and MySQL. Best practices for backup and migrating Drupal sites. Demonstrations of admin modules and themes. View how to easily manage users, permissions, and content.
Correctly setup dates and efficiently handle timezone changes. How to fight spam by filtering user registrations and content with Gollum. Customize each page with a specific input format such as text, html, php, wiki.
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Session: Socialize Your Drupal Site
Date: Friday, May 1st, 2009
Time: 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Instructor: Michael Haggerty
Audience: Content Creators, Businesspeople & Developers
The web world moves fast, as witnessed by the exponential growth of Twitter in 2009, along with FaceBook, YouTube and countless Social Media sites and tools. So first, how can you find out what is important on the "Social" scene; and secondly, how can you leverage the power of Drupal to harness the power of social media?
Michael Haggerty, CEO of Trellon, Inc will instruct this high-value session on how you can integrate social media into your Drupal website. What key activities should you integrate? In what scenarios might you be smarter to leave the heavy lifting to an outsourced solution? What elements are critically important right now when building your social relevance in the market? Find this out and more at this practical advice session on how you can be using Drupal to capture the Social Media audience which awaits.
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Business nowadays is badly
Business nowadays is badly hit by the financial crisis that started two years ago. Even auto makers, banks, lending company and many others are in a very deep crisis right now. Almost every megalith of business had its roots as a start up business at one point, and people were there at the ground floor. However, it's getting harder to do so. John Taylor, VP of research for the National Venture Capitalists Association reports that ventures are down, because people are far choosier about who'll they'll financially back with installment loans to start a company. The number of investments has dropped over 50% since last year. Venture capitalists have been hit hard by the recession, and it makes it harder for people with a start up business to get the installment loans they need to realize their dream.