The next Washington, DC Drupal meetup will be on Monday, September 13 at 7:00 pm at Stetson's Bar and Grill. We have an awesome lineup of 5 minute lightning talks this month, all focused on performance and hosting Drupal:
UPDATE: This talk is now postponed until (hopefully) next month since Frank can't make it
Frank Febbraro from Phase2 Technology will talk about improving performance in Drupal with CDNs and run through how his team implements these features on sites they have developed including WhiteHouse.gov and others.
Dan Reif from Blackmesh will talk about how to configure Drupal for ultimate performance, highlighting common configuration mistakes and solutions.
Alex Barth from Development Seed will talk about the Aegir hosting system and how we use it and Drush Make in development and staging.
Mike Walsh from Acquia will talk about Acquia Hosting and what it provides.
We'll start the formal part of the meetup at 7:30 pm with a round of quick introductions, and then will go into the lightning talks above. After the lightning talks, there will be time to talk to the presenters in more detail if you're interested, and for chatting over beers.
These meetups are a great opportunity to learn about Drupal, find out more about some of the cool things local developers are working on, and get to know people using and working with Drupal in Washington, DC. We have a meetup each month on the second Monday of the month at Stetsons. Hope to see you there!
Meetup Details
7:00 to 9:00 pm
Stetson's Bar and Restaurant
1610 U Street, NW
Map
Metros: Short walk from U Street metro on the green line and Dupont on the red line
Bus: Right off of the S1, S2, and S4 routes that run up 16th Street, plus the 90 buses that run up U street.
Comments
I'm in! These presentations
I'm in! These presentations look fantastic.
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Will White
I'm looking forward to talk
I'm looking forward to talk about the awesome work that Ian Ward and Adrian Rossouw are doing right now on Aegir + drush make to streamline our dev->staging->production workflow. This is going to make our development process a lot more efficient, at the same time we keep lowering the bar of entry to an Aegir + drush make based process.
http://www.twitter.com/lxbarth
Great lineup, see you all
Looks like a great set of presentations. See you all!
Best, Marilyn
Handouts?
Will there be handouts with the presentations?
Do I have to register my notetaker? I haven't as of now, because I thought it was more of a casual thing... However, seeing that you all are tracking the attendees, I thought I would ask just in case.
Thx
~Jg
No need to sign up at all,
No need to sign up at all, all are welcome to come out.
And usually there aren't any handouts, though that all depends on the presenters. But generally, these are just 5 minute lightning talks and folks keep it casual.
See you tonight!