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Second to last San Francisco Drupal Users group meeting for 2009 and we have two great presentations for you as well as information about the upcoming San Francisco Drupalcon and how you can get involved. Most specifically we want your company to be a sponsor of DrupalconSF, we will talk about how you can make this happen.

Working with Drupal in ways you have not thought about before. Innovation is what drives the Drupal community.

This month we are proud to have a new super innovative web site be featured in our showcase series.

http://www.jobnob.com is a site which looks at Jobs and Salaries from around the country. This site rocks has a beautiful layout and uses drupal in very innovative ways. I am looking forward to learning more about hw they built this web site.

Large Community sites and How Panels works are the two topics this month.

Drupal has prove that it can run even the largest sites out there. The team over at www.greenappleventures.com has deployed some of their largest community sites using Drupal.

This month our showcase site is http://community.mylifetime.com/ which is a huge high traffic community site running Drupal.

Listen to the people behind this site talk about why they used Drupal and how they built this site.

There are 20 seats available at next week’s San Francisco Semantic Web Meetup on the topic that will feature Jeff Walpole of Phase2. Jeff will discuss the work Phase2 has done bringing semantic technologies into Drupal sites, working with RDFa and more. In particular, Jeff will showcase OpenPublish, a new and free publishing platform based on Drupal 6.

Visit this link http://www.meetup.com/The-San-Francisco-Semantic-Web-Meetup/calendar/101... to RSVP for the event. The event is free, but you will need to join Meetup in order to participate.

We are doing a Drupal booth at MySQLcon again this year. It's a great opportunity to meet hundreds of people and help spread the word about Drupal. Many of the people at MySQLCon are familiar with LAMP and they just need to be educated about what's possible with Drupal. If you are interested in helping, please sign up.

The conference is at the Santa Clara Convention center. We will be using the Drupal booth event kit. To learn about how the event went last year see my blog post: http://acquia.com/blog/kieran/drupal-mysql-conference-day-1

Cheers,
Kieran

This month the SFDUG meeting is on the 16th of March at 6pm at 1436 Howard Street in San Francisco.

Web site showcase, where we will show off a web site and how it uses Drupal.

This month we have:

Industry Standard - a how and why a large media property made the switchto Drupal.
web100.com - a popular website review and aggregation site

For our technical session, I would like to engage you. You ask questions which are perplexing you and we get you answers from our local experts. So come with your questions.

The agenda for the January SFDUG meeting will be a Web Site Case Study and Themes.

The case study we had scheduled with Baldwin Louie has been rescheduled for next month. We are looking at finding a new case study for this month, suggestions are welcome.

Themes Presentation:

Jason from MagicSpark will be doing his presenation on the zen theme and how to setup and configure it.

This will be a great presentation for those of us who are wondering how to use the Zen theme and who have theme development questions in general.

Ok this is the last SF Drupal users group meeting of the 2008! Cannot believe the year is already over.

I am looking for suggestions on this meetup. Send me email john.faber@af83.com if you have something you would like to discuss or present.

A suggestion I got from the last meet-up was Unbercart and Ecommerce on drupal. If someone has a good project they would like to present let me know.

We will meet here at ParisSoma 1436 Howard Street, which is 10th and Howard. We will provide beers, if anyone wants to bring some food for the group that would be more than welcome.

Is Anyone in these groups attending the non-profit tech dev summit in Oakland(California) next month? <a href="http://www.aspirationtech.org/>Aspiration Tech is hosting it and the site is running Drupal. There seems to be some Drupal presence in the sessions too, but just wanted to get a better feel in the groups as too the extent of the Drupal presence and any other thoughts on it.
cheers
tim

Chris Bryant's Patterns presentation, given at August's SF Drupal User's Group is finally up. (The Flash version is still converting as I write this, so in the meantime if you see the previous "Swish-E" presentation, check out the Patterns video here. )