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Thanks to some great sponsors and some community help, Drupal Camp Phoenix registration is FREE this year. For more information on the camp, view the event here or at http://www.drupalcampphx.com.

I am a long time web designer and am just getting started with Drupal. I have done some work on the development side as well. Anyone have any suggestions for the best training out there to get up to speed on making fully custom sites in Drupal. I plan on attending the Phoenix Drupal Camp but need something sooner. I have the Definitive Guide to Drupal 7 book I am going through but are there other better training solutions? Books, Videos, etc?

Thanks!

Hey, everyone. I got to Drupal in a very round-about way as I am not a developer. I am part of a task force at work that created a campaign. Our marketing company designed a basic WordPress site for us but I wasn't comfortable being the administrator, not having built it from scratch and not knowing the exact functionality. Therefore, I created my own WordPress site for the campaign and we went with that. Unfortunately, the dreams I have for the campaign and the website that accompanies it are greater than I feel WordPress will allow me to accomplish.

Hey, are you guys still doing meetups? I know you dropped the Meetup.com account in favor of just using g.d.o, but I don't see that you've met since September. I was thinking of dropping in, but I don't see any scheduled meetings.

Registration is now OPEN!

We're expecting an incredible lineup of speakers here in Houston, and you do not want to miss this event. Please help spread the word to anyone you know in our area and beyond who is interested in web design and development, as this will be a fantastic opportunity to learn not only about Drupal, but web technology in general.

Join us in welcoming speakers like:

Angela Byron - Drupal 7 maintainer and Lullabot rockstar

Narayan Newton - noted scalability expert and Drupal.org system administrator

Arizona State University has an open request for proposals (RFP) for web development and design services. From the RFP:

"The purpose of this Request for Proposal is to create a pool of approved suppliers, which can provide Web Development, Graphic Design, Audiography / Videography, and Mobile Application Development Services that will be used for a variety of communication purposes by units across the university."

The ASU DUG group's manager has left the university. Could you please switch the manager role to user kdmarks?

Thanks!

UPDATE Network Manager has been released for 5 6 and 7.
I'm releasing a new module soon and wanted to get some feedback on a screencast that I did. It's a project called the Network Manager (http://drupal.org/project/network_manager) and it helps you manage / maintain your sites all from within one site (given permissions set correctly for mysql user).

Here are links to the screencast (Jing forces it to be in 5 minute segments) --
Part 1 - http://bit.ly/PGu8J
Part 2 - http://bit.ly/yR6Zy
Part 3 - http://bit.ly/BLWrU

The ASU Web Editorial Board recently redesigned the ASU header and is requiring many ASU web sites to adopt the new header and footer. All ASU core (administration) web pages must use the new header by July 15th. All colleges and departments must use it by January 2009.