Wednesday January 5th 2011 @ 7:00 pm
RSVP @ http://drupal.meetup.com/1
Drupal 7 is ALMOST here. To celebrate at our January meetup, Matthew Lechleider will start with an Introduction to Drupal 7.
We are excited to announce Fred Salchli and Joel Hughes will be presenting: Moving Mountains of Legacy Content into Drupal.
Matthew Lechleider - is a product of the Nintendo Generation. He has spent 10 - 15 hours online every day since before the Internet was cool. He enjoys speaking at conferences, skateboarding, music festivals, Linux and Drupal. Organizing the Chicago Drupal Meet Up Group is one his favorite aspects of the Drupal community. Matthew provides professional Drupal development and training services as a freelance consultant.
Joel Hughes - currently the VP of Information Technology at Scranton Gillette Communications. Joel has been involved with nearly all aspects of print and digital publishing over the past 10 years, from desktop support to software engineering. Recent accomplishments include facilitating successful acquisitions of 3 companies over the past 1.5 years, a company-wide ERP implementation/conversion and multiple successful website launches.
Fred Salchli - seasoned systems engineer and software development manager, Fred brings to Duo over 15 years of experience in the design, implementation and management of Information Technology solutions. Fred has created applications for a range of specialized needs in the public and private sectors, and has experience in data modeling, database design, implementation and tuning, programming, networking and operations. Fred holds a Masters in IT from Northwestern University, as well as earlier degrees from Skidmore College and an M.S. in Neurobiology and Physiology from Northwestern University.
Estimated Agenda:
7:00 - Arrival and socialize
7:15 - Presentation: Matthew Lechleider - Intro to Drupal 7
- break with Q&A
8:00 - Presentation: Fred and Joel - Mountains of Legacy Content into Drupal
9:15 - Q&A then beers at Dick's Last Resort?
The Chicago Drupal Meet Up Group is proud to present at least two featured presentations about the hottest Drupal topics each month. We have room for 75 people and all skill levels are welcomed. If you are brand new to Drupal we recommend attending one of our free monthly training workshops.
Duo Consulting has volunteered the meetup location. Comment your RSVP with name and bring photo ID to gain authorized access to Duo's office downtown.
Matthew Lechleider will be presenting....the time has come to start working with Drupal 7. We will start with a brief summary of what is new. Then we will jump straight into a fresh install of Drupal 7. Focus will be on modules and features everyone will utilize. Together we will add common modules and discuss changes/updates.
Fred Salchli and Joel Hughes will be presenting....Bringing 3 publication websites back to market with a limited timeframe and minimal resources made possible by the power of Acquia Drupal and great people. Scranton Gillette Communications, a leading B2B publisher, acquired multiple market-leading print and online B2B brands earlier this year. The old sites had been switched off by the seller, leaving us with only archived content in the form of flat XML files. SGC and Duo Consulting partnered to bring the websites back to life in record time. Joel Hughes and Fred Salchli will present the solution they developed and discuss how they got it right the first time.
Almost every CDMUG presentation is recorded and now available online @ http://cdmug.org/videos
If you are not able to physically attend, join us virtually in our #cdmug IRC chat room on freenode. Members hang out in the chat room on a daily basis even when meetups are not happening. If you are unfamiliar with IRC view http://drupal.org/irc feel free to utilize our web based chat client @ http://cdmug.org/chat
All meetups will be in traditional CDMUG fashion. No dress code, relaxed attitudes, open ideas, laptop encouraged, remember business cards, and we will probably go for a beer afterward.
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