August already summer has just flown by this year. End of the month is Drupalcon in London so its a great time to reach out and see if we can get a preview of some some of the sessions which will be featured in London.
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This month we have a great presentation based around explaining what Drupal is! Its not as easy as one may think to describe what the coolest open source CMS actually does. This will be a
Showcase Talk:
David Needham from Chapter Three will present his Drupalcon London Session:
SO WHAT'S THIS "DREW-PAUL" THING YOU DO? (EXPLAINING DRUPAL TO OTHERS)
You're introduced to someone by a friend. The smalltalk begins and you know what's coming.
They ask, "What do you do?" The friend who introduced you tries to understand your explanation yet again.
You say, "Um, I do Drupal." They stare back blankly as you continue.
"...it's a content management system - you know, a CMS?"
You shudder as you try again, "...it's kinda like WordPress?" Still nothing.
Eventually you give in and explain it in a way that even your grandmother could understand: "I build websites."=
Finally the look of realization comes across their face, but you feel dead inside.
This scenario is reenacted every time you meet someone. You're passionate about Drupal, but because of one reason or another you're unable to talk to people about it. Things get even more interesting if you start with your job title, in my case it's "Drupal themer and trainer." Great - at least one more term that I have to explain in gross generality.
I eventually give up and answer "I'm a web designer" to anyone who asks. Everyone does it. It makes things easier, but in today's culture it's a rather vague and unhelpful term to describe what we really do.
Intended audience
This session walks through some 'Drupal best practices' to explain your role to people who are unfamiliar with Drupal. We'll also cover techniques for combating know-it-all's and Drupal-haters, as well as ways to explain Drupal to your friends and colleagues.
Technical Talk:
Hosting Drupal is always a huge topic. Here is a presentation on how to host your Drupal web site using the amazon cloud as well as the amazon RDS service.
Installing and configuring Ubuntu & Drupal 7.7 on an Ubuntu Amazon AWS EC2 & RDS
Presented by: Harnish Goradia
Wanna learn how to run Drupal on AWS using the RDS database server this is the session for you.
Learn the in's and out of setting up an Instance connecting to a RDS database. Learn how this setup can easily scale.
This should be good!
See you at the DUG!!
Cold Beers in da Fridge
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