Join us for an end of year party!
Its been a great year for Drupal and for our Long Island Drupal Group.
This marks the end of our 4th consecutive year and we are going to cap it off with a great meet up!
This month we welcome: Michael E. Meyers - VP of Developer Relations at Acquia who will be presenting:
Drupal 8 and the Benefits of Early Adoption
Becoming an early adopter has some risks, but it also has huge benefits. In this presentation, I'll cover the benefits to you and your organization in becoming early adopters of Drupal 8, give you a brief overview of new key features along with the advantages they offer, and provide practical tips on how you can get up and running quickly with D8 based on my experience at Examiner.com where we launched the first Drupal 7 site, and the first top 100 website on Drupal six months before the official release of the D7 platform.
Michael is the VP of Developer Relations at Acquia where he works closely with open source communities, and the teams at Acquia's partners and clients behind the largest and most mission critical Drupal deployments; Prior to joining Acquia, Michael was the CTO of Examiner.com, a top 50 site, and the leading contributor to Drupal 7. Michael was the founder of NowPublic.com - the first venture-backed Drupal-based startup, that he grew from an idea to a top 500 website, pioneering the concepts of citizen journalism and crowd-sourcing. In addition to his work with the leading users of Drupal, Michael is an advisor to several early stage startups and nonprofits including the board of the Drupal Association.
In addition to our guest speaker we will be raffling off over $500 in giveaways!!
All are welcome for this end of year celebration. Spread the word and lets end the year with a bang!
Food and refreshments will be served and cocktails to follow at Mary Carols.
Location:
Date / Time:
Dec 16th @ 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Place:
LaunchPad LI (Huntington)
315 Main Street, 2nd Fl
Huntington, NY 11743
855-8-LAUNCH (852-8624)
See you there!