Please come on over to Harvard for an evening with Dries Buytaert!
Where: Harvard University, Emerson 105, 125 Quincy St. Map: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=25+Quincy+St...
When: Thursday, April 15, 2010, 6:00pm-7:30pm (with reception to follow at 1737 Cambridge St.) NB: Not our usual time.
Details: Dries started Drupal, a free and Open Source CMS, as a student at the University of Antwerp. Today, Drupal is used by more than 500,000 sites, including Sony Music, Warner Brothers Records, the New York Observer, Forbes, Harvard University, Amnesty International and the Obama White House. A dedicated community of thousands of active members have contributed more than 5,000 modules for extending Drupal functionality.
In this presentation, Dries will talk about the history of Drupal, and give an update on Drupal 7, the next major version.
Please note: The topic and material of this talk will overlap with Dries’s presentation at MIT in October 2009. If you were present at that event, you will be familiar with the Drupal history–but you are still encouraged to join us for this Drupal community talk and reception.
Reception to follow: Knafel Building, CGIS, 1737 Cambridge St., Fisher Family Commons, first floor. Pizza provided by Zing Pizza ( http://www.zingpizza.com/ ) of Porter Square. Map: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=1737+cambrid...
Sponsored by: Acquia, the Institute for Quantitative Social Science of Harvard University, and the Harvard abcd-www/CMS Working Group.
Extra: internship and job opportunities: Acquia and Dries will be available for half an hour before the talk to discuss internships and job opportunities. If a student you know would be interested in working for Acquia, please invite them to come by starting at 5:30pm!
Hope to see you all there!