CDMUG October 2010 Meetup

RSVP @ http://drupal.meetup.com/1

Date: Thursday October 21st 7:00pm

We are excited to announce Griffin Caprio of 1530 Technologies will be presenting Drupal and the Semantic Web. Griffin is a technologist and entrepreneur who has been helping companies of all shapes and sizes with their technology needs for over 12 years. Since 2008, he has been running two companies here in Chicago. With clients ranging in size from startups to Fortune 500, he has been leading development teams, providing lean consulting and developing mobile and enterprise applications. Playing the role of A Part Time CTO for startups in the area, he's always keeping up with the best ways to use new ( and old ) technology. He also runs the Chicago Lean Startup Circle and Chicago Semantic Web Meetup and still has never turned down a game of foosball.

Second presentation is by Emanuel London of Duo Consulting. Emanuel has developed countless Drupal modules, solved countless Drupal problems. He has experience building numerous flavors of Drupal sites but particularly likes importing data into Drupal and integrating Drupal with external systems. In addition to PHP, Emanuel is also very good in XHTML, CSS and Javascript and has done lots of Drupal theming, and also worked extensively with CiviCRM.

Estimated Agenda:
7:00 - Arrival and socialize
7:15 - Presentation: Griffin Caprio - Drupal and The Semantic Web
- break with Q&A
8:15 - Presentation: Emanuel London - Context, Spaces, Features and Open Atrium
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.

Griffin Caprio will be presenting....The Semantic Web aims to make your data accessible to a wide range of devices and services. Using semantic technologies, you can easily and automatically publish expose your data, allowing a wide range of services to utilize it. RDF forms the basis of the Semantic Web and RDFa is a special extension that enables you to embed Semantic data into your existing html. With the release of Drupal 7, RDFa is supported directly by Drupal out of the box.

In this talk I will give an introduction to the Semantic Web & RDF/RDFa. I'll also explain how you can utilize RDFa from within your Drupal installations to enable better SEO for your sites as well as increase the accessibility of your data.

Emmanuel London will be presenting....Context, Spaces, Features and Open Atrium. The goal being to first go through the 3 modules and how they work singularly and together as sort of an introduction to the concepts behind Open Atrium and then diving into Open Atrium itself.

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.

Contact us if you are interested in presenting, have ideas for the group, or have any type of feedback - http://cdmug.org/contact