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ChinaOpen: Part 2 - Drupal Open-Training
Having launched ChinaOpen this saturday, we will be shifting from Adobe's Flex/AIR track into Drupal, from Tuesday July 15, 2008 on.
This is an "introduction to Drupal" type of training, detail as follows:
7月12日， ChinaOpen 第一站：adobe flex，详细请见 http://drupalchina.org/node/4782
从7月15日起, ChinaOpen 第二站： Drupal公开课程 ，
具体课程安排如下：
7月15 第一帧 Drupal 基础
将以drupal5.x版本讲述，暂定2008年7月15日上午9：30开始
主题：
- Drupal简介及基础概念
- 安装drupal（drupal5.8）
Are investors and VCs investing in social networking startups? In Drupal based startups?
There are many ways to catch the Drupal wave - offering Drupal development and installation services, using Drupal to add social publishing capabilities to an existing web site, or building a new business based on Drupal, to name just a few. Saj Cherian (Valhalla Partners), Sean Greene (LaunchBox Digital & Rock Creek Ventures), Chuck Shotton (Pulse Media Group), and Guillermo Söhnlein (Space Angels Network) will discuss the current business and investment opportunities available in the social publishing and Drupal spaces.
This event is free and does not require registration.
Read moreImplementing Google Analytics
We'll start with a brief presentation (link below) about implementing Google Analytics, including a discussion about some of the gotchas associated with using Google Analytics with Drupal, and then see where the meeting takes us. If you have experience using any analytics package with Drupal, please attend this meeting and share your experience!!!
http://www.slideshare.net/AndyForbes/implementing-google-analytics-on-a-...
Event location:
Teqcorner, LLC. - 3rd Floor Conference Room
1616 Anderson Road
McLean, Virginia 22102
July meeting topic?
We have the TeqCorner space reserved for a meeting on July 8 6PM EDT - 8PM EDT.
Does anybody have any preferences for topic? Format? Agenda?
If we decide to stick with "the first hour is one presenter going deep on a topic" format, the presenter does not have to be local. I thought the presentation by Jeff Whatcott was quite interesting, and we can undoubtedly find other non-local folks to WebEx into the meeting.
Your thoughts?
Read moreScaling Drupal - your thoughts?
WorthPoint is planning for significent traffic growth in the second half of the year, and we're working on issues on multiple fronts. We have a high level presentation of what we're doing posted to slideshare.net:
http://www.worthpoint.com/blog-entry/draft-presentation-about-scaling-wo...
Your thoughts on what we're doing, esp. anything we missed, would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
Read moreScaling Drupal to 1,000,000+ dynamic page views a day
Event location:
Teqcorner, LLC.
1616 Anderson Road
McLean, Virginia 22102
Event topic:
Scaling Drupal to 1,000,000+ page views a day
MC:
Scott Hockett, Director of Business Operations at Phase2 Technology in Alexandria.
Speaker:
Arman Anwar, CTO, NewHelix
Description:
Read moreFor those of you that use Linkedin ...
I found a Drupal users group on Linkedin:
http://www.linkedin.com/groupInvitation?groupID=56733&sharedKey=49CE482E...
Read moreTopic of the June Nova Drupal meeting?
Introduce ChinaOpen
Three months into planning, overcoming all kinds of odds and challenges (including the latest challenge of the Chinese firewall!) -- we are pressing ahead with ChinaOpen.
And on the eve of returning to China to iron out the logistic details, I would like to point you to http://www.china-osl.com and watch the Flash-video, which captures in essence, our message, spirit and goal of our ChinaOpen initiative.
In short, this summer, for 2-months, we will round up 50-200 Chinese students to work on Open-Source projects from worldwide. Currently in two tracks:
1. Drupal, and
Module Rating and Review Service
One of the topics being discussed in a side group last night involved the hope for a site that performed ratings of existing modules which could guide Drupalers to getting what they need in a shorter period of time.
I remembered running across the below site a short time ago, which is described as being a community-powered rating and review service dedicated to helping people to find the best Drupal modules for their projects.
John Forsythe made the announcement earlier this year.
Read moreJeff Whatcott, Vice President of Marketing at Acquia, Inc, will give a presentation about Drupal
Enterprise content managers are always under pressure to increase functionality and decrease costs when implementing a content management sytem (CMS). Several open source alternative are available to replace or enhance the current selection of commercial CMS packages. One of the leading open source CMS options today is Drupal.
Come hear Jeff Whatcott, Vice President of Marketing at Acquia, Inc, discuss his views on overall trends in the content management market, specifically in Drupal as a social publishing system.
Read moreHow can China be of services to Drupal -- practically?
We have been pondering about how to best evangelize China into the Drupal community -- and in droves.
After operating in China for two years, and despite of our best trying such as holding the Drupal BootCamp event in Beijing http://www.drupalchina.org/node/3638, our biggest challenge is the practicality of getting Chinese acquainted with Drupal -- BEFORE we can even talk about having them participate into the DROP program, let alone directly contribute into module or theme writing.
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