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we all look forward to this event which covers 3 very interesting presentations. Many thanks in advance to Kieran, Pat and Avi for stepping up for sharing knowledge.

Agenda of the event:

Presentation A (5.30 PM to 6.00 PM):
Demo of www.examiner.com, recent successful migration to Drupal 7.This site is ranked 185th in USA.
Presentation by Kieran Lal (Product Manager in www.Acquia.com and an evangelist of Drupal).

Presentation B (6.10 PM to 6.30 PM):
Product presentation of an iphone app using Drupal Restful API`s and communication protocols.

Reasons for migration in Drupal needs attention and discussion on when its the right time to plan it and what to watch while performing migration.

Here we have planned a detailed & focused discussion on few KEY features of Drupal, presentation and discussion will revolve around the best practices, recommended versions and other aspects based on specific applications.

• Version control
• Blogging: Blogger API support
• Aggregator
• Platform: Apache or IIS, Unix / Linux / BSD / Solaris / Windows / Mac OS X support
• Database independence

Happy New Year!!

2010 is going to be great year for the San Francisco Drupal Users Group!!

First of all there has been a major upgrade to the Parisoma facility. We have reconfigured the space, painted and best of all we have gotten a professional AV system with killer projector, very large screen sound system, and more so be sure to come on down and check it out.

Drupalcon is coming to San Francisco April 19th to 21st we will go over what we are looking for and how you can help make this the best Drupalcon to date.

We have two great presentations to start the year off right.

Working with Drupal in ways you have not thought about before. Innovation is what drives the Drupal community.

This month we are proud to have a new super innovative web site be featured in our showcase series.

http://www.jobnob.com is a site which looks at Jobs and Salaries from around the country. This site rocks has a beautiful layout and uses drupal in very innovative ways. I am looking forward to learning more about hw they built this web site.

Large Community sites and How Panels works are the two topics this month.

Drupal has prove that it can run even the largest sites out there. The team over at www.greenappleventures.com has deployed some of their largest community sites using Drupal.

This month our showcase site is http://community.mylifetime.com/ which is a huge high traffic community site running Drupal.

Listen to the people behind this site talk about why they used Drupal and how they built this site.

There are 20 seats available at next week’s San Francisco Semantic Web Meetup on the topic that will feature Jeff Walpole of Phase2. Jeff will discuss the work Phase2 has done bringing semantic technologies into Drupal sites, working with RDFa and more. In particular, Jeff will showcase OpenPublish, a new and free publishing platform based on Drupal 6.

Visit this link http://www.meetup.com/The-San-Francisco-Semantic-Web-Meetup/calendar/101... to RSVP for the event. The event is free, but you will need to join Meetup in order to participate.

We are doing a Drupal booth at MySQLcon again this year. It's a great opportunity to meet hundreds of people and help spread the word about Drupal. Many of the people at MySQLCon are familiar with LAMP and they just need to be educated about what's possible with Drupal. If you are interested in helping, please sign up.

The conference is at the Santa Clara Convention center. We will be using the Drupal booth event kit. To learn about how the event went last year see my blog post: http://acquia.com/blog/kieran/drupal-mysql-conference-day-1

Cheers,
Kieran