LAMPsig

Main Topic: Introduction to Drupal by Richard Schave

Richard's quest for social context engines, knowledge management, semantically interchangeable metadata and a user-based paradigm as tracked through the development of the last three releases of Drupal.

Content Management Systems are becoming more and more versatile in quickly building complete Websites with a minimum of coding. Drupal is one of the most popular and best established.

Those who saw our Joomla presentation should check out this comparison of Drupal vs Joomla feature sets.

Richard holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from calstatela (class of '05), and is deeply concerned with building communities that matter as a function of the improved dissemination of information between niche groups. He regularly attends the sisters of jazz sunday night jam at the world stage, and has recently built his first bio filter for his japanese goldfish pond. (They're just being Koi.)

The fifth annual Southern California Linux Expo will be Saturday and Sunday, February 10-11, 2007 at The Westin Los Angeles Airport. Every year SCALE adds to its international array of speakers and exhibits. (Last year they had Jono Bacon, one of the irreverent Brits from LUG Radio!)

This will be LAMPsig's 3.5rd time. (At SCALE 2x, we announced our first formal meeting.) Last year ours was one of the most popular user group booths (partly because we were next the the Linux Chix.) Be sure to visit our booth for one-on-one discussions of LAMP topics.

Regular admission is $60 for two days of presentations ($30 for students). $10 buys a pass to the Exhibit Hall.

This year we are going to schedule booth time to LAMP-related products or groups. If you would like an hour to promote Symfony, osCommerce, Open AOL, etc. or a related user community, send an email to JimLAMPsig at gmail dot com.