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O’Reilly Webcast: Everything You Wanted to Know About Drupal but Were Afraid to Ask

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 20, 2008

Join us for this free live webcast:

Everything you wanted to know about Drupal but were afraid to
ask Presented by Jeff Eaton and James Walker, authors of “Using
Drupal

In this live, online event, Drupal developers Jeff Eaton and
James Walker will guide newcomers through the nuts and bolts of
Drupal’s content management system, content management framework,
and community. They’ll cover the evolution of CMSes and how Drupal
fits in, discuss some of Drupal’s philosophies towards concepts
such as content management and software architecture, and explain
some of the fundamentals about Drupal’s extensible APIs. Finally,
they will muse about Drupal’s thriving community and how best to
leverage and participate within it.

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Attendance is limited, so register now. We’ll send you a reminder
before the webcast. And please feel free to share this invitation
with others.

Date: Friday, Dec. 5 at 10 am PT
Price: Free
Duration: Approximately one hour
Meeting link: http://oreilly.com/go/Drupal
Audience: Developers and site-builders interested in learning more
about the Drupal CMS and its capabilities.

Questions? Please send email to webcast@oreilly.com

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About Jeff Eaton

Jeff Eaton has been building Internet and desktop software for
over a decade. He’s participated in projects ranging from
web-portals for communities and nonprofits, to enterprise
client-server applications for retail industries, to large-scale
web applications for companies like Dow AgroSciences and Prudential
Real Estate. In 2005, he began developing solutions based on the
open-source Drupal content management framework. In the years
since, he’s become a core developer for the Drupal project,
specializing in architecture and API development. In his capacity
as a consultant for Lullabot Consulting, LLC, he’s helped plan and
build the software infrastructure for Drupal sites including MTV
UK’s music portal, SonyBMG’s artist site platform, and Fast
Company’s groundbreaking business networking site. Jeff is known as
“eaton” on drupal.org.

About James Walker
Passionate about both technology and teaching, James Walker is
Lullabot’s Director of Education where he oversees the company’s
public workshops, seminars and private Drupal trainings. A leader
in the Drupal community, James is a founding member of the
non-profit Drupal Association and the Drupal security team. As a
long time member of the Drupal community, James maintains over a
dozen modules and has contributed countless patches to Drupal core.
A long time believer in Open Source and Open Standards, James has
spent years co-ordinating Drupal’s involvement with other
communities such as Jabber/XMPP and, most recently, OpenID. An
engaging speaker, James is a frequently requested presenter at many
types of technical conferences. His humorous and informative
lectures have been among the most well-attended at DrupalCons,
starting with the first – four years ago. James is known as
“walkah” on drupal.org.

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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