Tiffany Farriss will be part of Jeff Eaton's March 12 panel, Selling Your Milk When the Cow is Free, about successful open source business models. Jeff and Tiffany were both part of my 2008 Content Management System Roundup panel, and both are fantastic and engaging speakers.
On March 13, I'll be hosting a workshop track of three sessions that examine several content management platforms from a variety of different perspectives. For the last couple of years, I've led panels at SXSW that compare and contrast different CMS platforms, and this year the festival's organizers asked me to put together this track to provide a more in-depth look at the topic.
The first session will be Web Content Management Systems from a Designer's Perspective, with Adobe's Scott Fegette and Los Angeles-area Drupal designer and developer Chris Charlton talking about their experiences working with WordPress and Drupal.
The second session is CMS Admin. UX Gateway to Heaven or Hell hosted by our own Steve Fisher (a member of my 2009 CMS Showdown panel), along with Jane Wells from Automattic. They'll be talking about the different approaches used by Drupal, WordPress, and Joomla! to develop the administrative user experience for each system.
Finally, I'll be joined by Drupal 7 co-maintainer Angela Byron of Lullabot and Matthew McDermott from Catapult Systems (another participant on my 2008 panel) for Bringing it All Back Home: CMS Communities, a session that will look at the communities of users, developers, and vendors that support platforms like Drupal and SharePoint.
I'm personally looking forward not only to these sessions, but to all of the great content SXSW has to offer; it's one of the few places where you can find designers, developers, entrepreneurs, academics, authors, filmmakers, and musicians all sharing the same stages and sharing their ideas about the future of interactive culture. If you're going to be in Austin next week, we hope to see you there!