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It hasn't been all that long since the last DrupalCamp here in Chicago, but the next one is only a month away! DrupalCamp Chicago 2010 will be held June 26-27 at the University of Chicago Law School in Hyde Park on the city's South Side.
Not only does moving DrupalCamp into the summer mean that we'll hopefully have better weather, it also gives the local community a lot more breathing room as planning for DrupalCon Chicago 2011 gets underway. The University of Chicago Law School (which uses Drupal to run their site) is a beautiful venue with capacity to hold even more people than last year's sellout event. This year's camp will feature two full days worth of Drupal-related content, including curated sessions, community gatherings, Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions, hands-on-training and more.
Registration is $40 for the event and covers lunch on both days. We recommend you sign up on the site and purchase your registration ASAP, as spots are limited. Sponsorships are also available for companies and organizations looking to make themselves better-known to Chicago's vibrant Drupal community.
If you're interested in presenting at DrupalCamp Chicago, now is also the time to submit your session! With five large classrooms to fill for two days, we're looking for all sorts of content, from introductory sessions for people new to Drupal all the way to advanced technical topics.
One of the great things about DrupalCamps is that they're truly community events that bring together people from all sorts of different backgrounds. This community spirit carries through to the way that these gatherings are produced and promoted; the codebase for the drupalcampchicago.org website is based on an installation provided by the organizers of last year's DrupalCamp Los Angeles, and the registration system uses a signup module developed by some of the organizers of this year's DrupalCamp Colorado.
DrupalCamp Chicago is also one of the first DrupalCamps to benefit from the fiscal agency of DrupalCon, Inc., the North American not-for-profit subsidiary of the international Drupal Association that supports Drupal education in the United States. In exchange for this assistance, DrupalCamp Chicago will (as it has in past years) donate any profits from the event back to the Drupal Association to support camps and other Drupal events around the world. Much like the software benefits from the contributions of those who develop code for it, the community also benefits from the efforts of those who work together to help spread the word to others.
We hope you'll come be a part of our community here in Chicago next month. See you there!
Drupalcamp is coming to Chicago December 12 and 13! After attracting a sellout crowd last year, this year’s Drupalcamp has been expanded, and will be held at the Hotel Orrington in downtown Evanston, located just steps from Northwestern University and only a couple of blocks from the Davis Street CTA and Metra stations. Two dozen pre-scheduled sessions will be held on Saturday, along with BoFs, hands-on training, and other “unconference” activities on both Saturday and Sunday. The camp is being put on by the Chicago Drupal community and the Chicago Drupal Meetup Group, with generous assistance from the event's sponsors, who include Palantir.
The site for the camp was built by Palantir using the Drupalcamp L.A. 2009 codebase as a starting point. The site's Chitown theme was designed by our own Steve Fisher, and has already been released back to the community (it's just a dev release right now, but as always, patches are welcome!). The theme incorporates the Chicago Druplicon logo designed by David Hwang, one of the Field Museum's Drupal gurus.
Register now, and once your registration has been paid and confirmed, don't forget to submit a session proposal - we'll only be accepting them through November 13, at which point we'll be asking registered attendees to cast votes for their favorites before announcing the full schedule by November 25. And of course, it's not too late to get in on the sponsorship action - we've got a variety of packages at all price points, allowing you to get your name in front of several hundred Drupalers and support the community (any profits from the event will go to benefit the Drupal Association).
We're looking at this as a warm-up event for Drupalcon Chicago 2011; we might not have won the Olympics, but Drupal's the next best thing!
Springtime is conference season, and this year has been a pretty busy one for us at Palantir. We just got back from Museums and the Web in Indianapolis last week, and it’s already time to start getting ready for next week’s CMS Expo. Fortunately, we don’t have to travel too far this time – it’s being held in Evanston, IL, which is only a few miles from our north Chicago office and also happens to be where a few of us live. CMS Expo is a training and business conference focusing on Drupal, Joomla!, Alfresco and other open source content management products. Along with our friends at Acquia, Palantir will be one of the conference’s sponsors, and a number of us will be presenting sessions as well:
This has been an exciting week around here. First, Palantir is hosting its first Chicago Drupal Meetup Group (CDMUG) this Thursday, Feb. 19, at 7pm. Second, my newest book, Drupal 6, JavaScript, and jQuery is on its way to the printers. Third, I'm "celebrating" the completion of the book by presenting at the CDMUG group this week, and Larry (Crell) Garfield will be presenting, too.
The official topic for this meetup is "Advanced Drupal."
I'll be covering some JavaScript topics, including using jQuery and jQuery UI to add glitzy effects. If time permits, I may also give a preview of my new Drupal module, QueryPath, which provides a jQuery-like library (but with other goodies) for PHP developers.
Larry, best known for rewriting the Drupal 7 database layer, is going to be presenting on some amazing new modules that are about to be released. There'll be fun eye candy, but also some serious workhorse tools that will spare you hours of work on your own Drupal sites.
As usual, there will be a wide range of Drupal folks here. Come get to know people in the community. Even if JavaSript isn't your thing, just hanging around with some of the brilliant Drupal minds around here is sure to be beneficial. Oh, and did I mention that there will be food?
RSVP, Please! The meetup is on Thursday, Feb. 19, at 7:00pm here at Palantir's offices.
If you are interested in coming, head on over to http://drupal.meetup.com/1/ and register to receive directions.
While all of the "assigned" slots are filled, we are going to make an earnest effort to make room for people on the waitlist. But space will be tight, so make sure you RSVP at the site.