March 3-6th: DrupalCon in Boston, MA

Hello, all,

On March 3-6th, in Boston, MA, DrupalCon 2008 will take place.

Drupal ( http://drupal.org ) is a content management system used to build traditional web sites, as well as more complex publishing platforms, social learning environments, newspapers, portfolio applications, blogging applications, school-specific YouTube clones, etc. In addition to being wildly flexible, secure, and stable, Drupal has the added benefit of being open source.

If you are at a school looking for options with expanding your web presence, this conference could help show some of the many options available. If your school is already running Drupal, this conference will provide the opportunity to meet other people using Drupal in schools, as well as provide the opportunity to meet many of the active developers within the Drupal community.

I am helping to organize some of the education-specific events: an informal meetup at Legal's Test Kitchen on Monday, March 3, and an Education-specific session within the DrupalCon. There are other education-related sessions proposed, as well as sessions of general interest to people working with (or thinking about working with) Drupal.

If you or anyone from within your school has questions, feel free to respond on-forum, or contact me directly.

Useful DrupalCon Links:

http://boston2008.drupalcon.org -- the home page of the conference site, with links to registration details

http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/session/drupal-education-meetup -- info on the meetup at Legal's Test Kitchen

http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/session/drupal-education -- info on the BoF -- feel free to comment about topics you'd like to cover, as this will be a working session.

http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/sessions -- an overview of all proposed sessions. You can log in and vote for the sessions you'd like to see occur.

Cheers,

Bill