[DLC] Drupal Camp Wisconsin - 19 January 2008

[Larry Garfield]

For those interested in Drupal, the PHP-based CMS that has taken the web 
development world by storm, there will be a regional Drupal Camp event later 
this month in Milwaukee!

See:
http://barcamp.org/DrupalCampWI
http://groups.drupal.org/node/7305

The short version:
What: Drupal, PHP, and one of the coolest open source communities out there.
When: Saturday 19 January 2008, 10 am - 10 pm
Where: Milwaukee School of Engineering

At least three leading Drupal developers will be there that I know of, and the 
venue is supposed to be able to hold up to 100.  Help us test that 
theory! :-)

For DePaul students in particular, this is a great opportunity.  If you want 
to get into the IT world after graduating, open source is where it's at.  You 
want to graduate with at least 2 years of resume fodder under your belt, and 
working on an open source project absolutely counts.  Some employers even 
count that more than working on a proprietary project, because the skills are 
more easily transferable (and they can actually see your work rather than 
just hear you talk about it).  

Drupal is a very open development process and community that is on growing by 
leaps and bounds, and we can always use more developers, testers, 
documenters, usability experts (we take usability very seriously, and we'd 
love to have some more HCI grads involved), you name it.  Drupal is also very 
active in Google Summer of Code (the SoC web site has run on Drupal for the 
past 2 years), so if you're interested in getting paid to work on open source 
this summer, you definitely want to come and get your foot in the door.

Hope to see you there.  And please, spread the word!

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