Drupal is open source social publishing software that empowers individuals, teams, and communities to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website as well as build more complex web applications. Tens of thousands of people and organizations have used Drupal to power scores of different types of web sites, including community web portals, corporate web sites, social networking sites, personal web sites or blogs, and much more.

Drupal's roots extend deep into the Linux and Open Source communities. Drupal had its "coming out" at the 2005 FOSDEM conference in Brussels and early iterations were mainly developed on Linux.

This talk will cover the Drupal framework with an emphasis on architecture and programming patterns while touching on a number of other topics such as performance tuning and hosting integration as well as considering the underlying reasons for Drupal's wide-ranging success, all served up with a healthy smathering of awesome sauce.

The presentation will also include a short real world case study of a Drupal SaaS implementation "the BeerCloud" (an Android and iPhone application which uses Drupal as a backend)

More Information:

• Drupal
• Drupal + Services Module + Beer = BeerCloud on Android and iPhone
• Community Free Software Group

About Forest Mars & Jingsheng Wang:
Forest Mars is a Network Architect and Drupal Developer who presents on a variety of topics concerning the Future of Media including Open Source Models, Trusted Network Protocols, and Web Video Broadcasting. Coming from a background in Cybernetics and Information Theory, Forest Mars is known for his work as the Architect of New York's first WiFi Internet Service Provider, the "Two Rooms" Free Internet Cafe located in Manhattan's East Village, and "Yellow Hat" a Debian based LInux distro with Tibetan Language support. He also serves as a board member of the Community Free Software Group and Unigroup of New York.

Jingsheng Wang is a Drupal Developer, Android Developer and Reverse Engineer at GreatBrewers.com .

Meeting Location:
Please note that this meeting will be held at IBM, 590 Madison Ave, 12th floor, corner of 57th Street, and not at Google. This is the building with the IBM logo on the front of the building.

Meeting Location

Please note that this meeting will be held at IBM, located at the corner of 590 Madison Ave, and 57th Street, NY, NY. You MUST RSVP for this meeting.