Sun Microsystems, Acquia and Code Positive are pleased to invite you to a half day event focusing on the benefits and challenges of using Drupal in education.

The session will cover a number of topics relevant to the deployment of Drupal in education:

• Suitability of Drupal for brochure websites, course management and delivery, community building, and sharing of information
• Which versions of Drupal to use and the recommended modules based upon your needs
• Designing and implementing the right architecture to meet scalability and security requirements
• Commercial, Enterprise Class support and services available for Drupal and associate infrastructure

Whether you are evaluating Drupal or running in production, this is a great opportunity to learn more about Drupal deployments, put your questions to the experts, and connect with the London Drupal community.

What is Drupal?

Out of the box Drupal provides a rich toolset to manage the content and behaviour of your website, including content management and advanced community building features.

Drupal is also framework for rapid development, so new features can be quickly added by installing a plug in from a library of existing modules, over 2,000 are currently available, or you can develop your own modules and plug them in.

Who's Using Drupal?

The Open University, MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, Stanford, Yale, and many other organisations. You've probably been to a Drupal site without realising it.

Books

There will also be a chance to win copies of two Drupal books from Packt Publishing:

• Drupal for Education and E-Learning
• Building Powerful And Robust Websites With Drupal 6

Note

The event will be limited to 100 attendees. If it fills up before you get a ticket, please contact the host to let us know we need to get a bigger venue for the next event. Note that there is a pub below the venue, where the meeting will likely move afterwards.

The tag for this event is drupal4education2009, all presentations will be available after the event, and there will also be a webinar.

Drupal, Acquia, Code Positive, Sun & MySQL

Acquia is a commercial open source software company providing products, services, and technical support for the open source Drupal social publishing system. Code Positive is a Drupal specialist consultancy based in London with a long history of involvement in the Drupal community. Sun Microsystems is an active Drupal user, long term Drupal contributor, and as part of their Startup Essentials programme has very kindly provided us with an excellent venue for this event, which includes great presentation facilities. Drupal uses Sun's MySQL as the backend database for data storage.