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 publishing.

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

• Suitability of Drupal for a publication website
• Workflows, syndication, subscriptions, and publish on demand
• 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.

The event is free, but you will need to RSVP:

Streaming/Recording

Drupal For Publications will be streamed/recorded and available here:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/mysqluk

Hashtag for event is: #drupal4pub

Who's Using Drupal?

The London Paper, New York Observer, The Onion, MTV UK, The Economist, Mute, Hachette-Filipacchi, IPC....and many more. You've probably been to a Drupal site without realising it.

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 drupal4publications2009.

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.