Thank you to everyone who came to Drupal For Enterprise yesterday, about 90 people attended, almost a full house, and it turned out to be a very interesting and diverse audience.

Thank you also to all the presenters, specially Robert Douglass who had the tough gig of giving his talk to a camera with no way of getting feedback from the audience, well done!

Many thanks to Stewart Townsend, Mark Baker and Ivan Zoratti from Sun and MySQL for being great hosts and supplying us with plenty of pizza and beer to keep us going.

Below are the slides of presentations: 

• Enterprise 2.0 With Open Source Software (Mark Baker - MySQL)
• Enterprise Class Scalability For Drupal And MySQL (Mark Baker - MySQL)
• Building A Scalable Drupal Cluster On EC2 (Peter Brownell - Code Positive / School of Everything)
• Drupal Security Overview (Robert Castelo - Code Positive / Drupal Security Team)
• Enterprise Search Solutions For Drupal (Robert Douglass - Acquia)
• Drupal As A Configuration Management Database (Simon Croome - Nomura)
• Automatic Sales Reports For Thousands of Clients Via Drupal Integration (Darren Mothersele - Freelance Developer)

Thank You Sun & MySQL

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, and will also be
supplying drinks and nibbles. Thank you also to MySQL for helping to plan and publicise this event, and contributing two great presentations.

From Sun's announcement of the programme:

Join the Sun SSE programme to make sure that you get the enterprise scale innovation and support you need, at start up prices you want, to help make your company succeed now and in the future.

• Enabling Startups to succeed:
  Join Startup Community forums and meet-ups
  Technology to suit your needs; Hosting, Hardware, Software, Support
  Leverage Sun’s own PR engine to drive awareness of your company
• No software costs, no license fees, Office Software for FREE
  Open Office: the free and open productivity suite
  Open Solaris: the free and open operating system
  MySQL: the worlds most popular open source database

Be part of something special, we listen, we understand, we help you.

Sign up and join the community today: http://uk.sun.com/startups
(…don’t ask us, ask our customers; fav.or.it, Glasses Direct, and the rest)

If you're interested in deploying Drupal on Sun servers see WorkHabit Tests Drupal on x2200, T5220.

[Posting this on behalf of Gergely Schmidt and Kristof Van Tomme, co-lead for Drupalcon in Szeged]

In two weeks over 500 people will come together in Szeged Hungary for this fall's most important event in the Drupal community. We checked out low cost carriers and calculated that from London you can already attend Drupalcon including participation fee, travel and accommodation expenses (at one of the hostels) from 464 EUR!

No matter if you are new to Drupal or if you are a veteran, Drupalcon is a great opportunity to deepen your knowledge of the Drupal platform. On Drupalcon you'll discover half a dozen modules you never heard of, talk with the people that have found solutions for the problems you are facing, you will maybe even find somebody to develop your site, work for you or send you some extra projects...

So far we have 470 registered attendees from 35+ countries including most of the cream of the worldwide Drupal community. We've got a 4 day program that spans a lot of the Drupal space with four tracks that cover: Drupal core, contributions and trends; Showcases, user experience and design; Code development; and Growing Drupal. And if this is not enough for you, there will be a lot of cutting edge topics that will still find their way into a BoF session and a Code sprint where you hack away with some of the people you only know from their screen name.

We found that you can fly to Budapest from 220 EUR. On http://szeged2008.drupalcon.org/hotel you can find accommodation from 12 EUR/night and then there is the train to Szeged that will still cost you 24 EUR. In total this brings you to 464 EUR.

Departure Tue 26. Aug.
SWISS Flight LX0317
Leave 08:40 Heathrow (LHR)
Arrive 14:00 Ferihegy (BUD)

Return Sun 31. Aug.
SWISS Flight LX2251
Leave 09:50 Ferihegy (BUD)
Arrive 17:45 Heathrow (LHR)

Here's the presentations from the Drupal For Developers event in London, July 2008:

• Node Juebox Development Pattern (Robert Castelo - Code Positive)
  (no audio, so might be difficult to follow. I'll turn this into an easier to follow recipe post soon)
• Advanced Multisite Drupal (Peter Brownell - Code Positive) (coming soon)
• Drupal on Amazon AWS (Ben Alexander & Ben Steele - Comic Relief)
• Translating Drupal Websites (Sean Burlington - Practicalweb and Russell Blakeborough - SOE)
• Programmatically Creating Drupal Nodes (Darren Mothersele - Freelance Developer)

Thanks once again to Stewart Robinson, Michael Smith and Tom from The Economist for being such great hosts!