January Drupal Meetup

January's Drupal Meetup promises to be so interesting and useful it hardly needs introduction. So I'll try to keep it short.

First, please remember that OpenSourcery's office has moved to 1636 NW Lovejoy, between 16th and 17th Streets. Drupal Meetups are free and open to the public: everyone from Drupal power users to newbies is invited. And while we generally focus on one topic, every Meetup has its fair share of question-and-answer and free-flowing discussion.

January's Topic and Presenter

We're fortunate to welcome Todd Tomlinson, a managing partner with Aha Consulting, to speak with us about Panels. Todd will go through the process of creating a project management workbench using Drupal 6, Panels 2.0 and Views. He will demonstrate the concepts in a workshop format - with lots of hands on activities. If you have a laptop please bring it to the meeting.

As Todd states in his introduction: "Panels 2.0 is a powerful and feature-rich toolset that every Drupal developer should have in their tool belt. Panels provides the ability to significantly enhance your ability to render content on your site through a simple point/click/drag and drop interface."

Todd has 30+ years in the IT industry and also serves as the Senior Professor and Area Chair for the School of Information Technology at the University of Phoenix - where he teaches web design and development. Todd has been involved in developing web CMS solutions since the mid-90's - focusing his efforts on Drupal for the past 3 years.

Please mark your calendar and be sure to join us Wednesday, January 14 from 6pm until 8pm. For more information contact thomas@opensourcery.com and visit the Portland Drupal Users Group page here.

We look forward to seeing you there.