Drupal Meetup


Details
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What: Cebu Drupal Meetup
When: February 22, 2012, Wednesday, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Where: TBD (somewhere in Cebu's IT Park)
Speaker: Andrew Kucharski, CEO, www.prometsource.com
Who should attend: Drupal developers, anyone interested in Drupal and open source
Cost: FREE
Why: Let's talk Drupal!
It's been awhile since we got together at Exist's Tech Bar. Let's meetup and get to know the latest happenings, and rebuild our local Drupal community. We will have an informal session with our speaker who will talk about Drupal projects, practices in development and potential job opportunities.
Event Host: Jonathan Himbing
http://www.prometsource.com/people/jonathan-himbing
About Promet Source
Promet Source, http://www.prometsource.com , is a Chicago-based company specializing in Drupal development and organizer of the DrupalCamp Manila http://2012.drupalcampmanila.com on Feb 25, 2012. Promet Source is planning to open an office in the Philippines this year and possibly Cebu.
(Side note from TechTalks: Yay! Let's support this event and show our Cebuano talents!)
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About Andrew Kucharski:
Andrew Kucharski is a founder of Promet Source and iSupport Digital He has more than 15 years of technical and project management experience from startups to Fortune 50 firms with industry experience in banking, telecommunications, government, and association technology management. Mr. Kucharski's eCommerce experience dates to 1998 with the implementation of highly scalable enterprise solutions for telecommunications providers. Representative clients include Yahoo, MSN, Best Buy, Sony...
Source: http://www.prometsource.com/people
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What is Drupal?
Drupal (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Loudspeaker.svg/11px-Loudspeaker.svg.png / (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_English)ˈ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_English#Key)d (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_English#Key)r (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_English#Key)uː (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_English#Key)p (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_English#Key)əl (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_English#Key)/ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IPA_for_English)) is a free and open-source (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software) content management system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_system) (CMS) and content management framework (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_management_framework) (CMF) written inPHP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP) and distributed under the GNU General Public License (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_GPL).[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drupal#cite_note-licensingfaq-1)[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drupal#cite_note-over-2)[4] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drupal#cite_note-reqs-3) It is used as a back-end (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-end) system for at least 1.5% of all websites (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_wide_web)worldwide[5] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drupal#cite_note-4)[6] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drupal#cite_note-5) ranging from personal blogs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog) to corporate, political, and government sites including whitehouse.gov (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitehouse.gov) and data.gov.uk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data.gov.uk).[7] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drupal#cite_note-6) It is also used for knowledge management (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_management) and business collaboration.
Source: Wikepedia
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For those who can attend the event in Manila, note that DrupalCamp Manila 2012.drupalcampmanila.com (http://2012.drupalcampmanila.com/) will be held on Feb 25, 2012.
DrupalCamp Manila is an annual conference organized by the Philippine Drupal Users Group (http://groups.drupal.org/philippines) (PHDUG). Our 2012 DrupalCamp will be on Saturday February 25 at Marine Science Institute, UP Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines.

Drupal Meetup