March User Group:: An in depth view of Drupal

The Drupal CMS (PHP, GPL) allows you to assemble powerful web sites instead of writing them from scratch.  It supports custom inter-related data types, configurable views and summaries of all content, user-generated content, search, user accounts, roles, media handling, and much more.  Thousands of contributed modules provide all kinds of functionality.Eventually, though, many sites need custom functionality.  Join Barry Jaspan, Principal Engineer at Acquia, Inc., for a deep introduction to Drupal development, including:

• Drupal hooks
• Custom modules
• Leveraging existing modules and APIs
• What's new in Drupal 6
• Becoming a professional Drupal consultant/site developer

The worldwide Drupal conference will be here in Boston, March 3rd-6th2008!  Attend this talk then come to DrupalCon to learn even more.  See http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/ for full details.

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February User Group::Choosing an OSS license to match your business model/community

With six months now past since the release of version 3 of the GNU General Public License, there are reportedly 1200 great projects that have released code under the new license (http://www.blackducksoftware.com/oss). The addition of GPLv3 into the mix of 60+ other licenses approved as “open source” by the Open Source Initiative (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical) has not made the selection of a license for a project any easier. 

Join BostonPHP and:

• Karen Copenhaver of Choate Hall & Stewart, and
• Ira Heffan of TopCoder

as they talk about version 3 of the GPL and how to go about aligning your selection of an open source license with your business or other project goals.

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