[drupal-docs] Fwd: [drupal-con] [oscon] propossed text for opensourcecms.com

[Dries Buytaert]

Anyone (from the marketing team) to review this?  It's going to be  
posted on opensourcecms.com and possibly on one or two other sites. :-)


> From: "Roland \"Bryght\" Tanglao" <roland at bryght.com>
>
> Here are my edits (Dries, feel free to do another edit before  
> posting). Thanks to Bert for his original draft. I wish I could  
> write Dutch  as well as Bert writes English! But of course I know  
> no Dutch, just a lot of German and some French. Just ask my German  
> teachers about my horrible written German!
>
> [logo drupal] Drupal [link] is an opensource CMS with an active and  
> dynamic community. This community, which is centred around  
> Drupal.org,  spans the whole spectrum from developers to testers to  
> documentation writers to Drupal users and site admins and to Drupal  
> consultants and entities like Bryght and CivicSpace.
>
> In the last year, Drupal-ites have started meeting  in person as  
> well as online at Drupal.org, the Drupal IRC channel and  
> mailinglists. During the O'Reilly OSCON in Portland a couple of  
> months ago[link], over 40 Drupal-ites from around the world met..  
> They manned the Drupal OSCON booth, had the coolest t-shirt [link]  
> and held a  two day mini Drupal Conference. Now on the occasion of  
> O'Reilly's first ever Euro OSCON in Amsterdam, the Drupal-ites are  
> at it again.
>
> Already 44 Drupal developers, users, documentation writers and  
> admins from around the world have signed up to meet in Amsterdam,  
> The Netherlands, site of this year's Euro OSCON. We will be  
> discussing the future of CMSes in general but more specifically the  
> current state of Drupal and its near term future. The preliminary  
> program features topics such as  Extreme Usability,  the Drupal  
> infrastructure, Drupal Package Management and the state of a Drupal  
> foundation. During Euro OSCON, there will be a session [link] about  
> Drupal API's by Károly Négyes[link]. Other Drupal events during  
> Euro OSCON include a Birds of Feather session that is free for  
> anyone to attend where the founder of Drupal with fellow Drupal  
> developers, users, documenters and site admins will answer all  
> Drupal related questions
>
> After Euro OSCON has ended, Drupal-ites will continue to stay in  
> Amsterdam for Bar Camp Amsterdam[link] The basic idea is to have a  
> FREE, open to all "unconference" like the first Bar Camp in  
> California  a month ago featuring the open source people from Euro  
> OSCON as well as anybody else who would like to attend. With both  
> Euro OSCON and the Drupal conference taking place in Amsterdam,  
> followed by Bar Camp Amsterdam, Amsterdam  will truly be the centre  
> of gravity for all thing opensource in October. Please join us at  
> Euro OSCON, the Drupal conference [link] or Bar Camp Amsterdam  
> [link]! Break your old habits and create the future with Drupal and  
> Open Source! See you in Amsterdam!
>
> ...Roland Tanglao, Chief Blogging Officer, Bryght, www.bryght.com
> HOSTED 'Web 2.0' websites for organizations and communities
> +1 604 729 7924 Skype/AIM/iChat: rtanglao
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