I spent Sunday flying to San Francisco for this year's DrupalCon. Attending this Drupal conference is a first for me. For the past few years. I've wanted to attend the conference but either personal or professional distractions came up that prevented me from attending the conference. This year is my year for DrupalCon and I'm anxious to get to know the Drupal community better than I have in the past.
The Gilbane Group is gearing up quickly for another one of their conferences. The Gilbane Content Management Conference in San Francisco will be held May 18-20, 2010. This year's conference will cover a number of topics including Web technologies, content management, and collaboration tools.
Gilbane San Francisco is organized into four tracks so that whether you are responsible for marketing, IT, a business unit, or an internal function, you will be able to easily navigate among the conference sessions. The four tracks include:
CMS Report is proud to be a media sponsor for Gilbane San Francisco 2010. If you plan on going to the conference, CMS Report has some good news that is going to save you some money. Our sponsorship of the conference entitles CMSReport.com readers to receive a special $200 discount to the conference. To receive the $200 discount, you'll need to use the code "cmsreport" when you're asked for it during the registration process.
Registration prices are expected to go up after April 9, 2010 so you'll want to hurry and buy your tickets now. Be sure to let them know that CMS Report sent you there so you get your discount.
It is Day 2 for the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2009 and like many of you, I'm not at the conference. That's alright though because there are plenty of smart people at the conference more than willing to talk about what they are seeing there. It's a good idea to follow some of these people around and let them be our eyes and ears.
Probably one of the most vocal SharePoint evangelists I've come across is Michael Gannotti. I've been following him on Twitter for some time. He's recently posted his take on SharePoint 2010 on the SharePoint Expert Blog.
SharePoint 2010 is absolutely the biggest most important release of SharePoint to date and in the opinion of this techie the single most important product release since Windows 95! Think I have drank a little too much of the Kool-Aid? Well consider how this rev of SharePoint addresses connecting and empowering people, cutting costs through a unified infrastructure, as well as providing a platform that facilitates a rapid response to business needs. Need more convincing after reading this post? Then be sure to check out "What makes Microsoft SharePoint tick?" by Mary Jo Foley. After that if you are still wondering what all the fuss is about why not check out these three videos by the SharePoint team that provide an overview of SharePoint 2010, as well as focuses for the IT Pro and Developer. Once you are sufficiently salivating then be sure to pre-register for the SharePoint 2010 beta here!!
Mike has a lot more to say about SharePoint 2010 and I encourage you read the rest of his post. SharePoint 2010 sound like an exciting package and finally taking Web content management a little more seriously. However, I suppose I'll personally have to wait as my organization is only now deploying SharePoint 2007. I have to wonder, if companies are slow in upgrading their Windows operating systems...are they any faster in upgrading their SharePoint platform?
The sixth annual Gilbane Conference in Boston will be held on December 1-3, 2009. This year's conference will cover a number of topics on content management, collaboration, and customers. For 2009, the Gilbane Conference is more focused than ever on the business impact of content solutions that are here right now and ready to be implemented right now.
Every program component of the conference is tied to the business issues surrounding marketing, technical and enterprise content. The conference has taken the four major areas of how enterprises use Web and content technologies and organized them into tracks that make it easy to customize an agenda that meets your business objectives. The four tracks include:
I'll be honest, I'm envious of those people that are able to attend the Open Source Content Management System Summit (OSCMS). As Boris Mann pointed out in his post, the interest in the conference was so overwhelming that registration closed as quickly as it opened. I sat on the fence in my decision to go or not to go way too long that I was flat out of luck. That's alright though. I wouldn't have wanted to take up someone's seat who may have been more deserving of attending OSCMS. While I spend a lot of time writing about CMS, a lot of the people in the crowd spend a lot of time creating their project's CMS.&nbs
InfoWorld has a very good article centering around this week's Zend/PHP Conference & Expo. In their article, "PHP event: Open source accommodation stressed" a few good opening lines to use as a teaser for the article:
Rather than fighting the open source wave, commercial IT vendors do what they must: try to ride that wave...
..."It seems to us from where we sit that there's really no choice," said Tim Bray, a Web-oriented generalist at Sun and a co-inventor of XML. "A substantial portion of the market has made it clear with their wallets that they want to deploy and run open source software."
"We can't go back. It's too late," Bray said.