Drupalcon Boston 2008 Itinerary

A quick overview of where I'll be at Drupalcon next week. Pete Karl and I will be staying at the Courtyard Boston in South Boston from Monday until Thursday. Let us know if you'll be there (we're on the lookout for a Wii).

While the Drupal committee still makes changes to the schedule, here is my tentative itinerary (and here's Pete's):

Mon: 8:00a - Morning Coffee and Registration
Mon: 9:00a - Drupal Multimedia
Mon: 10:30a - Mid-Morning Break
Mon: 11:00a - Keynote: Drupal State of the Union (Room 253ABC)
Mon: 12:30p - Lunch
Mon: 1:30p - Converting mock-ups to Drupal themes
Mon: 2:30p - Site Recipe: Tracking Event Results with CCK and Views
Mon: 3:30p - Design on the Edge of Drupal
Mon: 4:15p - Business & Job Fair with afternoon snack and beverage break (Rooms 251 and 252A)
Mon: 5:00p - News Industry Meetup (time and place TBD)

Tues: 8:00a - Morning Coffee and Registration
Tues: 9:00a - Burn the Help Manual: A Strategy for Self-Explaining UX Design
Tues: 10:30a - Mid-Morning Break
Tues: 11:00a - Keynote: Google & Open Source (Room 253ABC)
Tues: 12:30p - Parade to AIIM show floor then lunch
Tues: 1:45p - Drupalcon Tutorial: Best practices in development environments, staging, build management and production environments (stoked)
Tues: 3:15p - Afternoon snack and beverage break (Room 251)
Tues: 3:45p - Theming with the Theme Developer module (stoked again)
Tues: 5:00p - Training Drupal Developers

Weds: 8:00a - Morning Coffee and Registration
Weds: 9:00a - jQuery and Drupal - A match made in heaven
Weds: 10:30a - Mid-Morning Break
Weds: 11:00a - Keynote: Brian Aker, MySQL (Room 253ABC)
Weds: 12:30p - Lunch
Weds: 1:30p - Sex Drupal & Rock 'n Roll - A theming love story
Weds: 3:00p - Afternoon snack and beverage break (Room 251)
Weds: 3:30p - Drupal as a GIS / Mapping Platform (hello geographically-based news)
Weds: 4:45p - Scalable Theming - Theming for 100s of node types, CCK fields and views

Thurs: 8:00a - Morning Coffee and Registration
Thurs: 9:00a - Information Architecture to Drupal Architecture
Thurs: 10:30a - Mid-Morning Break
Thurs: 11:00a - Popular, high traffic, and enterprise Drupal sites showcase
Thurs: 12:30p - Lunch
Thurs: 1:30p - Triggers and Actions and Hooks, Oh My!
Thurs: 2:30p - What's in a Theme: The power of enterprise-level theming
Thurs: 3:15p - Afternoon snack and beverage break (Room 251)
Thurs: 4:00p - Closing Plenary (Room 253ABC)

Fri: 4:51p - Back to the NY.

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