KWLUG Meeting: Monday, 02 June 2008

Drupal for fun and profit: How to make a career in Open Source

Meeting Date

Ah, summer time. What could be better than early evening with a Mint Julep on the dock, listening to the sweet ululations of the loons across the lake?

Well. The latest KWLUG meeting, of course!

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Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) has seen steady growth for the last two decades. Yet, it is not obvious nor easy how one would go about making a career of out FOSS.

In this presentation, we present various avenues on how to do that, with stories from the trenches.

And we should not forget the fun part ...

About the presenter: Khalid is a full time free software developer and consultant. His company, 2bits.com focuses on open source web based technologies, mainly using the Drupal web application framework and the LAMP stack.

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