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Free Geek Chicago needs your support please donate your individual or companies discarded computer components . When you give to Free Geek they will refurbish and recycle your components back into the local Chicago community.

DrupalCon DC is a few months away, so now is the time to VOTE for what you want the next DrupalCon to be. With almost 200 sessions proposed you have a lot to choose from! Here is a list of CDMUG member session proposals.

1. Advanced Drupal 6 Theming
ABSTRACT:

DrupalCon is THE conference for Drupal developers, and it's coming to Washington, DC, March 4 – 7, 2009! For those new to the DrupalCons, this is a huge unconference for developers. It's a time for us to get together, learn from each other, trade ideas, make decisions, and build a stronger community.

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What happens when a popular contributed module is left alone without being cared for or supported by its original maintainer(s)? Well its no guarantee but the odds are good that the Drupal community will continue to care for the project with user: 291168 otherwise known as Mr. currently unemployed living in Antigua and Barbuda.

Check out the abandoned module process for more information.

A "wheel fiddle" remix of the Drupal Song. H/T: Lullabot

It's official the Drupal Redesign team of Mark Boulton and Leisa Reichelt from Mark Boulton Design was at Drupalcon in Szeged. They discussed their strategy and initial findings for the redesign of Drupal.org. If you want to follow this projects progress or get involved keep an RSS on the Redesign group .

Full information on the conference is at Barcamp Chicago .
August 16th-17th (whole weekend, 24 hours a day)!

1240 W. Harrison St, Chicago, IL 60607 (map)
You can help out in 3 ways:

1. Show up! The entire conference is free including all talks, food and drinks (free as in free beer).

CDMUG is set to jet @ the upcoming HostingCon conference at Navy Pier . The Drupal CMS Open Source Project will be represented by your local Chicago Drupal MUG members from exhibitor booth #820 . The purpose of the event is to promote offering Drupal to all hosting providers as a default install; As well as help users find the best Drupal hosting companies . The Hostingcon Show Guide is now available.

This group is dedicated to solutions and approaches for high traffic, high performing Drupal sites. As such, it will deal with a lot of information around the rest of a typical Drupal "stack" -- the operating system, web server, database, and PHP tweaks that combine to support the Drupal application.

I found this group while researching for tips about Drupal and Cloud Computing .