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We are proud to announce the keynote speakers at DrupalCon Copenhagen 2010: Rasmus Lerdorf (topic to be crowdsourced), Jeremy Keith (Design of HTML5) and Dries Buytaert (State of Drupal).
The State of Drupal
Dries Buytaert, Drupal Project Lead
Tuesday, August 24th
Dries Buytaert will discuss where Drupal is and where it is going. In particular, he’ll discuss the final preparations for the release of Drupal 7, the Drupal.org redesign, and the plans for Drupal 8.
Dries Buytaert is passionate about the web, open source, and photography. He is the original creator and project lead of Drupal, an open source social publishing system. He is co-founder and chief technology officer of Acquia, a venture-backed software company that offers products and services for Drupal. Dries is also working on Mollom, a service that helps you identify content quality and that stops website spam.
Topic to be decided by you
Rasmus Lerdorf, PHP Project Founder
Wednesday, August 25th
Tell Rasmus which topic you would like him to focus on by leaving a comment on the DrupalCon Copenhagen site.
Rasmus Lerdorf is known for creating the PHP project in 1995 and he has contributed to a number of other open source projects over the years. Rasmus was most recently an infrastructure architect at Yahoo! for over 7 years before joining WePay in 2010. He was born in Greenland, grew up in Denmark and Canada and has a Systems Design engineering degree from the University of Waterloo. You can follow @rasmus on Twitter.
The Design of HTML5
Jeremy Keith, Author of HTML5 For Web Designers
Thursday, August 26th
Everyone's talking about the benefits of HTML5 for Web applications but the specification also introduces an extra layer of semantic richness to our Web documents. These additions aren't wishful thinking for some far-flung future: you can start using them today. That's because the design principles driving HTML5 are steeped in pragmatism. Find out how important good design principles are to any project, whether it's a website, a content management system, or the very language that underpins the World Wide Web.
Jeremy Keith is an Irish web developer living in Brighton, England where he works with the Web consultancy firm Clearleft. He wrote the books DOM Scripting, Bulletproof Ajax, and most recently, HTML5 For Web Designers. His latest project is Huffduffer, a service for creating podcasts of found sounds. When he’s not making websites, Jeremy plays bouzouki in the band Salter Cane.
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Sounds great
I look forward to it. Off on a tangent, but why is it that people working on the web always proclaim they are passionate about web development, or css, or open source in their write ups? You never hear of violinists being passionate about classical music, or scientists being passionate about science.
Im pretty sure you do hear of
Im pretty sure you do hear of musicians and scientists being passionate about their work.
True
Yup, that's true.
Rasmus keynote
@Rasmus: I'd like to see "The state of PHP - web programming beyond 2010".
* What programming techniques does PHP encourage or discourage?
* How is OOP intended in PHP and how shall we adapt Drupal to leverage the full potential?
* New features in PHP 5.3 and PHP 6?
* Scalable programming in PHP - what language constructs are slow and what shall we use instead?
* PHP community process - how do we get those ugly function workarounds ( http://api.drupal.org/api/group/php_wrappers/7 ) back to PHP core?
when can fully object-oriented be used in drupal?
I want to know when can fully object-oriented be used in drupal ? thanks!
Interesting stuff
All 3 keynote speakers (Rasmus, Jeremy, Dries ) have very impressive profiles. I am looking forward to know what Dries has to say about Drupal 7, OOP, and of course about version 8.
Bests of the bests!
Dries Buytaert, Rasmus Lerdorf, Jeremy Keith... What else you can expect! DrupalCon Copenhagen 2010 is going to be rocking!
Looking forward.
Yeah - Rasmus Lerdorf -> tell
Yeah - Rasmus Lerdorf -> tell them about OOP
that's slated for Drupal 9.
2038.
Keith Rocks!
Just wanted to say that Jeremy Keith is IMO one of the very best technical writers out there. I have read (and enjoyed) all three of his books -- on DOM Scripting, Ajax, and HTML5 -- and hope that he writes more of them. I can't think of *any* other example of a technical writer whose style and clarity was such that I actively made a note to myself to remember that particular author. I've spent enough good money on bad tech books that if he writes a book on anything I'm *remotely* interested in, I'll buy it.
[Mr. Keith -- Pls leave the envelope stuffed with cash in my mailbox. Thx. ;-) ]
As a greek I'm impressed
As a greek I'm impressed Jeremy knows how to play the bouzouki, that's not an easy instrument to play :)