Gregory LeRoy
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Sometimes getting Drupal installed on your laptop,desktop, or server can be a bit tricky. To help you with that, we'll gathered some of Austin's top Drupal experts to help you with the installation.

Questions? lynnbender@geekaustin.org

(mt) Media Temple brings you the official SXSWi closing party once again! Help us make 2010 the most awesome (mt)+SXSWi blow out ever! Experience the party Tuesday, March 16th at the Mohawk.

One of the most anticipated, high-profile product re-branding and re-launch efforts of this past year, Microsofts Bing didnt just gain mind- and search-share, it earned it through unique positioning and a holistic social media marketing strategy. An informative, entertaining look into how the right advertising and social media marketing efforts...

Effective dashboard design delivers on the promise of targeted, accessible, and actionable information for organizations looking to maximize their profits. Through good, bad, and very ugly examples, you will learn about practical design techniques and challenges that dashboard designers face today.

Wireframes and mocks arent enough on their own. Functional specs are boring. Weve found prototypes to be an incredible tool for bringing a design spec or concept to life. Learn how to make and present prototypes to improve all stages of the design and development cycle.

Derek Woodgate and DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid will discuss excerpts from DJ Spookys book, Sound Unbound, which deals with the role of sound and digital media in an information-based society, talking about the history of the soundsytem and the way networks transform creative processes. As part of the conversation, DJ...

On its surface, Amazon.com just seems like a large e-commerce site, albeit a successful one. Its design isnt flashy, nor is it much to write home about. But deep within its pages are hidden secrets -- secrets that every designer should know about. If one looks closely at what the team...

The medium is the message. On the web, the medium is community. This shift has made legacy CMS products as outdated as scribes and printing presses. Open source technologies are disrupting this market and moving into mainstream enterprises. Join Drupal founder Dries Buytaert as he discuss how social publishing will bring...

An effective content management system is a must for any content-based web service. This technical session will discuss elements of designing and building a custom CMS that leverages technology and existing web data from sources such as Flickr and Wikipedia to automate research and increase time spent writing original content.

Mashable is proud to announce our 2nd Annual MashBash SXSWi, an evening celebration during Austin’s annual SXSWi festival. On Sunday, March 14th 2010 from 10pm till 1am, Mashable will be hosting an official SXSWi evening event at Buffalo Billiards in Austin, Texas, sponsored by Cliqset and Sony.

1,600 people will come and enjoy a night of...

Babette Pepaj of BakeSpace.com and Nichelle Stephens from Cupcakes
Take The Cake will be in Austin for SXSW and we want to eat cupcakes with you!

Stop by The Tiniest Bar in Texas for cupcakes and you may win a KitchenAid mixer.

Sponsored by KitchenAid, Cupcakes Take The Cake is inviting bloggers,
startups, techies to come eat yummy cupcakes from...

The Block Party, modeled after the popular pub crawl, was so popular last year that were bringing it back to the 2010 Trade Show. Mix and mingle with exhibitors in a festive atmosphere while enjoying complimentary appetizers and beverages.

Most startups begin with a basic LAMP stack (on PHP or Python) and then add database replication and memcache as they grow. But then what? Theres a big gap between these out-of-the-box solutions and what it takes to run something bigger.

Last year we had a blast getting together before SXSW started on Sunday for a geek breakfast. We'd LOVE to have you there time.

GeekBreakfast.org is no-strings attached movement of cool people meeting in cities monthly to network and enjoy a meal together.

All Whole Foods food service is available. They have a BBQ bar, raw bar, seafood bar,...

Join us for happy hour drinks and appetizers at Cedar Door and learn what we are working on at Mozilla. Party is limited to the first 250 guests who arrive - please RSVP here!

Augment your reality at SXSW with a few frosty beverages as Razorfish kicks off the conference upstairs at the Paradise. But don’t forget your badge! Your conference badge or a Razorfish business card is required for entry.

Many tech fields have a low percentage of women. If you are a guy do you wonder what you can do about it? Learn about successful strategies and proactive approaches for supporting women you work with and participate in community with. We will even cover some well-intentioned efforts that have gone...

In the summer of 2009, Chapter Three launched Pantheon, an open-source cloud hosting initiative for the Drupal development community. In this talk, CTO Josh Koenig dissects "The Cloud" as a concept, gives a tour of the marketplace for cloud services, and digs into what it takes to build a application on...

Bike Hugger is back for another year at SXSW with more Bike Culture than ever:

* Urban Ride
* BBQ
* After Party

Which web framework will rule them all? As an audience member you pick the winner! We will present an introduction to a variety of web frameworks including Rails, Django, Catalyst, and Sinatra. You can vote for the best web framework in categories such as URL handling, database integration, forms, HTML templating,...