We’re proud to be co-sponsoring DrupalCamp Austin 2009!

This will surely be a cool event this upcoming Saturday and Sunday, dedicated to timely topics of development, design, and business by and for the local Drupal community.  (Note the ENTERMEDIA room where all the Design and Business track sessions will be held.)

Our own Nick Lewis will be presenting on the topic of Building Amazing Interfaces with Drupal & jQuery UI.  Oh yes.

We hope we’ll see you there. Register here!

The facts:

Who?

• Drupal Gurus and Newbies!
  
• Drupal users, developers, designers and decision makers. It’s where community ties are strengthened and Drupal’s future is decided.

What?

• DrupalCamp!
  
• Where some of the best developers and leading business owners cross paths, exchange ideas, find partners and conceive projects.

Where?

• Norris Conference Center!
  
• Three large meeting rooms for speaker sessions, keynotes, and BoFs. Located at Northcross Center (Anderson Ln. and Burnet Rd.).

Why?

• 20 sessions (10 each day)
• Two keynotes (one each day)
• Session tracks include: development, design, and business
• Dedicated Birds of a Feather (BoF) space
• Breakfast and lunch are included each day

ENTERMEDIA cofounder Ethan Worrel and our Head Drupal Chef Nick Lewis will be the speakers tonight at the July meeting of the Austin Drupal Meetup on the interrelated topics of UX, The Client, The Project, and Drupal.

The meetup will run from 7-10p and held at UT’s ACTLab (4th Floor CMB, Studio B, corner of Guadalupe and Dean Keeton).  Ethan and Nick will take turns presenting their brief remarks and then open the floor for questions and comments.

Without giving too much away, here’s a sampling of what you can expect to hear tonight from two of our own most thoroughly enlightening and well-mannered professionals:

UX:

• Fully leverage everything the user already knows
• Display the most valuable data…let users dig for the fine detail
• Make decisions so your users don’t have to

The Client:

• Guide them to think in terms of page types
• Demand supporting content early and often
• Most of the time, you are the client

The Project:

• Making tough choices that pay off in the long run for both parties
• How to use the Website Price Estimator 5000
  

Drupal:

• Clients can figure out how taxonomy works well enough, but how taxonomy fits into the concept of view arguments?  That’s a different story…
• [pause for laughter...the audience will think its funny...]