MonadLUG notes, 10-May-2007, dd and Seth Cohn, Drupal

[Ted Roche]

Ten attendees made it to the May meeting of the Monadnock Valley Linux
User Group, held as usual on the second Thursday of the month at the
School Administrative Unit #1 offices, Hancock Road, Peterborough.

Bill Freeman presented his thoughts on the Man Page of the Month: dd.
Bill provided two pages of notes. Quite the discussion followed obscure
and useful things dd could do, such as preserve floppy drive images for
posterity, copy music CDs to images for subsequent loopback mount and
playing, copy and restore bootblock records and of course read and write
tapes.

Seth Cohn was the featured speaker of the night and spoke on Drupal, the
content management system. Seth has screenshots of a surprising number
and variety of sites that are running on Drupal, presented a bit of
Drupal history - seems it's been around for a long time, and had a
fairly stable history - and its current state, with fairly large and
active communities of developers and implementors. He covered a bit of
the architecture and philosophy of the modular design of Drupal and did
the fairly painless install and initial configuration. 9 PM came too
soon as there was lots more to see.

Thanks to Seth for presentation, to Bill for MPoM, to Charlie for
organizing the meeting and to all for attending and participating.


-- 
Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com