On June 12 I will be giving a presentation on Drupal to the Sonoma County Systems Administrators group.

It's been a while since I have given a presentation and I think I can come up with some interesting stuff for the group. As they are a systems administrators group, I will be approaching this from a SysAdmin point of view, not so much a development point of view.

Developing a site using Drupal is only part of the fun, long term sustainable maintenance is the real goal. Drupal is a very powerful tool that lets you communicate. Maintaining that tool after you've invested time and personalization into it, is an important part of implementing your site.

While it's true, I do this as a hobby, professionally I am paid to implement and maintain sustainable Enterprise solutions. There's is not a lot of documentation on this as Drupal is only part of your web sites eco-system so it's assumed you will learn this from the various sites documentation. However, with the influx of power users and people just converting over to database driven sites, they may not realize that they need to do some research off Drupal.org as well to maintain and plan for their sites longevity.

If you are going to send someone direct email asking about something with the community, don't expect a response if your domain blocks email responses by claiming I am sending spam. Recently someone sent me a direct email asking for more specific insight in something. I tried to reply only to discover I was evidently sending spam.

So if you are sent me a message asking for something and I never replied back, Maybe I tried.

I finally got one of the video's I took uploaded to video.google.com. Karen Stevenson's Date + Calendar presentation. It should appear in a few hours. I will update with a direct link and tag it oscms2007 as soon as it appears public and I figure out how. Onto the next one.