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For the first time ever DrupalCon is proud to offer professional training courses to its attendees. These courses are taught by Drupal experts and cover a wide range of topics ranging from how to build your first Drupal site to how protect yourself from security threats.

DrupalCon recognizes the increasing need for quality Drupal training. The goal is to expand the Drupal community by reaching out to new comers, and to increase the general knowledge base by sharing expertise in one area to people with skills in another.

Add training to your order when you purchase your DrupalCon ticket, or revisit the list of available offerings to sign up for training at any time.

• What Is Drupal? An introductory seminar
• Intro to Site Building: Hands-On Training
• Intro to Module Development: Hands-On Training
• Intro to Theme Development: Hands-On Training
• Ubercart Hands-On Training
• CiviCRM Hands-On Training
• Configuring, Customizing and Extending CiviCRM
• OpenPublish Hands-On Training
• Drupal Security: seminar and Hands-On Training

These courses will be held on Sunday April 18th in the conference venue. Choose the one that's right for you, and ramp-up on your Drupal knowledge before the conference begins!

Holy cow, over 400 sessions were submitted this last month - enough for 3 Drupalcons! Now comes the the fun part - reviewing sessions and voting for the ones you'd like to see.

Session voting opens today and lasts until March 1st. That means you have 2 weeks to find the gems and give them your mark of approval. Remember, every vote counts! The final schedule will be posted on March 15th.

To vote, browse the session list, choose the sessions you'd like to see and click on the 'Vote!' button. Bookmark your top picks so you can find them easily when the schedule is posted.

To those who submitted, thank you! Now, use every brand of social media to get the word out about your session. Tweet it, Facebook it, tattoo it on your arm, because there's going to be some tight competition this time around with so many stellar-sounding presentations.

Only 59 more days until Drupalcon, looking forward to seeing you there!

Can you believe that there are only 64 days left until DrupalCon San Francisco?! Starting April 17th, more than a thousand (we think it will be more than two thousand!) people will be converging at the Moscone center in San Francisco for a great program of Drupal sessions, and we are really looking forward to seeing what happens when the community gets together at another one of these fabulous events. Session proposals have been open for almost a month and there's a lot of great stuff in there.

If you want to submit a proposal but you haven't, you still have time! Visit the session proposal page, and put your hat in the ring, but you better act fast! After Monday February 15th, we're closing session proposals so that on the 16th, we can open up community voting and let all of you tell us which of the sessions you would most like to see. Voting will continue until March 1st, 2010. If there is a session that you really want to see at DrupalCon, rally support and tell all your friends to vote.

On March 1st the DCSF planning committee will begin work on session selections. Your votes will play a huge part in which proposals get the strongest consideration. Speakers will be notified on March 5th whether their sessions have been accepted or not. The DrupalCon daily schedule will be posted on March 15th: http://sf2010.drupal.org/conference/schedule.

DrupalCon sessions are organized into several tracks:

• Welcome to Drupal: Watch overviews and tutorials for those new to the community.
• Configuration, Set-up & Administration: Manage Drupal through the User Interface.
• 
Design, theme, and Usability
: Learn about trends, techniques, and tools.
• Under the Hood
: Study servers, Drupal core, module building, and more.
• Leveraging Drupal for your business: Hear case studies and learn about adapting to open-source technology.
• Providing Professional Drupal Services
: Share how to design, theme, develop, host, train, manage, and take your Drupal business to the next level.

If you have something to contribute along these lines, get your DrupalCon session proposal in before it's too late!

Drupalcon San Francisco is the premiere conference for learning and sharing about all things Drupal. Come and learn how the leading open source CMS is reshaping the internet and meet the community that is leading the way!

While some 700+ people have already registered for DrupalCon San Francisco, we realize that there may be valuable  members of our community who do not have the resources to do so. As usual, we are offering scholarships to reward those who contribute to the Drupal project.  Whether you've provided core patches, contrib modules, documentation or are an active member of your local users group, we're interested in hearing your story.

Apply at http://sf2010.drupal.org/conference/scholarships Today!