Drupal 7 Release Party ! January 7, 2011

Finally, D7 is here!!!!!! We invite you to join the release party of D7 with Silicon Valley Drupal User Group and join the Community celebration across the globe.

Highlights about D7

Drupal 7 - Easier and more powerful than ever.
Ready and able to drive your most demanding project with ease.
Built for both high-end performance and ease of use.

More
After two and a half years of development by over hundreds of contributors, Finally Drupal 7: the best version of Drupal yet. With a refined and more intuitive user interface and hundreds of enhancements under the hood, Drupal has never been more powerful.

Easy to use
A totally revamped administrative interface lets you and your audience navigate functionality with ease.
Update modules and themes directly from within admin.

Flexible content
Define your own content types with the new Field API.
Add custom data fields not only to content but also to users, comments, taxonomies and more.

Images and files
Drupal 7 supports image handling out of the box.
You can mix private/public files and store things directly on alternative filesystems such as S3.

Built to scale
Support for advanced caching, master/slave replication, reverse-proxy and content delivery networks.
Handle more anonymous traffic with lazy sessions.

Time to party!
The release of Drupal 7 will be celebrated around the globe on the same day: January 7 2011. South Bay (Silicon Valley) Drupal User Group release party is sponsored by long standing partners of Drupal: Halosys and UCSC Extension.

We celebrate with the community of Drupal globally to convey our belief in its technology.

Agenda of Party

Welcome 2011
Presentation on highlights of Drupal 7
Open Discussion and record the message to be conveyed to Maintainers of Drupal7.
Networking and photo session (We plan a photo session of entire Silicon Valley Drupal User Group and will be shared in the Drupal community blogs as the participants of Drupal release party, it would be nice to see members wearing Drupal or Blue colored T Shirts)
Beer, Snacks, cold drinks and coffee on the house, sponsored by Organizers!
Look forward to start 2011 with the release party on Jan 7th.

Happy Holidays!

Best Regards,
Vishal

on behalf of Silicon Valley Drupal User Group.

PS: Please RSVP at http://www.meetup.com/DrupalGroup/calendar/15803396/ at the earliest to help us plan the logistics for the party.