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AIIM International Exposition & Conference to Co-Locate With Drupalcon Boston 2008
Co-Located Event Offers Open Source Web Content Management Platform Education and Networking for Drupal Developers
| Source: Questex Media Group
NEWTON, MA--(Marketwire - January 29, 2008) - The AIIM International Exposition & Conference
(www.aiimexpo.com), the largest, most comprehensive content and information
management event in North America, today announced that Drupalcon Boston
2008 (boston2008.drupalcon.org) will be co-located. Drupal is a popular
open source web publishing and collaboration platform, used by
organizations including Sony BMG Records, Yahoo!, and The United Nations.
The Drupal community consists of thousands of contributors from all over
the world, who work together daily to make Drupal the most scalable,
flexible, extensible, and secure content management platform. Co-location
with the AIIM International Exposition & Conference offers expanded
education and networking opportunities to Drupal developers, business
owners, and clients seeking Drupal expertise. Both conferences will take
place at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, March 3-6.
The AIIM International Exposition & Conference will also co-locate with the
ON DEMAND Conference & Exposition (www.ondemandexpo.com), the preeminent
event for commercial printers, publishers, and in-plant printing
professionals, and the Xplor Document University Global Conference &
Exhibition (www.xplor.org/xdu2008).
Dries Buytaert, Drupal creator, president of the Drupal Association, and
CTO of Acquia, Inc., will present the Drupalcon keynote presentation on
Monday, March 3, at 9:30 AM. The Drupal conference program will have four
tracks -- Site Building, Design & User Experience, Marketing & Business,
Community & Core -- with six 90-minute tutorials and ten 45-minute
sessions, as well as a variety of "Birds of a Feather" sessions. In
addition, Drupalcon will include a Drupal Job Fair on March 3 and a special
social event on March 4. All Drupalcon Boston 2008 attendees will have
access to the AIIM Expo exhibit hall.
Beth Torrey, event director, Questex Media Group, said, "It is a win-win to
bring Drupalcon together with the AIIM International Exposition &
Conference, the ON DEMAND Conference & Exposition and the Xplor Document
University Global Conference & Exhibition. Together these events create the
world's largest information, digital printing, document and content
management event."
"The Drupal Association is committed to growing and developing the
worldwide Drupal community through high quality events," said Drupal's
Buytaert. "And we're excited to co-locate Drupalcon Boston 2008 with the
AIIM International Exposition & Conference. Joining forces with AIIM
introduces Drupal to a new audience and offers the Drupal community access
to the leading content and information management event in North America."
For more information about the AIIM International Conference & Expo, or to
register, visit aiimexpo.com or call 888-824-3004. To register or learn
more about Drupalcon Boston 2008, visit drupalcon.org.
For information on exhibit and sponsorship opportunities at the AIIM
International Conference & Exposition, contact Leo Squatrito at
617.219.8378 or lsquatrito@questex.com. For additional information on
sponsorship opportunities for Drupalcon Boston 2008, contact Kieran Lal at
sponsorships@acquia.com.
About Drupalcon
Drupalcon is the biannual conference of the global Drupal community,
organized by the Drupal Association. Drupalcon is a gathering of hundreds
of the top Drupal professionals, including core developers, independent
consultants, and business owners. At Drupalcon, key members from the
world-wide Drupal community enjoy crucial face-to-face time to share
knowledge about Drupal tools and development best practices, to map out
architectural strategies for the next version of the software, and to
network with other Drupal professionals and clients seeking Drupal
expertise.
About the Drupal Association
The Drupal Association is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to
promoting and advancing the open source Drupal web publishing and
collaboration platform. The Association funds and operates the Drupal.org
community web infrastructure and promotes Drupal through events and other
marketing activities. Association members are elected drawn from the
global Drupal community. For more information, see
http://association.drupal.org.
AIIM International Exposition & Conference
The AIIM International Exposition & Conference is the world's largest and
oldest educational conference and exposition. The place to go to gain
control, meet compliance standards and access important information from
structured and unstructured data, the AIIM International Exposition &
Conference assists IT professionals turn content and information into a
powerful business tool. The exposition and conference attracts business
professionals and executive management seeking the latest technologies to
capture, manage, share, and store documents and digital content to support
business processes, comply with governmental regulations, drive down costs,
and gain the competitive advantage.
About AIIM -- the ECM Association
AIIM is the international industry association connecting users and
suppliers of enterprise content management (ECM) technologies -- tools and
methods used to capture, manage, store, preserve, and deliver content in
support of business processes. For more than 60 years, AIIM has been a
neutral and unbiased source for education and industry information,
standards, advocacy, and community.
About Questex Media Group, Inc.
Questex Media Group, Inc. is a global, diversified business-to-business
integrated media and information provider, headquartered in Newton, MA.
Questex serves multiple industries including technology, beauty, spa,
travel, hospitality, leisure, home entertainment, industrial and service
industries through a range of well-established, market-leading
publications, events, interactive media, research, information and
integrated marketing services. The company's media properties include over
100 print and digital media publications, 45 conferences, tradeshows and
events, as well as a range of research, data and information products. The
company's businesses are managed through operating companies including
Questex Media Group, InfoTrends, Inc., Imaging Networks and McLean Events
International, Ltd, a world-leading producer of appointment-based events.
The company's combined operations include more than 400 employees in
offices throughout North America, South America, Asia and Europe.