Right after the Open Source CMS Summit at Yahoo, Lullabot is organizing a seminar on Drupal Performance and Scalability. All profits from the seminar are being donated to the Drupal Association, and Bryght's James Walker will be one of the teachers, alongside Dries Buytaert, Jeremy Andrews, and Matt Westgate.

The cost for the seminar is $200US and you need to register on the Lullabot site.

Lullabot has another round of workshops coming up in January 2007.

• Hands-On Drupal – Monday, January 15th and Tuesday, January 16th

  
  http://www.lullabot.com/workshop/hands_on_drupal/providence_ri_2007

• Theming Drupal – Wednesday, January 17th and Thursday, January 18th

  
  http://www.lullabot.com/workshop/theming_drupal/providence_ri_2007

• JQuery Ajax in Drupal – Friday, January 19th

  
  http://www.lullabot.com/workshop/jquery_ajax_in_drupal/providence_ri_200...

• All Providence Workshops

  
  http://www.lullabot.com/workshop/all_providence_workshops/providence_ri_...

The jQuery AJAX workshop will actually include John Resig, the author of the jQuery JavaScript library.

Along with Raincity Studios, Bryght is offering four intensive of days of Drupal training. Covering everything from a one day overview for consultants to full sessions on developing and theming Drupal, the course should get you up to speed in making professional Drupal sites.

Please see the Raincity Studios page for more information and to register.

The preliminary schedule is available as a shared Google calendar; click on the button below for more details. Please be advised that details may change.

I got a thank you email from Gregory Heller at CivicActions this morning which reminded me that I hadn't posted a Drupal Camp Seattle 2006 wrap-up yet. 2 weeks ago in Seattle CivicActions, Raincity, and Bryght co-ordinated a Drupal training camp and hack-fest for about 50 aspiring Drupal-geeks at the Hugo House in Seattle.

This was the 4th Drupal Camp (SF, NY, Toronto, Seattle) and we had two tracks, one for introductory sessions and another for advanced hacking which was a good fit for the crowd which was an even split between n00bs and gurus.

Roland and I are hanging out at my parents' place on Bowen Island after giving a 4 hour training session this morning - an Intro to Blogging. We had a small group join us at the Bowen Island Community School (BICS) in the computer lab, and Roland and I rolled on through the growing description of blogging, photo sharing on Flickr, and how content flows all around.

It was great finally meeting Dr. Richard Smith in person -- he took the picture of Roland and Clarice at left. Looking forward to working more on some local Vancouver projects we've got brewing.

We had a mix of comfort levels with computers and the Internet, as well as different reasons for wanting to learn more about blogging. Flickr was a big hit, and to some was all the blogging they needed. We also set people up with Wordpress.com accounts, and even set up the Flickr -> post to Wordpress settings.

The biggest conceptual stumbling block was "What is the difference between a website and a blog?". The answer, other than a blog being usually a lot easier to update, is that there is no difference.