Growing Web Design Community Meets in Denver at DrupalCamp Colorado

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Since its origins in 2007, DrupalCamp Colorado (http://drupalcampcolorado.org) has grown substantially from 20 participants in the basement of a Boulder office to more than 300 with attendance expected to exceed 400 on June 10-12, 2011. Denver is in the top 10 of Drupal communities in the nation with thousands of users in the metro area.

“Not only does she love her work as a developer, but she’s really passionate about teaching others and encouraging involvement.”

DrupalCamp Colorado, held at the King Center on the Auraria Higher Education campus, begins with a pre-conference web design training hosted by Lullabot and Chapter 3. The camp, featuring educational sessions on Drupal 7.0, appeals to a wide variety of web users and skill levels. Registration is $50 at http://drupalcampcolorado.org.

Drupal emerged in 2000 and quickly became a leading open-source content management system and application development platform, resulting in emerging job opportunities. Total job postings in Colorado have grown by more than 200 percent since 2007.

Angie “Webchick” Byron, a leader among the Drupal community and core maintainer of latest version Drupal 7, will give the keynote address. In 2008, Byron won Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award for Best Contributor.

“Angie is a great spokesperson for Drupal,” said Jon Clark, Business Development director at Aten Design Group and DrupalCamp Colorado organizer. “Not only does she love her work as a developer, but she’s really passionate about teaching others and encouraging involvement.”

There are a number of industry leaders sponsoring DrupalCamp Colorado including Aten Design Group, Commerce Guys and Applied Trust. Each will host sessions on topics from modern web typography, website maintenance to client relationships and e-commerce.

Key presenters include:

Aten Art Director Ken Woodworth and Lead Developer Scott Reynen, web typography
Aten CEO/Creative Director Justin Toupin
Jason Yee, developer, “Using Views Programmatically”
Ken Woodworth, “CSS3 and LESS: Faster, easier, more powerful CSS”
Commerce Guys Ryan Szrama, “Commerce Camp,” e-commerce development
AppliedTrust CEO Trent Hein and CTO Ned McClain, "Keeping the Lights On-Operations and Monitoring Best Practices" -maintaining websites post launch

A number of high profile organizations use Drupal 7’s adaptable tools, such as Whitehouse.gov, Examiner.com, and locally, the Jefferson Country Library.

At DrupalCon Chicago, the semi-annual international event, Toupin announced Denver will host the 2012 North America event, which attracts thousands of Drupal users worldwide. For information on DrupalCon Denver go to http://denver2012.drupal.org.