In our continuing effort to foster and mentor discussions centered around open source technologies, we are organizing a tech-session on the following topics related to web application development:

Migrating to Drupal – I (Node migration) Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets (SASS)

Migrating to Drupal – I (Node migration)

Background Migrating large amounts of data from one CMS to another is, surprisingly, something that requires doing more often than one would expect. The reasons for doing so vary from changes in customer requirements to the availability of better features in a newer CMS to programmer preference. One of the crucial stages during such migrations is the transfer of data across databases without compromising the integrity of the data.

The session While there are numerous combinations of such CMSs, This tech-session will focus on migrating data from TYPO3 (while also touching upon other commonly used CMSs) to Drupal using the node_import tool provided by Drupal. Depending on the popularity of the topic within the community, we hope to have more tech-sessions on various CMS migration related issues across many more systems.

Target Audience Anyone who works with Content Management Systems

Chief Presenter: Rashmi Rajput Date: November 7th, 2009 Time: 11:30 Hrs to 12:30 Hrs

Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets (SASS)

What’s the sass about? SASS is a meta language that brings structure and scalability to CSS while putting the fun back into creating perfectly themed web applications. It was originally written to be used with HAML in Rails applications, but is completely language agnostic. http://sass-lang.com/

The session Will serve as an introduction to the world of SASS and cover numerous powerful ways in which SASS makes the world a better place, such as

• SASS variables,
• Style Mixins (for repeatable CSS definitions),
• Selector scoping,
• Intelligent file importing (for better CSS file organization)

Target Audience Anyone who is interested in creating better web applications

Chief presenter: Kuldev, Prateek Sharma Date: November 7th, 2009 Time: 13:30 Hrs to 14:30

We also have other interesting topics to discuss on web development, which can be taken up if time permits.

Venue: Our office premises at:

Srijan Technologies Pvt. Ltd E-65, 6th Floor Himalaya House, 23 K.G. Marg, Connaught Place, New Delhi 110001 INDIA

Please feel free to call us at +91-11-4358 0870 – 75 for any clarifications

See you there!