Acquia's Barry Jaspan will be presenting at LinuxWorld on Thursday, August 7th. His topic is Social Media Web Sites on LAMP: How Drupal Changes the Game.

This talk will demonstrate how to use the Drupal open source web publishing system to rapidly assemble a highly functional Web 2.0 site on the LAMP stack. Barry will walk through the process of building a branded community web site using a custom developed module in PHP, along with out-of-the-box Drupal features such as blogs, ranking and promotion and discussion forums.