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Radiant CMS is the no-fluff, open source, Rails-based content management system that powers Ruby-Lang.org, ChicagoRuby.org, and many other sites. The presenter will demonstrate installation & configuration for a simple Radiant-powered Web site.

In a recent article in Discover magazine, the editor wrote that Science Fiction is a dying breed with the way technology is progressing. In response, I'd like to host a session about how the Science Fiction community is countering such thoughts with new ideas in fiction, new ways of presenting works, and how authors are just as ingenious as the scientists they base their stories off of.

Please post any comments or thoughts you have on this here, so I might better gear the session to be of interest to a larger audience.

I'll show you how installation profiles work in Drupal, and how I used them to build BarCampMilwaukee.com in about ten minutes...