In early 2009, The American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) embarked on a website redevelopment project with Context, a web development firm based just outside of Philadelphia.

With over 7,000 members and an expansive website consisting of hundreds of pages ranging from informational tutorials to event registration to their national "Find a Photographer" service, the ASMP had quite a project in front of them, and were looking for guidance in determining which system would be able to meet their requirements.

After reviewing the ASMP's 11 page request-for-proposal and the wonderfully clean and organized designs provided by Chicago's Grillo Group, Context decided that Drupal was the only CMS that would make the project practical.

Just a week to go, and we are busy, frenetically working on the last details to get you the coolest, most fun, most informative Drupal Conference ever. We cannot but express our regrets to those who will not be able to join us: know that we have worked hard to get you as much video coverage as possible, so you can still follow the conference.

As you all may know, organizing an event of this stature is no easy deal and we are fully expecting to still meet bumps on the road in the next seven days but.. we know that with your support we'll be able to surmount anything. God willing, this time Wi-fi will work :)

So, some additional information about how well this is going:

• There will be over 850 people in attendance from all over the world.
• We have a line up of 82 sessions lead by members of the Drupal community, not counting the dozens of BoF sessions.
• We have 42 sponsors (6 Platinum, 2 Gold, 12 Silver, and 22 Bronze) representing Drupal service providers and corporate users including major national and international software and media companies with familiar sponsors like MTV and Microsoft.
• There are still two opportunities left for your company to be a sponsor (Gold and Silver), you will not be on the printed materials but, we will get you the exposure both at the venue and online, remember: benefits from the sponsorship go to furthering the Drupal community if interested, hurry and use the contact form on the conference website.
• We have a great job fair lined up with the top Drupal service providers hiring from the best and the brightest developers and business persons the community has to offer.
• We have added DrupalCampParis4 to the first day of Drupalcon! Please sign up online on the Barcamp website.
• Lastly, we have sold 25 of the 30 remaining late registration tickets. There are only 5 tickets left! If you are interested in attending Drupalcon Paris and need a ticket, please purchase one today before they are all sold out.

SportBusiness Group is the world's leading supplier of information, media and B2B marketing services to the sports industry and, with its network of partners and agents, assists companies from all over the globe in achieving their business goals.

The latest incarnation (site version 11, 3rd Drupal version) of the Sportbusiness.com website has finally brought us into the world of Drupal 6. We initially moved the site over to Drupal almost 3 years ago (back in the Drupal 4.7 days) after months of data conversion from a proprietry Oracle-based CMS. We've never looked back. The upgrade to Drupal 6 has just finished; the site has been redesigned and several major changes have been implemented.

Getting up to 10,000 page impressions a day certainly doesn't make this a high-traffic site by comparison to some of the other sites we have at Electric Word plc (parent company to SportBusiness), but the visitors to the site demand equally high levels of quality and content. This was something we had to maintain from previous releases.

Origo is an open, modular and extensible software development, management and distribution platform. Aimed at software developers, Origo provides a set of services for combining, integrating and facilitating the development process over a network. Origo provides services like source control management, issue tracking, statistics, release hosting, wiki, blog and features for communicating and networking with other developers. An extensive API can be used to integrate Origo into other applications and development processes.

Origo was conceived as a research project of the Software Engineering chair at ETH Zürich, and has resulted in several theses. Recently ownership was transferred into an ETH spinoff, Oriact.

Released in August 2007, the platform as of August 2009 hosts 3,000 projects with over 6,500 developers worldwide.

The University of Prince Edward Island is a public university located in Charlottetown, PEI on the east coast of Canada. This project is the second phase of our build of Drupal at the university. In it we are hoping to use our theming layer to provide context for clients who may be lost around our various multisite installations. We are also considering how to effectively repurpose the content that we are creating on our main website to make an interesting and effective mobile site.

We've been using Drupal full-time at the university for two years now and it has actually shrunk to 'only' a 100 database multisite installation. All development, maintenance, design and conceptual/marketing consultation are done by our little shop of three at Integrated Communications. Our clients on campus are responsible for the content on their own sites. The project's lead is Dave Cormier, our lead Drupal developer is Yuxing Huang, and our all 'round client services/Drupal guy is Shawn Arsenault.