Dear Members,   NCSI-Net (http://ncsi-net.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in), an informal association comprising of NCSI staff, trainees, and alumni, cordially invites you to the 7th Dr. TBR Memorial Seminar (2011). This year’s seminar topic is, Designing Web Portal / Gateway Services Using Drupal. It is a one-day seminar targeted for the benefit of Library and Information Science (LIS) students and budding LIS professionals.   The details of the seminar are given below:   Title: 7th Dr. TBR Memorial Seminar (2011): Designing Web Portal / Gateway Services Using Drupal   Date: November 12, 2011 (Second Saturday)   Venue: NCSI Seminar Hall, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore - 560012   About the Seminar Theme: With the explosive growth of online resources, managing such resources has become a challenge for Information professionals.  Well designed organization or library web portals / Gateway services helps in the efficient dissemination of online resources to the user community. Today’s online resources includes variety of authoritative web resources (free & priced), integrating the relevant and useful resources into a web portal facilitates in the effective and efficient dissemination of information to the end users.  This can be achieved using either commercial or open source content management tools. Various open source CMS tools are available on the Internet. Drupal, Joomla, OpenCMS, and Wordpress are few such examples. In this seminar, some basic and useful features and functionalities of Drupal, one of the popular CMS tools will be featured. Drupal (http://www.drupal.org) is an open source, platform independent content management system (CMS). Its popular features include simple to install and use,  modularity, customizable, multi-platform, multilingual, web 2.0 complaint, web based administration, powerful report generation functionality, well organized browse and search etc. Being a modular package, it facilitates in enabling / disabling the functionalities as per the needs of implementers. It has a strong and active user and developer community who provide the much needed support in using the package effectively. Self explanatory online and offline documentation are also available for the package and they are updated frequently. Drupal is being used in developing different genres of website like Education, Institutional, E-commerce, News, Multimedia etc., World wide, more than 6000 registered websites are using drupal in various languages. Objective of the Seminar: To demonstrate the basic and essential features and functionalities of the Drupal CMS as to how this Open Source Web application can be used to build Web Portals and provide Web-based information services. At the end of the seminar, the participants should have a clear understanding of the various features of the Drupal CMS so that they can plan to make use of this CMS for their user Community Resource Persons: NCSI-Net members who have practical experience with the CMSs will serve as resource persons Who should attend the Seminar? LIS Students and fellow professionals interested in developing Web portals and in providing web-based information services using a CMS Registration Fee: Rs. 250 for Students (Should carry ID Card) and Rs. 500 for working professionals, for NCSI-Net members Rs. 150. Fee covers software CD, Seminar kit, working lunch and tea / coffee Please do note that no arrangements for accommodation are being made for outstation participants. Number of participants is restricted to 50 (Space constraint) and it will be on first-cum-first-served basis. Seminar Topics: 1. Introduction to Web Portals / Gateways & Overview of Drupal 2. Installation of Drupal on Windows Demo 3. Modules Configuration, Content Creation  Functionality & CCK 4. Themes configuration, Site Configuration 5. Configuring Menus & Blocks, User management 6. Views, Report Generations & Backup 7. Multilingual Content 8. A Drupal based Case study 9. Career Advice Kindly bring this to the attention of the LIS students and budding professionals and encourage them to attend the seminar. Participants will get an opportunity to interact with fellow professionals working in the industry and academia. For further information, please visit the Seminar website at: http://ncsi-net.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/workshop/ Registration form is available at: http://ncsi-net.ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/workshop/registration2011.html with warm regards NCSI-Net Coordinators     Shivaram BS ICAST, CSIR-NAL Kodihalli Bangaluru-560017 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.