Many organisations put a lot of time and effort into the initial launch of a website, but give little thought to how it will be maintained once it goes live. Over the past 8 years the Drupal community has developed technologies and best practises for maintaining websites and keeping them secure, which we would like to share with you at this event.

If you have a Drupal site running live, or in development, come to Drupal Maintenance for a range of expert advice and connect with the London Drupal community.

This is a free event, but registration is required.

Presentations will start at 6:30 p.m.

6:30 - 7:00

• Best Practises For Drupal Maintenance
  Robert Castelo, Code Positive
• Commercial Maintenance Support
  TBC

7:15 - 7:45

• Updating Sites From Drupal 5 To Drupal 6
  Neil Cameron, Cameron & Wilding
• Updating Sites From Drupal 6 To Drupal 7
  Chris Maiden, menusandblocks

8:00 - 8:30

• Drupal Security Updates - Keeping Your Site Safe
  Jakub Suchy, Dynamite Heads 

Packt Publishing have kindly donated Drupal books to be won by a few lucky attendees, and Sun Microsystems will provide food and drink as part of their hospitality.

There is a pub below the venue, where the meeting will likely move afterwards.

The tag for this event is #drupalmaintenance, slides of all presentations will be available after the event.

Drupal for Marketing is organised by Code Positive, and Sun Microsystems.

Code Positive are Drupal London consultants with a long history of involvement in the Drupal community.

Sun Microsystems is an active Drupal user, long term Drupal contributor, and as part of their Startup Essentials programme has very kindly provided us with an excellent venue for this event. Drupal uses Sun's MySQL as a backend database for data storage.