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We are very pleased to announce that Kids Connect, a joint project of Zoomlab and the Waag Society, will be hosted at Polytechnic this summer through the auspices of the Promise Fund and IDMI. KidsConnect is

a series of summer workshops culminating in an original performance between youth in New York, NY, and Amsterdam, Netherlands. Kids from each city will be taught theatrical and technological skills in a workshop, facilitated by media and theater artists, in order to create a performance that will occur both live in the theaters and online. The entire process of the show will be collaboratively created by the youth involved, from storyboarding and concept creation to performing and online stream mixing.

Details have yet to be elaborated. On a personal note, I'm very pleased that I was in the right place at the right time to connect Zoomlab and the Waag to Polytechnic. I will probably be teaching some workshops on visual manipulation, improvisational performance and Second Life skills. You can read more about Kids Connect on the dev wiki.

IDMI is pleased to announce that we'll be hosting a DrupalCamp on May 13th and 14th. Drupal, if you don't know, is a powerful open source content management system with a large and enthusiastic user/developer community. DrupalCamp @ IDMI will be a place for Drupal users and developers to put their heads together and make some great code and sites. Goals include:

• Drupal Users - two days masticating on drupal (tracks: new users, theme dev, module conversion/creation, civicrm best practices, massmailing, etc.)
• Barn Raising - take a .org that needs a new website and build it
• Political Bloggers - a forum for NYC political bloggers to connect and discuss issues/business issues

The Barn Raising is a great idea: throw your hat in the ring now if you're part of a deserving community that's crying out for a web presence. The DrupalCamp will be free and open to the public. More info:

• Upcoming event listing
• and DrupalCamp central