It's no secret that I love to travel (in appropriate doses) and meet new people, especially those doing e-commerce on Drupal. I love visiting the larger cities in the States, and I love even more visiting the older cities in Europe. Fortunately for me, these are the places that draw large Drupal events and make the most sense for Commerce Guys to put on Drupal Commerce trainings.

I'm currently wrapping up the final commits for a Drupal Commerce 1.2 release this week and will then start revising our training curriculum to accommodate a few recent UI improvements. Drupal Commerce is growing in popularity as an e-commerce framework, particularly among tech savvy developers and organizations (we still need to cater better to those with limited resources and Drupal skills), highlighting the need for better "self-help" documentation and resources and the continued need for personal training from expert users and developers.

I'll be involved in a couple of trainings in the next couple of months, and I hope there will be even more that I don't have to attend. (Unless of course they're in cities that are too good to pass up. )

If you have a project about to start or have recently been handed a site to maintain, consider one of these upcoming opportunities:

• Drupal Commerce Developer Training in Paris
  January 31 - February 2, 2012
  Paris is both my favorite city to visit and home to my favorite company to work for - what luck! We'll be presenting a three day developer training including personal instruction from myself and a few other members of our team. As my French knowledge goes about as far as a 1 year old's, and since we're expecting attendees from a variety of countries, rest assured this training is in English.
• Drupal Commerce Site Building Training at DrupalCon Denver
  March 19, 2012
  This will be our regular one day extravaganza where we introduce all that Drupal Commerce can do for you and demonstrate how to build a store using the core components and a few essential contributed modules. We'll provide a sandbox server so you can follow along and take your site with you when you go.

I've also recently put in work with Kent Bye of Lullabot to turn that one day course into a video series for Drupalize.me. We basically put down about four hours of video demonstrating how to build a site like my RealMilkCheese.com - no code required for a simple catalog, payment via PayPal, flat rate shipping, and a couple types of discounts. I'm looking forward to seeing it edited to a fine polish - Kent's a star at that stuff.

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