If you're in or around Toronto on Saturday February 22nd, I'd recommend coming over to the Centre for Social Innovation to take part in a Theming workshop.

There's a page setup with information that will be updated as things develop in the next couple of weeks but at this point, Martin Anderson-Clutz, James Walker and I will be speaking on various aspects of creating themes in Drupal.  Actually, I'm going to be going a little off topic - here's some deets on my talk:

"User Interfacing to promote Social Activity Online, in Drupal"

This talk will look at various common activities administrators, anonymous users and authenticated users engage in with a particular website.  These common actions and their shared space will be contextualized within the perspective of promoting healthy social activity and a general emotive attachment to space.

From there, we will look at Drupal's stock options for allowing authenticated users to construct and develop an online identity, and then review modern approaches to profile infrastructure development.  Taking both Drupal 5.x and 6.x into consideration, this talk will review the Node Profile and Content Profile modules to ultimately relate the ease of implementing tracker/activity-based dynamic user identities.

The talk will aim to close with a brief section on theming as a means of developing furtive spaces for online social interaction and look back on the covered technical approaches to building 'profiles' such that they accurately relate the human user's persona.

You can register for the event here:
http://themeworkshop.avatarinteractive.ca