Time to party! 
The release of Drupal 7 will be celebrated around the globe on the same day: January 7th, 2011.
South Bay (Silicon Valley) Drupal User Group release party is sponsored by long standing partners of Drupal: Halosys and UCSC Extension. 
Drupal enthusiasts will collect to celebrate and discuss  the release party of D7 with Silicon Valley Drupal User Group and join the Community celebration across the globe.
After two and a half years of development by over hundreds of contributors, Finally Drupal 7: the best version of Drupal yet. With a refined and more intuitive user interface and hundreds of enhancements under the hood, Drupal has never been more powerful.
ABOUT Drupal 7: Most powerful Open Source CMS with Enterprise level capabilities  
 
 
 

• Modular architecture for features and functionality
• Inbuilt support to SQLite, PostgresSQL and MySQL databases
• Improved multilingual translation
• Powerful Administration
• Module Management with Help files for development
• Highly efficient Filter system

 
 
Easy to use 
A totally revamped administrative interface lets you and your audience navigate functionality with ease. 
Update modules and themes directly from within admin.
Flexible content 
Define your own content types with the new Field API. 
Add custom data fields not only to content but also to users, comments, taxonomies and more.
Images and files 
Drupal 7 supports image handling out of the box. 
You can mix private/public files and store things directly on alternative filesystems such as S3.
Built to scale 
Support for advanced caching, master/slave replication, reverse-proxy and content delivery networks. 
Handle more anonymous traffic with lazy sessions.
Agenda of Party

• Welcome 2011 
• Presentation on highlights of Drupal 7 
• Open Discussion and record the message to be conveyed to Maintainers of Drupal7. 
• Networking and photo session (We plan a photo session of entire Silicon Valley Drupal User Group and will be shared in the Drupal community blogs as the participants of Drupal release party, it would be nice to see members wearing Drupal or Blue colored T Shirts) 
• Snacks and Drinks sponsored by Organizers! 

Look forward to start 2011 with the release party on Jan 7th.
Halosys is founding partner of Silicon Valley Drupal User Group.