In typical DC-style, life is getting more political as we get within a month of the presidential election. If you haven’t yet registered to vote, get going. Today is the last day to register for Washington, DC and Virginia residents, while Maryland residents have until October 14. In more politics, it seems like almost every bar is throwing a debate watching party on Tuesday for the second presidential debate. If you don’t want to play debate bingo or presidential flip cup, stay in tomorrow night and plan to go out the rest of the week instead when there are some interesting tech events taking place. As always, a full listing can be found at DC Tech Events.

All Week

Plone Conference: Open source conferences seem to be flocking to Washington, DC, and with good reason since the city is home to so many techies using open source. If you work with Plone or want to, check out the conference and some of the post-conference parties.

Tuesday, October 7 and Wednesday, October 8

10:00 am

Presenting Data and Information: A One-Day Course by Edward Tufte: There’s little question that Edward Tufte is the master of presenting a ton of data in a clear, concise, and compelling way. If you want to up your data visualization know-how, check out this course.

Wednesday, October 8

7:00 – 9:00 pm

Drupal Lab: Here’s your chance to tear into the code behind a module with Drupal developers of all levels, show off your latest work, or just get a feel for what it’s like to program in Drupal.