Central Illinois DUG

I work for an online marketing company looking for an experienced developer to implement a Drupal CMS/ecommerce site. It's a fairly robust site (400 pages) with some complicated taxonomy requirements. I am a project manager and would coordinate content/images/data, etc. but need your help in creating taxonomy, creating ecommerce, customizing layout, identifying and implementing modules, etc. Also, would need your help on consulting, possibly training. All work can be done at your location - may need one face to face meeting. fyi We're in Chicago.

The College of Fine and Applied Arts at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is looking for someone to post content on their upcoming Drupal-based website. Applicants for this position must be familiar with editing Drupal websites, must be comfortable editing HTML, and should be familiar with CSS.

Please email Nan Goggin (goggin@uiuc.edu), Interim Director of the School of Art + Design (http://www.art.uiuc.edu/) for more information, or to apply for the job.

If you are interested in attending BU Drupal BootCamp on this Friday, May 2nd, 2008 and would like lunch to be provided (free), we need you to sign up by 4:00 pm CST at http://slane.bradley.edu/drupalbootcamp/. If you have particular dietary needs, please contact Steven Merrill or myself so that we can make sure there is something for you to eat.

This call is just for people who would like lunch provided. After this afternoon you can still sign up and attend the event -- we just can't guarantee there will be any food for you -- but campustown is literally just across the street and has a number of different (cheap) food options.

Thanks!

Brian

Plans for BU Drupal BootCamp are in full swing. We will be using a room equipped for video conferencing, food has been arranged, and we will even be able to provide a limited number of laptops to attendees who don't have a laptop of their own for the day.

I thought I'd create this thread as a place to put feedback about DrupalBootCamp UIUC and see what that will mean for our May BU DrupalBootCamp.

This first one comes from one of our IT staff that visited the morning sessions:

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I thought the UIUC Drupal event was very informative. I liked that each speaker had a short stint on their topic, and things moved along at a good pace. Starting off with your presentation provided a nice segue into the rest of the morning topics.

UPDATE: We have much more information about our BU event on May 2nd. It will be free, and breakfast items and lunch will be provided. It will be in GCC Room 124 on Bradley University's campus, which is a room with teleconference facilities, so we may be able to teleconference in a presenter or two, or stream the event live - we're still investigating these possibilties. Please sign up for a user account on our site if you want to attend so we can get food for you.

The site has been updated with more information, such as directions, and our agenda. More will follow as we have time.

In an effort to compile some great resources for our Drupal Boot Camp Champaign participants, we want you to help us tag your favorite Drupal-related resources on del.icio.us

Please tag your favorite links in the following way:
drupal, bootcamp, [topic]

Where [topic] is one of the following:

• intro -- For resources related to what Drupal is, why people choose Drupal vs. other CMSs, etc
• basics -- Basic Drupal jargon, getting started, installation walkthroughs, etc
• theming -- Your favorite contrib themes, theming guides and help
• modules -- The modules you use most, tips for finding the best modules, etc
• community -- Resources on how to get involved with the Drupal community and hook up with like-minded peers
• inspire -- For resources which showcase just how awesome Drupal is and what can be achieved including but not limited to beautiful feature-rich websites

The Flourish conference is next weekend (April 4th and 5th), and it seems like a logical place to do some Drupal marketing.

It looks like we'd still be able to get a table.

Are there other folks planning on attending that would be up for setting up a marketing table?

Location: Champaign Urbana.

Afternoon session is now full. If you have already registered (see list at https://drupaldemo.ed.uiuc.edu/attendees) you may attend the afternoon. ,However, you must still fill the pre event survey. If you have not registered, you may still attend the morning session. You must fill the pre event survey and indicate you are not attending the afternoon. We just don't have enough space for any more in the afternoon lunch and hands on. If you would like to be a trainer for the hands on, you may still register for the afternoon.

Content Moved to https://drupaldemo.ed.uiuc.edu/

Please fill out pre survey at: https://drupaldemo.ed.uiuc.edu/node/add/pre-bootcamp-survey

Updated logistics, map, agenda etc. is there also.

Information Below is out of date. Current Info is at https://drupaldemo.ed.uiuc.edu/

Below is a first take at an agenda for a 1-day Drupal Boot Camp planned for Friday, April 4 2008. Please feel free to adjust and re-structure as you see fit. Sign up for any topics you'd like to offer to teach.

Up to date information is now at:
https://drupaldemo.ed.uiuc.edu/

A webcast will be done also. Info on the webcast is at:
https://drupaldemo.ed.uiuc.edu/webcast

About 30 people from UIUC expressed interest in a day long Drupal boot camp of some sort aimed at those new to Drupal. Steven and I think we should just do one locally sooner that will lead into the May bootcamp in Peoria.

I wanted to see who was interested in helping out with such an event and work with them to develop an agenda and pick a good date. So far:

• Karen Stevens from Normal is interested in helping

• Do you feel there is something more to preventing gun violence than merely getting rid of guns?

• Ever think that there is something missing to the current dialog on failing schools, and the 50 percent high school drop-out rate in Chicago and elsewhere?

• Concerned about kids being raised psychologically-rudderless?

• Ever wish there was a way you could do more to help create awareness for the big picture, and make Illinois a better place to raise kids?

Hey Drupalers,

I was talking with some of Bradley's IT higher-ups as part of a portal project that my students are helping skin. Once mentioned that our university webmaster was looking at Drupal, and I immediately began to espouse the benefits of Drupal. (Several of the Slane College sites use Drupal, with several more on the way.)

I mentioned that I'd be willing to help them plan such an implementation, and then someone asked if I could show a few people around Drupal, and maybe do a little training.

In the spirit of the Drupal community, I asked if Bradley could instead sponsor a DrupalCamp. My contacts in IT seemed very receptive to the idea, and said that we could get some labs and some food. We also have a few local multimedia shops who might be able to sponsor anything else that was needed. Bradley has a wireless campus, A/V equipment, and nice labs.

Starting to plan the DCC. For those in other g.d.o groups please pass the word along if you haven't seen any info there yet. Also we will be holding on-line IRC (freenode.net: #cdmug) chats every Monday night from 8PM - 12 Midnight up till the event. Please participate and help plan another great MidWest DrupalCamp. CDMUG will be posting updates as DCC takes shape.

Location has been set. Wednesday the 20th from 7 to 9pm. We have the room until 10 if we want it.

Room 28 College of Education (in basement). 1310 S. Sixth St. Champaign, IL. We'll have wireless, a projector, etc. Its a medium sized room that can fit 10 to 30 people.

Just need a topic or a medly of them.

Location: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=college+of+education+ch...

Are there people still interested in a Central IL DUG meet up in Peoria this month? It would need to be near the end of this month (After DrupalCampWI, at least) but I can arrange for a room at Bradley University if there's interest.

Steven Merrill and I were thinking that beyond just socializing we could cover more in-depth on the talk we're giving at DrupalCampWI about Druplash and Druplex (Drupal-powered Flash and Flex). Post back here with preferred times/dates and anything specific you want to hear about (or better yet, talk about).

Video games are also always an option.

DrupalCampWisconsin

What
A BarCamp-style day of drupal-centric sessions and hacking in good ole Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Sign-up at http://barcamp.org/DrupalCampWI

When
Saturday, January 19th, 2008
10AM - 10PM (Registration starts at 9AM)

Where
Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE)
Multipurpose Room
1025 N. Broadway
Milwaukee, WI

Want to help out?

Any Drupal users in Bloomington, Champaign, Springfield, or Peoria Illinois are invited to a meeting in Bloomington on Thursday the 29th of November at the Bank of Illinois community room.

I just scored a coup at got the use of the brand new Bank of Illinois community room in Normal. It's on the top floor of the bank with an awesome view of the city. We'll have free wifi and a computer projector available.

Now that we have a projector, we could actually do a program, so I'll do an overview of the changes coming in CCK 6.x.

There's going to be a Drupal Camp in Milwaukee in January. See details at http://groups.drupal.org/node/3392. I'm probably going to try to attend and maybe we can coordinate a Central Illinois contingent to drive up together. It's not too bad a drive from here, probably 4 hours each way.