DrupalCamp UT 2011 planning page

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Would you like to attend? Let us know here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/139099
What time works best for you? http://groups.drupal.org/node/142259

Location: Western Governors University (Millcreek in SLCo: http://goo.gl/maps/EBS1)
Dates: July 8th - 9th (Fri-Sat)

Discussion topics:
- Intro To Drupal 7 - Whats new in Drupal 7 what's changed from 6, and how you can get a basic site using Drupal 7 in a matter of a Day.
- Drupal 7 and E-commerce Leveraging Drupal for the best E-commerce Solution - Using Commerce Guy's new Drupal 7 platform for E-commerce Drupal Commerce.
- Solr Search Functionality on Drupal 7 Using Search API - Showing people how to setup and configure their searches including faceted searches using the Drupal 7 Search API Module and Search API SOLR
- GIT and Drupal.org What Git is and why you should be using it: A brief overview of GIT and how you can start using it to commit your own code back to Drupal.org
- Omega Theme System: The strongest base theme by far working on Drupal 6 and 7. How you can use it to create themes and layouts in fraction of the time used during conventional theming methods.
- Views - How you can easily create Teasers, Galleries, Layout Views without custom views--.tpl.php. Other Tips and Tricks using Views.
- Panels - How you can use panels to layout your pages... Good Bye page-front.tpl.php, node-1.tpl.php... Or any other systematic template names using conventional methods.
- SQL Basics - Drupal is ran off of SQL database systems you should know how to basics of SQL if you are going to be doing anything serious with Drupal.
- Advanced Drupal 7, Entities, Nodes and Workflows - How to bring it all together to create web applications you never thought possible using Drupal.
- Introduction to CiviCRM (non-technical)
- Administering and Customizing CiviCRM (non-technical)
- Extending CiviCRM (technical)
- Marketing your Drupal services (non-technical)

Organizers:
- tjsmith
- backwardgraphics
- RobAlexander (if the location is WGU)
- amariotti
- dharmatech
- jtsnow
- JeremyR
- << put your name here if interested >>

Sponsors: (definition of a sponsor would be great, like what is needed)
- WebWiseOne
- WebChuck Web
- Backward Graphics
- Jibe Media
- dharmatech
- WGU (at least with the venue)
- << put your name here if interested >>

    Tasks w/due dates:
  • 4/26 - Confirm location and time of camp
  • 4/26 - Estimate number of attendees
  • 4/26 - Build official Drupal Camp UT site, hashtags, etc.
  • 4/26 - Another wave of tweets/blog posts/mail to lists, etc. to generate interest
  • 4/26 - Organize list of potential speakers
  • 4/26 - Invite speakers
  • 5/4 - Calculate costs including food/beverage/signage/swag
  • 5/4 - Another wave of tweets/blog posts/mail to lists, etc. to generate interest
  • 5/11 - Organize sponsorship
  • 5/18 - Order food/beverage/swag
  • 6/1 - Another wave of tweets/blog posts/mail to lists, etc. to generate interest
  • 6/1 - Call for volunteers
  • 6/1 - How will ticketing/badges/room assignments work?
  • 6/19 - Organize volunteers, assign positions, etc.
  • 6/19 - Organize evening post-camp party/dinner?
  • 6/23 - Evening - setup, arrange chairs, signs, etc.?
  • 6/24 - D-day
  • 6/25 - Evening - teardown

Comments

I will attend any time but

jeremyr's picture

I will attend any time but would work best for me on the 17th-18th or 24th-25th.

camp plan?

dharmatech's picture

I took a stab at a list of tasks with estimated due date. It's just a start and a wild guess at dates but should be good to help keep things moving along. There's a ton of detail being glossed over, so we may need a better way to organize the tasks, assignments, and due dates.

@tjsmith: As our bold and noble leader, how can we help you? :)

Graphics and/or Colors

tyjamessmith's picture

We have the domain and the install. I've been looking at the distribution and it looks to really cover most of our needs. My biggest struggle is that I'm not a graphic person. I will play with ironing out a design for the site and some minor configurations tonight. I might even try my hand at a logo but I don't promise anything in that realm.

With the lack of response on the date I'm going to change it to the 8th and 9th as that is better for WGU and a few extra weeks seems like a good idea at this point. Sorry if anyone has made plans otherwise. I will promise a functional site by the end of the week (though hopefully in the next couple days). Once that is up we need to really get going. Sorry. Moving and a spring break visit from my brother in law made this last week much more complicated than I anticipated.

Tyler Smith
Developer

session updates

dharmatech's picture

For anyone that posted a discussion topic to the DrupalCamp UT planning page, it's time to officially submit your proposal.

Here are the proposed

jeremyr's picture

Here are the proposed sessions:

Introduction to CiviCRM - Jason Hill
Extending CiviCRM - Jason Hill
Introduction to Views for Drupal 7 - Greg Knaddison
Setting up a Multisite Drupal Environment - Jeremy Rasmussen
Backup & Migrate with RSYNC - Jeremy Rasmussen
Node.js and Drupal - Dan Rasband
Database flexibility with Drupal - Jason Flatt
Multilingual Websites. - Jason Flatt
High-Performance Drupal - John Snow
Podgroups - Complex pages made easy - Dale Clarke

There are ten of them and I think we could easily have each of them. I was thinking each session could get 1 hour and that would easily spread over two days. If you are one of the proposed session presenters please let me know if you need more or less time than that.

Also we need to start gathering our volunteers. If you can help out with anything in the days leading up to or during the event please let us know.

I posted another, maybe at

greggles's picture

I posted another, maybe at the same time as you collected the list? http://drupalcamputah.org/sessions/improve-your-sites-security