Building Web Sites with Drupal: A Workshop for Beginners
Dates: 3 Mondays - September 19, September 26, October 3
Time: 6 PM - 8:30 PM
Location: Strong Solutions, 1718 E. Sprague Avenue, Spokane, WA 99202 (plenty of on-street parking)
Registration: http://spokanedrupal2011.eventbrite.com/
Cost: $5.00 to cover materials (instructor and helpers are volunteering this time as a service to the Spokane Drupal community, and Strong Solutions is donating the space!)
Note: You must register at EventBrite in order to attend, thanks!
About:
This workshop is a hands-on introduction to building a web site using Drupal. It is meant for people who are very new to Drupal, and who want to learn how to build web sites with Drupal. We will cover questions like "What can Drupal do?", "Why choose Drupal?", and general concepts of on-line content management with a database behind your web site. Then we'll work through the basics of setting up a Drupal site. See http://poplarclass.com/home-spokane-2011 for more details.
VOLUNTEERS
We need a few volunteers who can come each day -- people with some site building experience in Drupal, who can help students who get stuck or fall behind. You should be familiar with Views, Fields, Content Types, Menus, and Blocks (i.e., you don't have to be an expert in esoteric stuff, but should have some mastery of the basics of Drupal). If you would like to help out with the workshop, please add a comment here.
Questions?
If you have questions about this workshop, please post them here!
Comments
No sign-ups...
No one has actually signed up for this workshop yet... Is anyone who looks at this group actually interested in attending? If I don't get any responses in the next few days, I think I will cancel the workshop... Also, if there are only a couple of people interested, maybe we can do something more informal?
Perhaps some more publicity would help to reach people who are not tuned into Drupal yet. Besides this post on groups.drupal.org, I added this workshop to several on-line calendars I knew about: CraigsList, Eventful, LaunchPad, and the Spokane Linux Users Group. Strong Solutions also added it to their calendar...
Does anyone have any ideas of other ways (free or low-cost publicity) to reach the local web/tech community?
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Workshop
Count me in on the workshop. If we end up doing something on a more informal basis, that would be fine with me too. A couple of thoughts on getting the word out about the Drupal meetings/workshop might be one, to create a MeetUp.com page. Another might be to create a facebook page. See you soon! ~Lisa
Good ideas...
Lisa -- if you do want to attend the workshop, please sign up on the EventBrite page (see link above).
Thanks for the ideas on Facebook and Meetup. Meetup is not free if you create a new meetup group, but I can at least post it on the "Spokane Geek Girls" meetup group there (any others you know if that would be relevant?). I don't have a Facebook account (and don't want one)... I think there's a Spokane Drupal facebook page, so maybe if someone is on Facebook they can post it there?
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I'll post on SpoCon's forum
www.spocon.org is a Drupal site and with the constant turnover, it'd be nice if more than just the webteam had a better understanding of the site's underpinnings.
Thanks!
Sounds like a reasonable idea...
However, this workshop is for beginning Drupal site builders. I've had complaints from past workshops based on similar curriculum from people who felt it was not appropriate for site maintainers (who are not the intended audience) (they had been asked to attend by their employer, but it really didn't work out for them).
So please don't encourage people to attend on the basis that they will learn better how to do content entry and other daily tasks, because they will likely be disappointed.
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Good point
I made a quick post in the ConCom section of the site to see if anyone is interested. Hope to see you Thursday at board game night!
Off topic
Gremdel, is there any discussions online about your con_schedule module? Saw just a single forum post about it, but was interested in how that came about and it's functionality...
Off topic
It's my module, I'll send you more info about it later today via your contact info.
(Oops, supposed to be in response to z33k3r but I don't see a way to delete)
Thanks Gremdel... I'll try
Thanks Gremdel... I'll try and make the next meetup to meet some of you guys/gals :)
Have participants, need helpers!
Several people have now signed up for this workshop, which starts next Monday -- so, it's a go!
So, we need some help -- 1 or possibly 2 people at each session to rove around and help people with any issues that come up.
You don't have to be a master-level Drupal guru to help out -- I'm just looking for people who have used Drupal enough that they don't feel the need to take the class. You should know something about: enabling modules & themes, blocks, menus, content creation, content types, fields, and views (depending on which day you come). The agenda is here: http://poplarclass.com/agenda-spokane-2011
Myke, Jesse, and Marshall -- I know the three of you said you might be interested... anyone else? If you can help out, please either use my contact form to email me, or post a reply here, and let me know which date(s) you can help out.
Thanks!
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If you are in need of more
If you are in need of more volunteers, let me know!
Thanks!
I have one volunteer signed up for each session, which should be OK, but if you want to show up on Monday 9/26 or 10/3 to assist as well, you would be welcome. :)
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Upcoming Workshop
I have been using Drupal for quite some time, moslty basic stuff. I have about 10 sites using it. I could be there to assist in all the basic areas, however I would like to also learn myself more about the views module, and writing modules themselves. Not sure if I should attend as a guest or volunteer as the first and second day probably wouldn't do me any good, but I would be willing to help, Im sure I would still learning something.
If interested my latest project is at ( http://www.rainbowracing.com ) and consiists of a very large online store that I have been working on. Its almost complete. Unfortunatly I had to outsource and pay for a custom modules to in effect get what I needed done quickly, but I so want to learn the actuall writing and understanding of the guts of Drupal and Ubercart.
I haven't been able to make any of the 'coffee' meetings, but I so want to get together with other developers and ask questions and learn more, especially in the area of creating your own modules, theming and more.
So where do you think I stand?
Also what version of Drupal is the worksop for, Im assuming the latest, but you never know.
Not sure...
I have people already signed up to help out the first and second days now, thanks! The workshop will not cover module development at all, and it is really aimed at the basics... so it's probably not the right fit to you, if you have been working with Drupal for a while.
I guess I would encourage you to try to make it to the regular group meetings, because they are small enough that we would have time to help you with specific questions you have. Also, you might consider attending the Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit, which is in Portland the weekend of Oct. 15. Or, farther afield: DrupalCon Denver in March, BADCamp in the Bay Area the weekend of October 22, or another regional event (DrupalCamp Colorado, etc.) All of those will have many sessions aimed at more experienced Drupalers, including module development most likely.
The workshop will use Drupal 7.
Anyway, you're welcome to register for the workshop (it's only $5 anyway), and see if you will get anything out of it, but I think it's not the right fit.
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