We have reached the venue capacity, so Signups for this event are now CLOSED. If you have signed up already, and want to confirm that we have your name, please email charlietnt@gmail.com
Get ready for the South African Drupal event of the year.
This event aims to serve as an introduction to the Drupal content management system, both for people who have never used Drupal before, and for anyone else who has used Drupal and wants to learn more about it.
Kicking off with a brief introduction to Drupal, we will then take you through the basics of using Drupal, from installation to creating your first site. We will then be showcasing some cool Drupal sites, explaining how they were made, and then we'll break up into workshop/discussion groups around key Drupal topics. This will be followed by a chance to chat to other Drupal fans along with boerewors rolls and refreshments.
Full details of the event appear at the end of this post.
While the event is free, it is limited to about 80 people, so please RSVP in good time to ensure your place. Due to the way security works at IS, your name has to be on the visitors list to gain entrance on the weekend, so please make sure you've signed up here, or have sent through your name(s).
The event will be held at "The Campus" (Cnr Main & Sloane Street, Bryanston) in the "Le Mans" building's "Chill room", on Saturday the 15th of August. We'll kick off at 10:30 for 11:00, and should end round about 15:30 after a boerewors roll braai. Thanks to Internet Solutions for kindly sponsoring the venue.
We would like to stress that you don't need to know anything about Drupal to be able to get something out of this event, so feel free to come along and learn why Drupal is one of the best ways to build your next website.
Event Agenda
10:30 - 11:00: Arrival, socialising, warm up
11:00 - 11:05 Welcome (Willem van Straaten)
11:05 - 11:25 ISLabs: Making the South African Internet better” – a brief chat about our incubator for early stage internet startups". (Justin Spratt)
11:25 - 11:40: Overview of Drupal (Charles Tanton):
- What is Drupal?
- Who uses it?
- What features does it offer?
- Basic Drupal concepts:
- Modules
- Users
- Content (Nodes, comments and blocks)
11:40 - 12:45: Drupal basics (George Ziady):
- Installation and requirements (a brief overview)
- Creating content and pages
- Managing content
- Creating menus
- Installing other modules for extended functionality
- Managing Users and permissions
- Categorising your content
- Theming and design
- Creating different Views of your content
12:45 - 12:55: Break
12:55 - 13:45: Drupal Website Showcases [presenters to be confirmed]
13:45 - 13:55: Break
13:55 - 14:00: Brief summary of the workshop/discussion groups
14:00 - 15:00: Discussion groups / Ask an expert
- Drupal installation, basic configuration and use
- Design and Theming
- CCK and Views
- Running Drupal projects / Drupal business
15:00 - 16:00: Braai/Socialising
Your name needs to be on the list to enable entrance to the Campus on the day of the event
So make sure you register here, on facebook or on drupal.co.za. Registration closes 12:00pm (noon) Friday 14th.
Comments
Setting up a drupal site
Hi
I am looking for a developer to help me sort out my site. I just do not have the time to get the permissions and members stuff working , the layout is straight forward. Where can I post something to ask for interest (ps i am south african too)
Cheers
Dr Unk
Post a job
I'd suggest you post a new Job to this group: http://groups.drupal.org/node/add/job?gids[]=39