Fellow OxDUG people:
We're hosting our first Drupal Ladder learn sprint on Saturday 6 October. This is an opportunity to learn skills which will both help the Drupal project and also help you to become a more skilful Drupaler. Don't forget your laptops: this is a working meeting!
It will be at the Torchbox offices near Charlbury, a short train journey from Oxford. From the station to the offices is a 20-minute walk through a country estate and along a deer park.
Along with office space, Torchbox will provide a sandwich lunch. More information will be added on this wiki page as we work out the details.
Here's a rough plan for the day:
11:10 - anyone coming by train should meet at Oxford station for the 11:23 to Charlbury
11:40 - train arrives in Charlbury; walk to the offices
12:00 - Start introductions & explain sprints
13:30 - Break for lunch
17:00 - Wrap up and head to a pub in Charlbury
17:02, 18:02, 19:03 - trains back to Oxford
So sign up now! Even if you signed up on the Doodle, you must still sign up here.
(Only twelve people maximum can attend, as it's our first one and we're still finding our feet; but we hope to have another some time later in the year so you hopefully won't miss out!)
Comments
Laptops
What software do we need on our laptops? Will just a browser suffice?
Response on IRC: don't worry!
Just spoken to @BrockBoland and @techgirlgeek on the #drupal-ladder IRC channel, and they say:
QuickStart is an Option for Linux
Run Ubuntu VM configured for Drupal development. I know, it sounds weird running Linux VM on a Linux machine but there are some advantages e.g. you can make backups of your VM so if something gets messed up it's easy to recover, which I wish I had when I started
See http://drupal.org/project/quickstart
One VM One Project
Here's how I have it set up, I have one VM per project, but I work via OSX with the VM as a server:
Only issue at the moment is it messes up when I move network...
Thanks, both. We'll see what
Thanks, both. We'll see what works out easiest on the day. At least we have options!
Just bring a laptop, but expect to leave with software on it!
The idea of a Learn Sprint is that you start wherever you want towards the bottom of the Drupal Ladder and head up it.
So - and correct me if I'm wrong, Ladderers! - you just need to start off with a laptop you can install some sort of Apache stack on; but that will be part of the learning, not something you have to turn up with.
Lifts
Happy to offer a lift to and from the Torchbox office from the centre of Oxford if this is wanted via a car. I've only got a Ka so I can take three people (long legs could be interesting). Please let me know via comments if this would be useful by end of the day on Wednesday 3rd October. Thanks, Iain
I'd normally take the train,
I'd normally take the train, but would not mind a car trip if you still have an open spot.
Thanks
Lifts
You're the first response so definitely a place. We'll arrange pick ups once I know who needs a lift.
Car sharing on the wiki page
Iain, if you're happy with me doing so I'll send out a broadcast email to all signups, about possible lift-sharing, and e.g. put car occupancy on the wiki page so we can work it all out.
My instinct is that at least one other person will be driving from Oxford, so we might not need to co-ordinate trains after all!
PS
Thanks for offering in the first place! Much appreciated.
Lifts
JP, No worries, thought it made more sense than driving on my own; thanks for organising the event. :)
I've edited the wiki page and added a note about lifts in the Where section underneath train times (http://groups.drupal.org/node/254493). If we can fill that in by the deadline I previously mentioned it should give us time to arrange pick up spots and swap number if needs be.
Great!
I've expanded that to give people more of a "pro-forma" to fill in if they're not sure. I've also suggested a pick-up point opposite the Royal Oak on Woodstock Road, at 11.30am. That seems the most fool-proof.
Lifts
I am easy in whichever way. Can still only take 3 people in my car though :). I'll pop the time in my diary.
Thanks and useful podcast.
Hey!
I had a great time on Saturday, massive thanks to J-P and Torchbox for hosting the Ladder Sprint!
Yesterday I listened to the latest drupalize.me podcast, which is all about the D8 core initiatives, where they are going and where they are up to, which provides a useful overview to the current direction of Drupal 8.
Check it out:
http://www.lullabot.com/podcasts/drupalizeme-podcast-3-3-ws-drupal-8-ini...
@J-P, it sounds like the 'panels approach' to serving content is being adopted in core!
Panels approach != panels
Well, I hope they adopt some of the better bits, without also having the whole whole "having to build the layout for every new content type or view from scratch" that Panels also seems to carry along with it.
Writeup now available
On the Torchbox website:
http://www.torchbox.com/blog/2012/10/torchbox-host-drupal-ladder-event