Boise Codecamp Drupal Track - Decision Time!

Boise Codecamp is just over a week away and I need to let the Boise Codecamp planning committee know our preferences for the Drupal Track on Saturday and Sunday.

Chris has chosen these 3 sessions to lead off the Drupal Track Saturday morning:

Session One - 10 Reasons Why Drupal (might) Kick Your CMS's A**

Chris Shattuck

If you're building a web site from scratch, God help you. In this day and age you have a multitude of options at your fingertips for web site frameworks, and standing out among these is a powerful beacon of goodness called Drupal, a technology that powers numerous high profile sites like the White House, NASA, BMG and The Grammy Awards. In this session I give you a somewhat biased - but still fair - overview of what often makes Drupal the best solution for web-based applications and sites. If you build web sites or are considering doing so, then Drupal will make your life richer and your employment options numerous.

Drupal,CMSes

Session Two - Drupal - 101 - Installing & Configure Drupal 6

Clint Tinsley

Drupal 6 is the latest version of a very popular dynamic content management system (CMS) which can use MySql as the database backend. In this session, we will go through the basics of installing Drupal 6 on a LAMP (Linux Apache MySql PHP) using Fedora 12. The session will include creating the database and drupal user on MySql as well as setting the file permissions necessary for a succesfull installation of Drupal 6. After installing, we will go through the basic configuration steps for implementing a functional Drupal 6 including theme selections, modules, and user administration.

Linux Apache MySql PHP Drupal CMS

Session Three - Essential Modules for Most Drupal Installations

Michael Samuelson

The core Drupal installation, while providing a powerful framework for site building and custom code development, really starts to shine when you introduce some very important add on modules from the Drupal contributions repository. As a newcomer, finding those modules from among the 5000+ modules in the repository can be a challenge. This session seeks to jumpstart the attendee's awareness of the essential modules for most installations.

Drupal

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5 Sessions still to be scheduled – 3 on Saturday and 2 on Sunday. We need to identify which two can be scheduled on Sunday.

Drupal - CCK & Views

John Jemmett

In a generic web application we always need the following: * Database tables for our data * CRUD interfaces to the database tables * Queries to limit and retrieve our data from the database tables * Presentation and interface to our queries on the database tables Any coder who has built these know how tedious and cumbersome this process can be. We also recognize how repetitive this process is. How can we simplify this PAINFUL process? Let Drupal and its awesome modules lift the weight and relieve your pain. Welcome Drupal, Content Types, Nodes, Content Construction Kit (CCK), and Views

drupal

Drupal - Open Atrium Introduction & Building a simple OA Feature

Kirk Hingsberger

Does your organization need collaborative spaces for internal groups? If you had a central blog, calendar, task tracker, notebook, and shout box would your group be more effective? There is a push toward online collaboration for many companies. We are realizing the limitation of email as communication tool. It is too hard to separate out the wheat from the chaff. Welcome Open Atrium (OA) - OA is Drupal based installation that is preconfigured for groups based collaboration. We will demonstrate a Out the Box install of Open Atrium and show you the usefulness of its features. Well Open Atrium is nice, but how can I get my company specific Content Type as a Feature in OA? Well its easier than you think. If you have a basic understanding of Drupal, Content Types, CCK, and Views you can make your feature avaliable to OA and your collaboration audience. We will demonstrate how to create (A-Z) a feature for OA. We will show how this will facilitate good Development, Stage, and Production environments. With all this collaboration and cost savings can't you see the pure JOY in your bosses eyes?

drupal, open atrium, intranet, portal, collaboration,

Internationalization: Yes, Drupal can do that.

Antonio Tijerino

Drupal has built-in support for creating websites that can be localized for different languages. This built-in support comes on the form of the Locale module which allows text strings from Drupal to be translated. This presentation will show you how to configure a multi-language single-site Drupal 6 site as well as how to allow for content translations. Some of the items covered during this presentation are: * The role of the Locale Module * The i18N and L10N modules * Overview of the roles of these two modules * Approaches to building localized websites: * Building different websites for each language * One site that supports many languages * Supporting modules required

Drupal 6.x

Intro to Drupal Theming

Andy Harl

Get started on the path to becoming a drupal theme guru. Learn how to create a custom drupal theme from the ground up. All that is required is a working knowledge of (x)html and css (basic javascript and php helps too).

drupal, css, (x)html, javascript, php

Build your first website

James Glasgow

A step by step guide to setting up your first website, no previous knowledge is assumed. We will go from getting a domain name to transferring content to the server.

dns, tcp/ip, ftp

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Sunday Schedule:

Session One - Digging into Drupal 7

Joshua Brauer

WIth the release of Drupal 7 comes a host of new features and functionality for end-users, site-builders, developers and themers. We'll start with a brief overview of what Drupal is and delve into the changes with an eye towards what makes themers' and developers' processes simpler and more powerful.

php, html, jquery, drupal

Please reply to this thread and let me know your preferences.

Thanks.

Clint Tinsley
Boise Codecamp Planning Committee