Wanted to take a moment here and thank all those who presented in the Drupal Track as well as Jame's presentation on Build your first website which was outside the Drupal Track. We had a total of 8 presentations over the two days to provide a complete track. The topics chosen by each of the presenters was excellent and I appreciate all of your efforts in making the Boise Codecamp Drupal Track a success. I think we really made a difference as well as generate interest in Drupal.
At somepoint, soon I hope, a request will go out for presentations (slides, code, etc) to be posted on the Boise Codecamp webiste for each session that was presented this year. Just giving you a heads up on that. My Drupal 101 presentation can currently be found on the boiselug.org website.
Clint
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Ideas from the Florida
Ideas from the Florida DrupalCamp case study posted on d.o this morning: http://drupal.org/node/755498
I like their idea of next year coordinating the speakers so they all build a single website throughout the day. We could do that with our Drupal track at BCC next year.
They sound like they wanted to do basic install chores before the camp, which fits their drupal-oriented audience, but I think at the non-drupal-oriented BCC the first session should walk through the basic install and all the little things that can go wrong there (register_globals, php 5.2.9, overcoming clean URLs issues, etc.)
Then the second session could go into the first couple dozen modules typically needed after installation, including imagecache, pathauto, etc. to prep for the next sessions. Third session could be CCK and creating all the content types for what the client needs, entering sample data. Fourth session could be views. Sessions after these would be dependent on client needs and presenter pool skills (ubercart, audio/video, theming, etc.) Perhaps the last session would be setting up OA on a subdomain (intranet.charity.org) to enable intra-office work also.
They pointed out having a couple people from the designated charity was very helpful to make on-the-spot site decisions. That would be good not only for the decisions need, but also to train the charity people on what is going into their site and how to manage it themselves (at least somewhat).
They realized they started the charity site planning way too late, so we would want to start that very soon to be ready to roll at the next BCC. If we buy into this plan, maybe put out the charity applications in the next few weeks, promote it around Boise, then cutoff applications and make a decision 6 months before the next BCC, giving us 6 months to do the interviews, wireframes, etc.
Ongoing support? Maybe the Boise drupal users group could pledge up to 10 hours annually for site maintenance and limited development. That could practically be accomplished during your monthly meetings.
An awesome drupal site produced in a day for a local charity at a Boise Code Camp? That ought to merit a blurb in the local news if someone remembers to call the newspaper and local stations.
Just an idea, I think this would give more structure to next year's Drupal track, make it more interesting and appealing to potential session attendees, and we give back to the community.
Florida Drupal Camp Ideas
I think that building and supporting a website for a area non-profit would be a great project, especially if we can get some community awareness as part of the project. There are some great ideas that can be drawn from the Florida Drupal Camp. Thanks for sharing that link with us.
I think that what we did this year was really great in terms of demonstrating what Drupal is, how to use it, and what you can do with it. I think a session on configuring a "planned" Drupal Website with some "under the covers" work in modifying the theme as well as using CCK and Views would be awesome but fit this into one session rather than an all day activity.
Clint