Drupal in a Day - Training Pre-PNW Drupal Sumitt
northStudio, VSBT (Victoria School of Business and Technology) and Acquia are happy to announce the 'Drupal in a Day Course' on October 1st 2010, a day before the PNW Drupal Summit!
Drupal in a Day Course
Are you curious about Drupal? Wondering how it can be used, and what you or your team could do with it? Drupal in a Day is an overview of the fundamental concepts of Drupal. It would be good as a foundation for potential site builders and an overview for decision makers who want to look under the hood.
Course details:
Participants will start with a blank website and touch upon almost every aspect of the core Drupal framework. You will learn how to add, edit and moderate content, manage users, create user profiles and understand permissions. Participants will then create custom content types and look at views to display this content in various parts throughout the site, including custom blocks and list pages, such as a blogroll, the last five images added, or the latest blog posts added to the site. You'll create-human readable URLS, and categorize your content using Drupal's taxonomy system. At the end of this one-day class you'll have a completed Drupal site, which looks and functions a lot like many sites you'll see on the web today.
Prerequisites:
Because this class will be an overview and not an in-depth course, it is perfect for people who are on the fence about using Drupal or who are looking for a hands-on introduction.
You will want to have an active interest in learning about Drupal, a basic understanding of the Internet and familiarity with how websites function, a conceptual understanding of Content Management Systems (CMS), a working knowledge of HTML and CSS is beneficial (but not required).
Those who are looking for an in-depth Drupal site-building training should contact VSBT (www.VSBT.ca) for more info on courses.
Requirements:
Participants will need to bring a laptop.
Space is limited to a maximum of 25 people in order to ensure that all participants have an opportunity to ask questions.
Drupal in a Day: PNW Drupal Summit 2010
When: Friday October 1st 2010
Where: Morris J Wosk Centre for Dialogue
Rm: 470 Hamber Foundation Boardroom
Simon Fraser University, 580 West Hastings Street
Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 1L6
Time: 9-4 (with 1hr lunch)
Cost: $399 per person
Register today! http://www.schoolvictoria.com/courses/drupal-in-a-day
Upcoming Training Sessions:
Calgary, AB – September 10th 2010
northStudio and VSBT:
northStudio has been offering training through our school - The Victoria School of Business & Technology (www.VSBT.ca) for the last 11 years, 4 years specifically in Drupal. We have a team of 15+ instructors and our full service Drupal Shop (www.northStudio.com) which keeps our instructors in the leading edge of Drupal.
Adhering to our philosophy “Experience is Education” or more accurately, "Our Experience is your Education," we have developed one-of-a-kind Certification programs & Internships in Drupal, Website Design, Web Application Programming and e-Business and Web Development. We also teach hundreds of other courses which can be customized to meet your education requirements. www.VSBT.ca
Acquia:
Acquia’s training program offers on-site classroom style courses for Drupal designers and developers. Acquia is developing, and will maintain a relevant Drupal curriculum as well as extending training services through our extensive training partner program. The curriculum will cover a wide range of Drupal design and development topics. Whether your team is looking to get their feet wet in Drupal, or looking to implement an enterprise solution, Acquia and our training partners will get you heading down the right track. www.acquia.com
CiviCRM User Training by CivicActions
I would also like to note that Gregory Heller from Civic Actions is interesting in holding CiviCRM Training on Oct 1st, interest dependent.
Please contact Gregory for more info and to sign up - http://groups.drupal.org/user/41/contact
CivicActions offerings training for the open source constituent relationship management system CiviCRM.
We have been deploying CiviCRM for our clients since 2005 and have extensive experience with the application. Over the last four years we have offered customized training to our clients. In 2010 are happy to offer group trainings. Gregory Heller has conducted two trainings in 2010, one in conjunction with David Greenberg of CiviCRM at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Atlanta, and the other at DrupalCon in San Francisco.
CiviCRM User Training
This full day hands-on training session - conducted by Gregory Heller - is aimed at non-profit staff and consultants who want to learn how to configure, administer and use CiviCRM.
The training program is equally applicable to people who are already using CiviCRM and want to become "power users", as well as people who are interested in evaluating CiviCRM for their organization or clients.
The agenda will be finalized based on participant mix. Topics may include:
Introduction to CiviCRM - what does it do and how can it help you?
CiviMember, CiviEvent, CiviReport, CiviMail
Installation Overview
Configuring CiviCRM - site preferences, dedupe rules, mapping
reCAPTCHA, payment processors
Using the Contribution, Event and Membership modules
Collecting and exposing data to constituents (custom data, profiles)
Advanced features - price sets for events, CiviMail and message templates
Customizing CiviCRM - custom data, custom templates
Integrating CiviCRM with Drupal, including user/contact synchronization, Profiles, Organic Groups, Views2
Debugging - tips and tricks
Participating in the CiviCRM Community
Requirements:
Participants should bring a laptop
Participants are STRONGLY encouraged to have a working installation of CiviCRM locally on their laptop
If not locally, than on a webhost, though internet speeds at the training location will not support all participants working on their own
remote installation simultaneously.
There will be an opportunity in the week prior to the training to get assistance installing CiviCRM locally on Linux or Mac OS X
machines. CiviCRM installs in a similar fashion to other Drupal Modules, though at CivicActions we do recommend installing CiviCRM into a separate database from your Drupal Installation.
Space is limited to a maximum of 20 people in order to ensure that all participants have an opportunity to ask questions.
Upcoming Training Sessions
Seattle, Washington - September 22, 2010
Bay Area, California - October 13, 2010
http://civicactions.com/services/civicrm_training