Posted by joachim on October 14, 2010 at 12:26pm
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2010-10-30 10:00 - 17:00 Europe/London Event type:
Drupalcamp or Regional Summit
The first Drupalcamp Edinburgh will be on 30 October 2010 at the Edinburgh University's Informatics Forum on George Square (see map).
This will be an informal barcamp-style event: sessions will be decided on the day based on participants' proposals, but the following sessions have already been confirmed:
- Addison Berry of Lullabot will run a "Beginners Track" in the morning session comprising of two sessions:
- What is a node? taxonomy? This session will outline the main components of Drupal to beginners so that you can quickly become familiar with all of the Drupal language and concepts.
- Building a Basic Drupal site - using the concepts of first session, Addison will walk you through creating a Drupal site.
- Chris Muktar of WikiJob, the UK's largest graduate careers website, will discuss how they started out using a small Drupal site and grew it to a site which today serves 350,000 unique visitors each month.
We hope there will be something for all levels of experience with Drupal, from complete beginner and up. The event will start at around 10am and run till 5pm, with the usual option to continue in a nearby bar ;)
Participation is free, but please register on the Informatics Ventures site as places are limited.
Hosted and supported by Informatics Ventures
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Oh yeah :)
Will be there.
Would be nice to have
Would be nice to have several, progressive, brief modules (15-30mins) from Installation/Drupal 7 features intro to advanced Drupal 7 development/theming...perhaps branching into topics focused on development/extending the core/plugins and on advanced theming. But having to sit in all sessions would be just perfect!
BTW, thanks Digital Spaghetti and to the Edinburgh University's Informatics people! :D
If there's sufficient
If there's sufficient interest I could do a session on new stuff in D7, though I've not looked at changes in theming much yet.
I do hope there will be
I do hope there will be enough interested. I'll be happy with any D7 session you can provide. Despite the flak D7 seems to be getting, I truly look forward to using D7, otherwise what's the whole point of developing Drupal? I'll try to get a grip on myself though. :D
lets stick to drupal 619 and live in the real world
the guy mentioned using drupal 7. GET A REALITY TRIP. THIS IS OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE RELYING ON THE WHIM OF ENTHUSIASTs and certain companies. Half the modules dont even work properly on ver6.19 (NEED TO BE HEAVILY TWEAKED/MODIFIED) and he wants to develop on ver7!!!. I WONT TOUCH VER7 TILL mid 2012, even then that version will have bugs and complications.
Heh. There will always be a
Heh. There will always be a lot of modules out there in the Drupal universe that are pure crap. Nothing will change that. There's those that are rough work released in the hope another developer will take the baton and move a project forward, and there's those that are simply crap :/
That's no reason not to look to Drupal 7 -- it's around the corner, and a lot of major modules will be ready for it.
SEO
I've just moved to Perth and delighted to see that within a fortnight of arriving there's a Drupal Camp.
I can do a 30 minute presentation on Search Engine Optimization - basic intro to the concepts of SEO, then quickly skim over the main Drupal [6] modules. Gave the same talk at LA Drupal earlier this year and it was well received by the beginners-intermediates (I think seasoned web devs may find it familiar ground I would be covering). If I have time I might look at D7, but I think that's less likely
Rob
Sounds great!
Sounds great!
Interested in this. Hope you
Interested in this. Hope you get time to cover D7 a bit.
Slideshow For SEO
The slides I presented are available at http://www.slideshare.net/rgcarr/search-engine-optimization-drupal
See you on the 30th!
Just sorted B&B travelling up from NW England.
Look f/w to learning more about Drupal.
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Count Me in
This sound wicked :D am hoping to be around the UK in that time frame :D would be happy to discuss or talk about case studies from some larger corporate websites i have worked on and production - staging issues faced as well as Civi-CRM integration and workflows for NGO's :D
so excited about this xD
I think you may have got your
I think you may have got your dates mixed up :(
The camp took place last Saturday!
Also, Civi-CRM integration? Bwahahahahaha -- RUN!