workshops

Greetings, all! I'm new to Drupal, working to redesign Worthington Libraries' Web site and migrate to Drupal in the process.

I've been looking for some good training sessions as I get up to speed and I've heard very good things about Lullabot. I keep hoping they'd offer sessions a little closer to home than the upcoming sessions in Portland, OR and New Orleans, so I contacted Lullabot to ask and the reply I received was:

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We don't have any plans currently to do training in Ohio, but are always willing to look at new cities and venues.

Hey there good people of Southern California!

In case you hadn't heard, the Lullabot training road show is making a stop in Los Angeles - February 4th - 8th. The team will be doing a full week of themer training starting with an Introduction to Drupal Theming followed by three days of Advanced Drupal Theming. So if you're looking to learn how to make great looking Drupal sites or learn some jQuery, come on out! There's an early bird discount on until January 11th and, as usual, you can register for both workshops and save.

We'll also be hosting an LA Drupal meetup while we're in town... more info on that coming soon!

From 10am to 5pm on January 27th, Open Circuit (http://tcopencircuit.org) will be hosting a day-long series of workshops on Drupal in the Learning Technologies Center at the Science Museum of Minnesota. We want to provide an opportunity for everyone from the bleary-eyed programmer to the wide-eyed novice to teach and learn about using Drupal to build websites.

Hello Oregonians,

Just wanted to make sure everyone knows about the upcoming Lullabot workshops happening in Portland next month. The team will be in town from January 7th - 11th teaching Intro to Drupal Development and Advanced API and Module Development. You can sign up for either workshop individually or attend the whole week at a discount.

I hope we get to meet some of you while we're in town!

I've heard rumors of a theming workshop to happen in the New Year, and I wasn't really into or aware of Drupal enough to have caught the recent BAD Camp.

So I was wondering if there were any intentions by the folks over at Raincity or Bryght (well they're the same thing now), or anywhere else for that matter, to host a theming workshop sometime in the New Year. If so, even preliminary details would be good at this stage, even a promise would suffice :)

Our steering committee is having a discussion about whether we should offer training for a small fee, or whether training should be free. We currently have presentations at each meeting which are free. The issue we have is that members are not mastering these presentations enough to do it on their own after the presentation is over. So we're thinking about having smaller, more focused, hands-on training sessions outside of the main monthly meeting.

The Calgary Linux Users Group is hosting a Drupal Workshop on 15 Jul 2007. This workshop will take place at the local Calgary DeVry building (corner of Memorial Drive, and Barlow Trail) in room 216 from 9:00am to 5:00pm. Details about the workshop can be seen on CLUG's site and on my personal site.

This workshop is free and open to the public. A donation to CLUG is encouraged, but not mandatory, if you are not a member of CLUG.

The Lullabot team will be running a Drupal API workshop October 4th, 5th, and 6th in San Francisco.

This workshop runs through the general principals of the Drupal programming framework and gives you everything you need in order to start making your own Drupal modules. Drupal's API is incredibly flexible and it's possible to greatly modify it's functionality without hacking any code. We'll go in depth with Drupal's hook system and show how to modify forms, nodes, users, links, and other Drupal elements. We'll show you how to make custom blocks, nodes, and build on Drupal's powerful web-application functions. We'll also explain some of the philosophy and principals about how and why Drupal works the way that it does so that you'll be able to better understand the logic behind it.

More information: www.lullabot.com/training

Update: - Postponed! We have decided to postpone our workshop till Aug 7th - 10th due to an overload of work and not enough time to put together the kick-ass program we originally intended. Still in DC, just a bit later, and even more kick-ass!

That's right folks, Lullabot is coming to DC! We're going to be having 2 workshops, the first being an introduction to Drupal and the 2nd being an indepth looking at theming in Drupal. Class sizes are kept small, only 20 people, so we can better accomodate each individual and their particular questions and needs. If you're interested, please sign up, registrations are going fast!