Training resource

Free workshop on basic + Drupal 6. At WCC, Room BE-170. Four(4) Wednesdays, from 10/28 through 11/18. Evenings, 7-9...

This is a list of possible topics to cover at our monthly meetups. Please feel free to edit it.

• Organic Groups
• Selling Drupal
• Process Shortcuts
• SEO in Drupal
• "My First Module"
• Review of different image gallery modules
• A simple CRUD app within drupal - say emp table in MYSQL, a page to select / insert data and tie this page to a node / menu.
• Setup a small e-commerce site from scratch.
• Disaster planning - backups, migrations, restoration
• Flexinode - what is it and why is it so awesome
• Project Management in Drupal

Bob Christenson (aka Rob Feature) from Mustardseed Media, Inc. will be teaching this seminar on "real world" Drupal theming. He will be talking more about the practical "how to theme" and will NOT be doing in depth detail on how the Drupal theme system works (although we'll cover the basics of course).

This event will cover the same material being presented at the NYC Theming Session on January 24.

These are useful links for new developers to drupal.

This is a wiki page so feel free to add to it.

* Zen PDF layout
* Color Scheme Generator
* Drupal Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
* Drupal Modules
* Lullabot Articles
* Lullabot Podcast

I pride myself on keeping current on Drupal news and especially on new Drupal modules. One way I do that is I read alot of RSS feeds daily. Every morning when I sit down to begin my day I start with reading my aggregated feeds on my website - http://www.hofmockel.org/aggregator/categories

• I find the Planet Drupal aggregated RSS feeds a little too inclusive - http://drupal.org/planet

Here is an export of my aggregator_feed table (Just the Drupal related ones). Of course you could just read it directly on my site if you like. But if you only read one make it the "New Module" list on Drupal.org - http://drupal.org/taxonomy/term/14/0

360 Drupal presentations on Slideshare.net
http://www.slideshare.net/search/slideshow?q=drupal&submit=post&commit=S...

I'm off to look at this one - http://www.slideshare.net/emmajane/moving-in-how-to-port-your-content-fr...

If you missed Drupalcon 08 or if you attended and missed a specific presentation here is your chance to catch up.
Many (46) of the presentations are now available on The Internet Archive.

What an awesome resource for free!

When I got the books for our one year party I was really struck by the desire to create a group library. I was then overwhelmed with the idea of having to continually track the books and make sure they are returned. Then Stephen reminded me that there is a perfectly good method for this already, the Ann Arbor District Library. Some of you may remember the talk that Eli gave to the group on the Libraries implementation of Drupal. What a awesomely perfect circle! And a quick search of the library catalogue shows no Drupal books. Every library should have Drupal books!

Drupal Podcast No. 50: 50 Drupal Tips and Tricks
http://www.lullabot.com/audiocast/podcast-50-drupal-tips-and-tricks

I did not have time to listen to the podcast but the attached list was super helpful. You should check it out!

Our next meeting will address the question, "Taxonomy - What is it and what can it do for me?"

I know our last meeting was just two nights ago. But it is clearly time for a discussion on taxonomy. Let's see if we can't get a discussion going before the meeting and set ourselves up to delve deep into taxonomy at our next meeting.

For simplicity sake, Ontology and Taxonomy are the same thing.