training

I Started using drupal just recently, and trying to develop 2 projects of mine.
problem is, i dont know what to do when i need to customize staff, and it takes me too long each time to look into documentation and bbs.
so i would like to find somebody to coach me part time on same drupal's basics, if possible i am thinking of some sort of private lesson/training.

what i want to understand at first are simple things like:
. customize templates and themes.
. customize Views
. add custom Info Boxes
and generally understand the overall architecture structure.

This is the Basic End-User Training Manual I've been meaning to contribute for a while. Thanks to my former bosses at Raised Eyebrow Web Studio for giving me the go ahead to rework it and contribute it back to the community!

Minneapolis is a Drupal hot-bed of activity this summer!

Drupal Daze, sponsored by Open Circuit, is scheduled for July 19th and 20th. Here, you can get 2 days of Drupal education by gurus around the area. Check out the presentation schedule and registration info at http://www.drupaldaze.com.

Advantage Labs is conducting a special 5-week Nonprofit Drupal Website Training Class specifically designed for a small group of nonprofits. It starts Aug 5th and is limited to 8 nonprofit organizations. By the end of the class, each nonprofit will have their own basic website, nonprofit Drupal training AND 6 months of Advantage Lab's Drupal Alliance program. Check out the full details at: Nonprofit Drupal Training: Build Your Own Basic Nonprofit Website.

AND, of course - this group, The Twin Cities Drupal Users Group, where the TC Posse is taking over and doing lightening talks at the TC Drupal User Group meeting on July 23rd. Find out all about TC Posse and their cunning plans at: http://groups.drupal.org/node/12588 .

Hope to see you soon at one or all of these meetings. Stay cool - with Drupal!

Hi Everyone,

I'll be teaching a 17-week Drupal class at MATC this Fall, first time through, the main theme being module development with PHP. The prereqs are some background with html and css and a little php (or willingness to learn it quickly).

What:   Drupal class
Where:  Madison Area Technical College, Truax campus
When:   Mon-Wed, 5:30 pm - 6:20 pm
Starts: August 25, 2008
Ends:   December 17, 2008
Cost:   $310.05

More info about this and our other programming classes here (PHP, Ajax, Java, etc.).

On August 23, at the FrOSCon conference in Sankt Augustin, Germany, Robert Douglass and Joeri Poesen will be offering free drupal training for anyone interested in getting started with Drupal. The topics to be covered are listed below. Bring your laptop with Wifi access because we'll be building some Drupal websites together!

10:00 - 11:15

Drupal basics

• What is Drupal and what kinds of sites can be built with it?
• Installing Drupal
• Five steps to a basic site

11:15 - 12:30

Drupal core features

• Making a publishing plan
• Organizing your site

The Camp was a huge success! We had over 80 people attend over 2 days with folks coming from Vancouver, Victoria, Montana, Portland, Bellingham, Olympia, Tacoma, San Diego, (Seattle) and even Vermont.

Thanks to all of our sponsors:

• Achieve Internet
• Active State
• CivicActions
• Cliff Bar
• DrupalCamp Vancouver
• Hazel Consulting
• Office Nomads
• Palantir
• Poplar ProductivityWare
• Pyramid Communications
• StartPad

We are a pre-launch start up that is in need of a Drupal trainer for approx. 3 days. Mainly administration and exploring features. Our developers might have a few questions as well.

Thx - Tim

We've set up an event node here on g.d.o for people to signup for the seattle drupalcamp. All information will eventually be posted on this node.

Here is the short of it (as you may know):
June 27, 28 10am to 5pm
Youngstown Arts Center (site of last year's camp), its about 5 miles south of downtown.

Find out more and signup, space is limited right now to 80 people.

Contribute session ideas

If you are interested in attending BU Drupal BootCamp on this Friday, May 2nd, 2008 and would like lunch to be provided (free), we need you to sign up by 4:00 pm CST at http://slane.bradley.edu/drupalbootcamp/. If you have particular dietary needs, please contact Steven Merrill or myself so that we can make sure there is something for you to eat.

This call is just for people who would like lunch provided. After this afternoon you can still sign up and attend the event -- we just can't guarantee there will be any food for you -- but campustown is literally just across the street and has a number of different (cheap) food options.

Thanks!

Brian

Plans for BU Drupal BootCamp are in full swing. We will be using a room equipped for video conferencing, food has been arranged, and we will even be able to provide a limited number of laptops to attendees who don't have a laptop of their own for the day.