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I started to use Drupal about 14 weeks 3 days ago as depicted in my account in Drupal.org. I found our Pinoy group because of this post.

I join because I want to keep in touch with people of my blood. I am not an IT professional and I don't have any proper training in website development. I started to build static pages last October 2007 in free hosting as a hobby, but this hobby turns into passion. My stay at free hosting gave me some opportunities to learn the basic HTML and some CSS. Being my passion, I go with the paid hosting at Yahoo! in November 2007 then run my static pages with my very own domain. How proud am I with my own domain.

I thought I'd post a couple of quick links to some of the development resources mentioned by me and others last night at the PDXDUG meeting. (Andrew, maybe you can add a link to the module metrics you were talking about).

As we said last night, don't play on your production site; create a dev/sandbox copy where you can wipe everything out if it gets gnarly (and maybe this is obvious, but make sure you're using a different database that the main site too!).

Hi All,
It was great meeting a number of you at the CDMUG on the 23rd. Again, our company SkySite Property is looking to redesign our company website. I have jumped in to learn as much Drupal as I can and I have a lot of basic questions regarding navigation, taxonomy, themes, etc. I would benefit from sitting down with someone one on one to go over things directly. If anyone is interested in assisting us with this it will be greatly appreciated and we will compensate you for your time.
Please contact me at tony@skysiteproperty.com
Thanks
Tony

The Columbus PHP Meetup group is sponsoring an Introduction to Drupal. Here is a summary of the event:

Nathan Rambeck of Rambeck Group will be presenting an overview of Drupal, a popular open-source content management system. Drupal powers thousands of sites across the internet from small brochure sites to highly complex sites for companies like MTV, IBM and Sony. The presentation will be about an hour long with time for Q&A and general discussion afterwords. Below is a list of topics that will be discussed:

I have this incredibly selfish idea that maybe a few other people are into. I want to do a few skillshare sessions

I'm insanely behind on a lot of personal projects that I would really like to get done soon. Much of what I need done is basic work around theming, installation and configuration. The problem is that there is a lot of work to be done and since they are personal projects I don't have a budget to pay anyone to help me (nor am I making money of the site to promise future riches).

This is what I'm proposing.

Sorry for introducing myself this way, I am new here a.k.a. the Noob... I have never used Drupal, I have built sites the Old fashion way and was informed by a lost friend that Drupal was the way to do it. I am really excited and would really love to learn how to set it up and get cracking at it. If anyone can please help me it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Tone

Hey Y'all. I tried getting out of computers after the dot com bust. But Drupal pulled me back in because it's so F*%$ing useful, and so many people need it's functionality. So I'm starting up a one geek consulting business doing XHTML/CSS based Drupal setups. I'm just starting out, and plan to work primarily with smaller businesses and non-profits. I'm trying to figure out how to base my rates. Here's my considerations:

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NOTE: Clearly this is a collaborative effort and I am totally open to adjusting/changing this as we discover what works. I am also actively looking for other experienced Drupal developers to lend time and energy to this, as well as (obviously) hustling up a good crop of apprentices.

Why Apprentices?
Everywhere you turn, people talk about the shortage of Drupal talent. There are various groups dedicated to regional meetups, drupal camps, even formal training events. This group is trying to answer the talent shortage by creating an online community dedicated to transferring knowledge from existing experts in the community to newbies who want to learn.

Yes, it's short-notice DrupalMentor again! This time we're welcoming any of the recipients of the Drupal Extreme Makeover (see recap here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/1937) - but that doesn't mean you can't come. The more the merrier; same place, same time, same Skype channel (ta-dshhh.... I'll be online during the DrupalMentor event - Skypename is palmito_do_baletech)

The basics:
Open to everyone, but geared for people who do not know code, and are users / basic maintainers. You don't need to bring a laptop but then you'll be looking over other people's shoulders.

Just a couple of us met at the last DrupalMentor event (http://groups.drupal.org/node/1698)- and again, Courtney from FloatLeft made herself available by Skype; and again, we hammered the airport wireless at one stage, and then got it reset; and again, the PCs had more problems getting onto the Wifi than the Macs....

I was helping one person with very basic Intro to Drupal concepts, including how to create menus, and where content can end up (promoted to front page in a river of news style, or elsewhere). Ron needed help getting two video thumbnails per node - we tried to use CCK and views, but there was no video content type for CCK yet, so we were stymied there. At least I was able to help him install TinyMCE (the best of class WYSYWG editor for Drupal).