BU Drupal Boot Camp

UPDATE: We have much more information about our BU event on May 2nd. It will be free, and breakfast items and lunch will be provided. It will be in GCC Room 124 on Bradley University's campus, which is a room with teleconference facilities, so we may be able to teleconference in a presenter or two, or stream the event live - we're still investigating these possibilties. Please sign up for a user account on our site if you want to attend so we can get food for you.

The site has been updated with more information, such as directions, and our agenda. More will follow as we have time.

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Would you like to learn how to build easily-updated websites with a free, community-support tool?

Would you like to have a website that combines many community features, like forums, blogs, and RSS feeds?

Let our team of Central Illinois experts teach you how to do all this with Drupal at the BU Drupal Boot Camp.

We aim to use a similar format as the recent UIUC Drupal Boot Camp.

The BU Drupal Boot Camp is being organized by Steven Merrill and Brian McMurray. It is designed for people with general web knowledge (HTML and CSS knowledge will help.) No prior knowledge of Drupal or PHP are required.

Our goal is to build a complete site from scratch using Drupal in the morning and by doing so, cover all of the introductory topics you'll need to understand how to build an content-managed site with Drupal.

In the afternoon, we'll have more advanced presentations, such as how to enable your site for e-commerce, multimedia, and do more advanced theming. We'll also offer hands-on help from Drupal experts - bring a Drupal project you're working on! Even if you've never used Drupal, the Chicago Drupal meetup group will provide Drupal test drives where you can try out Drupal, even if you don't have web hosting.

We'll be fleshing out the agenda in the coming week. A site for the event will be located at http://slane.bradley.edu/drupalbootcamp/ .