Hi I'm in charge of the beginners track and we need to solidify our presenters!
Please comment, sign up and/or contact me to become a presenter for a session.
INTRODUCTION TO THE WEB AND BEGINNING DRUPAL - This session is to give the audience a high level overview of how the web works, the underlying technologies and why Drupal is awesome! We'll also cover how to install Drupal and begin using it right away!
EXTENDING DRUPAL AWESOMENESS – FURTHER! - This session is cover how to install Drupal Modules, Drupal Themes and then manage those modules.
TAGS AND VIEWS - All about Taxonomy and using Views
PIMPING YOUR SITE - We'll cover even more modules to make your site that much more awesome!
FORMS, FORMS AND FORMS! - This session is all about using Webform and how to leverage it to make it work for you!
KEEPING UP WITH MAINTENANCE - All about maintenance.
HOW DO I...? WHAT DO I NEED? (Q&A PANEL) - Panel Discussion
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Each year a beginners track at different Drupal Camps is often a mash of different topics leaving enormous gaps in knowledge for the beginning drupalists. This year Florida Drupal Camp plans to fix this issue by setting a standard – having a ‘case study’ for the entire track and each session builds on the previous session. Each session will follow stringent rules and guides; to circumvent our members from becoming lost between sessions from reasons such as “I didn’t get that one part” or “I had an issue” each presenter will follow a guide and be given goals to accomplish in that session. A link will be provided at the end of each session for a database dump of the site. This will provide a fallback option in case a member of the audience falls behind and wishes to keep pace – they can download the current session database dump and upload it to their practice site to keep on track with the presenter.
Case Study: This year FLDC 2011 will provide users with a case study to complete a fully functioning site. This year’s case study we will be creating the “Central Florida Computer Users Society” Site. You will create custom content types, custom taxonomy vocabularies and views to display those features.
Presenters will be provided a list of Goals and what they must cover for each session to keep pace with every other session.
Thanks
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I've already claimed the
I've already claimed the KEEPING UP WITH MAINTENANCE.
JCL
Yeah, I am in too - either
Yeah, I am in too - either one of the first two sessions.
Ryan Price
DrupalEasy Podcast
Pimping
I'll take care of "pimping your web site".
Mike
Forms Forms Forms
I can do the webforms session
Joe Moraca
WebDevGeeks.com
Forms Forms Forms
You got the Forms, Forms, Forms session Joe!
G
"Just as diamonds are forever, Google Cache is too"
Extending drupal.
Extending drupal.
Q&A Panel Anyone?
We've got almost everything covered.
Anyone interested in doing the Q&A Panel?
@bhosmer Extending is also being taugh by liberatr (Ryan Price) I don't think he'll mind co-presenting with you either.
G
"Just as diamonds are forever, Google Cache is too"
I don't mind bowing out to
I don't mind bowing out to Ryan. Unless he wants a co-presenter. It would be my first presentation, so I will volunteer for the panel.
How about this..
I'll add you to both
I'm sure Ryan won't mind having someone else stand up there to help answer questions...
G
"Just as diamonds are forever, Google Cache is too"
Who is doing tags and views?
Just wondering. :-)
Carol
I'm going to claim tags and views
I'm going to claim Tags & Views for myself and my business associate Joseph.
It'll be his first time doing a real (co)presentation.
G
"Just as diamonds are forever, Google Cache is too"
Should tags and views perhaps
Should tags and views perhaps be covered in separate sessions?
A difficult question to answer
You've asked one of those difficult questions - its a yes and no answer in this case. I say they most definitely could be separate sessions.
The session before Tags and Views covers Content Types and Fields, for me it makes logical sense to cover Taxonomy followed by Views together.
I based my decision on personal experiences from providing support in IRC, to clients, and FLDC2010; people often understand Content Types and Fields but they use a field to provide the same functionality as taxonomy.
While last year Taxonomy was mentioned in several sessions it was never covered formally and Views was a 30 minute session that turned in to a 50 minute session from its planned 30 minute. [Partly due to explaining taxonomy and complexities of views] I decided that the best flow for the beginners track after learning about Content Types and Fields would to be to follow up with Taxonomy for the first part of the session (~10mins) followed by views for the remainder of the session.
I think in future Drupal Camps views should be its own 1 hour session and taxonomy a 30 minute session; due to time constraints and a couple of experimental sessions it isn't possible this year.
G
"Just as diamonds are forever, Google Cache is too"
That was kind of my idea.
That was kind of my idea. Views could be an entire day by itself depending on the skill level. I do agree that following taxonomy with views is a good idea. I remember views were the scariest part for me about learning drupal.