Drupal training / discussion at Penn State!

On Sep 30, 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM in room 141 Computer Bldg, UP, Bryan Ollendyke from the e-Learning Institute at PSU (see http://elearning.psu.edu/) will chat about e-Learning's use of Drupal for course development and implementation. If you are curious about what a center is doing in this area, please consider attending. Lunch is provided.

You can also attend via Adobe Connect at http://breeze.psu.edu/itpro. <-- you can sign up for a friends of penn state account on this page if you need one to connect from outside PSU

Normally you are asked to register for this at https://register4its.psu.edu, but I don't see anything there for this event. If I do find a link, I'll send it out. There is no cost to attend; they just need head counts.
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Here's a rough outline of what I'll be talking about / covering. This is also very open to questions so we might not get to everything if there's enough interest.

Talking points:

* Introduction
o Brief of my background / involvement in the Drupal community
o Brief of the institute's history relative to Drupal usage
* What is Drupal?
o Brief History
o Philosophy
o Make up of the community
* Why / How can you use Drupal?
o Why we chose Drupal over other options
o Drupal's Track Record
o Big name examples
o Sites around PSU using it
o Courses using it (EMS / e-Learning Institute)
* Understanding Drupal's architecture
o Requirements (LAMP stack)
o Core, Modules, Themes, profiles...How do they all work together!?
o Sample implementation
* Installing Drupal
o Which Drupal should I use? (4.x, 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, HEAD!?)
* Community modules you NEED to download
o Views, CCK, Outline Designer, Administration Menu, Devel, DHTML Menu, Search and Replace
* Community modules you should look into
o OG, Flir, Coder, Nice Menus, Others
* Good themes to use for starters
o Pixture (sample sites using it)
o Garland (packaged / sample sites using it)
o Zen
o Others
* Writing a sample module
o How to write a simple module
* Writing a sample theme
o How to take any website and make it work in Drupal (quickly!)
* Critical Resources
o Books
o Blogs / Websites / Communities of interest
* Questions?

Look forward to seeing you there / having you log in!