We're planning a fun and informative day in Dublin for both novice Drupal users and Drupal developers.
Our gracious and generous hosts at DIT (Dublin Institute of Technology, The School of Computing) are providing the space free of charge, as well as tea/coffee and a lunch for attendees! We have room for one large space, and smaller rooms for break-out sessions. All of the rooms are in DIT on Kevin St. View the map.
Everyone welcome! Please register on this site, and use the "sign up" button here if you plan to attend.
Please download the event poster, print out and post where you can. Poster in PDF**
Freebies! Lynda.com have offered coupons for free access to online Drupal training videos; as well as a Lynda.com Drupal Training DVD, which we will raffle off! (a $50 US value) And the grand prize in the raffle is a year's hosting for a Drupal site, sponsored by Indytech!!!
Program
The list of sessions and schedule has now been finalised! Details can be found at Meet-up Schedule.
Accommodation
Please also see the list here: http://icitst.infonomics.org.uk/2008/conference/accommodation.htm
Please indicate that you require the DIT rate when booking.
Hotels
- Jury's Inn Christchurch (Map) - Price: EUR 160 per room per night (single, twin or double)
- Mercer Hotel (Map) - Price: EUR 160 per room per night
- Central Hotel (Map) - Price: EUR 113.50 (single), EUR 147 (double/twin), add EUR 10 for breakfast
- Harding Hotel (Map) - Price: EUR 108 (add EUR 7-10 for breakfast).
- Buswells Hotel - Price: EUR 115 (single), EUR 130 (double), add EUR 10 per person for breakfast
- Drury Court Hotel - Price: EUR 129 (single), EUR 159 (double/twin)
Hostels
- Kinlay House (Map) - Price: EUR 18 - 32 per night per person, depending on room type.
- Four Courts Hostel (Map) - Price: EUR 20 - 37 per person per night, depending on room type.
Most of these are within a 10-15 minute walk of the venue. There are others closer (more expensive) and further away (cheaper) - if you want information on these please let us know.
Sponsors
A special word of thanks to our sponsors without whom this event wouldn't be possible.
- School of Computing, DIT - major thank you for providing the free venue and catering!
- CivicActions - for their sponsorship and support
- Indytech - for providing the grand prize for the raffle - a year's hosting for a Drupal site!
- Lynda.com - for providing free access to online Drupal training videos, along with the Drupal Training DVD for our raffle
** Download poster original .eps file if you want to edit it/modify for your needs. The extension is .txt, rename it to .eps (due to uploading problems). Font used is Diavlo
Comments
which DIT?
I assume it is in Kevin St, is that correct?
rgds
rob
Yep, it's in Kevin St. I've
Yep, it's in Kevin St. I've updated the post above - thanks for spotting the omission!
Map
For the
culchies, ahem, people unfamiliar with Dublin.The Kevin St campus of DIT can be seen on this map
http://www.dit.ie/campuslife/mapsandtransport/map/
ah thanks alan! i posted a
ah thanks alan! i posted a link in the info above. thank you.
woo hoo! a poster
We made up a poster, please download and post all over the place. Or at least in places you think people will see it.
http://groups.drupal.org/files/irelandmeetup.pdf
Download poster original .eps file if you want to edit it/modify for your needs. The extension is .txt, rename it to .eps (due to uploading problems). Font used is Diavlo. winks to Galooph
Great choice of font
Winks to Heather :-)
Dan
Laptop Setup
Hi Heather, for the Drupal Ireland Meeting workshops, what version of drupal (and modules) should we install on our laptops so we can follow along. Cant wait
Drupal 6, ftw!
I would say Drupal 6. But I think Scor was talking about showing stuff with Drupal 7 as well (contributing to Drupal core).
I was trying to look into the Drupal-on-a-stick option, but it sounds implausible. This opens a can of worms, depending on how much hands-on we want to cover.
Do you think it's too much to ask.. If people want to play along, we will have to notify them to install Drupal (and if they need to MAMP/LAMP/ or whatever windows user use) locally on their machines beforehand... Or they can download on the day. Hm... Hmmm... Yeah, it's a tiny can of worms.
Do we get them to download the necessary contrib modules as well? Hmm...
My first presentation is a site solely in Drupal 6 core installation (out of the box website; using books, forums, aggregator, fun fun).
My second, in the afternoon, fills the gap with pretty much the only thing I see missing in core which is image handling. I'll use imagefield, however, this implies installing CCK.
The site I'm working on for both demos is the same, so the tutorials fit together.
I'm trying to keep contrib modules to a minimum just for the sake of simplicity.
I was talking with Stella the other night however, I think it would be good to show people the must have set as well- because admin looks so different with admin menu, vertical tabs, WYSIWYG. But I'll leave that for someone else to show off :)
What do others think? How can we best manage hands-on activities?
Have fun
Hope you all have fun and that there'll be some write-ups on how it went.
Car Park
Hello,
Will it be possible to park my car for free (or cheap) in or around DIT for the event ?
What would you suggest ?
TIA
RockyRoad: I'm not aware of
RockyRoad: I'm not aware of any free parking in the area, sorry. The nearest car park I know of is about a 10 minute walk from DIT, in St Stephen's Green shopping centre!
I see the map is down on the DIT site, so you can use this one if you want:
DIT Kevin St, Google Maps
CARPARKING
heya- when come to DIT kevin street campus, you'll enter to the building through a car park. however, it maybe full today, though you can try.
if you continue around the corner (with DIT carpark at your left) and take your first left, there is free on-street parking there on Saturdays.
I hope there is a spot there waiting for you!
Thanks
Thanks for these useful tips Heather, and Zoro.
Thanks also you to all those taking part to organisation and presenters.
Special thanks to Mike, Stella, Stephane, Julie
I'll probably dive into Drupal soon after my return home.
All the best.
Thanks to Heather, Stella,
Thanks to Heather, Stella, the presenters, DIT, and everybody else involved in organising the event. It was a great informative day and has given me a new buzz about my new Drupal site which has been left half-developed for the past 6 months. Tony.
I really enjoyed the day -
I really enjoyed the day - well done to everyone involved!
I'm hooked....
I'm a complete newbie and had never heard of Drupal until recently. I have yet to use it but I was so impressed with how much information I came away with from today that I am at this moment currently installing it.
Congratulations to everybody involved in organising the event, I will definitely be attending future ones!
Thank you!!!
I just want to say a major thank you to everyone who came to the Drupal Meet-up today! It was great to see such a great turnout and to meet lots of great people. I hope to see you all again at the next Drupal Ireland event, which will be even better and bigger!
I especially want to thank our sponsors again - CivicActions, Indytech, Lynda.com and of course, special thanks to Deirdre and the School of Computing in DIT.
Cheers,
Stella
Thanks
Today was awesome, thanks a lot for organising this!
Julie
Thank You Everybody
I just want to say a big thank you to everyone who was at the meetup.
I really learned a lot about Drupal and am dying to install it and get started.
JK