Posted by Anonymous on October 17, 2008 at 9:41pm
Last updated by silverwing on Fri, 2011-07-15 17:24
Last updated by silverwing on Fri, 2011-07-15 17:24
[This is a wiki - please don't hesitate to update, revise, and contribute your ideas!]
Goals and Objectives
The underlying goal of this working group is to develop a Curriculum Framework for Drupal Learning. To reach this goal we will:
Develop a common language for providing learning experiences and materials for those in the Drupal community.
This has been the current focus of the Learning Drupal working group.
- Create/circulate a survey to gain an understanding of what people really do in Drupal
- Identify key roles in Drupal Development
- Define Drupal Competencies that can serve as a framework and taxonomy for Drupal learning programs.
- Draft Technical Specification for Content Types necessary to frame Drupal Learning Taxonomy
Develop a framework for courses or learning tracks covering all aspects of Drupal
Projects, Tasks and Initiatives
The following projects and initiatives have a certain degree of overlap and compliment:
- Learning Drupal working group - goal is to develop a common language for providing learning experiences and materials for those in the Drupal community.
- Drupal Guilds & Open Guilds - The Open Guilds website at http://openguilds.org/ (and its cousin http://drupalguilds.org/ for Drupal) is a central location for grassroots certifications for practitioners of various Open Source software. The idea is that rather than a top-down certification process where people pay money to an organization to take a test, people instead prove to their peers their ability to craft in their field.
- Open Source Training Curriculum - goal is to create a set of git-for-Drupal training tools
- NJIT Open Training Initiative - The overall mission is to create open curriculum that is developed and peer reviewed by the community.
- Open Garden Project - a summer program that builds connections between technologists & community gardeners through building web-based tools. Specifically, we will use Drupal, and encourage participation in open source.
- Drupal Open Curriculum - project is for collaborating on open curriculum for the Drupal project.
- Drupal Kata - a project-based learning program for Drupal. It does this by pairing apprentices with a mentor or mentors, thus gaining exposure to real-world scenarios and connections with the local and global community. Facilitating the production of an Open Drupal Curriculum is a main objective.
- Drupal Dojo - originally created to provide a structured and safe learning environment for individuals looking to ascend the Drupal learning curve, the Dojo is expanding to be a online learning resource center.
- DITA documentation distribution for Drupal - development of a documentation distribution for Drupal that uses a similar approach as the localization server and that enables a distributed/federated documentation architecture for the Drupal project.
Jobs or Roles in Drupal Development
This section has moved. See: http://groups.drupal.org/node/67763
Learning, Mentoring, Training, and Education groups
- Drupal Kata - The Drupal Kata is a program that provides training in a wide range of areas ranging from site planning, drafting proposals, project management, information architecture, development, design, infrastructure, to Drupal workflows and community. It does this by pairing apprentices with a mentor or mentors, thus gaining exposure to real-world scenarios and connections with the local and global community.
- Curriculum and Training - This is a group to organize and discuss the development of Drupal courseware to be used for training students at Drupal Camp and other training events.
- Drupal Dojo - The Drupal Dojo was created for apprentice/journeyman developers who want to increase proficiency, and for experts looking to grow the pool of Drupal talent.
- DROP - DROP is a program dedicated to helping people find easy, short-term ways of making valuable contributions to Drupal, as well as helping them become a part of the Drupal community.
- Drupal in Education - This group is an umbrella group for supporting and discussing the various uses of Drupal in educational settings.
- Google Summer of Code - 2010 edition of the program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source projects.
- Google Highly Open Participation Contest (GHOP) - initiative to get pre-university students involved in open source software development. The contest brought together more than 350 students from around the world to help ten Open Source projects make improvements to their code base, marketing materials, documentation and user experience research.
Drupal Training Programs
- Drupal Essential Training (Lynda.com)
- Lullabot Workshops and seminars
- Open Source Training's Drupal classes
- Drupaltherapy
Other groups, projects, and discussions
- Training Drupal professionals: Towards an open Drupal training curriculum and certification
- Training: Boosting our raw capacity to provide Drupal training (DrupalConDC)
- Training and certifications session@ szeged2008.drupalcon
- Drupal resource repository that doubles as an online Drupal course
- How about teaching Drupal/OS in the classroom?
- Making the case for using drupal as a university-wide content management system
- Specs for a learning exercise module
- Katas in Meatspace: The Screencaster + Presenter model
- Drupalversity
- New Project Type: Course
- Drupal Dojos, Hack Nights, and Cafés in your community
- Barnraising Best Practices?!
- Open Source: Narrowing the Divide between Education, Business, and Community (EDUCAUSE Review)
- Examples of Project based learning in Drupal (Heather James)
Program Leads/Mentors/Supporters
Please add your name if you're interested in helping provide leadership, mentor, or support in other ways...
- Aaron Winborn (aaron)
- Kristof Van Tomme (kvantomme)
- Gus Austin (gusaus)
- Eric Johnston (eric_sea)
- Steve Burge (ostraining)
- Lynn Bender (linearb)
- Heather James (heather)
- Barry Madore (bmadore)
- Cindy McCourt (idcm)
- Brian Fending (fending)
- Mixel Kiemen (mixel)
- Ivo Radulovski (segments)
- [add your name if interested]