Drupal4Gov event in DC on Friday

This Friday, October 28th, Drupal4Gov will be meeting for a hands-on training/exercise event near Union Station.

There are only a few seats remaining and a few additional seats for the Webinar (webinar will have access to the ignite sessions and newbie training only).

If you're in DC, and can score a seat, you'll be able to participate in barcamp-esq hands-on exercises like:

• Jason Hoekstra from Department of Education and Tim Wood from the Department of Commerce will lead mini hands-on sessions on Drupal 6 modules:
  
  • CCK
  • Views
  • Feeds
  • Open LayersFirst item
• Alfresco, Solr and Drupal integration provided by Armedia
  • Alfresco and Drupal both have proven track records for managing content in government and commercial organizations. Drupal's prowess lies in its ability to easily manage web content. Alfresco's robust repository can manage your financial statements, publications, budgets, reports, journals, manuals, congressional bills, and microfiche records, etc... This information, once it goes through a lifecycle of redaction, declassification, reviews and approvals within Alfresco, can then be seamlessly published to Drupal and made searchable via Apache Solr
• Mapping
  • Seabourne Consulting will discuss how to embed maps into Drupal sites.
  • Development Seed will then focus on how new MapBox tools make it possible to design custom maps with only a basic understanding of HTML/CSS and a set of geodata. We will look at:
    • TileMill, the open source map design studio (http://mapbox.com/tilemill)
    • MapBox Hosting, high-speed cloud based map hosting (http://mapbox.com/hosting)
• OpenPublic
  
  • Phase 2 Technology will lead hands-on activities for deploying and customizing an Open Public installation.

For those able to make the webinar, we will have 4 ignite sessions followed by Newbie training created by Zivtech and Acquia called Hello Drupal.

Our Ignite sessions are limited to 5 minutes with an additional 2 minutes worth of questions for each. The ignite sessions will be:

• US Courts will be showing their new Drupal based site.
• GSA's First Fridays team did a usability test on the mobile site: m.usa.gov. The team will talk about the usability testing process, including how tasks and devices were selected, testing set-up, recording and observing as well as results, outcomes and reports. Plus, get resources and tips on implementing this discount testing process back at your agency. More about First Fridays and how it works: http://www.howto.gov/web-content/usability/first-fridays
• Drupal Commons, FoumOne will go over using DrupalCommns to develop communities of practice.
• State of Missouri will talk about their MDC Field Guide, a custom module created to provide info on Missouri species. http://mdc.mo.gov/

To see if you can snag one of the last remaining seats, head over to:

http://drupal4govtake5.eventbrite.com/
and use the Password: Array

Hope to see some new faces this Friday!