DrupalCape Meet-Up: May 2012 - Training!!

For sign-ups and further information: http://drupalcapemaymeetup-eorg.eventbrite.com/

Event Venue: 4th Floor, Bandwidth Barn, 125 Buitengracht Street, Cape Town.

Please note: Booking is essential!

The focus for the DrupalCape Meet-Up for May 2012 is training.

This training session is the second of four earmarked for this year. The purpose is to build knowledge and so there will be a step-by-step approach with the purpose of equipping all attendees to build a basic Drupal site by year-end unassisted.

Training in the second session will cover a number of topics around Drupal Views & Panels, along with design (UI/UX) and a touch of SEO.

Future training will cover, Module building, Good Development/Design Habits and Testing.

Please do assist us by signing up early - we are closing off the sign-ups 3 days prior to the event to allow for catering and equipment arrangements to be made. Please remember to tell us of any dietary requirements that you have when signing up. Thank you so much.

Please note that training will start no later than 18:15.

Novice track:

Time - 3 hours – 18:00 – 21:00; 30/May/2012

Lead by - Ingrid/Inky Serritselv

Topic: - Views, Panels and a splash of UI/UX and SEO

Pre-requisites:

The only suggestion that we would like to make is that you have a Laptop or something similar, and a desire to learn about Drupal. If you are technically inclined, we would suggest that you install XAMPP, and a basic Drupal install with the Views and Panel Modules.

Advanced:

Time - 3 Hours – 18:00 – 21:00; 30/May/2012

Lead by - Guy Bedford

Topic: - Views, Panels and a splash of UI/UX and SEO

Pre-requisites:

As the advanced training is fairly intensive, we would recommend that candidates be fairly familiar with Drupal, module implementation and tweaking, as well as some Linux knowledge. Please do not feel that you are excluding from attending if you don't have, for example some Linux knowledge. These are merely recommendations and not exclusions :)

What you will get (Novice and Advanced):

Knowledge! The opportunity to pick some of Cape Town's leading Drupal brains! A fun learning experience.

What you will need/find useful:

You will need the following items, or find them very helpful:

Laptop or similar computing device
Installable version of XAMPP (find your version at:  http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html) *
Writing pad and pen or pencil

*If you are already running a webserver on your machine that supports Drupal, you won't need to install XAMPP.