Posted by jhodgdon on January 18, 2013 at 4:15pm
Start:
2013-02-21 10:00 - 12:00 America/Los_Angeles Organizers:
Event type:
User group meeting
We hope you can join us for the next meeting of the Spokane Day-Time Drupal Learning and Co-Working Group!
- When
- Thursday, February 21, 2013, 10 AM to noon
- Where
- Spokane County Library - Argonne branch, 4322 N. Argonne Road, Millwood (in the small conference room - go past the circulation desk and take a right)
- What
- Learning and "co-working" time - bring your laptop! Come with a project you're working on, a desire to volunteer to improve Drupal in some way (documentation, programming, design, marketing etc.), a question about Drupal you would like to get an answer to, or a desire to help others with their projects and questions. Or just come and observe.
- Who
- Everyone is welcome -- the only prerequisite is having some interest in Drupal. This group is small and friendly, and consists mostly of self-employed individuals who prefer to meet during the day to share knowledge about Drupal, and you're welcome to join us! Experience levels of attendees typically covers everything from novice to expert, so you'll fit right in.
Note: If you'd like to have a meeting at another time that is more convenient for you, please feel free to organize it! See http://groups.drupal.org/node/161584 for a Wiki where people have listed when would be convenient for them to have meetings.
Comments
Tutorage
I am in some need for imediate tutoring on Drupal. Is there any available or does anyone know where to find Drupal tutoring. I know HTML, CSS, some PHP and JAVASCRIPT but this is my first real CMS project.
Contact me at N8win@q.com and THANKS!
Nate
Tutoring...
I replied by email, but I don't know if you got it and I realized the information I sent might be useful to others...
I have a couple of suggestions for you:
a) There are quite a few on-line resources for Drupal training. You can find some of them listed at:
http://drupal.org/videocasts
and you might try the sub-page on "repositories and series":
http://drupal.org/node/124318
I personally haven't used any of them, but I think a lot of people like Lynda.com, and I bet that the "Drupalize.me" series would be good:
http://drupalize.me/guides
b) You might consider getting a book about the basics of Drupal site building, such as "Using Drupal" published by O'Reilly. Drupal books are listed at:
http://drupal.org/books
(try the "Site Builders" filter under "Audience").
c) Hopefully (a) or (b) or both will get you started with Drupal in a cost-effective way. If you then run into roadblocks, you might try hiring me or some other local (or remote) Drupal person for targeted help. But I don't think it would be cost effective for you to hire a personal Drupal tutor before investigating some less costly resources first to get the basics down.
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Drupal contributor - https://www.drupal.org/u/jhodgdon
On my Calendar
I will be be there, as long as the creek don't rise.
Great to see some new faces!
We've had several new people come to the last couple of meetings, which is great! I hope that you all come back soon, armed with questions, discussion topics, etc. Everyone interested in Drupal is always welcome. See you next month, same time, same place!
Next month's announcement:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/284263
Drupal programmer - http://poplarware.com
Drupal author - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920034612.do
Drupal contributor - https://www.drupal.org/u/jhodgdon