Global Drupal Day - KampaBits

KampaBits, in parternship with Mountbatten ltd are organising the next Global Drupal Day in Uganda which will take place at the KampaBits main offices in Mengo. (See contact info below). The full day event will take place on Friday, May 30, 2014, starting at 9am.

Drupal Global Training Days is an initiative by the Drupal Association to introduce new and beginning users to Drupal. The Drupal Association is partnering with training companies to make this happen. Once a quarter, free or low cost training events will take place around the world.

We at Kampabits are proud to take part of this coming Drupal Day and invite you all to come Learn Drupal!

What we shall cover;
Quick recap of what Drupal is
– Drupal’s strengths
– Whatʼs in the box? Take an administration tour
– Installing Drupal
– Common modules and configuration
– Installing modules

What is the Drupal Community
– Account on Drupal.org
– Benefits of active involvement
– Drupal Events/meetups/camps/drupalcons
– Local user groups (groups.drupal.org/uganda)
– How to help
– How to ask for help

Content management
– Creating and managing content
– Designing Content types
– Categorize content with Taxonomy
– Manage users

Site Building with Drupal
– Create lists of content with Views
– Information architecture
– Layout
– Navigation

Extending Drupal
– Modules: Can Drupal do X?
– Themes
– Distributions and Install profiles
Note; All sessions will be a totally hands-on. Get ready to do cool stuff!

KampaBits Address:
Mengo, Kampala

Directions
We are located in Mengo near the south gate of the City Parents Primary School (Basiima Campus). Coming from the city center on Rubaga Road, turn left onto Butikiro/Kisenyi Road at the Sojovalo Hotel. Then follow the first road on the right, and again take the last road on the right in front of the gate of the City Parents School.

Get directions with Google Maps; https://www.google.com/maps?daddr=0.30591,32.564183&hl=en&sll=0.305985,3...

Keep me posted.