Workshop with Jay Epstein. Saturday, May 24th 10-5pm@Trephub Downtown Melbourne

I am thinking of signing up. I live in Pompano Beach, South Florida, about 142 miles from Melbourne, carpool anybody?

Hey guys/gals,

We have a few people in our community that will not be able to attend due to financial difficulties. If anyone would be willing step up to the plate and sponsor someone, it would be truly appreciated. Please post here or message me if you would like to remain anonymous.

Thanks so much!
Cielo

@maggie, you made my day :D

A big thank you to another sponsor! While you maybe tired of me filling up your inbox, I never get tired of reminding everyone how strong and supportive our community is.

I have done some research and found that the most affordable hotel room, and closest to the venue, is Super 8, price is shy of $60 per night, includes breakfast, microwave, cofee maker. Approx. $130 for two nights.
I intend to book it for two nights, will arive Friday 23 in the evening and depart Sunday after a dip in the ocean. Some money can be saved by breakfast and cooking in.
Does somebody want to share cost of room? An extra bed can be arranged for. I am a male, no BS, only interested in the workshop.
Also, I will be driving from Pompano Beach, anybody interested in sharing costs?
You insider guys in Melbourne, do you know of a better solution?
Please reply ASAP to ckosloff at hardwarealien period com so I can make arrangements.

I am planning of putting this workshop in a presentation or pdf with lots of snapshots, basically the skeleton of building a website based on data modeling and not on taxonomy, to be published at browarddrupal.org.
I am concerned that, if attendees don't have the right setup in their computers, we will be losing time with irrelevant questions.
I recently published (this year) a presentation in same website about installing Drupal in a local Linux server, I focused on Debian because that is what I use.
I am aware that I am in a small minority here, but if you ever decide to install Debian alongside Windows (the Debian installer does this automatically), you can profit from reading that.
Lastly, I use the testing (or next) branch, so I am always ahead of the stable branch, there is a caveat here: in the testing branch the document root changed from /var/www to /var/www/html.

I apologize in advance that this comment is off subject, but I can't find any other way to contact a webmaster. I received an email that my company spammed this comment section. I in no way support spamming, and I truly apologize for the annoyance of any spam that was from my company. If there is anyway someone can contact me so I can track down who posted this to make sure it does not happen again I would greatly appreciate it.

It appears the first three hours of the parking garage are free but doesn't state how much more after that. I guess we can move cars around after lunch ;)

Here is a screen shot of trephub and parking garage across the street for those who are coming in from out of town.

From the beach: http://take.ms/Uum8r
From I95: http://take.ms/PLYjo

Well the event has ended and, I must say, it was a hell of a ride! Jay tolerated all of us like a real champ and managed to make it through an event lasting MORE THAN 10 HOURS! What a great presentation and unbelievable learning experience, now we're all back in our "quiet place" and attempting to digest what each of us learned.

Jay (jeppy64), I can't tell you how much I (and everyone there) appreciated your time, energy and patience! You were a wonderful speaker and a truly talented IT guru, thanks for sharing all. I'm sure we are all looking forward to your return trip to Brevard to give us a follow-up on Parent-Client and the "missed" Rules section from yesterday! Thanks again for sharing your knowledge and your, all too limited, time.

C13L0, What can I say? Your seemingly never-ending energy and dedication to making this event the fantastic success it was will go down in Brevard Drupal lore! Thank you for all your labor, time and expense, the whole thing was damn near perfectly orchestrated and will not be forgotten!

My head is still spinning after that workshop, but I got all the basic concepts down and know the 'path' to making all this work in Drupal.

Jay, you're a trooper for pulling through on a very difficult task. You held up like a champ and kept encouraging us! Major kudos for your fantastic performance!!

A few constructive suggestions for your future workshops and taking these concepts to the Drupal masses:

• The workshop should be two days.

It's just too much to cram all of this into one day. And the problem I had is that if you get behind and have to go back to fix something, it's almost impossible to catch up.

• I'd suggest an online series of videos and supporting docs (maybe even downloads and a reference site).

You and I talked about perhaps putting something up to showcase this new parent-child development paradigm. After going through this, I'd love to have a video (series) where I can stop and pause it when I'm trying to build this out. I'm still happy to help.

Some things to think about anyway...

Hats off to Cielo and all the others that put this on! Outstanding!! Thank you so much. It was worth all the effort, and I definitely came away a better Drupaleer.

Cheers!

Thank you Jay for driving up to do this workshop. I know that I've learned much more than I would have on my own. I'm looking forward to future workshops! And Cielo did a fantastic job coordinating everything. Thanks to all who helped out.

Can we grab the finished workshop site on a repo for reference?

I think that the best way to go around this is that everybody sit back and try to digest what we learned before asking Jay for another presentation.
We all have the spreadsheet with the info on how to create content types and fields.
It will save time if we at least have a clean site, modules loaded in order, content types and fields under the belt so the speaker instead of walking us through that stuff again can focus on the nitty gritty.
Videos, recording and a summary of the steps (preferably with screenshots) are definitely the way to go, we need to have all that ready before asking the speaker to come again.
Jay has a tarball of the site, it could be uploaded to browarddrupal.org or any other similar site, I can uploaded it too.
The speaker expects us to do a lot of work on our own, so disregard Paul's suggestion of rushing him up next Saturday, I know from experience that man ain't serious :-)
If we all do our job of digesting this stuff as much as possible another presentation could wrap it up.
Brevard is the most dynamic group in Florida, excellent job C13L0!

Thank you Jay for an amazing workshop. I am looking forward to the Dashboard and Rules documentation. Cielo, thank you for all the hardwork making it happen.