Drupalversity BoF session

Drupalversity seems to be building quite a bit of momentum, so it would be good to hold a BoF session at DrupalconSF so we can discuss how we're going to get it started. I don't know when or where the BoF will take place, but we can work that out later.

For details on what Drupalversity is, see the blurb below. It was written with n00bs in mind but it should be clear in there that there is work that can be done by Drupalistas from lots of different backgrounds and with various skillsets and levels of experience.

There is a g.d.o discussion about Drupalversity here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/42236. It gets a bit off-topic in places but there's some good stuff in there.
The wiki page where preliminary work on Drupalversity has been done is here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/49778.
A foundation of Drupalversity is that contributing will be straightforward. To that end, there's an article on how almost anyone can contribute at http://groups.drupal.org/node/50463.

Drop me (jim0203) a line if you've got any questions. Otherwise, here's the blurb:

Thanks to the fantastic work that has been done by the Drupal community, there is now a huge amount of excellent documentation available that people can use to learn Drupal. There is, however, a problem with how this documentation is organised. It can be excellent for solving problems reactively: for example, it's great for answering questions like "how do I build a view" or "how do I add images to my CCK content type". But there is currently no system of organisation that allows people to learn proactively. Proactive learning is what happens in most university classrooms across the world. Students don't have any pressing problems to solve, but they want to build up an arsenal of techniques that will be useful to them someday.

The Drupalversity project aims to provide this proactive organisation of Drupal training materials. The project will provide very few pieces of documentation itself. Instead, it will organise existing documentation into courses: structural documents that a student can use to progress in their learning of Drupal. Courses and categorised into streams. There are three main streams: site building and administration, theming, and development; in addition to these there is a foundation stream, Beginning Drupal.

Drupal newbies can help with the project immediately. In fact, unlike other Drupal projects, newbies can provide unique insights that more experienced Drupalistas are not able to provide. As new Drupal users learn Drupal, they will find certain resources useful, and others less useful. They get stuck at certain points, and experience specific "eureka" moments when something is explained to them which makes everything immediately clear. By noting down the pathways along which they are learning Drupal, new Drupal users provide a framework which Drupalversity courses can be matched to. Even more simply, these users can note down any useful resources they find on the internet, so these resources can be worked into future courses.

Courses can then be written by more experienced Drupalistas. These courses are then used by other Drupal newbies, who can, in effect, review the courses so that they can be reworked. In this sense, Drupalversity can never be finished: it is an organic, ever-changing project. Secondly, it is non-hierarchical and does not suffer from the problems inherent in what educator and education theorist Paulo Freire termed "banking education".