Live in Sunnyvale, work in San Jose at a large human services organization. I am not a developer, I've tried to install and play around with Drupal but nothing that beared fruit. I've been reading about and following developments here for 2 years or so and I keep coming back to the fact that this technique seems to be the future of communications environments, especially for the non-profit and public sectors.
Currently I am trying to show our organization that we(internally, and across the sector in total) can communicate more effectively with available tools. I spend alot of my time working on the language needed to bridge the gap between IT and the rest of our organization who needs to understand that the open source community is what we need to develop our selves alongside, and not keep making the mistake of spending huge amounts of resources on proprietary solutions that lead us into dark alleys of communication and information intelligence. FRrrRuUStraaATioN!!! and subsequent burnout are holding the non-profit sector hostage...
Anyone interested in a beer outing in the south Bay! Mission Ale...Peanuts...downtown Sunnyvale?
live in oakland and work from home. i have (had?) an office at lawrence berkeley labs, where i'm still a guest employee (i used to have a 4 hour/week appointment there). but basically, when i'm hacking, i'm at my desk in oakland (near MacArthur BART)...
hehe, we need my recent patches to poll.module on the HEAD [http://drupal.org/node/51561], so we could just view each other's votes instead of having to comment like this. ;)
Just wanted to say that I in San Jose, born and raised nearly 30 years. Found drupal 3 months ago and I am working on a new site concept, investigated over 150+ of the contributed modules, customized a few and I am hoping to submit a few of my own (small projects) eventually.
Glad to know the Bay Area has some good drupalers around.
Posted by David Brix on September 2, 2006 at 12:22am
Hello all!
I am new to Drupal, coming at it from a designers point of view...
I'd love to hear from anyone who had a handle on customizing or designing themes from scratch. I have signed up for the Theming workshop in October but itching to get an overview and dip my toes in the water.
The best way to learn how to design sites with drupal is just dive in and start playing with the code. Foundation or box_grey are good simple starting points for building sites. The theming handbook has a wealth of great information, drupal-themes on IRC is also good.
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hmm home or work address?
OK I need a multiple choice poll, my home and work are on opposite sides of the bay ;)
Lets go with your favorite
Lets go with your favorite side.
Sunnyvale, in particular.
Sunnyvale, in particular.
i am sunnyvale until 7a.m. Thu morning
just sent you an email
anybody else in Sunnyvale or at Netsquared who want to do dinner Wed night somewhere transit friendly?
I'm in San Jose. I may be
I'm in San Jose. I may be able to do dinner in the general south bay/peninsula region, if I get some sleep tonight.
we're going to the microformats dinner earl
http://upcoming.org/event/80636/
at Crepes on Cole, see you there?
Sunnyvale too!
Live in Sunnyvale, work in San Jose at a large human services organization. I am not a developer, I've tried to install and play around with Drupal but nothing that beared fruit. I've been reading about and following developments here for 2 years or so and I keep coming back to the fact that this technique seems to be the future of communications environments, especially for the non-profit and public sectors.
Currently I am trying to show our organization that we(internally, and across the sector in total) can communicate more effectively with available tools. I spend alot of my time working on the language needed to bridge the gap between IT and the rest of our organization who needs to understand that the open source community is what we need to develop our selves alongside, and not keep making the mistake of spending huge amounts of resources on proprietary solutions that lead us into dark alleys of communication and information intelligence. FRrrRuUStraaATioN!!! and subsequent burnout are holding the non-profit sector hostage...
Anyone interested in a beer outing in the south Bay! Mission Ale...Peanuts...downtown Sunnyvale?
Oakland
live in oakland and work from home. i have (had?) an office at lawrence berkeley labs, where i'm still a guest employee (i used to have a 4 hour/week appointment there). but basically, when i'm hacking, i'm at my desk in oakland (near MacArthur BART)...
hehe, we need my recent patches to poll.module on the HEAD [http://drupal.org/node/51561], so we could just view each other's votes instead of having to comment like this. ;)
just up the hill
from you in rockridge.. we could get together and hack at Temescal Cafe or wherever...
Little late but...
Just wanted to say that I in San Jose, born and raised nearly 30 years. Found drupal 3 months ago and I am working on a new site concept, investigated over 150+ of the contributed modules, customized a few and I am hoping to submit a few of my own (small projects) eventually.
Glad to know the Bay Area has some good drupalers around.
-gman
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New to Drupal and livin' in Oakland
Hello all!
I am new to Drupal, coming at it from a designers point of view...
I'd love to hear from anyone who had a handle on customizing or designing themes from scratch. I have signed up for the Theming workshop in October but itching to get an overview and dip my toes in the water.
Regards,
David Brix
start simple
The best way to learn how to design sites with drupal is just dive in and start playing with the code. Foundation or box_grey are good simple starting points for building sites. The theming handbook has a wealth of great information, drupal-themes on IRC is also good.
TravisC