Rocking into June the San Francisco Drupal user group has great material on the schedule once again.
RSVP and Location Information: http://www.meetup.com/SFDUG-San-Francisco-Drupal-Users-group/
Commerce Guys is Sponsoring Beer and Food for this event!
The case study this month is brought to us by Omar Khan of ISL.
Skillscan.com: With a 10%+ unemployment rate in many states, many former employees are trying to figure out their next career move. For many this means exploring new options. Lesah Beckhusen, a Career Advisor at UCB's Hass School of Business, developed a simple but deep card sorting tool 25 years ago that lets people profile their transferable skills and preferences in a way that helps them start or change jobs. Used by universities like Harvard and Berkeley, to large firms like ATT and the World Bank, there was no easy way for the average user to access the tool except through their organization or Career Counselor. In late 2009, ISL created an online version of the card sort. It provides single users with the test, neatly delivered in a Flash application that integrates with a User's profile in Drupal through XML. It allows major corporations to give access to their employees. Career counselors can invite their clients to take the online assessment and share their results online. Individuals can take a test online instead of taking a written test away from home, bringing down market barriers. A single Drupal site integrates all the different types of users and administrators. The result is to give people at various stages of their career a much clearer sense of the options in a fun and interactive way. Drupal's openness and flexibility allowed us to customize user experiences in great detail. Corporate users don't see the shopping cart, counselors have access to different content and the e-commerce portion integrates both hard and soft-good sales.
For the Tech Session we have Jon Skulski from Chapter Three who will be presenting:
"Architecting a Drupal Site: From Composition to Completion"
The talk will be a general overview of how to digest a design composition into a Drupal development roadmap. We'll break down a comp into content types, views and (of course) panels. I'll discuss some strategies to finding quality modules and how to make the decision to write your own code.