The Oxford Drupal User Group is lucky enough to be hosted by the Oxford eResearch Centre (OeRC) who are setting up a couple of virtual machines for us to play with on projectors at the next meetup (July 2011). If it goes well, we may do this again at future meetups.
This page is to collect suggestions for topics around which we can demonstrate or investigate Drupal functionality on these VMs.
We have 2 VMs available, so we could split into two groups loosely gathered around basic and more advanced areas.
Here are some initial brainstormed ideas.
Group 1: Basic Drupal topics
- Installing Drush
- Installing Drupal with Drush
- Installing Modules with Drush
- Installing base themes with Drush
- Other Drush commands
- Customising a base theme
- Basic CCK + views
Group 2: Advanced Drupal topics
- Features
- Performance
- Benchmarking
- Varnish
- Memcache
- System tuning (MySQL, PHP, I/O)
- Solr
- Drush make
- SimpleTest (can be darn slow on D7, tho)
- Display Suite
- Boost (making your site go fast when you don't control the whole server)
If you're coming to the meetup, please feel free to edit the above to add suggestions.
Once we have gathered a few more topic suggestions, we can run a poll to gauge their popularity.