Open Drupal - Training

A few of us had a quick meeting yesterday to discuss the upcoming Apprenticeship programme in London, here are some notes:

A big headline is that we'll be using GitHub issue tracking to track issues and todo's related to the curriculum and the upcoming platform. We've added an issue tracker here: https://github.com/OpenDrupal/opendrupal/issues

The Apprenticeship
- The next Apprenticeship programme could start as soon as mid-October in London.
- We are helping by building a website to promote the Apprenticeship, which is nearly ready, we'll need to finish this by early September.

We've got some comprehensive notes from the Hangout this afternoon here: https://docs.google.com/a/agilecollective.com/document/d/1L_W0OwP4Tc2gCK...

A very exciting time at the moment! Some of the key points:

• http://opendrupal.org is up! A separate website promoting the Happy Apprenticeship is under development, this will be key to promote for the next cohort, which could be as soon as October. We need London based companies to commit to hosting an Apprentice as soon as early November.

Things have been quiet recently after all of the work done on the Happy Drupal Apprenticeship and DrupalCamp London, we had a hangout last Friday and here are a few notes from it:

• The Happy Drupal Apprenticeship has been a resounding success, Sheena from Happy has written up a nice post on LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140630182958-99393330-drup...
• There has been interest in using the OpenDrupal curriculum from various places in the community.
• Crispin presented on OpenDrupal / Apprenticeships at DrupalCamp Yorkshire.

Hey gang!
I'm not sure how I missed the fact that this group exists. I stumbled upon it after seeing a tweet from Vicky Teinaki @vickytnz

How many members of htis group are attending DruaplCon Austin?
Among those going, are you aware of [& are you planning on attending] this Drupal Career session? https://austin2014.drupal.org/session/drupal-career-trailhead-embark-pat...

And a BoF of note which I'm attending is : https://austin2014.drupal.org/bof/designing-drupal-training

Hi all,

Following on from the findings of our hack day we decided to focus on producing a curriculum with roughly two weeks worth of material, which gives people a solid intro into web development & Drupal. Work has been started here: https://docs.google.com/a/agilecollective.com/document/d/17gmRKuYDO75r34... - although there's still much to do!

I've also published a 'Drupal Digital Mission' here: http://hedleysmith.com/posts/digital-mission-drupal-blog.html which we can point to as the very first part of the curriculum.

Thanks to everyone who made it to the OpenDrupal Hack Day on Saturday! It was a very thought provoking day of discussions, planning and getting things written down.

We had some great discussions around the motivations of companies to take on an intern or apprentice, and what would be most useful to them, and most tangible for us to achieve.

We came to the conclusions that:

• Companies want new, high quality staff members, and if they can pay them at a (relatively) low rate - that's a bonus

Hey Everyone,

Canonical, the makers of Ubuntu, have started an Indiegogo crowd funding campaign for a highly innovative, leading edge technology phone called the Ubuntu Edge. Here's the link.

http://igg.me/at/ubuntuedge/x/3562668

It'll be a converged device that will act as a PC with Ubuntu OS when connected to a monitor/keyboard. It'll cost $830 dollars but there are still lower priced perks still available.

Hi

I hope the world hasn't change that much and companies are still looking to invest and train people especially when it is about Drupal.
I would like to ask if anyone have opportunities for Drupal apprenticeship position in London or West London to be precise, don't hesitate to contact me. Thank you