australia

When I read about the Summer Drupal training program in India I can't help thinking whether it is possible to arrange something like it in Australia.

Any interest?

I was at the first Melbourne Meetup a few weeks back, where the topic of Drupal Training in Melbourne was briefly discussed. The general consensus is that it would be a "Good Idea".

I'm now wanting to follow up the idea with anybody else at all interested.

I see a role for End-User Training, as is being discussed elsewhere How do you train your Drupal end users?, as well as Developer Training.

Some discussion of Sydney training is going on: See here. I've had a little correspondence with Peter who is running the Sydney training.

Hi everyone,

My name is Sammy Spets and i'm a Drupal contributor. Sounds like an AA intro doesn't it? :) Anyway, i've been lurking in the shadows of Drupal for just over two years and have just started contributing.

I was chatting to Kieran Lal, of CivicSpaceLabs fame, and he asked me,
02:27 <Amazon> so when are you going to throw the Drupal ecommerce conference?

You might be asking yourself two questions. Why was Kieran asking Sammy to run a conference? And why was Sammy awake at 02:27 talking to Kieran? Well, the second one is easy, Kieran is your all round good bloke trying to make Drupal part of everyone's life. The first question? I don't know the answer. :)

According to drupal.org there are plenty of Australian sign-ups. No doubt most of these are not active for whatever reason. But what about the others who were interested once but moved away when they saw little activity in their area? Personally, I signed up with Drupal and then tried two other CMS systems before the worm turned.

Another thing I'm interested in is any group which might share an affinity with Drupal. Obviously we shouldn't bombard other organisation's mailing lists, so any news about related meet-ups and whatever would be more than appreciated. Anyway, the topic is here so go postal!