Conference Report/Hackfest Coffeetalk
This Sunday we won't be having a formal lesson, but I (and others) can give our impressions from the OSCMS summit, and with a little luck we can get patched into the drupal hackfest going on at the Sunnyvale Sheraton. In theory we should be able to get a VNC connection with someone in the room, and the hackers will be in definite need of help reviewing patches and testing things out.
This will be somewhat improvisational, but check in at 11 and we'll see what we've gotten going on.
Read moreDojo Lesson #10 -- TinyMCE
This Sunday, the Drupal Dojo welcomes Kevin Reynen to the teacher's chair. Kevin is currently maintainer of the highly-popular, but also full-of-gotchas, TinyMCE module.
The lesson plan is available here. Join us in #drupal-dojo, and in our live session environment to take part in the lesson.
Kevin develops Drupal modules aspart of his position as the Integrated Media Coordinator for the Reynolds School of Journalism and Advanced Media Research. Kevin works with graduate students studying interactive journalism to develop projects that move readers for simply being informed to taking action. He will also be presenting at OSCMS about the process they used to teach non developers the development process. For more information, check out OurTahoe.org.
Read moreDrupal Dojo at OSCMS
Just a quick note for everyone: the Dojo has a couple of events around the upcoming OSCMS Summit next week in Sunnyvale California. We have a session scheduled for Friday afternoon which I will lead:
http://2007.oscms-summit.org/node/206
This will cover the brief history of the Dojo, and talk a bit about where it's going, but the focus will be on how the model and technology stack can be replicated by other groups. This session is intended for the general public, and while I'd love help presenting and explaining our group (leave me a comment if you're interested in that), if you'd rather check out some of the other great sessions going on at the same time, they're likely to have more new information for you.
For the Dojo Faithful, I'm also organizing a BoF (Birds of a Feather) gathering on Thursday after the scheduled sessions wrap up:
http://2007.oscms-summit.org/node/208
The location is TBA. I'll try to find a good place to have a happy hour from 6 to 7 or so. Very likely what will happen is we'll all meet at some spot on the Yahoo Campus, and take it from there.
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Duju is a Drupal sandbox machine
If you're interested in generating Drupal sandboxes at the push of a button, check out the Dojo Duju at [EDIT] http://www.its-coming.com/ http://duju.hopto.org/ (now offline).
Another theming working group
The newly minted 'Zen Task Force' may provide some great project orientated learning opportunities in realm of theming. Seems like it would tie in quite nicely as an extension to the great Dojo theming lesson as well as our work on Merlin's 'Themer Pack Project'?
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Drupal Dojo Rocks
For those who haven't spotted it yet and are interested in learning more about Drupal programming, including how to navigate the twists and turns of CVS, check out the Drupal Dojo group. <a href="/user/429>joshk with the help of some notable Drupal developers has been putting on screencasts with Skype audio conferencing to provide a real classroom experience. The classes are being archived as video files and in written notes.
