Workshop

This feature should provide users several ways to share and distribute content, including -

• Voting, tagging, and commenting via the web and cell phones/SMS-Text
• Automatically post for Podcasting and On-Demand via the web
• Live Streaming via the web
• Create an unlimited number of audio or video podcasts
• Update users about new content via RSS or Email
• Embeddable files easily posted to myspace, facebook, blogs, etc
• Searchable content library with 24/7 access to archived content
• Ability to share and retrieve content from other external sources

Description/Requirements

A page dedicated to listing individuals, organizations or companies who have sponsored some part of the Dojo or Dojo lessons.

Elements

• corporate sponsors
  • link to detail page with logo, company description, and members
• individual sponsors
  • link to detail page with badge and description

Resources

• d.o. issue - http://drupal.org/node/552144

Description/Requirements

At this time we will be looking for only minimal account features.

Elements

Account information
This should be the only required info upon sign-up

• username
• E-mail address
• password

Profile

• Real Name
• Drupal user name
• IRC user name
• Title
• Company or organization
• Interests/skills
• Location
  • City
  • State
  • Zip or postal code
• Website url: Your professional web page, blog, etc.
• Short biography: A short history or background about yourself (25 words max).

Topics covered

Infrastructure (Nuts and bolts of code, servers, databases, etc.)

• Build environment and version control environment.
• Scaling Drupal, performance and scalability (server/database optimization and distribution)
• Virtual servers and virtual services ec2, s3

Development Workflow (Getting from code to production)

• Development environment (including USE of version control and build env.)
• Quality Assurance (following/implementing process, procedures, standards)
• Testing (unit testing, black and white box testing itself).

[Note: This workshop is a component of this Drupal Kata Master Class.]

Objective: Create a new design and theme for the Drupal Dojo and Drupal Kata websites.

Topics covered

Graphic design

• Designing for Drupal (Structure of a Drupal site, visualizing your design in Drupal…)
• Drupal-friendly CSS tricks (form elements, menus, etc)
• Making a Drupal site not look like one – new ways of theming common UI elements

Theming

• Converting mock-ups to Drupal themes
• Theming Panels
• Theming Views

[Note: This workshop is a component of this Drupal Kata Master Class.]

User Roles and Permissions

Maintainer: users who are designated to maintain the website's integrity. These users will have nearly any permissions necessary to moderate comments, users, and content.

Workflows

• Session submission and workflow - http://groups.drupal.org/node/16874

Taxonomy Structure

Primary menu items

Blocks

CCK Node Types and fields

Lesson Idea (Simple node type)

• title

[Note: This workshop is a component of this Drupal Kata Master Class.]

Preliminary discussions to establish website features to be included on the site. Website features have previously been defined (http://drupal.org/node/201891). We will reevaluate as well as open up discussion to what others may be beneficial. These discussions will help us finalize the architecture for the website and give us better direction as we move forward with development and design.

Topics to cover

• Requirement Gathering

[Note: This workshop is a component of this Drupal Kata Master Class.]

Topics to cover

• Testing
• Launch
• Site Optimization (SEO)
• Bug Fixes

Objective: Create an easy way for users to propose lessons and sessions; a way for people to vote/approve sessions; a way for teachers to claim sessions (if they didn't propose them); a way to compile related materials and resources.

Description/Requirements

Objective: Create a centralized repository for all Drupal learning materials (video, audio, slideshows, documentation). This would include both Dojo branded content as well as materials aggregated from other sources. Provide an easy way to filter/recommend content.

Description/Requirements

• A way to tag site content as well as a way to mark off-site resources and create various listings. Basically an internal/external resources library. A way for someone looking for xyz info to get a list of all resources for it that have been tagged as such by the Dojo community.