We Need You! Drupal Design Camp needs Developers

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Drupal Design Camp is next weekend! http://boston.design4drupal.org/

We need you!

We need you the amazing developers to come and give Drupal Fundamental sessions. This is our chance to support a genuine effort to improve designing in Drupal and grow our community.

Why?

A lot of the attendees will need a foundation laid before they can understand theming topics.

Please sign up and submit a session and hopefully in a few days we will have enough to fill the need for Drupal Fundamental sessions.

You have an hour-slot for time but it's not necessary to fill the whole thing. We are leaving time for Q & A and making friends on Student Street.

Ideas:

Here's some ideas for you. It is a design camp so any slant towards theming is good but not 100% necessary.

  1. An introduction to Drupal basics
    • Drupal concepts
    • Technology stack
    • Drupal version numbering
  2. Anatomy of a theme
  3. Drupal terminology, node, users, roles, permissions, blocks, regions, taxonomy, etc
  4. Need 1 expert themer to lead a world-known small static site into Zen theme. This project will turn into a session
  5. How you can install Drupal locally on your laptop or how to get Drupal hosted through hosting services
  6. Review showcase web sites including: Education sites, Non-profit sites, newspaper sites, media sites, government sites, and health care sites.
  7. How to add content and put on menu system, explain pages vs blocks, regions, views light, etc.
  8. Review content editing and basic content features like blogging, wikis, commenting, forum topics.
  9. Overview project management for a Drupal site. Demonstrate how to start simple and small and grow features organically and iteratively
  10. How to go from one version to another with the least amount of pain
  11. Tools used for theming
  12. Intro to Development Environments
  13. Intro to Theming (titled: Top 10 things to start with)
  14. Explain how content types are added and how editors can use them

Wish List:

  • More volunteers!
  • ASL translator, we have hearing impaired fellow camp person
  • video cameras to run Ustream on sessions
  • Projectors to beam schedule on wall

Please contact me or just sign-up and submit.

Susan

Boston

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