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16 Jul 2009
I'll (Charles - AKA Foxtrotcharlie) put it a first draft down which we can work on:
10:30 - 11:00 (what do we call this?)
11:00 - 11:05 Welcome/intro message (Charles)
11:05 - 12:00 Introduction to Drupal / Drupal basics (George):
This is what I think should be covered here - I don't really think the aim should be to get a real working site going, rather it should be to cover basic concepts with practical examples. Please let me know if you think that doing a 1 hour 1 site is better.
Please add/remove expand on this - I took most of it out of the "Using Drupal" book...there is a lot to cover...and I haven't even touched on views or cck...George, maybe you can cover this in a 1 hour 1 site type session, let's discuss it...
- Overview:
- What is Drupal?
- Who uses it?
- What features does it offer?
- Basic Drupal concepts:
- Modules
- Users
- Content (Nodes, comments and blocks)
- Installation and requirements (keep this brief as we can go into detail in the drupal setup and basics workshop/group)
- Creating content (pages - e.g. home page, comments),
- Managing content (editing, deleting, unpublishing etc.)
- Navigation (creating menu items etc.)
- Installing and activating additional modules (e.g. blog module),
- Setting up a blog
- Users (profiles and access control)
- Taxonomy explanation
- Themes
- Introduction to themes and basic configuration
- Installing a different theme
- Administration theme
- Theme regions
- ?
- ?
12:00 - 12:10: Break
12:10 - 13:00: Showcases
13:00 - 13:10: Break
13:10 - 13:15: Brief summary of the workshop/discussion groups
13:15 - 14:00: Discussion groups / Ask an expert
14:00 - 15:00: Braai/Socialising
Should I put this up as a google doc so we can all edit?
Would it not be difficult having wors rolls available all the time? Won't it cut into the sessions - e.g. people waiting for wors to cook...unless we cook some earlier and they can just warm them up on the fire? Or we make the breaks between sessions slightly longer?
Please everyone, feel free to disagree and discuss - this is a group effort :-)
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Im also try to atturn the function. but i couldn't atturn. because im from india. but i seen the videos from youtube. more information they will shared here. every one atturn the mettup if you have time. you get lots information you can learn from here..
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Brilliant meetup guys, well done to all involved!
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Hey guys,
Sorry, I've been MIA for a bit, what is still outstanding, I've got a little space this week to help out.
Guy
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Ola Guy
How are thee?
Thanks for popping in on Sat. Appreciated the gesture fully.
What's MIA stand for?
Big hug
S.
On 11 Aug 2009, at 1:17 PM, guy [at] telamenta [dot] com wrote:
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It means: Missing in action
Freda
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Thanks girlfriend!
xxx
On 12 Aug 2009, at 11:47 AM, freda [at] flashweb [dot] co [dot] za wrote:
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We need to finalise who's doing the showcases - Anton's in charge of this, so maybe check in with him on this.
Drupal Setup + Basics
CCK+Views
Charles.
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On 11 Aug 2009, at 14:41, Charles Tanton wrote:Guy has volunteered to check up on everyone around this as I'm burried
Running Drupal Projects/Drupal Businessunder work atm.
I've had lots of questions on Drupal modules, so maybe we should have
1 group on Module Development? I could help either with that or the
Projects/Business one.
Anton
---
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not
believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything because it is found written in your
religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of
your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they
have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and
analysis, when you find anything that agrees with reason and is
conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and
live up to it. (Siddhartha Gautama - The Buddha), 563-483 B.C.
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We need to rearrange the agenda to fit in Justin who's talk is: "ISLabs: Making the South African Internet better” – brief chat about our incubator for early stage internet startups. He needs about 20 minutes.
Where does everyone think we should put him? There are probably only 2 options, as he may not stay for the whole time.
Welcome (Charles)
Justin
Drupal overview (Charles)
George
OR
Welcome + Drupal overview (Charles)
Justin
George
I'd think probably the first one, so that once we start with the actual drupal stuff, we stay there. What do you guys think? Any other options I'm not seeing?
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I think we should use your first option and we should add a
"drupal.co.za" / community building section
My suggested agenda
Welcome(charles)
Justin
drupal za Community building panel discussion
Drupal overview
george
On 06 Aug 2009, at 7:12 AM, charlietnt [at] gmail [dot] com wrote:
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And maybe someone else would like to do the welcome? I'd imagine it to be welcoming everyone, a bit of a background on the group, when we meet, what our goals are, thanking organisers, sponsors and IS, and introducing Justin. Anyone keen to take this on? I'm happy to do it if no-one else wants to but it might be good to have someone else involved here...
Charles.
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Hey Charles,
Regarding the welcoming, Willem would be happy to do the introduction.
Let him know if there's anything he must cover other than the points
already listed.
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Thanks Willem.
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I'm off to check out the venue tomorrow, and after discussing it with George we've come up with some things I need to check out/questions I need to ask when I'm there. Please feel free to add to or comment on the list:
I'm going through at 9am Friday morning (31 July) - if you want to come along, let me know.
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I met with Justin Spratt at IS this morning, and checked out the venue. Looks really great - he says there's capacity for about 80 people seated, so I've updated the event details with this. This inside area also has a cool bar area where we can serve the drinks from. Directly outside the presentation room, there's a big space with 2 gas braais and tables and chairs for the socialising, drinking, eating and smoking. In terms of the workshop groups, we will need to use the same space, and just separate out into different corners of the room, or the outside area.
Everyone coming needs to be on a list that we must send him the day before, so that he can pass the names on to gate security. There will be no entrance if your name is not on the list - these are the campus' weekend security regulations.
Other things:
Justin will be there in the morning to open up for us and get us set up initially. He has offered to do a 20 minute session (10 minutes talk/10 minutes questions) on what IS Labs is all about, and how it could be useful to people in our line of work. He said he would leave it up to us to decide whether or not this kind of presentation would be useful to our audience. While it will make the day slightly longer, I get the feeling that there's a good fit between our group goals and IS Labs' goals in terms of the South African internet community, and Drupal could definitely be a tool that entrepeneurs use to implement their ideas, so I'd say we should make a space for this. Anyone else's thoughts on this?
Parking - there should be enough parking around the building. We should probably print some signs to direct people to the venue from the parking areas.
Braai - there are 2 gas braais, so no need for charcoal. Justin said he'd arrange for dustbins and for the area to be cleaned afterwards.
The projecter is there and setup - Justin will assist with testing before the start (he might not stay for the whole time though).
If there's anything I've missed, let me know and I'll follow up with Justin.
He also said we should send him a short blog type post about the group, our events and goals, and how people can get involved / benefit from the group and Drupal in general. I'm not going to have time to do this until early next week, so if anyone wants to get going on this, please post what you've done to this thread for group input, before we send it through to him.
We'll also need to delegate responsibilities for various tasks around the event, but we can do that next week.
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Hi Charles
I wan't to suggest that we start using the drupal.co.za site more
often. We have more that 300 users on the site and approx 250 ppl
subscribed to the news letter. So here's my suggestion we need to
still promote our events on groups and on facebook but only allow
event signups from drupal.co.za. This should be made VERY clear on FB
and groups. Since my mandate/portfolio is marketing I have to say i
truly believe creating all these channels might become confusing to
our community. This way we have one entry point to all SA users and
can therefore easily disseminate news to all users.
I have made you full admin on the site. I would however suggest that
you rather email laurence to do updates just so we all know when
changes are being made and it should hopefully lighten your burden if
he manages the site content (but to you CAN just so everything stays
democratic).
From a marketing angle I want to send out a newsletter tomorrow and
let everyone know they should sign-up maybe we can coordinate this
with a post on groups and you can send a mail to all on FB. This is
really critical because I need attendee numbers to be as exact as
possible. At tis stage i want to sponsor stuff (wors, liquor , and
maybe even t-shirts or stickers) but if i have no ideas on how many
attendees i will not know if/what i can afford.
Anyhoo on your mail below Justin's presentation is really cool and
the community at large will definitely benefit.
Also i will be happy to do a showcase of SA2010.
Willem
On 31 Jul 2009, at 12:28 PM, charlietnt [at] gmail [dot] com wrote:
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I agree about using one site for our community focus/events - unfortunately we can't on this event, but let's do it on future ones. I think on both g.d.o and facebook we can disable signups and point everyone to drupal.co.za for each new event. And I'll put a notice up after this event to that effect on FB - I think we should ask Adrian who's the manager of the g.d.o group to update the group description so that it points people to drupal.co.za.
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On 31 Jul 2009, at 12:28, charlietnt [at] gmail [dot] com wrote:
regulations.We will need to make everyone aware of this.
space for this. Anyone else's thoughts on this?Definitely. He's a good speaker.
Anton
---
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not
believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything because it is found written in your
religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of
your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they
have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and
analysis, when you find anything that agrees with reason and is
conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and
live up to it. (Siddhartha Gautama - The Buddha), 563-483 B.C.
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Hey guys,
I think as we're getting closer to the day of the event it's important
that we divide the responsibility for the tasks necessary to make this
event successful.
I've made a list of the roles that I can think of below. Please can
everyone decide which areas they would like to be in charge for.
Accepting responsibility for a certain role does not mean that you need
to do everything related to it, you may delegate and find volunteers to
help you. If you'd like to help with a specific task below but not be
responsible for the entire Role, please contact the Role manager once
these have been assigned.
Please respond with the role you'd like to assume responsibility for as
well as any tasks/areas you feel are missing from the list below.
1. Overall co-ordination
- Check with the owners of the below roles to make sure everything is
running smoothly.
- Facilitate interaction between different roles where necessary
2. Food and Drinks
- Boerewors rolls
- Other snacks (muffins? fruit?)
- Drinks, alcoholic and otherwise
3. The entrance list
- compiling the list of final attendees from different sources
- notifying other roles of numbers expected
- providing I.S. with final list XX days before event
4. Jobs on the day
- Introductory speakers
- Take photos and post online afterwards
- Clearing the venue afterwards
- Greetings
5. Content
- Arranging people to do the showcases
- Finalise schedule
6. Sponsorship
- Speak to potential sponsors
- Encourage donations from previous drupal attendees
- Budget estimates
7. Communications
- Sending out reminders to users one week ahead of time
- Updating Drupal.co.za, Facebook event and Drupal Groups with latest
event info
- Include directions to event location
Personally I'd like to volunteer myself (George) for the Food part of
the food and drinks role, if anyone would like to handle the drinks side
of things, we can work together to get this organised. My number is 072
823 1600 and e-mail: george [at] springfisher [dot] com.
I'm going to be without cellphone/internet reception over the next few
days, but will check back as soon as I can.
Cheers,
George (Gomez)
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I'll also take care of this - Justin needs these numbers by 12:00 (noon) Friday afternoon. I'll be updating the total numbers daily until then and will notify everyone who needs to know on Friday at 12:00.
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Hey guys,
We're still looking for people to help with some of the roles below
(marked with ??). Thanks to those who have already volunteered. As I
mentioned before, accepting responsibility for a role doesn't imply
having to do all the work, but more making sure that everything that
needs to happen gets done. Check the previous mail I sent last Monday
for a further break down of the roles.
I haven't included Marketing for this event as a role as this should be
something that everyone contributes towards.
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Hi George,
Regarding the "?" people's... Willem will take care of all except the
photography.
I would handle this but there's a chance I won't be at the meet up.
(if I am there, I will fill in)
Does anyone have a friend who likes taking pics?
- Laurence
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Charles.
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Charles Tanton
Web Developer
http://www.parkroad.co.za
Cell: 072 123 3031
Tel: 011 803 5049
Fax: 0866 109 788
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I think we also need someone to print out some signs with an arrow pointing the direction people should head once they've parked their cars - and then to put these up and take them down on the day. I don't mind doing this, although it will be just black and white A4 then, which I think should be fine.
Charles.
Charles.
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Charles Tanton
Web Developer
http://www.parkroad.co.za
Cell: 072 123 3031
Tel: 011 803 5049
Fax: 0866 109 788
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Also, we need to be advertising the event as much as possible - so, levearage your networks, post to your facebook profiles, on twitter etc.
Also, it would be a good idea to invite companies you work with, e.g. graphic design, other web shops etc. and maybe post on relevant social networking sites groups. So, volunteers to post invites on specific sites/groups needed, and any other ideas or suggestions welcome.
Charles.
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Charles Tanton
Web Developer
http://www.parkroad.co.za
Cell: 072 123 3031
Tel: 011 803 5049
Fax: 0866 109 788
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Charles.
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Charles Tanton
Web Developer
http://www.parkroad.co.za
Cell: 072 123 3031
Tel: 011 803 5049
Fax: 0866 109 788
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On 03 Aug 2009, at 7:58, George Ziady wrote:
- Finalise scheduleI'm happy to do this.
Anton
---
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not
believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything because it is found written in your
religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of
your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they
have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and
analysis, when you find anything that agrees with reason and is
conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and
live up to it. (Siddhartha Gautama - The Buddha), 563-483 B.C.
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I've created the event: http://groups.drupal.org/node/2458 and on FB http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=128214055933&ref=nf
Please invite as many people as you can - don't hold back ;-)
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Hi Charles
Due to an unfortunate (fortunate for me) event with Communicate recruitment I came to an arrangement with one of the recruiters to notify all PHP candidates about Drupal. She has been notifying all interested candidates about Drupal and urging them to register at Drupal.co.za (perhaps indication of subscriptions will indicate success of the mission). She has also indicated that she and perhaps some other recruiters will be attending the next Drupal meetup as they are very keen to get involved in the Drupal community during it's growing phase as this could prove advantageous for them as a recuitment agency in the near future. I have another recruitment agency which I am in contact with who might also send some recruiters to the meetup. If ok with you could I prepare some sort of invitation for Communicate to hand out to all interested candidates. Just a one pager summarising Drupal and it's functionality. Something to wet the tongues.
Rosso
T-shirt designs
Have a look at (and vote on) the Telamenta proposal for a collectors
edition T-Shirt at the Paris DrupalCon:
http://paris2009.drupalcon.org/t-shirt-contest/collector-shirts
Ours is the hook_world_alter() one.
Anton
T-shirt designs
Awesome! 5 stars from me.
T-shirt designs
@charlse & Anton, Definitely Awesome!! Nice one you Telamentals !!
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Sounds great Rosso :-)
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Please comment on the updated Agenda below. I'm thinking that maybe we should aim to start a bit earlier, say 10 for 10:30. For now I've left the official start at 11, but please think about it. I have also created some copy for the event invite itself. Please improve it if you can. I would like to post this event invite tonight so we can start marketing it. I think as long long as we can agree on the starting time, I can send it out - we can always change the finer details, and add showcase details later.
Get ready for the South African Drupal event of the year.
This event aims to serve as an introduction to the Drupal content management system, both for people who have never used Drupal before, and for anyone else who has used Drupal and wants to learn more about it.
Kicking off with a brief introduction to Drupal, we will then take you through the basics of using Drupal, from installation to creating your first site. We will then be showcasing some cool Drupal sites, explaining how they were made, and then we'll break up into workshop/discussion groups around key Drupal topics. A short boerewors roll braai will follow. Full details of the event appear at the end of this post.
While the event is free, it is limited to about 100 people, so please RSVP in good time to ensure your seat.
The event will be held at Internet Solutions' swanky "The Campus" in Bryanston On Saturday the 15th of August, 10:30 for 11:00, and should end round about 15:30 after a boerewors roll braai.
We would like to stress that you don't need to know anything about Drupal to be able to get something out of this event, in fact, the less you know, the more you'll get out of it.
Event Agenda
10:30 - 11:00: Arrival, socialising, warm up
11:00 - 11:15: Welcome/intro message and overview of Drupal (Charles Tanton):
11:15 - 12:20: Drupal basics (George Ziady):
12:20 - 12:30: Break
12:30 - 13:20: Drupal Website Showcases 13:20 - 13:30: Break
13:30 - 13:35: Brief summary of the workshop/discussion groups
13:35 - 14:20: Discussion groups / Ask an expert
14:20 - 15:30: Braai/Socialising
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I've marked some proposed changes in orange below - overall though it
looks good.
In terms of the time, Charles, I think you can go ahead and make the
executive decision on this. I've checked and there is no Tri-nations
rugby on.
George (gomez)
charlietnt [at] gmail [dot] com wrote:
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Please comment on the updated Agenda below. I'm thinking
that maybe we should
aim to start a bit earlier, say 10 for 10:30. For now I've left the
official
start at 11, but please think about it. I have also created some copy
for the
event invite itself. Please improve it if you can. I would like to post
this
event invite tonight so we can start marketing it. I think as long long
as we
can agree on the starting time, I can send it out - we can always
change the
finer details, and add showcase details later.
Get ready for the South African Drupal event of the year.
This event aims to serve as an introduction to the Drupal content
management
system, both for people who have never used Drupal before, and for
anyone
else who has used Drupal and wants to learn more about it.
Kicking off with a brief introduction to Drupal, we will then take you
through the basics of using Drupal, from installation to creating your
first
site. We will then be showcasing some cool Drupal sites, explaining how
they
were made, and then we'll break up into workshop/discussion groups
around key
Drupal topics. This will be followed by a chance
to chat to other Drupal fans along with boerewors rolls and
refreshments. Full details of the
event appear at the end of this post.
While the event is free, it is limited to about 100 people, so please
RSVP in
good time to ensure your place.
The event will be held at "The Campus" (Cnr
Main & Sloane Street, Bryanston) on Saturday the 15th of August.
We'll kick off at 10:30 for 11:00, and should end
round about 15:30 after a boerewors roll braai.
Thanks to Internet Solutions for kindly sponsoring the venue.
We would like to stress that you don't need to know anything about
Drupal to
be able to get something out of this event, so
feel free to come along and learn why Drupal is one of the best ways to
build your next website.
*Event Agenda*
10:30 - 11:00: Arrival, socialising, warm up
11:00 - 11:15: Welcome/intro message and overview of Drupal (Charles
Tanton):
* What is Drupal?
* Who uses it?
* What features does it offer?
* Basic Drupal concepts:
* Modules
* Users
* Content (Nodes, comments and blocks)
11:15 - 12:20: Drupal basics (George Ziady):
* Installation and requirements (a brief
overview)
* Creating content and pages
* Managing content
* Creating menus
* Installing other modules for extended functionality
* Managing Users and permissions
* Categorising your content
* Theming and design
* Creating different Views of your content
12:20 - 12:30: Break
12:30 - 13:20: Drupal Website Showcases
13:20 - 13:30: Break
13:30 - 13:35: Brief summary of the workshop/discussion groups
13:35 - 14:20: Discussion groups / Ask an expert
* Drupal installation, basic configuration and use
* Design and Theming
* CCK and Views
* Running Drupal projects / Drupal business
14:20 - 15:30: Braai/Socialising
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I like your changes - unless anyone else has input on the time, let's leave it at 10:30 for 11:00 - it will give us time to wake up and get things organised...
Charles.
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The only changes I'd suggest are:
Instead of installing the blog module, perhaps install and demo the pathauto module instead. It offers SEO functionality which everyone is interested in and enhances the site considerably in terms of usability. Also, Drupal is so much more than a blog so I think setting up a blog site would be doing it a disservice.
Also, I realise that it will be pushing the time boundary a bit, but CCK and Views should be featured in some form. I think they really highlight the power of Drupal and show what can be achieved without touching any code.
I think it will need to be at least an 1 hour 15 minute session with 15 minutes of questions following afterwards.
Otherwise it looks good.
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Charles.
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ditto that