15th August MeetUp -

I think that's a good idea Charles. George does have a lot to cover and I prolly not enough time allotted.
This is gonna be an awesome one!

Thanks George - I'm thinking that maybe I should incorporate the Overview section:

 Overview: 
   * What is Drupal?
   * Who uses it?
   * What features does it offer?

into my welcome/intro? If I've got 15 minutes for a welcome, this would help me with something to talk about. I'll probably spend 5 minutes on the welcome and talking about the group, and then could use 10 minutes to go through the overview.

What do you think?

I'd like to send out an invite by the end of today, even if we haven't finalised the showcases yet - we need to start advertising this to insure we get good newbie attendance. We'll need to leverage all our networks, and punt this to as many people as possible. 

Because we have a big venue, we might even want to approach universities and placement agencies (they can tell the web guys on their books) as mentioned at the last meetup. The key is to get people who are new to Drupal.

Charles.

2009/7/21 <george [at] springfisher [dot] com>

Below is the a revised version of the Drupal meetup schedule. I've added 20

minutes to the Drupal Basics presentation which shifted everything back a

bit. If everyone could review and post there suggestions, lets finalise this

by the end of the week (Friday, 24th July). George (gomez) 10:30 - 11:00

Arrival, warm up 11:00 - 11:05 Welcome/intro message (Charles) 11:05 - 12:20

Introduction to Drupal / Drupal basics (George): 

 * 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 (a brief overview)

 * Creating content (pages - e.g. home page, comments),

 * CCK intro

 * Managing content (editing, deleting, unpublishing etc.) 

 * Navigation (creating menu items etc.)

 * Installing and activating additional modules (e.g. pathauto module), 

 * Setting up pathauto

 * Users (profiles and access control)

 * Taxonomy explanation

 * Themes

   * Introduction to themes and basic configuration

   * Installing a different theme

   * Administration theme

   * Theme regions / Blocks



 * Views - brief overview



12:20 - 12:30: Break 12:30 - 13:20: Showcases

 * Can we have some suggestions for showcases? If there is something you'd

  like to show, please post to this thread.



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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