[consulting] and they call it drupalcamp
Aaron S. Pava
aaron at civicactions.com
Thu Feb 23 18:51:08 UTC 2006
I think the key question here remains "what is the objective" of the
camp/weekend?
For me (at CivicActions) the biggest need we have right now is not module
development (plenty of PHP pros are already doing that) or additional Drupal
functionality - but finding *available* quality developers who have the
html/css/php/xhtml/tableless-design/w3c-standards mad skillz _already solid_
and who just need to put that package into the Drupal framework. (a bit like
Aaron Welch's presentation at OSCMS for Beginning Drupal Programming, but
for a WEEKEND, led to qualified, kick-ass developers) You _could_ coordinate
it with a conference... Or just plan 3-4 of them for the year in different
parts of the country...
I see 12-18 developers in the class. $500 or so... Two or three days. Folks
like Chris Messina, Matt Westgate, Aaron Welch, Rich Orris as facilitors.
This is not about core development - or documentation. This is about
building solid developers, not code.
Aaron
> -----Original Message-----
> From: consulting-bounces at drupal.org
> [mailto:consulting-bounces at drupal.org] On Behalf Of Zack Rosen
> Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 6:15 PM
> To: A list for Drupal consultants and Drupal service/hosting providers
> Subject: Re: [consulting] and they call it drupalcamp
>
> As posted here:
> http://www.zacker.org/drupal-camp
>
> The CivicActions folks are starting to organize the first
> "Drupal Camp", a multi-day intensive Drupal developer
> training program.
>
> Why?
> Every Drupal shop I know of is in a crunch of Drupal
> development talent. The limit on their ability to take on
> more and bigger projects is not from lack of sales leads or
> lack of management capability, it is simply there are not
> enough seasoned developers on hand to pay to work on Drupal
> development projects. An experienced and talented
> web-application developer will take a bit of time to learn
> Drupal inside and out and get up to speed developing complex
> websites, so it is not simply a matter of bringing in fresh
> talent, we need fresh Drupal talent. The Drupal economy is
> rocketing skyward and this problem will only become more
> intense in the forseable future. This is an immediate and
> growing problem that we need to start solving now.
>
> Who?
>
> 1. Drupal newbies sponsored by their parent companies
> (CivicActions, Trellon, etc)
> 2. Drupal engineering experts to lead the class. Anyone
> up for this? :) (Matt Westgate, Crunchywelch provided he
> doesn't drown?).
> 3. Other Drupal folks in the neighborhood also might want
> to get together for a code sprint or to discuss Drupal projects.
>
> When?
> At Vancouver Josh and I floated out the idea of doing it in
> conjunction with the Personal Democracy Forum on May 15th.
> This dates
> works with me, does it sound reasonable to you?
>
> Where?
> If we do it in NYC in conjunction with PDF, I can think of two
> possiblities off the top of my head:
>
> 1. The Tank
> 2. EyeBeam
>
> I will follow up with my contacts at both of these venues tomorrow.
> Does anyone know of another possible venue?
>
> Curriculum
>
> We should make sure that whatever is taugh and learned at "Drupal
> Camp" is recorded and synthesized for posterity. We want to
> have many
> more of these in the future so we should aim for publish-able
> curriculum that can be later posted on Drupal.org.
>
> Next Steps?
>
> 1. Gregory Heller is organizing a consultant conference call to
> talk about this and other issues shortly on the consultat mailinglist.
> 2. David Geilhufe proposed we look into the former Ars Digita
> training camps. I'll sign up to follow up and do some research and
> try to talk to folks involved in organizing them.
> 3. We need to figure out a data / location. Unless someone can
> come up with a better data / location than PDF on May 15th let's go
> with that. I will start looking seriously into venues tomorrow.
> 4. We need to line up the teaching staff and get firm
> commitments
> from vendors to sponsor newbies. I can take this on starting Friday.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> -Zack
>
> On Feb 22, 2006, at 5:59 PM, Gregory Heller wrote:
>
> > Perhaps the problem sets could include things like:
> > Port a contributed module from 4.6 to 4.7?
> > Integrate bug fixes or patches for a module
> >
> > they could be submitted by the community, or culled from the forum
> > http://drupal.org/forum/51
> > any revenue generated could go to defray costs for space, food,
> > trainer's and organizer's time, back to drupal, and maybe to the
> > "student" in an amount no greater than the cost of the camp (if
> > there is
> > a cost associated).
> >
> > Another option could be completing an entire website
> project for a non
> > profit organization.
> >
> >
> > David Geilhufe wrote:
> >
> >> Back in the dot com boom, a company called ARS Digita did "boot
> >> camps." I like the name "Drupal Camp"
> >>
> >> These basically were 2-5 day training sessions for developers. You
> >> went the camp, learned some basics and then completed some "problem
> >> sets" collaboratively with the folks at the boot camp. A
> problem set
> >> would be something like creating a module. Perhaps the
> problems could
> >> be something like:
> >>
> >> 1. Create a basic module.
> >> 2. Create a module that exercises parts of the Drupal API
> thoroughly.
> >> 3. Create a new theme
> >> 4. ?
> >>
> >> This would also be a great addition to the handbook for folks to
> >> self-study.
> >>
> >> If someone with more drupal skills were to work with me, we could
> >> come
> >> up with a few problem sets to start putting together on
> the Handbook.
> >> david
> >>
> >>
> >
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