<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Feb 22, 2006, at 3:01 PM, Noel Hidalgo wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">so in my one good thought a day...</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">for those of you planning a drupal day or two day crash courses... you should call it drupal camp.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">i'm envisioning the little water guy/gal in front of the barcamp "camp"</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">thoughts? ideas?</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Camps are nice. I think you should do them. It makes sense for businesses to recruit local developers at these events.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">But if you write a good page of documentation then hundreds , thousands, and even tens of thousands of people will read it and use it 24/7/365 from all around the world. I have included a partial days handbook traffic on programming topics alone. If every Drupal volunteer and Drupal related business spent just 1 hour a month helping with developer training documentation <B>we could train thousands of developers</B> to use the platform in an economically accessible way.</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Most popular handbook pages: <A href="http://drupal.org/node/508">http://drupal.org/node/508</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">12<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>Module developer's guide<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>180<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>80858</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">13<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>Theme developer's guide<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>172<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>99690</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">14<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>PHPTemplate theme engine<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>160<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>81897</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">16<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>PHPTemplate Theme Snippets<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>140<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>7427</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">17<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>PHP page snippets<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>139<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>43870</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">19<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>PHP snippets<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>131<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>16633</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">20<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>Drupal's APIs<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>119<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>43365</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">29<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>Actions snippets<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>85<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>1284</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">41<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>Page.tpl.php<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>63<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>27622</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">46<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>Creating a new PHPTemplate<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>58<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>34108</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; 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margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">64<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>Coding standards<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>45<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>20929</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">81<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>Developing for Drupal<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>39<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>50644</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">85<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>Plain PHP themes<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>38<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>21903</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">92<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>SQL snippets<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>37<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>3599</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">95<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>Comment.tpl.php<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>35<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>11880</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Cheers,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Kieran</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">consulting mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; 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