[consulting] Drupal Primer Course

[leighm at linuxbandwagon.com]

A few years ago (hmm 6?) i stayed with some guys from obsidian.co.za , 
a linux based
consulting company in Johannesburg, tho i think they have an office in 
capetown now.

they are really cool guys, the only guy i remember is Anton DeWet, but 
they're into linux
training, support, devel etc

maybe get in touch with them? ask for anton if he's still about


leigh


Quoting Adrian Rossouw <adrian at bryght.com>:

> Hey guys.
>
> Kieran suggested I post to this list about my plans.
>
> South Africa is still stuck in Web 0.8, with people still selling  
> front-page designed sites for thousands of dollars.
>
> Due to the bad exchange rate, and the general distrust of  
> international outsourcing,
> and the backwards state of our web industry,  local clients are  
> completely unwilling
> to pay people overseas to do any development, and the lack of  
> (quality?) Drupal developers
> makes the Drupal industry here stillborn.
>
> I have several friends who are now doing freelance development, who are
> either interested in, or have started doing Drupal development here  
> in South Africa.
> All of these people I introduced / got interested in doing Drupal,  
> and most of them
> just need a short introduction to get them up to speed.
>
> So in the interest of getting my friends into the fold and improving  
> the community,
> I have decided I want to run a short primer course on Drupal, for people
> who already know php / web development.
>
> At first I was planning to do it in an unofficial nature, but I  
> realised that it would make
> more sense to actually build some courseware / tutorial documentation 
>  out of this
> process, and it would make teaching the subject far easier too.
>
> I have contacted my friend who is an RHCE /ICDL trainer, and has  
> written courseware
> for several other courses. He has agreed to help me / us write the  
> courseware and format
> the course well.
>
> I have also got the use of a training lab to teach the course in. And 
>  although I only have about
> 4 people interested in doing the course, I would consider going up to 
>  a max of 8 people.
>
> What I would like to do, is build some courseware to put on  
> Drupal.org, and coordinate
> with other people who would be interested in doing drupal training /  
> putting together
> a primer course to train up their own developers.
>
> The tentative dates I have scheduled for the course is 19 to 23 June  
> 2006, or 22 to 26 June 2006.
> I think that's more than enough time to get the necessary  
> documentation together. A lot of this
> will be presenting the information already in the handbook in a  
> structured manner, with exercises
> and the like.
>
> Remember, the goal is not to mint new programmers. The turning people 
>  who already know
> PHP / XHTML / CSS into Drupal developers.
>
> Does anyone have any input on this ? What should we be teaching  
> people getting into drupal?
>
> --
> Adrian Rossouw
> Drupal developer and Bryght Guy
> http://drupal.org | http://bryght.com
>
>
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