DrupalCamp Ohio 2011

A trimmed down presentation from our full-day training at DrupalCon Chicago and London.
We'll provide a beginner's overview of Drupal, helping you understand:

In this one hour session (which is typically a three hour session), experience using Drupal, and learn about the community as well.

Drush stands for Drupal shell, it's a tool to manage you site(s) from the command line, either on your workstation or on the server.  To goal of this session will be to familiarize you with where you can take Drush and how it will help you more effiecient.

Learn advanced Drush useage:

CiviCRM is a Contact Relationship Management system built with non-profit organizations in mind that integrates with Drupal.

Making a measurable and immediate impact in a highly competitive, commoditized e-commerce space -  A Business case study. Learn how leveraging analytics, competitive research, and user experience analysis in a highly competitive space informed a conversion optimization project.

What is an entity, what is Entity API, and how do you code with entities?

Drupal 7 introduced the powerful concept of entities as the successor of CCK in Drupal 5 and Drupal 6.

As anyone who uses Salesforce or CiviCRM with Drupal already knows, collecting contact information from users can be challenging. In order to effectively manage information about your users, you often need a separate system for managing contacts. This situation creates a wall between content and contacts, where valuable data about each lies in different systems, and integrating the two becomes cost prohibitive for most organizations. This can be disadvantageous for sites engaged in lead generation, crowdsourcing, e-commerce and other efforts that are very contact-centric.

OK, You got your feet wet and Drupal is starting to make some sense.

As a class we're going to do the following:

I would like to organize a Drupal Career Panel composed of developers, designers, system administrators, project managers, trainers, system architects, recruiters, sales, spouses, etc...

How to get the most out of you web server by running Drupal using nginx and php-fpm.

For Drupal Users and Business Owners who want targeted and relevant search results on their site, they know it's hard to come by.

Learn how to create new Features for Open Atrium intranet sites.

Session Slides: http://thinksimply.com/seo

When you’re building your next Drupal project the chances are pretty good that at some point you’ll find Drupal is doing it wrong.

Responsive design is all about making your site look good no matter what device is being used to view it. It's all the rage these days, but, as with so many things that are brand spanking new, there's a lot of confusion and debate (most of it healthy) about how best to implement it.

We'll take a quick look at the history of mapping in the Drupal community, from Location , GMap, and Geo, and do a demo of the Geofield module. We'll also talk about interesting projects outside of Drupal like Tilemill which can compliment current best practices.

A walkthrough of creating a custom theme for http://www.herodecks.com/

1. HTML/CSS

2. Custom Regions

3. Essential theming snippets

4. Basic Views styling

• Intended Audience (Principal, Project Managers, Stakeholders, Solutions Architects)
• Track (Commerce, Design and User Experience, Drupal Community, Business and Strategy)

At Ohio State, there are literally dozens of small independently operating web development groups spread across college, department, and business unit boundaries.