DrupalConParis2009 - education

Organic Groups and Views: Building Better Community Sites

billfitzgerald — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:08:29 +0000

Organic Groups and Views are two of the more popular modules on available on Drupal.org; however, they often go under-utilized, as people are unfamiliar with the range of options both modules provide.

In this session, we will cover how to use Organic Groups within your site, and how to use Views to display content within your groups. The content in this session will focus on what can be done using the administrative interfaces of both modules; in other words, all config, and no code.

Speaker bio:

Bill Fitzgerald has been active in the Drupal community since 2005. He is the author of Using Drupal in Education (from Packt). He is a founding partner of FunnyMonkey, a development shop located in Portland, OR, US.

Training Drupal professionals: Towards an open Drupal training curriculum and certification

bohemicus — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:05:02 +0000

One of the issues clients who want to build on Drupal as a sustainable platform face is identifying qualified Drupal professionals or making sure their inhouse developers get up to speed with Drupal in a reliable fashion. At the moment, there are several Drupal companies that provide bespoke Drupal training but there isn't a unified training curriculum that could be easily replicated and adopted for in house training and against which people who haven't had the time to gain natural experience in the community could be assessed.

Speaker bio:

Dominik Lukes of Dyslexia Action is an academic, educator and web developer who's developed a number of websites in the education most recently http://training.dyslexiaaction.org.uk. He started and manages Drupal for Research and Academia on groups.drupal.org. Dominik also has extensive experience with VLEs and online portfolio management systems.

Drupal for Education

bohemicus — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:20:47 +0000

Drupal is slowly gaining traction in Education as the success of the recent meeting in London attests: http://drupal4education2009.eventbrite.com.

The session will cover a number of topics relevant to the deployment of Drupal in education:

* Suitability of Drupal for brochure websites, course management and delivery, community building, and sharing of information
* Which versions of Drupal to use and the recommended modules based upon your needs
* Designing and implementing the right architecture to meet scalability and security requirements

Speaker bio:

Robert Castelo of Code Positive is a Drupal developer and organiser of the London and UK Drupal community including the Drupal 4 Education London event. He is the creator of a number of Drupal modules and a member of the Drupal Security Team. Dominik Lukes of Dyslexia Action is an academic, educator and web developer who's developed a number of websites in the education most recently http://training.dyslexiaaction.org.uk. He started and manages Drupal for Research and Academia on groups.drupal.org. Dominik also has extensive experience with VLEs and online portfolio management systems.