[DUG-TO] Drupal Design Workshop

[Calvin Tennant]

I'd just like to follow up on this with the community. The event ran
wonderfully, we had three rather productive days of Drupal learning. We're
hoping to include a heaver focus on the design aspect of the workshop, as
indicated by some of our attendees, in future events.

The next event I hope to host with George Brown College will revolve around
the construction of a Drupal theme that will be contributed back to the
community via drupal.org. I'm interested in hearing your thoughts on this as
local Drupalers, what do you look for in a theme? Topics up for discussion
might include accessibility/semantics, layout, special features and block
regions (inner node regions, upper and lower header, fresh ideas on where to
slap-em).

I'd also like to discuss weither we should be planning on working with
Drupal 7 for the next event. I doubt Drupal 7 will be out of dev by the time
our next event rolls around (April/May), but its at the point where theme
development isn't out of the question.

If anything else that I'd like to bring up pops into my head I'll send it
along, I'll try not to clog up your inboxes too horribly.

Oh hey, one of those things now. If anyone has some time they would like to
toss back to the local community, I'll be looking at implementing
Kaltura<http://drupal.org/project/kaltura>
 on http://drupaldesignworkshop.com. I'd be interested in having a chat with
anyone has experience with this module.

Thanks!

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:42 PM, Calvin Tennant <calvintennant at gmail.com>wrote:

> I've received confirmation from the school that I am allowed to run the
> event. It will be held March 4th - 6th Noon-6pm at George Brown College
> School of Design in room 112.
>
> The Drupal & Design Workshop will be a three day extravaganza of designers
>> and drupalers coming together to help each other out. The idea is that its a
>> lot easier to learn with people than it is to learn by yourself.
>
> http://drupaldesignworkshop.com
>
>
> Please have a look at the website (see above) to get more of an idea of
> what we're about. Anyone looking to attend or help organise the event please
> contact me at this email with your qualifications/interests. We have a
> maximum registration of about 30 at this point, so the sooner I get an idea
> of the demand the better (we might be able to expand, but the sooner the
> better).
>
> Thanks everyone, hope to see you there!
>
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Calvin Tennant <calvintennant at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I've been working with Druapl for about eight months. I got into Drupal
>> through a contact at George Brown College SchoolOfDesign, where I go to
>> school and work. I did a research project for the college and haven't been
>> able to put Drupal down since.
>>
>> This week I had a few students over at my apartment to teach them a thing
>> or two about Drupal. We're all graphic designers (not developers), so it was
>> slow going. Over two days I basically introduced them to Drupal, PHP, and
>> MySQL and it was a lot of fun. I'd like to do it again, and this is my
>> point.
>>
>> I'm going to see if I can set something up through the school. I'd like to
>> do a 'Drupal Design Workshop'. People coming together to help each other, no
>> financial strings attached. I think I'll be able to get a room at the
>> college for a couple days during the intercession.
>>
>> Who we're looking for:
>> Developers who want to learn more about design
>> Designers who want to learn more about development
>> People strong in both categories who want to help out
>>
>> I'd love to have members of the Drupal community come out. Please contact
>> me if you're interested!
>>
>> --
>> Calvin Tennant
>> calvintennant.com
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Calvin Tennant
> http://calvintennant.com
> http://somethingofmuse.com
> http://drupaldesignworkshop.com
>



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Calvin Tennant
http://calvintennant.com
http://somethingofmuse.com
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