MidCamp - Beginner

Registration

YesCT — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 15:01:27 +0000

Speakers:

ZenDoodles

Track:

MADCamp (Alice in Wonderland)

Audience:

Beginner

Registration will be on the 2nd floor, near the elevator, behind the 2nd floor escalators. See A closer look at our venue for directions.

Length:

50 minutes

Registration

YesCT — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 14:52:46 +0000

Speakers:

ZenDoodles

Track:

MADCamp (Alice in Wonderland)

Audience:

Beginner

Registration will be on the 2nd floor, near the elevator, behind the 2nd floor escalators. See A closer look at our venue for directions.

Length:

50 minutes

Evening Social at Moxee sponsored by Acquia & Mailchimp

YesCT — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 21:56:50 +0000

Speakers:

froboy

Track:

MADCamp (Alice in Wonderland)

Audience:

Beginner

Join us for the official after-camp party at Moxee Restaurant & Brewery, 724 W. Maxwell Street, sponsored by Acquia & Mailchimp. We'll have sponsored food and drink tickets, and there is shuffleboard!

Length:

2 hours

Open Social Space

YesCT — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 21:55:42 +0000

Speakers:

akalata

Track:

MADCamp (Alice in Wonderland)

Audience:

Beginner

The main room of the venue will be open in the evening for after-dinner sprinting and socializing, as an alternative to restaurants or crowding into a hotel room. Feel free to bring board games or other indoor activities.

Some dinner ideas are in the works, stay tuned! Looking for alternatives? Here's a page with some ideas.

Some games that will be there:

Pandemic
Seven Wonders
Breaking Head

Length:

2 hours

Absolute Beginners Guide to Drupal

craychee — Sun, 22 Feb 2015 02:00:49 +0000

This learn-at-your-own-pace training is designed to introduce you to Drupal basics and give you a chance to explore the material from BuildAModule that meets your needs. No matter what your skill level or goals, you can be introduced to the area of Drupal that will be the most useful to you. If you are new to Drupal, start here.

This training is for you if:

You are completely new to Drupal.
You want to meet Drupal experts and get tons of one-on-one help.
You learn faster or slower than a typical student and want to set your own pace.
You have a hard time listening to lectures.
You typically have a lot of questions about what you're learning.
You're not sure what your skill level is or what you should be focusing on.

WHAT WILL THE DAY LOOK LIKE?

After a brief introduction to Drupal, MidCamp, and the BuildAModule curriculum, the majority of the day will be spent self-guided on mentored training.

The structure of a mentored training might sound a little strange if you haven't experience it before but it's incredibly powerful. You are in control as you:

Select a video course to follow.
Grab one of your mentors, Chris or Michelle, for help when you have questions or an idea that needs working out.

WHAT DOES THIS TRAINING GIVE YOU?

The opportunity for you to explore Drupal for the first time or more in depth at your own pace for a week leading up to camp, with mentored help and more context for a half day, and a month to continue learning. You will get:

Attention from Drupal professionals who can answer your questions.
1 month of free access to the video library so that you can continue to pursue your interests long after the training is over.
A chance to network with other professionals who are new to Drupal.

What is BuildaModule?

BuildAModule is an online library of video tutorials for Drupal. Its innovative video curriculum has helped hundreds of students become knowledgable content editors, confident site builders, and informed and empowered developers.

COME EARLY (12 PM) AND JOIN US FOR LUNCH BEFORE WE START!

Trainers:

craychee

chrisshattuck

Audience:

Beginner

Length:

Half Day (afternoon)

Cost:

$49.00

Room:

SCE 603 (training)

Time:

2015 - 1:00am to 5:00pm

Build. Launch. Run.

craychee — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 21:15:22 +0000

1: Build

2: Launch

3: Run

Pantheon gives you a three-stage development process, high performance tools, and instant scaling out of the box. Developers can go back to developing, not managing servers or carrying a pager. Site owners can relax knowing their site is secure and prepared for anything!

We will walk attendees through building a site on the Pantheon platform. Learn about version control, development environments, and high performance tools - as well as a lot of other tips and tricks for using the Pantheon platform to its fullest. Bring your laptop since these session will be hands on! Learn how to use Pantheon like a seasoned Drupal developer and level up your Drupal development game.

In this tutorials, we walk through setting up a site on Pantheon’s platform. Together we will:

• Spin up a site quickly
• Use git to properly manage the code in our sites
• Perform pre-launch checks to ensure a seamless launch
• Use the one-click workflow tools to move your content easily between environments

Join us in this hands-on journey to a better way to Build, Launch, and Run Drupal web sites.

THIS TRAINING IS A FULL DAY FOR $25 AND INCLUDES LUNCH!

Trainers:

dougvann

Audience:

Beginner

Length:

Full Day

Cost:

$25.00

Room:

SCE 613 (Training)

Time:

2015 - 9:00am to 5:00pm

Keynote: Economics of Drupal Contribution

farriss — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 23:08:39 +0000

Speakers:

farriss

Track:

Business

Community

Audience:

Beginner

Scratch-your-own-itch code contributions from individuals and organizations are essential to the success of any open source project. However, these tactical contributions need to sit within a strategic vision as the project scales and grows. As we’ve seen in the Drupal 8 development cycle, strategic initiatives can be difficult to execute within a largely volunteer-based, do-ocracy culture. Drupal Association Treasurer Tiffany Farriss will explore how other open source communities provide a strategic framework to their communities and how the Drupal Association could provide structural support to balance the needs of contributors and a successful project.

Length:

50 minutes

Session video:

Keynote: PHP for Everyone

jenlampton — Mon, 16 Feb 2015 23:00:08 +0000

Speakers:

jenlampton

Track:

Coding

Community

Audience:

Beginner

PHP runs more than 80% of the internet. It's winning because it can do everything. PHP is used as a replacement for Perl scripts, a lightweight template engine, and a dynamic content generator. PHP is a full-featured programming language complete with Object-Oriented code and modern design patterns. From Personal Home page to PHP Hypertext Preprocessor, PHP is for everyone.

Length:

50 minutes

Session video:

Welcome to Drupal!

dgorton — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 20:22:43 +0000

Speakers:

dgorton

Track:

Site Building

Audience:

Beginner

This session is for people who are relatively new to Drupal and would like an orientation (or refresher) on the concepts, jargon and community involved in learning Drupal.

We’ll introduce All the Big Things at a basic level. Attendees will come away familiar with the Drupal landscape and with recommendations for specific sessions to attend to dive deeper into key concepts and particular topics.

Topics specifically covered include:

Drupal from 50,000 Feet
Drupal's Worldview
Drupal's Terminology (Content types, Nodes, Views, Modules, Blocks, etc.)
Brief Orientation to Drupal Core
Brief Orientation to Drupal Add-ons (Modules, Themes, etc.)
Common Workflows for Site Builders and Editors
Brief Orientation to the Drupal Community
Getting Help with Drupal

There will also be lots of time for Questions and Answers!

Length:

50 minutes

Slides:

welcome_to_drupal-midcamp-15.pptx

Slides

Session video:

Remote Control: How to manage your distributed team’s time and get stuff done!

Ashleigh Thevenet — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 15:55:35 +0000

Speakers:

Ashleigh Thevenet

Track:

Business

Audience:

Beginner

Distributed teams are becoming more commonplace. As far as organizational structures go, this certainly has its advantages and disadvantages. On the one hand it's great to get to work in your pajamas, but on the other hand, it can be hard to work together and manage a team without valuable face time. When you work as a consultancy, time is literally money; so, it's important to schedule your team so they log enough hours to meet your billable targets. In this session, we will discuss tools and pointers for motivating your remote team and getting the most out of their time.

Have you thought about letting your team members work remotely but aren't quite ready to take that leap of faith? Hopefully this session will help persuade you that with the right checks and balances you can have a very productive team without bringing everyone into an office.

Maybe you don't have a choice, your team works from a communal office and it's going to stay that way. That's okay - optimal time management is important for any team, this session will have some good pointers for you, too!

Length:

50 minutes

Slides

Session video: