opentoko.org

On June 13th, 2011 from 11:00 till 18:00, OpenToko.org presents a workshop about the open-source content management system Drupal by Peter van der West and Peter Uithoven. It will be a beginners-workshop showing the basic principles of building a website using Drupal. To attend this workshop some basic knowledge of HTML/CSS is recommended but not required.

About Drupal
Drupal is a free and open source software package that allows anyone to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Hundreds of thousands of people and organizations are using Drupal to power an endless variety of sites. Drupal is maintained and developed by a community of 599516+ users and developers.

Because of the huge amount of contributed modules, the vast majority of a site’s requirements can be addressed with Drupal core and available add-on modules. So you can focus your efforts on building great web sites, not re-creating features available elsewhere.

Drupal powers high profile websites like: The White House, Warner Bros Records, IKEA, ING and The New York Observer. For a complete list visit: http://buytaert.net/tag/drupal-sites

Trainers
Peter van der West works as a web developer/designer and has over 10 years of experience. Besides web development he loves technology and electronics in general and is passionate about creating interactive installations.

Peter Uithoven is an Interaction Design student at HKU. He specializes in physical interactive installations. He loves both the creative and technical part of projects, has experience in openFrameworks, ActionScript and electronics. He is also involves in TransitieLab trying to make the world a bit more sustainable.

Topics of the workshop
What is Drupal? A short history. What can you do with Drupal? Why use Drupal? An overview of Drupal and its most important modules. How to create a basic portfolio website?
The introduction will be followed by a hands-on session to explore Drupal on your own. Peter & Peter will be there to assist you.

What to bring
Please bring a laptop with Linux, Mac OSX or Windows.

Costs
The cost for the workshop is up to you. You can choose how much the knowledge is worth to you. There will be a honesty box for your cash donations. You can also ask for a bill if you don’t want to pay cash. There is a limit of 20 participants for the workshop so register at http://bit.ly/toko29