Drupal Training Day - Beginners Session - 6th Sep

Drupal Training Day beginners session event curriculum -

1. Introduction
2. About Drupal India, Drupal Mumbai and Drupal Association
3. CMS Intro
4. Drupal: Nontechnical intro

• Drupal: Its Origin, History, Current State and Future

• Who is using Drupal: Case studies/Sites using Drupal

• Why Drupal:

• Comparative analysis of Drupal with other CMS

• Drupal Market Analysis.

• For Business

• For Developers

• For Community

• Got something in mind, want to know how Drupal will solve your problem?

5. Introduction to Drupal : Technical overview

• Where to find Drupal and Drupal installation

• Drupal terminology (e.g. Nodes, Blocks, Modules, Terms, Taxonomy, Users, Comments, Entities, Fields)

• Inside of Drupal (walkthrough an existing Drupal site)

• Overview of each item of admin menu (e.g. Content, Appearance)

• Create and edit content

• Work with menus from admin

• Content type and its usage

• Block and where to find them

• Working with roles and users

6. Drupal SDLC: How Drupal projects are approached.
7. Building a functional Drupal site in an hour. (show how easy it is to build and develop using Drupal), hands-on
8. Extending Drupal
9. Using contrib modules/themes/distributions
10. Writing your own module/theme
11. Help improving Drupal/contributing back. Adding issues, testing,
12. Reviewing, documentation and translations, etc.
13. Community Support and Contribution
14. References
15. Drupal.org
16. Learning Stuffs on Drupalize.me and Other Drupal materials
17. Closing and Feedback

Schedule:

10:30 am to 11 am : Introduction of the community, About Drupal India, Drupal Mumbai and Drupal Association 11 am to 12:30 pm: Introduction to drupal: What is CMS? What is Drupal? History and Background of Drupal, Drupal: Nontechnical intro , Drupal: Its Origin, History, Current State and Future, Who is using Drupal: Case studies/Sites using Drupal, Why Drupal:, Comparative analysis of Drupal with other CMS, Drupal Market Analysis, For Business, For Developers, For Community

11 am to 12:30 pm: Introduction to drupal: What is CMS? What is Drupal? History and Background of Drupal, Drupal: Nontechnical intro , Drupal: Its Origin, History, Current State and Future, Who is using Drupal: Case studies/Sites using Drupal, Why Drupal:, Comparative analysis of Drupal with other CMS, Drupal Market Analysis, For Business, For Developers, For Community

12:30 - 1:30 PM - Lunch Break

1:30 PM to 2:30 PM - Drupal Terminology: Where to find Drupal and Drupal installation, Drupal terminology (e.g. Nodes, Blocks, Modules, Terms, Taxonomy, Users, Comments, Entities, Fields

2:30 PM to 3:30 PM - Drupal Administration: Inside of Drupal (walkthrough an existing Drupal site), Inside of Drupal (walkthrough an existing Drupal site), Overview of each item of admin menu (e.g. Content, Appearance), Create and edit content, Work with menus from admin, Content type and its usage, Block and where to find them, Working with roles and users

3:30 PM to 4:30 PM: Extending Drupal: Building a functional Drupal site in an hour. (show how easy it is to build and using Drupal), hands-on, Extending Drupal , Using contrib modules/themes/distributions

4:30 PM to 5:00 PM - Drupal Contributions: Help improving Drupal/contributing back. Adding issues, testing, Reviewing, documentation and translations, Community Support and Contribution, References ,Drupal.org, Learning Stuffs on Drupalize.me and Other Drupal materials, Closing and Feedback