DrupalAC presents the Drupal Global Training Day (Moncton) – #DrupalGTD

For this month’s meetup we’re doing it out of sequence (normally the 3rd Wednesday of the month) and doing a special meet up to correspond with Drupal’s Global Training Day.

What is Drupal Global Training Day?

Drupal Global Training Days is an exciting initiative from the Drupal community to introduce new and beginning users to Drupal. Trainers from companies and local groups around the world make newcomers to the Drupal community feel inspired and empowered to start great work.

Once a quarter, free or low-cost training events take place around the globe. It's also a great opportunity for companies to showcase their Drupal services and the impact they've had in their local communities.

We will be holding ours in Moncton at the Venn Centre on September 9th from 2pm until 6pm.

Feel free to drop in and out as we are doing a variety of things across all aspects of Drupal.

You do not need to be a Drupal Expert to attend. Though experienced developers might find value in some parts. In fact, you don’t even need to have any experience with CMS or actual development. If you have an interest in learning about web development and are curious to see what is out there, you are welcome to join and learn with us!

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This will be a HANDS ON event! - We will go through the process of actually spinning up a drupal website and managing many aspects of the Drupal site. if possible, please bring a laptop computer with you. This is not required, but would help greatly and improve your experience.

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Who we’d love to see

1. Developers interested in exploring Drupal as their career path

2. Business managers evaluating Drupal for driving their technology business.

3. Student community willing to know more on CMS and Drupal.

4. Current Drupal users and developers at all skill levels who want to contribute to discussions and learn something new!

This will be a hands-on event in which we will be covering:

1. Introduction to CMS

2. Why Drupal; Comparative analysis of Drupal with other CMS.

3. Case studies / Sites using Drupal

4. When to and not to use Drupal?

5. Where to find Drupal and Drupal installation

6. Inside of Drupal

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

b) Create and edit content

c) Work with menus from admin

d) Content type and its usage

e) Block and where to find them

f) Working with roles and users

7. Getting a functional site set up in 30-45mins.

8. Using contributed modules/themes/distributions, and getting community-based support

9. Support Drupal.org and Drupal Association

During the event, we will have times set aside where we can get into deeper Questions and answers on specific issues or questions people might have.

If you would like to help instruct and lead discussions during this event please reach out to drupalatlantic@gmail.com and let us know!