Bay Area Drupal Camp

Come help get Drupal 6 ready for release. Open to everyone of every skill level. Karoly Negyesi (chx), Angie Byron (webchick) and a bunch of other Drupal luminaries have declared November 3rd to be “The Day of the Drupal 6 Critical Queue”. People all around the world will be focusing their energy on testing Drupal 6. Come join the fun.

Don’t worry if you don’t know a patch queue from pumpkin patch, there will be people to show you how it is done.

Note: This session will happen twice on Saturday. For the session that happens over lunch, food will be provided.

Session Presenter: Tao Starbow

Tao has been in the Drupal community ever since the Summer of '05 when he set up his first site for the UC Berkeley Katrina Response Team. He runs the Berkeley Drupal Users Group and helped organize BADCamp 07. He is still not sure if he should be writing this in the third person.

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Want to learn the basic concepts of making your site look like your want? Ever thought Drupal was ugly? Well here’s how to fix it. We’ll take a hands-on approach to creating Drupal themes, from basic page.tpl.php to theme overrides to defining custom template files. Then we’ll learn about theming popular modules (and components), specifically views, CCK, and user profiles. Lastly, we’re going to take a look at what’s new in Drupal 6.

Prerequisites: Knowledge of PHP and some Drupal.

Session Presenter: Dmitri Gaskin

You can see my main Bio at http://drupal.org/user/47566. I've contributed several modules. I maintain the Views Bonus Pack, along with the Comment CCK module and the Util module. I have experience in jQuery, CSS, HTML, PHP (mostly), and Drupal, in core, profile, theming (although I have a horrible and skewed sense of design. I can critique it but I can't design my own stuff) and module development.

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While the core Drupal framework is a fantastic piece of software, just about everyone who has ever tried to build a site realizes that you almost always have to use some of the contributed add-on modules or themes. One of the great things about Drupal is the huge community of developers sharing their code and maintaining these additional contributions that make Drupal function in a wide variety of settings.

Session Presenter: Derek Wright

I first joined the Drupal community early in 2006 when I started using Drupal to build the website for the Brazilian percussion ensemble I direct, BateriaLucha.org. I now maintain and collaborate on many contributed modules, including the project module (which powers all of the issue tracking, release management, and revision control integration for drupal.org), the signup module, the update status module (now part of core), and others. I am a member of the Drupal security team, have contributed many patches to core, and am one of the CVS administrators for drupal.org. For more details, you can check out my drupal.org profile. For my day job, I've worked for over 10 years as an academic staff researcher on a distributed computing project based at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, called Condor (no, that's definitely not a Drupal site -- yet).

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some possible discussion questions:

• who has access to the knowledge and resources necessary to build an effective drupal site? who participates in the drupal community? why?
• whose needs are met by drupal? are any groups/sectors/organizations better-served than others? why is this the case?
• how have race, class, and/or gender impacted your working relationships?
• what are some examples of drupal work that seeks to actively engage oppression – both within our organizations and partnerships, and in society as a whole?

Session Presenter: ryan winell

hey everybody, i'm currently working on several sites for baddass organizations and individuals. they are in various stages of development:

• A Katrina Reader: Readings by & for Anti-Racist Educators and Organizers
• a complete redesign of the La Raza Centro Legal site, in partnership with Design Action
• http://recoveryfromreligion.org/ (very early stages)
• and a few more... ;)

i'm committed to providing long-term support for the struggle for self determination and a just reconstruction in new orleans and the gulf coast. thanks! -ryan

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