Workshop: Q&A With the Experts
Do you have a local development problem?
Do you also have questions about how to solve a problem on the site you're currently building?
If so, you're in luck. Come get hands on development help from local area Drupal experts.
We'll have several experts on hand to answer questions in the following categories:
- theming
- module development
- site configuration
hacking core- rolling patches
- keeping your site up to date with the latest Drupal version
John Fiala, Kevin Bridges, Brad Bowman, and others will be on hand to answer questions.
Agenda:
To help people with real development problems they're facing on their current project.
Prerequisites:
A working development environment. We cannot stress this enough, count on the wireless at the event. If you are not prepared, others who are will take precedence.
For us to help you, you must be ready to be helped. This means having your work on hand, and being able to immediately point us to the problem your having.
If you need help defining your problem, or setting up a local development environment, we'll be monitoring comments on this session in an attempt to help you be prepared.
I think the blinky text is
I think the blinky text is what has me convinced. /snark ;)
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It took much debate for us to
It took much debate for us to decide on the perfect way to stress that participants should be prepared for this workshop to make it as valuable as possible for them. Everyone loves a good blink tag ;-)
At the same time, you're critizing the host's network
I think DOM has enough wired and wireless connections in the building that users don't need spend too much time worrying about this.
An ideal configuration for this might be to offer several of these sessions on specific topics: Theming, CVS, Multimedia, etc. If we do this in the computer lab, users would have wired connections running VNC that could be projected from the experts computer so everyone can see how the problem is solved... vs. trying to look over every user's shoulder.
The request to be able to
The request to be able to work offline is more centered on the desire to have prepared participants vs. criticizing the facilities network capabilities. My apologies if the description came across as such. The focus for us as we drafted is to provide a forum to work with prepared individuals on a one to one basis. That being said, it is a good practice to be able to continue to function at events like DrupalCons or DrupalCamps in the unlikely event the internet is not available. In addition, by requiring participants to have their development challenges represented locally the speed at which we can respond will likely increase.
The focus of this workshop is people that have active hands on problems they need help with ... it is not intended to be something an observer will learn from.
Not at all
Anybody experienced in doing presentations at events will tell you to have a local copy of whatever you are doing. Don't count on the internet, don't count on the remote website, don't count on the tubes in between. In fact, don't count on your computer -- have a disc copy just in case.
Besides, how could you see this as a criticism before the fact?
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Didn't mean to come off so
Didn't mean to come off so harsh. Sorry about that. I'm glad there's strong infrastructure at DOM, but it never hurts to have a backup plan.
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