Drupal Kitchen: a Hands-on Workshop for Anything from Creating Blog Posts to Overwriting Theme Functions

Drupal Kitchen: a Hands-on Workshop for End-users, Site Administrators and Developers Eric Goldhagen & Jenna Freedman Computers in Libraries, April 2010

The plan
1:30-1:50 intro
1:50-2:50 lab I
2:50-3:10 break
3:10-4:10 lab II
4:10-4:30 developer/end user communication

What do we mean by Free
Free Software is defined by 4 basic rights
Free to read source code and evaluate it for security and other reasons
Free to modify source code for your own use
Free to distribute your modifications
Free to anyone for any use

Foundations of Freedom: GNU and Linux
Richard Stallman
GNU (GNU Not Unix)
Started writing free software utilities for unix in 1984
Stallman personally wrote an impressive amount of software
Founded GNU and Free Software Foundation http://gnu.org http://www.fsf.org
By 1991 GNU created all the elements of a free OS except a kernel
Linus Torvalds
Linux
Wrote linux kernel in 1991
Linux was released under GPL, the software license written by Richard Stallman

Drupal
Content Management System
Initially written by Dries Buytaert
Drupal is dutch for Drop
Drop.org was the first drupal site
Drop was a typo, it was supposed to be Dorp (village in dutch)

Free as in...

Drupal in Libraries
As website: Piscataway Public Library
Enhanced catalog integrated with website: Darien Library
As catalog: Salt Lake City Public Librar
Alternative Press Collection
As research guides: Simon Fraser University

Lab I
End user tasks
http://cil.openflows.com
Register account
Create blog post
Edit existing content
Book pages
Administrative interface
http://cil2010.openflows.com
Devel module
Content type creation
Issues with taxonomy
Advanced views
Rules

Lab II
Administrative interface
Site information
Modules
Themes
Blocks
Admin menu
Command line
Create module for custom overrides
Form alter
Theme alter
Drush
Install modules
Clear caches
Upgrade modules

Communication
Speaking Drupal to each other
End users/administrators
lessons learned
questions to ask
Administrators/developers
lessons learned
questions to ask

Links & contacts
Drupal site
Drupal libraries group
Drupal modules
Drupal themes
Drupalib: a place for library Drupallers to hang out
Drupal4Lib list
http://jenna.openflows.com/talks/2010/cil
[email_address] , [email_address]

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Drupal Kitchen: a Hands-on Workshop for Anything from Creating Blog Posts to Overwriting Theme Functions

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