Overview of the Open Drupal curriculum. A collection of Drupal training materials. Presentation by Erik Stielstra at DrupalCamp Gent 2018

1. The Open Drupal Curriculum
Open Source Drupal Training

2. Erik Stielstra
Site builder
Backend developer
Mentor/trainer
Themer
@Sutharsan
Since Drupal 4.6

3. Open Drupal curriculum

4. Open Drupal curriculum
• Provide high quality Open Source training materials to run
effective Drupal training programmes.
• Started in 2015 by Hedley Smith and Agile Collective.
• Initially for the Drupal Apprenticeship Scheme (UK).
• 2018: Wizzlern donated course materials.
• Creative Commons (BY-SA) licence
• https://opendrupal.org

5. Open Drupal curriculum
• Online: opendrupal.org, github.com/opendrupal
• Materials
• Drupal Fundamentals: 2 days, Drupal core
• Drupal Architecture: 2 days, site building, popular modules
• Drupal Module Development: 4 days, Drupal 8 API
• Drupal Front-end Development: 1 day, theming, twig
• Projects: Projects to practice site building, theming and
development
• Drupal Slack: #opendrupal

6. Wizzlern
the Drupal trainers

7. A little history
20182008 2009 2011 2015
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8. Wizzlern training
• Classroom training, small groups (2 - 6), in-house.
• Typical audience:
• Web agency: Drupal introduction, module development,
theming
• Site owner: System administration, editorial instruction
• Developed own materials, with community best practices.

9. The Open Drupal materials

10. A little history
20182008 2009 2011 2015
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11. Course materials
• Slides for presentation
• Written exercises, step by step instructions
• Materials to set-up environment (as training and/or
participant)
• Final result (code) from exercises.
• Demo: Drupal 8 module development
• https://opendrupal.org/materials/drupal-module-development/
• https://opendrupal.github.io/opendrupal-drupal-module-
development

12. Principles
• For guided courses by an experienced Drupal person
• Easy access: Slides at github.io
• Easy to get started: Set-up materials included
• Download repository for advanced use

13. Ideas for the future
Disclaimer: My personal ones

14. Ideas for the future
• Promote the initiative.
• Improve the styling of slides.
• Comply to Drupal trademark
• Improve opendrupal.org
• Add speaker notes.
• Reach out to Drupal training companies for collaboration.
• Document how to structure (new) course materials

15. Ideas for the future
• Rebuild the Drupal Fundamentals course with Umami as
leading story.
• Review the Front-end Development from a real FE
perspective.
• New courses:
• Deployment: Drupal Composer, Drush / Console, settings.php,
Deploy scripts
• Drupal Editorial: Common administration patterns for Drupal
Editors.

16. Summary

17. Open Drupal curriculum
• https://opendrupal.org
• Drupal Fundamentals: 2 days, Drupal core
• Drupal Architecture: 2 days, Site building
• Drupal Module Development: 3 - 4 days, Drupal 8 API
• Drupal Front-end Development: 1 day, theming + twig
• Projects to practice site building, theming and development
• Contribute at github: github.com/opendrupal