drupal
Drupal usergroup in Szeged
Are you working with Drupal? Do you live not far from Szeged?
Then you should definitely come to the Szeged Drupal usergroup meetings. On these meetings you can meet people you can collaborate with, share your frustrations about a badly written module, learn about new features and afterwards have a drink with people that understand you ;)
I will announce usergroup meetings both on my blog and on the XING Dél-Alfőld group.
Drupal course SZTE fall 2007
From September the 6th, I am holding a lecture titled "Building sites in Drupal, an open source content management system". The course is a voluntary lecture for students of SZTE, the University of Szeged Hungary. It's an introductory course that is mostly meant as an eye opener for beginning IT professionals.
Conditions for forming online communities
Nick Lewis posted on his blog 6 conditions that will form an online community. http://www.nicklewis.org/node/956
Some time ago I found an interesting talk about "the starfish and the spider" that makes the case that communities that lack hierarchy will be more resilient.
http://www.beckstrom.com/Main_Page
Online communities are also ecosystems and therefore:
-there are certain sequences of adding species that will lead to a stable system (e.g. bring in the endusers to early and your community crashes because a lack of content)
The Art of the Signup Page
Thu, 01/10/2008 - 08:03 — kvantommeGuy Kawasaki draws attention to the importance of the sign-up page. He made a list of things you should consider adding to increase your conversion rates.
Check it out at:
http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2008/01/the-art-of-the.html
asocial social networks
Sat, 10/27/2007 - 12:58 — kvantommeIn this week's "economist" there was an interesting article about facebook and the limitations of social networks.
Drupalcon 2008: Szeged or Budapest
Tue, 10/16/2007 - 00:20 — kvantommeAt Drupalcon Barcelona I talked about organising next year's Drupalcon in Hungary. Now I have the following dilema: I would like to organise it in Szeged but I'm not sure if the community will favour such a proposal.
Szeged is a beautyful city and I can say that unbiased (well semi-unbiased) because I wasn't born there. It is a big university town and has most of the time a fantastic weather. September/October is especially nice because of the “Indian summer” we enjoy. A lot of sun in the daytime but no overkill heat.
Presentation at Drupalcon Budapest
Tue, 10/16/2007 - 00:17 — kvantommeI did a “How to de-socialise Drupal” presentation on the 6th of October at the Hungarian Drupalcon. In my presentation I went through the steps you can take to make Drupal behave like a brochure site. I also showed how you can you use the installation profile API and wizard to get a head start when making an installation profile. I didn't finalise the installation profile yet, but I will contribute it to the community when ready.
My presentation slides are attached to this post.
First Drupal usergroup meeting in Szeged
Sun, 10/14/2007 - 14:42 — kvantommeOn the 25th of October at 16h30, I'm organising the first Drupal user group meeting for Szeged. All IT professionals and enthusiasts interested in open source content management systems are very welcome.
The meeting will start with a Drupal showcase (CCK, views and taxonomy) that I'm giving in the framework of a series of drupal lectures at SZTE, the university of Szeged. After this presentation we will hold a workshop about Drupal in the region.
- Do you work or want to work with Drupal?
Drupal class October 4th 2007
Wed, 10/10/2007 - 21:41 — kvantommeMain topic
Building a brochure site
Productivity tools
Firefox and add-ons
- webdeveloper toolbar
- Firebug
- favicon buttons in the bookmark toolbar
- del.icio.us
- dictionaries
- freemind
Drupal class September 13th 2007
Wed, 10/10/2007 - 21:32 — kvantommeMain topic
Drupal basics
Drupal community
Productivity tools
Free online learning tools
- drupal blogs
- RSS reader
- podcasts
- Juice / i-tunes
