DrupalFest I

Audience: Webmasters, DBAs and Such
Technical Level: Medium/High

Drupal is a powerful open source content management system that can be useful for several things in a law school. In these sessions several seasoned Drupal administrators will walk the group through setting up a student organization website using Drupal using each person's own laptop. No previous experience with Drupal is necessary. Each attendee will receive a USB key containing everything they need to get a Drupal site up and running. Please note that this workshop requires pre-registration and is limited to 25 participants. To register please visit http://www.teknoids.net/node/9173.

Session 1 Agenda:

• Introduction
• What's on the stick
  • Portable Apps
  • XAMPP
  • Drupal
• Basic requirements
  • PHP 5.x
  • MySQL 5.x
  • Apache for clean URLs
  • Information architecture considerations (planning for Drupal)
    • Why student orgs
    • Who owns, creates, edits content
• Quick Drupal install

Joshua Brauer
Drupaler
Brauer Ranch Ltd.
joshua at brauerranch dot com

Sara Frug
Editor, Legal Information Institute
Cornell Law School
ssf6 at cornell dot edu

John Heywood
UberGeek
American University Washington College of Law
heywood at american dot edu

Michael Hurley
Webmaster/System Administrator
University of Connecticut Law School
mike dot hurley at law dot uconn dot edu

Elmer Robert Masters
Director of Internet Development
CALI
emasters at cali dot org

Thursday June-19-2008 | Drupalfest