drupal open garden project: minnebar
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A presentation about the Drupal Open Garden Project (Summer 2010)Part of "Drupal Experiments" presentation at Minnebar May 22, 2010TRANSCRIPT
> Experiment #2:> Drupal + Plants + New Developers + Community Gardens + Sunshine> drupal experiments : minnebar 2010
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> Drupal Open Garden Project July 1 - September 1, 2010
> Drupal Open Garden Project
You can participate! * Learn Drupal open source development by building web-based tools for community gardeners. * Summer 2010, 8 weeks * July 1 - Sept 1 * Free & Volunteer-run * Distributed & Local Project-based learning
Sign Up by May 25 (still open!) http://garden.localbiology.org
> DRUPAL OPEN GARDEN PROJECT presenter: Chach Sikes
> garden.localbiology.org> @opengardenproj
Photo Zoey Kroll. Hayes Valley Farm tour for DrupalconSF
> Our Fine Ingredients (many locally grown!) > Drupal Community + Plants + New Developers + Gardeners + Sunshine
“Tweet Box” at Hayes Valley Farm. Collected tweets on Earth Day. San Francisco. Made by Zoey Kroll. Photo Chach Sikes.
> On the menu: * Sustainable Software + Community Building * Enhanced digital gardening tools * Connections between technologists and gardeners * New ideas in teaching open source
“Tweet Box” at Hayes Valley Farm. Collected tweets on Earth Day. San Francisco. Made by Zoey Kroll. Photo Chach Sikes.
> About our ingredients
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> Drupal and the Drupal Community
Drupalchix Group Photo. DrupalconSF. April 2010. Photo by Rain BreawDrupalchix Group Photo. DrupalconSF. April 2010. Photo by Rain Breaw
> Plants
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> New Developers
Drupal Code Sprint at DrupalconSF. April 2010. Photo by muir.ceadarch Flickr Creative CommonsDrupal Code Sprint at DrupalconSF. April 2010. Photo by muir.ceadarch Flickr Creative Commons
> Community Gardeners
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> Sunshine
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> Intention: * Experience creating software in sustainable way * Work on projects that help gardeners
> Our Excellent Methods of Preparation
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> Our Excellent Methods of Preparation: * 8 week project (groups) * Classes that support the projects * Orientation materials for participants * Events & public programs * Mentoring * Field testing * Local & remote learning opportunities * Documentation creation & review
> Kinds of things students will learn> The program will offer 2 months of improvement
& exposure to these ideas. Mastery takes longer.
> Skills that help in open source collaboration * Remote collaboration * IRC | Skype | Forums | Issue Queues * Command line * Version control (git) * PHP * Understanding open source communities
> Kinds of things students might build:
...current proposals...> Sharing information about & in gardens * paper-tweeting tools * nature along our paths
> Mapping geo-located social network data
> Supporting skill swap exchanges
> Upcoming program!
> The Internet Store, July 20-26, 2010 Uptown "It's like a hardware store for the Internet!"
"A physical embodiment of the Internet."
// Part of storefrontinabox.com
// Events & Educational activities // Come get what you need to make your // own internet at home!
> This project is an annual, not a perennial.
> We hope this project will be self-seeding.
Sunflower Seeds. Flickr Creative Commons:opticalreflexSunflower Seeds. Flickr Creative Commons:opticalreflex
> Drupal Open Garden Project
You can participate! * Learn Drupal open source development by building web-based tools for community gardeners. * Summer 2010, 8 weeks * July 1 - Sept 1 * Free & Volunteer-run * Distributed & Local Project-based learning
Sign Up by May 25 (still open!) http://garden.localbiology.org