Making Drupal Friends - Levearging the Community to Climb the Learning Curve
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Sign In Meeting and talking to real live people in the Drupal community is your key to breaking through the inevitable brick walls that stand between you and becoming a Drupal ninja. In this session, I’m going to cover several different channels for meeting Drupal folks and trading information. This session is for you if you:
- Have never used IRC – Have never attended a Local Drupal User Group meeting – Have never answered a question in the Drupal forums – Feel frustrated with Drupal and don’t have anyone to complain to – Don’t have a blog where you post Drupal epiphanies
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Outreach to Drupal beginners
I am helping organize the Seattle Drupal Clinic on Oct 2nd designed for beginners. I am interested in helping beginners overcome the initial hurdles to reaching the rapid learning stage.
The Oct 2nd clinic is full, but beginners coming to the Summit might benefit from visiting the clinic support sites:
http://poplarclass.com/
http://www.listology.com/jwalling/list/drupal-beginner-resources
Postscript
While reading an article by Tom Geller, I discovered the concept of Crossing the Chasm
Are beginners plunging into “The Chasm”? It sure looks that way when you read unfiltered comments comparing Drupal with other software.