We are excited to offer training courses at DrupalCon Nashville.
All trainings will be held on Monday, April 9, 2018 from 9:00am-5:00pm. Trainings are not included in a regular DrupalCon ticket. Training tickets include lunch and coffee breaks.
We assume that you know nothing about Drupal when you walk into the classroom. This class really is aimed at absolute Drupal beginners. You'll learn all of the key concepts you need to understand, navigate and use a Drupal site. You'll learn how to build a Drupal 7 site, from content and user organization, to working with modules and themes.
Training Company: OSTraining
The Acquia Certification Program is offering a live test center to earn your credentials while you are at DrupalCon! Testing during DrupalCon makes you eligible for a free retake if needed. Tests will be given from Monday, May 11th through Thursday, May 14th. For more information and to pre-register for your test, go to www.acquia.com/drupalcon-certification.
Join Acquia for DrupalCon LA Industry Meetups on Tuesday, May 12 and Wednesday, May 13. These meetups are open to all attendees at DrupalCon and you do not need a conference badge to access the event. Come ready to participate in interactive discussions and networking with some of the biggest Drupal users in Media, Entertainment & Publishing, Higher Education, NGOs, Public Sector, Financial Services, & Life Sciences!
Join Acquia for DrupalCon LA Industry Meetups on Tuesday, May 12 and Wednesday, May 13. These meetups are open to all attendees at DrupalCon and you do not need a conference badge to access the event. Come ready to participate in interactive discussions and networking with some of the biggest Drupal users in Media, Entertainment & Publishing, Higher Education, NGOs, Public Sector, Financial Services, & Life Sciences!
Event Information
Join Acquia for a Public Sector Lunch meetup on Tuesday, May 12. Come ready to network with government peers and participate in a special Q&A session with Ted Ross and Madeline Paguio from the Los Angeles Information Technology Agency about the City of LA Drupal Migration Project.
This course is designed for advanced Drupal 7 developers who want to be ready for Drupal 8 from day zero, without having to re-learn how to do things right from scratch.
Training Company: Nuvole
The "Application Development with the Symfony Components & Twig" is a training targeted to any PHP and Drupal developers who want to improve their skills with PHP and Object Oriented Programming. It focuses on some professional PHP development tools like Composer, the Symfony Components and Twig template engine.
Training Company: SensioLabs
This workshop helps developers to get started with the process of behavior driven development (BDD) in PHP using the Behat toolkit with Drupal specific extensions in order to align technical testing with business expectations when using Drupal as a development platform. Technical project managers and QA testers will also find this course helpful by introducing them to the concepts and importance of User Acceptance testing in client site development
Training Company: Promet Source
This Summit has sold out
Help us say farewell to DrupalCon Los Angeles and "hello!" to DrupalCon 2015 in Barcelona. We'll also reveal the location for DrupalCon North America in 2016!
Date: Thursday, May 14
Time: 3:30pm-4:30pm
Help us say farewell to DrupalCon Los Angeles and "hello!" to DrupalCon 2015 in Barcelona. We'll also reveal the location for DrupalCon North America in 2016!
Date: Thursday, May 14
Time: 3:30pm-4:30pm
Are you a Drupal event organizer or on the board of your country's Drupal Association? Are you interested in meeting others like you, who commit their free time to planning events, mentoring others, and helping cultivate the Drupal Community? Then the Community Summit is the event for you.
We've learned from sprints that the best work comes from having the right people in the room, so even if you've begun your initiative and just need a place to gather your remote group, this is the place for you.
Recent high-profile IT project failures have shown that traditional project management isn’t working, with regularly missed deadlines, budget overruns, and a failure to deliver what users actually need. Agile methodology has shown it stands a much greater chance of success. More and more organisations, including governments and some of the world’s biggest companies, are moving to adopt it. In this course, we cut past the evangelism that exists around Agile, and instead focus on real-world practical training that you can put into action.
Training Company: Wunderkraut
Belgium born Drupal founder, Dries Buytaert is a pioneer in the open source web publishing and collaboration platform space. Dries is passionate about technology innovation, social media and photography.
Dries maintains the role as the project lead for Drupal, as well as the president of the Drupal Association. He is the co-founder and CTO of Acquia, the enterprise guide to Drupal; and the co-founder of Mollom, a web service that evaluates content quality and stops spam on your website.
Are you a site builder, themer, or backend developer who is comfortable with Drupal 7 (or 6) and worried about gearing up for Drupal 8? Want a headstart? This course will save you self-study time by walking you through D8 in a day. You'll build a site, getting a hands on experience of the anticipated Drupal 8 changes, and dive deeper into your own speciality.
Training Company: Amazee Labs
All are invited to join the Drupal Association for our May public board meeting. Grab lunch from the Exhibit Hall and come on in! The meeting is limited to an hour, so we ask attendees to please arrive on time to prevent disruption.
Our workshop provides a crash course on optimizing your workflow, using techniques refined over years of professional Drupal work. We share our preferred development setup (including a Vagrant project we will use to build a copy of our environment), show you how to automate tests, deployments, and other tasks with Jenkins, demonstrate best practices, and work with you in small break-out groups to improve your own setup and workflow.
Training Company: Zivtech
Almost across the board, students at virtually any skill level will benefit significantly from this course. The combination of a customized curriculum along with access to skilled trainers throughout the day make it an incredibly satisfying experience. If you find yourself dozing off or losing concentration during long lectures, this course will be particularly well suited to you. You’ll also meet a number of people who will become your allies as you continue to learn Drupal, so if you’re coming to DrupalCon to connect with other people doing Drupal, you’ll get a huge opportunity with this training as well.
Training Company: BuildAModule
In this all-day workshop, top experts with years of front-line experience building large-scale Drupal deployments show you the best known practices for running fast sites for a large volume of users. Starting with a blank Linux virtual server, we will work through the setup, configuration and tuning of Drupal using Varnish, Apache, MySQL, Redis, MemcacheD and Apache Solr.
Training Company: The Dream Team
A DrupalCon institution, Robert and jam's infotainment extravaganza "Prenote" has been getting people out of bed early and excited about DrupalCon since 2010. Especially eye-opening if you've never been to DrupalCon or never gotten up early enough to see one of these yet.
Dries says, "Rob and jam put their special twist on the meaning of DrupalCon. It's been a fun-filled – and useful – surprise every time. If you only get up early once during DrupalCon, this is the morning to do it. And hey, at least you'll get better seats for my keynote right after."
To help ease newcomers into DrupalCon, we've put together an orientation designed to explain all DrupalCon's many moving parts and introduce you to a new friend or two. We think starting out the week with a buddy makes networking and navigating an unfamiliar event so much easier!
The event is short, so please be on time. We'll end at the Opening Reception where you can put your new DrupalCon knowledge to work.
Hope to see you there!
Join this free workshop if you are familiar with Drupal but new to Drupal contribution. This hands-on workshop will cover the basics of contribution essentials like the Drupal.org issue queues and IRC, and optionally git and setting up Drupal 8 on your laptop.
If you want to try setting up a development environment ahead of time, try the tools installer. The individual tools we use at the sprint are listed on the Mentored Core Sprint page.
Come collaborate in person with hundreds of other Drupal community members from 9:00-18:00 on Friday, May 15th at the Los Angeles Convention Center. This awesome day of collaboration is open to anyone; you do not need to be registered for the conference to participate. There are also other sprint days available.
The best website is a fast website. Users are proven to be happier and more willing to spend time and money on your site when it loads fast and responds quickly to their actions. Adding performance to the ever-growing list of development responsibilities can seem daunting, but it doesn't have to be.
Training Company: Four Kitchens
Migrating content into Drupal can be a time-consuming and tedious process; luckily the Drupal community has provided a powerful tool to automate almost any type of data migration into Drupal 7. This hands-on workshop will demonstrate how the Migrate module can populate a Drupal 7 site with content from a custom content management system as well as an older version of Drupal.
Training Company: Drupal Easy
Calling all college, university, and educational Drupalers! The people have spoken and we have listened! The Higher-Ed Summit you've come to expect at BADcamp, and NYCcamp, and ancillary to DrupalCons of the past is now officially part of the DrupalCon program. The Higher-Ed Summit will kick-off with a panel of your colleagues from several colleges and universities who will help set the stage for the day's BOF-style breakout discussions throughout the day.
This training is sold out.
In this class you’ll learn how to combine Drupal with Node.js, a popular technology for building highly interactive websites, to build rich digital experiences.
Training Company: Four Kitchens
This comprehensive introduction to Symfony2 will help experienced and new PHP developers understand the power and flexibility of Drupal 8's new development framework. With hands on exercises throughout the day-long training, participants will learn basic Symfony2 concepts, build simple applications, and explore how Symfony2 is used in Drupal 8.
Training Company: Blink Reaction
Whitney Hess is a coach, writer and speaker helping people bring their whole selves to their work. As a result, they better serve their customers, their companies, their communities and themselves. Her life’s mission is to put humanity back into business.
Belgium born Drupal founder, Dries Buytaert is a pioneer in the open source web publishing and collaboration platform space. Dries is passionate about technology innovation, social media and photography.
Dries maintains the role as the project lead for Drupal, as well as the president of the Drupal Association. He is the co-founder and CTO of Acquia, the enterprise guide to Drupal; and the co-founder of Mollom, a web service that evaluates content quality and stops spam on your website.
In this course we'll start you off at the ground floor of Drupal 7 Theming and work our way towards becoming theming super heroes. We will walk you through the basic concepts necessary to start on your custom theme adventure. We'll then teach you the tools you need including basic php to implement your vision.
Training Company: Chapter Three
Date: Friday, May 15
Where: Room 403AB at the Convention Center
Time: 9 am - 6 pm
Cost: Free to attend
Are you itching for a sneak peek at the exhibit hall? Is "Free Beer" one of the most heavenly phrases you've ever heard? If so, come kick off DrupalCon at the Opening Reception, sponsored by Achieve Internet.
Located in the exhibit hall in the Los Angeles Convention Center, the opening reception for DrupalCon promises to be a great time. Whether you spend the day in sprints, training, summits, or just showed up to get your badge early, our doors are open to you.
Are you itching for a sneak peek at the exhibit hall? Is "Free Beer" one of the most heavenly phrases you've ever heard? If so, come kick off DrupalCon at the Opening Reception, sponsored by Achieve Internet and KWALL.
Located in the exhibit hall in the Los Angeles Convention Center, the opening reception for DrupalCon promises to be a great time. Whether you spend the day in sprints, training, summits, or just showed up to get your badge early, our doors are open to you.
Come join the public board meeting of the Drupal Association from 12:00pm to 1:00pm on Wednesday May 13th in room 410 - The Cherry Hill Company
Not able to make it? You can also join remotely!
The Supporting Partner Coder Lounge will be open from Monday, May 11 at 6pm until Thursday, May 14 at midnight. The lounge is sponsored by Drupal.org Supporting Partners.
Monday - 12:00am-11:59pm
Tuesday - 12:00am-11:59pm
Wednesday - 12:00am-11:59pm
Thursday - 12:00am-11:59pm
Friday - Closed
The Westin Bonaventure Hotel & Suites
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Do you know EVERYTHING about Drupal?
Well now it's your chance for you and your crack team of 4 buddies to prove it.
In the grand tradition of pub quizzes, there will be 6 rounds of 10 questions covering everything about Drupal, and a few more about general web topics. Your team will compete with the best of Drupal brains to capture the title of Drupal trivia champions. We'll have small prizes to keep things interesting.
Of course, you'll have to know it all in your head - strictly no use of mobile devices or laptops etc. allowed!
This training is dedicated to teaching students how to use the views modules. The program consists of 8 real world (and useful) views that are created with an increasing level of complexity.
Training Company: The Northcross Group
The Women in Drupal event team, and our sponsors, invite you to come, meet, and mingle with other women in Drupal. This year's Women in Drupal event will be held at the historic and wonderul Engine Company No. 28. We will have light appetizers available, provided by our wonderful sponsors and donators, and a cash bar will be available for drinks.
Are you ready to create a great shopping experience? Build a working Webshop (responsive, of course!) by developing a Drupal extension that integrates Drupal 8 and SPHERE.IO. Compete for your chance to win $5,000 SPHERE.IO transaction credit to run your own Shop or use for a Client, $500 cash, AND your chance at a paid contract to continue to create a more robust integration! Entry has been extended to Monday, May 18th so enter now!
