Here we shine the spotlight on one Global Training Day event that came about from a partnership between a Drupal development company and a local cosmetics company. See more wrap up posts from GTD at https://www.drupal.org/global-training-days/2015.

You can read the original post from Taller in Portuguese.

Drupal Training Day at Natura from sebas5384

Drupal Global Training Days is an excellent initiative from the Drupal Association to introduce newcomers to Drupal. Companies from all around the world hold Drupal Global Training Days events to inspire and empower new members of the Drupal community to do amazing work. The event also provides companies with a good opportunity to showcase their own Drupal work.

On August 21st and 22nd, the Brazilian Drupal community held a Global Training Day at the Natura headquarters, situated in Cajamar, São Paulo. The event was published as a meetup and had 30 participants, including developers, IT managers, and business users. All were interested in learning more about Drupal. Natura invited me to join as the speaker and mentor of the event, so off to “Sampa” I went to administer the Drupal Training Day.

The morning of the event was dedicated to a introductory mini class called "What is Drupal?" where I talked about the basic concepts of the CMS, its large adoption world-wide, its major features, and various companies who already enjoy the benefits of Drupal.

During the afternoon, participants got some hands-on training with Drupal. We started with a workshop to install and configure a GNU/Linux server and Drupal, then moved on to exploring Drupal’s architecture with the use of content types, field APIs, the hook system, module creation, the use of views, and we even got to dive into developer tools such as the devel module and the Drush command-line tool.

In general, participants had plenty of questions about the history of Drupal and, specifically, how to perform migrations with the CMS on their sites. By the end, I could see that everybody got had a good grasp of Drupal's potential. They marvelled at the autonomy and power Drupal provides for building sites with absolutely no need to know how to program. This was beneficial to the various attendees who were professionals specializing in IT security and marketing, who were curious about the fast time-to-market Drupal is able to deliver.

For those looking to know how the Drupal Global Training Days were around the world, search for #drupalgtd on Twitter and stay tuned to the official page to know when new events will take place. We at Taller are always engaging in community events, keeping true to our motto that 'We are what we do and what we share'.