It’s being an amazing experience to organize Drupal Training Days, we are not going back!
Guest blogger Handrus Nogueira shares a recap of the March Global Training Day in Campinas (São Paulo, Brasil)!
Back on March 15th, I had the awesome experience of helping to organize a local session of Drupal Training Days for the second time. It’s been almost one month after that and while I’m writing this my memories of the event put me on the best mood possible!
We saw people amazed with Drupal flexibility, astonished at what they were able to do so quickly, and looking forward to the chance of using Drupal at their work and/or university.
In Campinas (São Paulo, Brasil) March 15th, 12 people woke up early to meet at a hotel conference room at 8:00 AM, sharing one mission: Give back to the community which made their work possible.
It was a full day hosting 2 events, and 46 people attended. In the morning we hosted What is Drupal and the first part of Introduction to Drupal.
Happy Crew behind DTD Campinas
What is Drupal had the duration of 3h and attracted mainly Project Managers and people curious to try Drupal in their business environment. The questions varied from “How does it compare to platform X,” to “Is it ready for mobile devices,” to “How can I sell an open source software?”. We offered cases, real implementation examples, and a lot of informality to answer everything. In the end we got congratulations, some nice e-mails and even a handwritten letter of appreciation.
Introduction to Drupal was particularly popular among students and freelancers. Some professionals in the PHP area attended as well, and we had the pleasure to see people from the municipal Secretary of Transportation looking forward to learn and evaluate Drupal as a solution for their portal. It was exciting to connect with people that never had contact with Drupal before and challenge them to build a fully functional, real state website in 6h. While they learned about nodes, taxonomy, views, exposed filters and webforms, the web site was taking shape.
Finally, when they realized about the flexibility of Drupal as a CMS we introduced colors and shapes and made the site shine with the template engine. I remember someone saying “That’s it? So simple?” right after changing a theme. It’s somewhat strange to realize how magical can be the things we are used to seeing.
A toast for the newest drupalers on the block!
Cheers, Handrus.
Handrus Nogueira is a Software Architect at Ci&T, passionate about web development and Open Source technologies. Has been working with his passions for the past 9 years and is a enthusiast of Drupal.
