{"id":153,"date":"2006-05-02T22:06:17","date_gmt":"2006-05-02T20:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/wordpress\/?p=153"},"modified":"2006-05-02T22:06:17","modified_gmt":"2006-05-02T20:06:17","slug":"barcamp-drupal-and-a-choice-to-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":"BarCamp, Drupal and a choice to make"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tectonic.co.za\/view.php?src=rss&amp;id=982\">Tectonic article<\/a> today about a local chapter of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drupal.org\/\">Drupal<\/a> being launched. It&#8217;s pleasing to see that there&#8217;s a Drupal core developer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daemon.co.za\/\">Adrian Rossouw<\/a>, living at Cape Town.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just started playing with Drupal, and Adrian is planning to give a presentation at the <a href=\"http:\/\/barcamp.org\/BarCampCapeTown\">BarCamp<\/a> to be held in June in Cape Town. The timing is good, so I may be going. An interesting aspect about BarCamps is that they&#8217;re free, but all the attendees must offer something back by actively participating. Blogging about it is the easy option (easy, but rarely well done), or I may give a presentation. I&#8217;ll need to put my thinking cap on, as I&#8217;d imagine the participants would be more skilled than usual. Topics such as <em>Introduction to PHP<\/em>, which is one of the proposed topics, would probably be a waste for most. Perhaps something about PEAR packages (I haven&#8217;t been keeping up to date, and was quite surprised by some of the progress), or MySQL?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/BarCampCapeTown\" rel=\"tag\">BarCampCapeTown<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read a Tectonic article today about a local chapter of Drupal being launched. It&#8217;s pleasing to see that there&#8217;s a Drupal core developer, Adrian Rossouw, living at Cape Town. I&#8217;ve just started playing with Drupal, and Adrian is planning to give a presentation at the BarCamp to be held in June in Cape Town.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=153\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BarCamp, Drupal and a choice to make<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metal-technical","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}