A presentation about the Drupal Open Garden Project (Summer 2010) Part of "Drupal Experiments" presentation at Minnebar May 22, 2010

1. Flickr creative commons: kthread
> Experiment #2:
> Drupal + Plants + New Developers
+ Community Gardens + Sunshine
> drupal experiments : minnebar 2010

2. > Drupal Open Garden Project
July 1 - September 1, 2010

3. > Drupal Open Garden Project
You can participate!
* Learn Drupal open source development
by building web-based tools
for community gardeners.
* Summer 2010, 8 weeks
* July 1 - Sept 1
* Free & Volunteer-run
* Distributed & Local Project-based learning
Sign Up by May 25 (still open!)
http://garden.localbiology.org

4. Photo Zoey Kroll. Hayes Valley Farm tour for DrupalconSF
> DRUPAL OPEN GARDEN PROJECT
presenter: Chach Sikes
> garden.localbiology.org
> @opengardenproj

5. “Tweet Box” at Hayes Valley Farm. Collected tweets on Earth Day. San Francisco.
Made by Zoey Kroll. Photo Chach Sikes.
> Our Fine Ingredients (many locally grown!)
> Drupal Community + Plants + New Developers
+ Gardeners + Sunshine

6. “Tweet Box” at Hayes Valley Farm. Collected tweets on Earth Day. San Francisco.
Made by Zoey Kroll. Photo Chach Sikes.
> On the menu:
* Sustainable Software + Community Building
* Enhanced digital gardening tools
* Connections between technologists and gardeners
* New ideas in teaching open source

7. Flickr Creative Commons: Waldo Jaquith
> About our ingredients

8. > Drupal and the Drupal Community
Drupalchix Group Photo. DrupalconSF. April 2010. Photo by Rain Breaw

9. Flickr Creative Commons: dichohecho
> Plants

10. > New Developers
Drupal Code Sprint at DrupalconSF. April 2010. Photo by muir.ceadarch Flickr Creative Commons

11. Flickr Creative Commons: MrGluSniffer
> Community Gardeners

12. Flickr Creative Commons:cygnus921
> Sunshine

13. > Intention:
* Experience creating software in sustainable way
* Work on projects that help gardeners

14. Flickr Creative Commons:liber
> Our Excellent Methods of Preparation

15. > Our Excellent Methods of Preparation:
* 8 week project (groups)
* Classes that support the projects
* Orientation materials for participants
* Events & public programs
* Mentoring
* Field testing
* Local & remote learning opportunities
* Documentation creation & review

16. > Kinds of things students will learn
> The program will offer 2 months of improvement
& exposure to these ideas. Mastery takes longer.
> Skills that help in open source collaboration
* Remote collaboration
* IRC | Skype | Forums | Issue Queues
* Command line
* Version control (git)
* PHP
* Understanding open source communities

17. > Kinds of things students might build:
...current proposals...
> Sharing information about & in gardens
* paper-tweeting tools
* nature along our paths
> Mapping geo-located social network data
> Supporting skill swap exchanges

18. > Upcoming program!
> The Internet Store, July 20-26, 2010
Uptown
"It's like a hardware store
for the Internet!"
"A physical embodiment of the Internet."
// Part of storefrontinabox.com
// Events & Educational activities
// Come get what you need to make your
// own internet at home!

19. Sunflower Seeds. Flickr Creative Commons:opticalreflex
> This project is an annual, not a perennial.
> We hope this project will be self-seeding.

20. > Drupal Open Garden Project
You can participate!
* Learn Drupal open source development
by building web-based tools
for community gardeners.
* Summer 2010, 8 weeks
* July 1 - Sept 1
* Free & Volunteer-run
* Distributed & Local Project-based learning
Sign Up by May 25 (still open!)
http://garden.localbiology.org