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I would say yes. DrupalCon will have content targeted all up and down
the learning scale from what-is-this-blue-drop-thing to
your-first-module to I'm-building-a-fortune-500. It's the largest
collection of Drupal people you'll see in the midwest for some time, and
a great learning opportunity. The next North American DrupalCon hasn't
been officially announced yet, but it won't be in the Midwest.
If your organization is going to need mostly volunteer folks, that means
someone is going to have to know Drupal well enough to on-board all of
those volunteers. Making sure that you're up to the task will make that
job easier.
If you're just looking from an evaluator perspective, you can also
consider the "Drupal Means Business" day, which is a low-cost one-day
ticket to the show floor to get a taste for the Drupal ecosystem and
market. Probably not the best place to pick up volunteers or general
Drupal knowledge, but it's an option:
http://chicago2011.drupal.org/drupal-means-business
If you're at all interested in Drupal, I would definitely avail yourself
of this opportunity. You don't even have to travel anywhere.
Disclaimer: I'm one of the organizers for the conference. :-)
--Larry Garfield
On 2/22/11 1:54 PM, Andrew Close wrote:
> for any Drupal users/gurus,
>
> is DrupalCon worthwhile for someone that's interested in learning
> Drupal, but has no experience doing 'anything' with it yet? or would
> i be better off just going through some tutorials online and playing
> around and then possibly looking at DrupalCon next year?
>
> i'm volunteering with a non-profit group
> (http://www.illinoissolar.org/) that will be migrating their website
> over to Drupal in the near future, but they really don't have any
> technical people on staff (actually, they only have a staff of
> one...). with the current State/Federal budget situation, funds to
> non-profits have dried up quite a bit. grants have also become
> extremely difficult for non-profits to actually get as most grants
> won't fund people, only stuff. they (being the grantors) don't want
> to pay people to do anything, they want to buy you 'something'. so
> their (illinoissolar.org) funds are quite tight and they're trying to
> do most stuff with volunteer resources.
>
> thanks for any help.
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