Barcamp Charleston - Notes about the Day and Drupal

I'm a little late sharing this but I just wanted to take moment to mention the very successful Bar Camp Charleston (www.BarCampChS.org).

There were dozens of interesting sessions covering everything from Linux to Web Design to Salsa dancing. There were 3 Drupal sessions. The first was 'Intro to Drupal' which was given by Nikolai Burton.  Nikolai runs Charleston Drupal Users Group (http://chsdug.org/) and also presented a session called "A Whirlwind World Tour of Film."  Nikolai was asked to do this session att the last minute and he filled in admirably. He presented to a packed classroom of more than forty people and it was a valuable session.

Later, I presented a session called 'Drupal - which Modules to Use' which also had a good turnout.'  My slides for this presentation are at http://www.slideshare.net/tsliker/bar-camp-charleston-20101113-drupal-which-modules-to-use-tom-sliker.

My second Drupal session was at 5 pm when most of us were approaching a brain-dead state after a full day of information consumption. The Topic for this session was 'Drupal Next Steps - an Introduction to Drush & Performance Tuning'.  By this time the Drupal crowd had thinned considerably. It didn't help that the time slot put me in competition with he very popular 'How to Make Your Own Beer' session. All in all, it was a very productive day and I want to express congratulations and thanks to the team that made it happen.

Some links for Barcamp Charleston: 

• Website:  www.BarCampChS.org
• SlideShare:  http://www.slideshare.net/group/barcampchs-presentations/slideshows
• Twitter:  http://twitter.com/barcampchs