For more years that I care to count, I've been holding weekly 2-hour, DrupalEasy Office Hours for members of the DrupalEasy Learning Community. Unstructured, DrupalEasy Office Hours are a unique opportunity for students and alumni to ask just about any Drupal-related question they have - regardless if it is something related to our curriculum, or a challenging task they are working on for a client. These weekly co-working sessions are a fun and interesting way for all of us to build knowledge and skills, and have become a foundation for our dynamic DrupalEasy Learning Community.
Sometimes, topics we cover in office hours are related to contrib modules or site-building techniques (in additional code-related tasks.) Often, I'll wind up demonstrating a module or technique regardless of whether or not I have any experience with it! These demonstrations are sometimes the most fun, and we all get a lot out of them. Attendees always respond favorably - regardless of my level of knowledge on the topic. After a recent demo, I had an idea: What if I could perform these unrehearsed demos with a subject matter expert at the ready?
And so was born DrupalEasy Show & Tell, available for everyone now on our YouTube channel, whether you are a member of the learning community or not. The goal is to learn something new and usable in 30-45 minutes in a way that is entertaining and really useful. I'm not looking to always cover the latest and greatest, either. We're planning on releasing episodes on tried-and-true modules as well, and we're looking to engage with Drupal users of all skill levels.
If you've been around Drupal for a long time, this idea may seem familiar - back when I started with Drupal, there was a thing called Drupal Dojo (I can't believe the web site still exists!) that was immensely useful. We hope that DrupalEasy Show & Tell can capture some of the goodness of Drupal Dojo.
Launch topics and guests
As of today, I've recorded the first 5 episodes and released 2 of them:
Upcoming episodes include object-oriented hooks with Nic Laflin, Dripyard theme with Mike Herchel and Andy Giles, and Content templates in Drupal Canvas with Ted Bowman.
Each episode is unrehearsed to show real-world usage - not a polished demo. The goal is to accomplish a task from the perspective of someone new to the topic - with the benefit of having the subject matter expert to help as necessary.
The quickest, easiest, and most sure-fire way is to subscribe to the DrupalEasy channel on YouTube. That way, in addition to DrupalEasy Show & Tell, you won't miss any of our other periodic videos.
You can also bookmark the DrupalEasy Show & Tell playlist or watch directly on DrupalEasy.com.
Future topics
I've got a ton of ideas for future episodes - many of them for contrib modules that we use and teach on a daily basis. If you're a project maintainer and think that you might have a good idea for a future episode - just let us know!
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