An introduction to Drupal and contributing for coders

I've probably presented Drupal at OSScamp 3 or 4 times now, but considering the immense popularity it has gained in the last year or so, I'll repeat. I'll go over some of the base Drupal concepts and show you how to start playing around with it.

Later, for people who already know PHP and/or Drupal, I'll guide you to contributing the Drupal project itself. We should realise the importance of contributing to an open source project (and not just consuming all the goodies :-) We'll work on a small module, see how issues are tackled, how patches are written and tested and lots more!

Remember to bring your laptops with Drupal and your environment if you want to follow along the 2nd part.