[See-coders] Balkan Bytes network technical workshop list - proposed agenda

[Bako Mihaly]

Agenda

Day 1 - Wednesday, 24th of November

09:30-11:00 Information Architecture - a key to effective website planning

     - what is information architecture
     - the role of information architect in the website planning
     - organizing information
     - creating effective navigation
     - creating labeling systems
     - search systems

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-13:00 Effective website planning and production

     - Research - identifying objectives, audience, content and function 
requirements
     - Process documentation
     - Production

13:00-14:30 Lunch

14:30-16:00 Online campaining/activism tools

     - short presentations with participants' input about currently used 
tools, like signing petition, postcard mailing, voting, image gallery
     - looking up other examples on Internet
     - introducing the APC ActionKit project

16:00-16:30 Coffee break

16:30-18:00 Mailing list manager software - mailman

     - setting up different types of lists
     - general list configuration
     - making the list reliable in terms of spam, viruses, bulk mail,etc.
     - subscriber management
     - private lists issues
     - list archives


Day 2 - Thursday, 25th of November

09:30-11:00 Using APC-AA - basics

     - The ActionApps approach to content management and site design
     - basic elements: slices, fields, items and the index and fulltext
     - permissions
     - a simple input form
     - linking AA to webpages - publishing a few articles
     - export of an item to other slice
     - anonymous forms

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-13:00 Advanced usage of ActionApps

     - briefly about different field types and parameters, aliases and 
functions
     - displaying images, uploading files
     - categories and Creating hierarchical systems of categories
     - index and Full Text views, other views, parameters of views
     - related items, relation between slices
     - csv file upload

13:00-14:30 Lunch

14:30-16:00 Introduction to PHP programming
     - Basic introduction to PHP programming
     - Tips for PHP coders, resources, libraries
     - Coding standards

16:00-16:30 Coffee break

16:30-18:00 Advanced usage of ActionApps - requiring coding skills

    - Creating powerful database searches
    - Building complex fully dynamic sites using Site Module
    - Creating multilingual websites
    - Creating rss feeds for online information sharing

Day 3 - Friday, 26th of November

09:30-11:00 Bash scripting basics

     - pipelines, output redirection
     - for cicle
     - basics of regular expressions
     - using the power of text manipulation programs grep+sed+awk

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-13:00 APC-AA installation

     - how to install APC-AA
     - APC-AA issues related to php+apache+mysql installation

13:00-14:30 Lunch

14:30-16:00 Web standards
     - XHTML
     - Accesibility guidelines
     - Metadata (Dublin C standard)
     - CSS
     - Useful resources

16:00-16:30 Coffee break

16:30-18:00 Using OpenSource software

     - Choosing and using open source software
     - Using WIKI for online collaboration
     - Using phpMyAdmin to administer your database
     - environmental shareware/open source software - survey

Day 2 - Saturday, 27th of November

09:30-11:00 Data backup strategies
      - Cost effective data backup techniques and strategies
      - Local and remote backup, mirroring, disaster recovery

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-13:00 Happy hour - covering issues/topics raised by participants 
during the training

13:00-14:30 Lunch
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best,

Misi