Drupal Training

Brevard Workforce, the agency coordinating state and federal programs to help mitigate layoffs in Florida due to Shuttle retirement, is partnering with Anello Consulting to present the Drupal Career Starter Program for aerospace workers seeking new, stable careers. Presented by Drupal expert Michael Anello, the 10 week course and follow-on internship program is designed to give IT-savvy members of the workforce skills and practical experience in Drupal.

The growing adoption of the Drupal Content Management System among government and commercial organizations has led to tremendous opportunities for those with Drupal skills seeking stable full-time, part-time and contracting positions, especially in virtual working environments.

Home of the Drupal Community

http://drupal.org

The latest and greatest from the Drupal Community

http://drupal.org/news

Drupal Jobs

http://groups.drupal.org/jobs 

New US Department of Energy Site

http://news.yahoo.com/energy-gov-drupal-7-relaunch-developed-treehouse-agency-130236044.html

Software Development Times story in 2010

http://www.sdtimes.com/link/34316

The Drupal Career Starter Program is a 10 week program presented by Anello Consulting for people with a knack for IT that are seeking a quick, clear path toward new, stable careers. 

The Fall 2011 session is a partnership initiative with Brevard Workforce that allows for presentation of the program to 18 eligible participants at no-cost for training and including a follow-on internship.  The complete program will put participants on the path to becoming well-compensated professionals in Drupal, one of the fastest growing content management systems in the world.

Applications are now being accepted for a limited number of slots in the 2011 Drupal Career Starter Program session for those who have been displaced due to the retirement of the NASA Shuttle program.

Drupal Career Starter Program:

Considerations

If you are considering a career in Drupal, you should:

1. Seek a career that provides less traditional work environments
2. Want a career built on self-motivated learning and career development
3. Wish to create modern web sites using an open-source content management system
4. Look forward to participating in an open-source community
5. Desire to become an independent software consultant or contractor
6. Exhibit strong communication skills (email, chat, video conferences, etc..)

Technology Requirements

All participants must have access to a suitably configured WiFi-enabled laptop for every class session.  The laptop can be any one of the following:

Drupal is an open-source, modular Content Management System (CMS) that comes with many tools to help organize, structure, find and re-use content on web sites and other applications. Open source software is not copyrighted (although it is licensed,) so anyone can download the source code, study it, change it and improve it. Open Source Software is known to build power through the collaborative manner in which it is developed.

Drupal offers a very sophisticated programming interface for developers, however no programming skills are required for installing and administering basic web sites. It runs on any computing platform that supports both a web server capable of running PHP and one of several database engines to store content and settings.