Advantage Labs The Art & Science of Online Progress

A lot of Lab Hours regulars must have stayed indoors to avoid the heat this week.  It was a smaller crowd this time around, and I got to catch up with more people than usual.  It was nice!  After a brief diversion on the history of locally-owned bookstores (Barry has the inside scoop!), we set our sights on:

I must admit I'm pretty excited about our upcoming Drupal for Non-profits class.  Our primary mission has always been to help people get the resources they need to get a lot done.  For that reason, most of our development work has been focused on mail, contact management, donation, and tracking tools to help people get their maximum benefit from their online resources.  The cool thing about open source is, you can give it away and still have it for yourself, so after a customer helps to fund module or a feature, it's available for everyone.

Another jam-packed week at Lab Hours as the group grows!

• Don is new to Lab Hours, and has just had his inherited Drupal 4.6 site upgraded to Drupal 5. He's learning the ropes of our install profile, and getting up to speed on all things Drupal 5!. He created a reviews content type for his plays and events, and learned how to set up users to work with their own profiles. He also learned about "50 other things".
• Steve is working an image gallery.
  

We had a tough time shaking out the sillies today.  Lab hours opened with dialects, gopher tails, and a few childishly derisive comments about taxonomy.  Kay even demoed her portable fan!

A jam-packed week once again.  There were many exclamations of "Yessss!", so I hope it was also productive.  It's fun to watch people work as the lightbulb pops on.  In fact, there were so many lightbulbs, we blew a fuse!

Another productive day at Advantage Labs HQ!

We got a lot done today!

 We're back on track this week.  Our old friends are back with a healthy assortment of new questions:

While some of our Lab Hours regulars were filling their brains at Lullabot's training session, the rest of us stuck it out and tackled our projects:

On this sunny spring day, it almost seemed like everyone's questions were going to be answered before we got through introductions.  All the better to get out and enjoy the weather!  But of course, there's always new stuff to learn and do: