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The "Grav Club" | Christchurch, New Zealand

Started by Derek Chirnside 9 years ago · 3 replies · 702 views
9 years ago

Firstly thanks to those who have replied to my other thread. I'm going to give Grav quite a serious go. I work better in a group, which is why I like this forum. I'm planning to start a local Grav Club.

Hypothetical Grav Club
I'd like to start a Grav Club here in Christchurch.
I considered the Epic Centre, which is a local fun place for a lot of IT tech companies. But I've decided to go for a school. "Ten weeks, come and learn and play with Grav" I've approached a local school.

  • If there is anyone here in Christchurch who is interested in coming/helping, please let me know.
  • If there is any advice about such an idea, please let me know.

One question, Just in case there is a simple answer: can we just buy something like some Bluehost space and set up (say) 10 Grav installs easy on this?

The plan.
Find a place, find some kids. And others who may be interested.

  1. Week 1: install Grav. Probably on local machines, but who knows. [Talk about design, responsiveness, get minimum concepts sorted]
  2. Week 2: Markup. Make some pages. [More about design, like 'use a pencil' or a whiteboard, think before you code]
  3. Week 3: make some more pages, get navigation sorted. [Plus??]
  4. Week 4: plugins
  5. Week 5: plugins [Show and tell]

-Derek

9 years ago

Hi
Rather than buying some cheapo hosting you might be easier off using Cloud9 for hosting platform. Its very cheap for classroom use - $1 for teachers/month and free for students. It provides a nice simple interface, drag/drop uploading but you can also run command line (Ubuntu) if you want. I use it all the time - performance has been a bit touch and go lately - but overall its convenient because they can work in the classroom then go home and continue if they like.

9 years ago

Hi Derek,

I've done a number of Grav workshops in Vancouver, Canada and you are welcome to reuse/remix any of my materials. Of special interest might be a clonable Grav Workshop Demo site on GitHub which is designed for use with online IDE's, like cloud 9.

Grav Workshop Demo
https://github.com/hibbitts-design/grav-skeleton-workshop-demo-site

Video of installing Grav Workshop Demo in Cloud9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NxEXtkRreE

Grav Workshop Slides
https://swipe.to/4340n

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last edited 07/29/17 by Paul Hibbitts

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