This website is literally a 'copy' of the website found at http://2009.drupalcampla.com. What follows are some instructions on how you can best use this website to run your own camp website.

* Setup assumes you know how to install Drupal on a webserver, there is no install profile. The basic idea is to put the drupal files on your webserver. Import the included database into mysql. Edit the settings file, so that Drupal can find your database.

* login to the site: *{ user: admin } { password: admin }*

* You'll notice that there are already content types and views, its best that you become acquainted with them. They are the power behind this entire website.

* We have stripped all users and user contributed content, in order to see this content on your site you'll want to add some dummy content.

* We recommend doing the step above before you begin trying to theme this website. The following content should be created:

* Create 4 sponsors, each with a different sponsor level (the sponsors page will separate sponsors by level, check out the view to see how this is achieved).

* Add a few news posts

* Add a few sessions, you'll notice that the voting is already setup. We are using the "vote" flag for session voting.

* Register a few different members (make sure you add a few "Females" as well because we use the _gender_ profile field to show the drupalchix attendees.

* You'll also notice the 'featured speakers'. This is done using a global flag called "featured_speaker"

* Sample administrative views have been setup (as well as a menu and block that contains links to them). Use the manage users to promote attendees to the featured speakers homepage rotator, in addition you can use it to run some numbers on the demographics of the people attending by experience level and/or day of attendance.

* Finally, you'll notice that we setup a theme called "camp", this is a zen sub theme that has been setup with some of the template files we used from the actual DrupalCampLA camp website theme. We didn't include all of our theme because we want you to brand your camp with your own graphics, but we've included the template files to help give you the structure that we created as well as some of the cool javascript that was written for auto updating the voting counts and the homepage jquery rotator.

* Where are the twitter updates coming from? They are setup under the master user (user with uid = 1). Visit their profile and you'll see you can edit the twitter account to yours. (Don't forget to setup cron jobs so that twitter messages are continuously imported to your site, we usually run cron jobs once per hour but your needs may vary.)

* Scheduling -- There is a scheduling module which will allow you to mass edit the schedule rooms/days/times of all sessions at once. visit ?q=manage/schedule to see this form. Also be sure to check the DrupalCampLA website for the video of the theming presentation for some help modifying the schedule view template: http://2009.drupalcampla.com/sessions/theming-views

Lastly, this site is distributed as is. While we'd love to help everyone get up to speed and set this up, we can't guarantee that we'll be available to do so for free. We hope this distribution can help you get your site up and running faster and easier. Good luck!