As the national broadcaster, the CBC has a special place in hearts of Canadians. Growing up in the USA, there is really no equivalent - PBS is well intentioned but just doesn't have the public mind-share the 'Ceeb garners with important documentaries and top-shelf sports coverage. Now that i think of it, the ability to satirize politics and still gets funding tell me that something like the CBC could never exist back home!!

The Drupal community movement carries on to all corners of the globe with volunteer-run, peer-taught Drupal Camps! The Raincity Studios crew will proudly participate at events coming up in Vancouver, Canada, Sydney, Australia (for the entire Asia/Pacific region) and now, a newly-announced camp in Shanghai, China in conjunction with Open Source Camp Shanghai.

Bryght & Raincity Studios Holding a Week-Long Drupal Training Session in Vancouver

New or old to Drupal, honing or learning, there will be an enormous amount of knowledge to take away from this 4-day Drupal training session.

Developer sessions will be put on by the Bryght Drupal Lords, Djun Kim and James Walker, and Raincity’s Lead Drupal Developer Steve McKenzie. Drupal design sessions will be conducted by Mark Yuasa and Erik Hermans of Raincity.

I got a thank you email from Gregory Heller at CivicActions this morning which reminded me that I hadn't posted a Drupal Camp Seattle 2006 wrap-up yet. 2 weeks ago in Seattle CivicActions, Raincity, and Bryght co-ordinated a Drupal training camp and hack-fest for about 50 aspiring Drupal-geeks at the Hugo House in Seattle.

This was the 4th Drupal Camp (SF, NY, Toronto, Seattle) and we had two tracks, one for introductory sessions and another for advanced hacking which was a good fit for the crowd which was an even split between n00bs and gurus.

Roland and I are hanging out at my parents' place on Bowen Island after giving a 4 hour training session this morning - an Intro to Blogging. We had a small group join us at the Bowen Island Community School (BICS) in the computer lab, and Roland and I rolled on through the growing description of blogging, photo sharing on Flickr, and how content flows all around.

It was great finally meeting Dr. Richard Smith in person -- he took the picture of Roland and Clarice at left. Looking forward to working more on some local Vancouver projects we've got brewing.

We had a mix of comfort levels with computers and the Internet, as well as different reasons for wanting to learn more about blogging. Flickr was a big hit, and to some was all the blogging they needed. We also set people up with Wordpress.com accounts, and even set up the Flickr -> post to Wordpress settings.

The biggest conceptual stumbling block was "What is the difference between a website and a blog?". The answer, other than a blog being usually a lot easier to update, is that there is no difference.