
Drupal is a powerful tool. And with this power comes some complexity. For some, even installing Drupal -let alone building contenttypes and views- can be a burden. And those will join a tool with a lower barrier (and less power) like Wordpress
One of the best ways to learn how to install, use and expand Drupal is by watching others doing it and then do it yourself; watching screencasts and repeating the steps. Luckily, there are hundreds of quality screencast available on video services like vimeo and YouTube. However, nearly all of them are in English. And this by itself can be a new barrier for the non-native English speakers.
To overcome this barrier, I play to let s start a Drupal Screencasts Storm in your (non English) language! All you need is how to know Drupal works, speak a non English language, have a (local) Drupal install and some screencasting software. For example ScreenFlow on the mac, or take a look at a good list of screencasting software.
Start a screencasts with how to install Drupal, on LAMP, MAMP, XAMPP or (wrongly named DAMP. And then build on that by showing how to install and configure pathauto, CCK, Views and so on. You will find it is actually fun to do a screencasts and can be very rewarding when even one person decided to switch because of your efforts! You don't have to show your face, hearing one's own voice can be pain-full enough :-). But it ads intimacy and personality to the screencast, so please consider switching on your cam.
Take a look for example at the Dutch (DSSnl) Screencast of my Dutch Open Projects colleague Sebastiaan Meijer's, screencasts in Dutch. Or search for a CC licensed video on the net in English and re-do it in your native language.
To get some momentum behind this, be sure to tag your video DSSxx, where xx equals the ISOlanguage code,see the complete list. For Example #DSSde for Germany, #DSSfr for France and so on. Use these tags on the video service, your blog, twitter and delicious. By doing so we can provide more dynamic information beyond the English speaking world about the quality of the best Open Source CMS out there; Drupal.
Now do your hair, wear a suite and fire up your screencasting software to capture this moment in full; a Drupal Screen Cast Storm!
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