Energy Camps are nothing more than a specialized Drupal Camp, where we focus on the development of ENERGY as a vertical market for Drupal.
A camp is a one to two day event that focuses on many aspects of Drupal in one location. Its focus is knowledge sharing amongst the community. Essentially, you’re getting the community together to do some community training. The term "Camp" comes from Barcamp, like an informal non-conference that happens at a bar. It’s not fancy. Camps are basic. They take a bit of organizing, but in general it’s pretty easy to run a camp.
(more on Drupal Camps can be found at https://www.drupal.org/node/247972 )
We are experienced on running Energy Camps at any level to meet your specific needs, but essentially a one day camp comes in two 'flavors'.
The First is focused on experienced BACnet users who are pretty much clueless on what Drupal is. Over the course of a day we'll walk you thru installing Drupal (and Apache, mySQL, and PHP) on your local computer. We'll apply many contributed modules to the core install and introduce concepts of mobile friendly sites by converting from the standard Drupal theme into a mobile ready responsive theme. On this base we'll add in the BACnet module and show you how to link diretly into your BACnet systems to display any data inside the Drupal framework. We'll then demostrate how to quickly turn your local development environment into an accessible live site available thru the internet.
The Second type of camp is focused on experienced Drupal guys (and gals) who are pretty much clueless on what BACnet is. Here the Drupal developers will be introduced to the Building Automation and Control Networking protocol in a way to quickly figure out how to get to the data points they are after. Some advanced BACnet issues will be introduced so they can have a better understanding of the history of BACnet and how to work with facility engineers so that BACnet points can be displayed securely and managed accurately over the long term. The idea here is to get some 'high value' data to as many people as possible to heighten awareness of a facility's sustainablity efforts.
A two day camp would then simply go over Drupal the first day and BACnet the next.
Go to the registration page for more information on scheduling an Energy Camp today.