Distributions

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A group for talking about Drupal distributions.

At DrupalCon Europe 2020, a BoF (Drupal Distributions - Learning from each other - read about the outcomes here) came up with the idea of distribution maintainers meeting and exchanging ideas on a regular basis to learn from each other. In January 2021, the first meeting took place, we collected topics that affect us all and planned the first discussion rounds (read the meeting minutes here).

We want to meet once a month, present our projects to each other, ask questions, discuss possible solutions and thus grow by working together. For planning and sharing purposes, we have adopted this group.

Originally, this group was created as an informal response to Dries' blog entry about potential pitfalls in creating Drupal distribution installation profiles. We still think this is an important topic (of many!) and plan to discuss such questions as well.

The intent of this group is to provide a forum for distribution maintainers to discuss on a very broad scope in the interest of promoting collaboration, cooperation and communication among them. This group is a good place to: announce new projects and the goals behind them, identify common goals and best practices for distributions, and explore options for collaboration and consolidation where possible.

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Drupal Distributions September 2021 meetup - Single Sign On and DrupalCon Europe

Start: 
2021-09-09 18:00 - 20:00 Europe/London
Event type: 
User group meeting

Hear from other developers and practitioners working on Drupal distributions.

This month we would like to summarise what we've learnt this year and gather input on topics to discuss at the DrupalCon Europe distributions panel.

Agenda

  • 18:00 Intros
  • 18:20 Distribution of the month (t.b.c.)
  • 18:40 Single Sign On - challenges and approaches
  • 19:00 Q&A
  • 19:15 Suggested topics for discussion at the DrupalCon Panel
  • 20:00 Finish
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Finn Lewis's picture

[CANCELLED] Drupal Distributions August 2021 meetup

Start: 
2021-08-11 19:00 - 21:00 Europe/London
Event type: 
User group meeting

[CANCELLED] only three people are available, so we'll regroup in September.

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Finn Lewis's picture

Drupal Distributions June 2021 meetup - headless / decoupled / api first approaches in distributions

Start: 
2021-06-09 18:00 - 20:00 Europe/London
Event type: 
User group meeting

Hear from other developers and practitioners working on Drupal distributions.

This month we would like to share how some distributions are exploring headless / decoupled front-ends for their drupal distributions.

Agenda

  • 18:00 Intros
  • 18:20 Distro of the month (t.b.c.)
  • 18:40 Headless show and tell
  • 19:40 Q&A
  • 19:50 Confirm agenda for the next meetup
  • 20:00 Finish

Learn more in the Meeting Minutes at Google Docs

Zoom link to join:

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Drupal Distributions meetup - Configuration updates & release management

Start: 
2021-05-12 19:00 - 21:00 Europe/London
Event type: 
Online meeting (eg. IRC meeting)

WHEN? 12/05/2021, 19:00 GMT

WHAT? discuss problems and best practices concerning configuration updates and release management

WHERE?

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juliapradel's picture

Drupal Distributions Meetup after DrupalCon NA

Start: 
2021-04-21 19:00 - 21:00 Europe/London
Event type: 
Online meeting (eg. IRC meeting)

WHEN? 21/04/2021, 18-20 UTC

As our planned BoF wasn't accepted at DrupalCon, we moved the Meetup to the week after.

WHAT? Let's share the idea of this group with other distribution maintainers and discuss new ideas and input from DrupalCon.

WHERE? Join Zoom Meeting

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Drupal Distributions meetup - Content Editor Experience

Start: 
2021-03-10 19:00 - 21:00 Europe/London
Event type: 
Online meeting (eg. IRC meeting)

WHEN? 10/03/2021, 19:00 GMT

WHAT? In March, we want to discuss ways to improve the content editor experience (e.g. Gin theme, the Thunder approach, layout builder vs. editing notes). We plan to present what each distribution has done to improve the life for content editors.

Sascha Eggenberger, one of the lead designers for the new Claro Core Admin Theme and the Gin Admin Theme, will join us.

WHERE? Zoom
Meeting ID: 832 8910 1001
Passcode: 145647

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juliapradel's picture

Drupal Distributions meetup - Developer experience

Start: 
2021-02-10 18:00 - 20:00 Europe/London
Event type: 
Online meeting (eg. IRC meeting)

WHEN? 10/02/2021, 18:00 GMT

WHAT? discuss workflows and processes when developing a distribution (e.g. export configurations, adding modules); work out how these processes can be supported and improved

WHERE? Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87806978524?pwd=emdpNXZzM3VjYkhNcVgxRk5SRXlXZz09

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juliapradel's picture

Revive this group and change name to "distributions"

Hello friends,

At DrupalCon Europe 2020, a BoF brought together some distribution maintainers who want to collaborate and exchange ideas on a regular basis in the future. We are planning monthly meetups and would like to use this group for announcements, documentation and other exchanges.

I would like to propose to rename the group to "Distributions" and make installation profiles one of many topics in the discussion. I would be happy to take over the management of this group as it seems to have fallen somewhat silent.

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Botafoc.cat Drupal 8 Base Distribution

Botafoc.cat is a project to be focused on making a base distribution of drupal. The idea is compile the typical modules and configurations that is in vast majority sites using drupal.

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  • Multilingual: Select other languages on the install process.
  • Folders: Contrib, Custom, Features and Sandbox generated by default.
  • Admin toolbar: drop-down menu, providing a fast a full access of all the administration links.
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    jakubmrozonline's picture

    Publishing a new distribution

    Hi guys,

    Over the weekend I have developer a simple invoicing tool useful for Drupal contractors to create an invoices.

    It's based on Bootstrap and contains so far two content types, three hooks and two templates.

    I am thinking to share with this idea and build something more advances as an open source.

    Could you help me out with with publishing this distribution on Drupal.org, please?
    I haven't done it so could you point me at a right direction?

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    japerry's picture

    COD at Drupalcon LA

    Start: 
    2015-05-12 13:00 - 14:00 UTC
    Event type: 
    User group meeting

    Interested in seeing the upcoming COD 7.x-1.0 stable? come BoF with us! We'll also demo some of features of the new events.drupal.org, which is running on mainline cod.

    If you're interested in sprinting later at Drupalcon, we will schedule a sprint for Friday. Our plan is to release 1.0 if we get enough volunteers. Add you name to this list if you want to help out at Drupalcon, even if you're remote:
    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/109drAI9MUofxh_JP7GSayfYrRZWYuK_p...

    Please mark 'add to my schedule' on the Drupalcon LA site if you're interested in Attending!

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    JurriaanRoelofs's picture

    Give Drupal CMS Powerstart a try

    update: released a beta version that is reasonably stable and has more site-builder tools

    Only local images are allowed.

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    japerry's picture

    COD 7.x is in Beta!

    Thanks to everyone sprinting this week, we put over 250 combined hours on getting COD into a stable state and released our first beta at Drupalcon Austin!

    Major new features from the alphas (Before Jan):

    Transitioned from Entity Registration to Ticket module

    Having a proper registration system that meets the needs of camps, cons, and non-drupal events has been a source of pain and work-arounds in the 7.x version of COD (and registration in general). The ticket module changes much of this by re-architecting to a data model similar to eventbrite.

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    japerry's picture

    COD Sprint Review from NYC Camp

    I was somewhat overwhelmed at the amount of people who are trying to use COD, and found out a bit of that first hand this weekend. I'm happy to say beta is coming along very nicely, and we've made some great progress in the past few months...

    Thanks to the NYC Camp team for input and showing me how they've used COD for their site, I'm looking forward to integrating their improvements upstream, especially the dashboards. MongoDB was there, Jason working on Ticket Module, and Emilie has written a new base theme for COD based on Omega4.

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    Sandip Choudhury's picture

    Two Distribution Profiles

    Hello,

    Is it possible to use two distribution profile in one Drupal installation website. For Example - Suppose I want to use Commerce Kickstart Distribution (https://drupal.org/project/commerce_kickstart) to make an e-commerce site but also I want to use Spark Distribution (https://drupal.org/project/spark) in same website because it has Responsive admin control panel. So is this possible?
    If not, is there any alternative way?

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    larowlan's picture

    Tour Module Scrum

    Start: 
    2013-12-06 10:00 - 10:15 Australia/Brisbane
    Organizers: 
    Event type: 
    Online meeting (eg. IRC meeting)

    We're getting to the point in the Drupal 8 cycle where the UI's are starting to solidify and we have fairly static markup to write interface tours against.

    So to facilitate this, we're going to have a weekly scrum to coordinate pain points, progress and participants.

    If you're interested in helping write tours for the Drupal 8 UI or identify and resolve any remaining API issues, please come along to this short meeting (Google hangout).

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    japerry's picture

    COD Sprints at BADcamp

    Start: 
    2013-10-26 11:00 - 15:00 America/Vancouver
    Organizers: 
    Event type: 
    Drupalcamp or Regional Summit

    If you're coming to BADcamp, come help make COD for Drupal 7.x better!

    We'll be tackling a few issues in the queue, and depending on how much we get done, releasing a new Alpha.

    Discuss below which things you want to work on, and maybe with some pre-organization we can make this a really effective sprint. I'll be at BADcamp sprinting on mainly commons, but want to help people get setup if they're interested in improving COD.

    Some topics:
    1) Moving scheduling from rooms to event CT
    - https://drupal.org/node/2009512
    2) Getting default (or current events) setup

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    Drupal-based digital signage

    There seems to be some interest and use case for Drupal-based digital signage. bneil, AndrewGearhart, and btopro had a good conversation in #drupal-edu about some ideas and thought we needed to start collecting our ideas.

    Let's use this wiki as a place to start organizing ourselves around what our requirements are and what general functionality we can share between our institutions.

    Hopefully we'll end up with a nice list of requirements that we can work together to build a solid base for Drupal digital signage.

    Structure/Features

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    Help4Ok Challenge - National Day of Civic Hacking (NDoCH)

    Start: 
    2013-06-01 (All day) - 2013-06-02 (All day) America/New_York
    Organizers: 
    Event type: 
    Sprint

    Join people from all over the world June 1 and 2, 2013 for a national Hack for Change event.

    Click Here to signup for regular updates! http://bit.ly/help4ok_challenge

    In conjunction with RHOK Boston - http://hackforchange.org/rhok-boston
    and the National Day of Civic Hacking (NDoCH) http://hackforchange.org/, a team of passionate team members will come together and Hack for Good! Join us!

    History and Goals
    Connect people who need help with people who can give help.

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    japerry's picture

    My COD Goals for Drupalcon Portland

    Next week Ezra, Joseph, and Jakob will all be at Drupalcon to further the goals of Commons and COD, two distributions supported by Acquia.

    My hopes for COD is to get another update since the Alpha2 release we did at Sandcamp. Its unfortunate that it seems updates only occur after camp, but on the otherhand it just shows how much can get done when we have the community working in the same room as each other!

    These are my basic goals:
    * Scale the gaps between COD6 and COD7, make a MOSCOW chart to prioritize what needs to be done.

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