Santa Barbara Drupal meetup on November 17, 2010

The next Santa Barbara Drupal meetup is on Wednesday, November 17, 2010, at 6:30pm. We are meeting in the multipurpose room at the Goleta Branch Library at 500 North Fairview Ave.

Although the library closes at 8pm, the multipurpose room is remaining open for us. Post a comment here or call Christefano at 888 LARKS LA (x104) if you have any questions.

Please note that we're now meeting regularly on the 3rd Wednesday of the month.

This event is free and no RSVP is required, but if you plan to attend please sign up by logging in and clicking the Sign up button below. Knowing how many people are interested in attending can help us better select good locations in the future. People who sign up will also have last minute details (if there are any) sent to them before the meeting. Additionally, you can follow Santa Barbara Drupal on Twitter:

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Our meetings in Santa Barbara have been hosted at a variety of locations, including the Java Station coffeeshop, the Las Cumbres Observatory and the Marine Science Institute and Davidson Library departments at UCSB. We're very grateful to our past and present venue sponsors and are always interested in hearing from venue sponsors for future meetups.

If you'd like to host a future meetup, please post a discussion in our group or contact @sbdrupal on Twitter.

Topics

If you'd like to present on a topic, give a lightning talk or just ask questions of the group, please feel free to leave a comment below.

There's no module for that

Many of us have heard (and many of us often say) "there's a module for that" but what do you do when there actually isn't? It's not unusual to find a module in Drupal contrib that does some or most of the things one wants but isn't quite suitable for the task. Adam Ross (Grayside) will give a demonstration on how to make a module, from the basics of what the general skeleton of Drupal module looks like to the modules he's written.

Drupal 7 overview and demonstration

Drupal 7 beta 2 came out recently and the 1.0 release is almost upon us. If you haven't seen Drupal 7 yet, there's no better time to get up to speed on what it offers, how it's different from Drupal 6 and what the state is of compatible contrib modules and themes.

Open discussion

Everybody has a favorite module or two and we'll have a round table discussion where everyone will have a chance to share modules they like, they've written or have used to get out of a sticky situation. It's okay if you don't have any favorite modules -- if you want to, you're welcome to ask the group if a module exists that might help with a use case or problem that you're working on.

The only rule at the round table is that you can't repeat a module that someone else has already mentioned.

At the end of the meetup, the list of modules and the links to download them will be posted in the comments below for the benefit of the larger community.