Drupal NYC Meetup - May 21st

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Posted by marketanomaly on May 9, 2008 at 4:58am
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2008-05-21 18:00 - 09:00 America/New_York
Event type: 
User group meeting

We'll be having the Meetup on Wednesday, May 21st from 6 to 9pm at Mansueto,
7 World Trade Center / 250 Greenwich St., 29th Fl..

-UPDATE- The following is the meetup agenda that emerged from your comments:
Determine a good time for a DrupalCamp this summer. Get volunteers.
Learn about NYU Project - Christopher Evjy
Learn how Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning is using Drupal - Schuyler D
CCK AnnotationField module - Schuyler D
Alternate Search Engines for Drupal - Michael Haggerty / Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg
Go a little deeper into Views 2 - Rob Loach
Q: Experiences upgrading from Drupal 5 / Views to Drupal 6 / Views 2
Working with Panels 2 - Christopher Pelham & others
Q: How does the Context feature work in Panels 2? - WayGee Ho
Q: How do you tie two different views together (view of Artist and Albums) - WayGee Ho

The format as always is open and we will design the meetup around what you want to talk about. Post your topic suggestions and presentation ideas in the comments.

7 World Trade security requires a list of attendees by 3pm the day of the meetup. Click the signup button, and make sure that your 'real name' is in your user profile.

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Views 2 & Drupal 6 sounds like it should be interesting.

Posted by MacRonin on May 9, 2008 at 6:33am
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Wish I could make it, but I have a fundraiser that night.

Views 2 & Drupal 6 sounds like it should be interesting.

Have fun ...

Another fundraiser

Posted by tom_o_t on May 9, 2008 at 3:46pm
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Sounds like an interesting session, but I also have a fundraiser/event for that evening, for Green Map. Is there something about this date? The theater my girlfriend's performing at is having a fundraiser that evening too.

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I'd be interested if someone

Posted by schuyler1d on May 9, 2008 at 4:18pm
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I'd be interested if someone presented on any experience they had with Panels 2.

I could present on some work I'm doing recently on a CCK AnnotationField module.

Panels 2

Posted by cpelham on May 9, 2008 at 5:01pm
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We are using Panels 2. I don't know what to present, per se, but I could talk about our experience with it.

Christopher Pelham
Director
CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing)
http://www.crsny.org

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) is an arts & healing center located just south of Union Square in Manhattan.

Views 2

Posted by cpelham on May 9, 2008 at 5:09pm
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I'd like to know about people's experience with upgrading from Drupal 5 / Views to Drupal 6 / Views 2. There is an upgrade path but it is limited, and Earl has written that it may be best, an in some cases necessary, to re-build one's Views in Views 2 from scratch.

Given that it can be a little time consuming to upgrade all of one's modules and rebuild one's Views (and we have maybe 30 of them), what is the best way to upgrade a live site? Must we take it down for hours to do it?

I really appreciate that Drupal improves so much from release to release but some of these upgrades are rather hard on live sites. New Drupal releases seem more targeted for new sites, leaving a lot of already live sites behind. Any thoughts?

Christopher Pelham
Director
CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing)
http://www.crsny.org

CRS (Center for Remembering & Sharing) is an arts & healing center located just south of Union Square in Manhattan.

Agenda

Posted by techsoldaten (not verified) on May 12, 2008 at 3:11pm
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Is there a way to get added to the agenda for this meetup? I am going to be in NYC around this time and would enjoy speaking to the group about some of the work Trellon has done with alternative search engines for Drupal.

M

Uh oh...

Posted by alex ua on May 20, 2008 at 9:04pm
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I sense trouble brewing. ;-) I'll be in town too- see you there!

Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg
ZivTech: Illuminating Technology

Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg
ZivTech: Illuminating Technology

Panels 2 how to

Posted by arcane on May 20, 2008 at 8:37pm
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I would like to know how the Context feature works in Panels 2. Also how to tie two different views together (view of Artist and Albums)

How can I add someone on the attendees' list?

Posted by pcollin on May 20, 2008 at 9:01pm
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I'd like to bring one of my colleagues, named Dorsey Shaw. Please let me know if this possible.

Thanks!
Philippe

Philippe Collin

he needs to register to our

Posted by litwol on May 20, 2008 at 9:22pm
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he needs to register to our new york group. and then he will be able to apply. you can create account for him too if you want.


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Hello

Posted by robloach on May 20, 2008 at 11:37pm
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Didn't we cover parts of Views 2 last meetup? Have we done Panels 2 yet?

We just did a very basic

Posted by marketanomaly on May 21, 2008 at 12:44am
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We just did a very basic Views 2 overview. If you want to delve into a particular aspect of Views 2, that would be cool.

Search...

Posted by alex ua on May 21, 2008 at 2:32am
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Alternate search engines aren't really my strength. Are there any other topics you'd be interested in having someone talk about?

Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg
ZivTech: Illuminating Technology

Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg
ZivTech: Illuminating Technology

Well...

Posted by techsoldaten (not verified) on May 21, 2008 at 2:52am
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Well, I was offering to talk about them myself, since I enjoy talling about Drupal.

Since you mention it, perhaps you could discuss Vegas, the Palms, Ykos...

M

What happens in Vegas, stays in vegas...

Posted by alex ua on May 21, 2008 at 1:14pm
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I suppose I could talk about those things, but then I'd have to kill you...

Anyway, the comment wasn't aimed at you: we are both listed as talking about search engines for Drupal. I would love to hear more about Xapian!

Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg
ZivTech: Illuminating Technology

Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg
ZivTech: Illuminating Technology

Sadly I won't be there. I

Posted by robbiethegeek on May 21, 2008 at 5:23pm
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Sadly I won't be there. I have a bad stomach bug, see you guys next month.

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to late to sign up?

Posted by michaelemeyers on May 21, 2008 at 5:56pm
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would like to attend tonights meetup, the post says:

"7 World Trade security requires a list of attendees by 3pm the day before. Click the signup button, and make sure that your 'real name' is in your user profile."

is it to late then? thanks _m

No not too late. leave your

Posted by litwol on May 21, 2008 at 6:48pm
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No not too late. leave your name and we'll put your through.


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Looking for Developers

Posted by fabiantaylor on May 21, 2008 at 7:24pm
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My Company is looking for a couple developers to work on a few projects we have going on.

If anyone is interested, I am trying to attend today if I finish in time, please see me after the meeting. If i don't attend you can feel free to contact me via email

Thanks

Also looking for Developers

Posted by dongoe on May 22, 2008 at 12:55am
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My company - doing online gaming - is also looking for an experienced Drupal developer.

We have a project that is fun and will pay market++ rates.

Please contact me through this site (contact tab).. I couldn't make the meeting today so just shoot me a mail.

same question too late??

Posted by bkroski on May 21, 2008 at 6:43pm
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just saw today you have to signup a day in advance. been planning to get to this for a while.

NowPublic

Posted by michaelemeyers on May 21, 2008 at 7:05pm
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sure, would be happy to talk about some of the projects we are working on - some exciting things in the works.

fyi, since search is a topic for the evening: we have used sphinx for over a year now - it's great - super fast (a few milliseconds), provides good results, and it's been extremely reliable / stable. also, we are about to rollout a new product (~6/7) that uses xapian. we'll keep sphinx for the site search but xapian was better choice for this new product - it's great at updating index's in or close to real time (but it's much slower then sphinx at generating indexes from scratch), it has a better api for data mining, and it has a c++ library which is used by our client directly...

Meeting Notes

Posted by robloach on May 22, 2008 at 12:45am
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The meeting went very well, here are some notes taken at the meeting:

  • AnnotationField allows you to annotate media, text and any content by using a field. It rocks!
  • Using Xapian on Drupal helped performance, a lot. A search for "help" returned 1727.98 ms vs 75.75 ms without caching and 264.22 ms vs 1.88 ms with caching. The answer? Use Xapian on high performance websites.
  • Views 2's relationships allow you to recieve more detail about things associated with what you're querying. If you're displaying a bunch of comments, you can access the node that the comment was posted on. If you're displaying a node, you can display information based on what user that node was posted by. Panels 2's context is much the same.