Surrey Drupal Users Group

Surrey Drupal Users Group – 1st Meeting on May 22nd, 2008

Our inaugural meeting was well attended and turned out to be a social gathering. Dale, who organized the Vancouver Drupal Users Group, graced us with his presence and gave us his blessing. Experienced website-builder but Drupal-newbie, Katy, asked lots of questions and is always thrilled to discover how much is NOT built-in to Drupal. Katy assumed that Drupal came with full blog capability for the single-user when the blog module is enabled. But unfortunately, that is not the case. One needs to use views to set up the archiving and the tag fields and other wonderful blog features. Experienced Drupallers, Joe and Dale, were helpful in offering tips on setting up a blog in Drupal. Would anyone like to give a short presentation on how to use Views to set up a single-user blog at our next meeting? I would really appreciate it. I’m sure others would, too.

So please remind me, what’s so great about Drupal? I’d really like to know. Because even for web designers experienced in hand-coding HTML/CSS and PHP, Drupal seems super hard to learn.

But I am thankful for the Vancouver Drupal User community who have been quite helpful and helping me to jump over the bumps I’ve encountered along the way.

So come on out to our second meeting on June 12th, 2008. We’re meeting in beautiful Surrey, the City of Parks, at the ABC restaurant in Fleetwood at 15373 Fraser Hwy. Wireless Internet is available. Look for us along the right hand side of the restaurant where we can pull some tables together when the group gets larger.

Next meeting of Surrey Drupal Users Group: Thursday, June 12th

For June 12th, the topics will be:

Short Demo of Ubercart by Katy

We're looking for volunteers to do a short 20-30 minute presentation on one or more of the following:

• how to set up a single user blog in Drupal
• how to set up a photo gallery
• how to add a video to the home page
• tutorial on theming

Any volunteers? Bring your laptop and show us a demo and then explain step by step how to do it properly the first time. Here’s a good outline of how to give a 15 minute presentation. But we'll give you 30 minutes :-) http://blog.tazzu.com/2008/05/29/have-the-spotlight-on-the-vancouver-joo...

Katy is also available on 1st and 3rd Thursdays for Code Thursdays. Or Co-Work as the Seattle Users Group calls it. According to Wikipedia,

Coworking is an emerging trend for a new pattern for working. Typically work-at-home professionals or independent contractors or people who travel frequently end up working in an isolated way. Coworking is the social gathering of a group of people, who are still working independently, but who share values and who are interested in the synergy that can happen from working with talented people in the same space.

Looking forward to seeing you at the Surrey Drupal Users Group!