Wednesday's User Group Meeting (The Great Git Migration)

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BenK's picture
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2011-02-09 18:00 - 19:30 America/Los_Angeles
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User group meeting

Hey everyone,

Just a friendly reminder that this WEDNESDAY (February 9) is the date of our monthly Portland Drupal User Group Meeting.

And with the Great Git Migration nearly upon us, it's going to be a big one. We're devoting the entire time to getting you up to speed fast on how to use Git with the new infrastructure at Drupal.org. The meeting will include lightning talks, a hands-on demonstration, a beginner's workshop, and an advanced round-table discussion. Here's what we've got on the agenda:

Lightning Talks by User Group All-Stars:
1. Decisions: How Drupal Chose Git (by Chris Strahl)
2. A Project Management Overview (by Melissa Anderson)
3. Critical Path Development (by Mike Prasuhn)
4. Contributed Module Development (by Michael Halstead)
5. Commit Log Theming (by Sarah Prasuhn)
6. Repository Creation (by Trevor Hardcastle)
7. Deployment (by Narayan Newton, to be confirmed)

Hands-on demonstration (20 minutes)

Follow along as we guide you through creating a sandbox project, applying for a Git account if needed, promoting a sandbox to a contributed theme or module, creating a release, and downloading the tarball or zip file.

Beginner's Workshop and Advanced Round-Table Discussion (30 minutes)

We'll split the group in two. For beginners, we'll present basic Git concepts and commands on the overhead projector, while advanced developers will convene a round-table discussion to review the finer points of strategy, rebasing, fast-forwards, submodules, and more.

Finally, here are the meeting details:

Date: Wednesday, February 9
Time: 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. (after the meeting, we head to Lucky Lab for drinks and conversation!)
Location: OpenSourcery offices (1636 NW Lovejoy St. Portland, OR 97209)

As you can see, this is a really special and important meeting. So if there is one user group meeting not to miss, this is it!

See you there,
Ben

Comments

Wahoo!

emptyvoid's picture

Wow this month's meeting looks packed full of Drupal goodness!

I guess I'll opt to provide lighting round discussions on "Consolidated Media and Content management" and "So you want to register for events" presentations for next month. :)

Robert Foley Jr
Solutions Architect
http://www.robertfoleyjr.com

Yes! And no!

Mindewen's picture

I won't be able to make it for the March meeting. But both of your topics interest me, especially event registration.

Calagator

donpdonp's picture

Be sure to give your user group maximum exposure to the portland tech community with an event entry in calagator.org! I just added tonight's meeting http://calagator.org/events/1250459774

Thanks for the link don

MarketStone's picture

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i have a call in to peer 1
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Ran