Posted by zkrebs on March 18, 2011 at 8:46pm
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2011-03-27 11:00 - 12:30 America/Los_Angeles Organizers:
Event type:
User group meeting
Please come to our Southern Oregon Drupal Interest Group (SODIG). It would be nice if we could each prepare a 2-5 minute lightning talk to either introduce ourselves, prep the group on a topic, or share something valuable that is happening in the Drupal community. This is very informal and not required, but might be a productive way to share things with each other.
Comments
Regarding the open issue of timing and advanced notice
I appreciate that 9 days notice is enough for everyone to feel good, as discussed in our previous meetings. Also, if you are interested in becoming an organizer for events or meetings, send me a message and we can talk about it. The goal of SODIG is to enable its members to step up, take leadership, learn Drupal, and become inspired/engaged in their learnings and doings.
Sounds Good!
I might be a few minutes late, but I'll be there. I just started playing with Views and might have a basket of questions by the time we have our meeting.
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I would vote that try to
I would vote that try to discuss a couple of topics and with more of a structured type of meeting. This will keep us more focused and may increase the value of our meetings. We can take turns presenting different subjects.
It would also be good to come up with a set date for these meetings. This way there is no question when the next meeting will be. Both Bill and myself thought the meeting was today so we had a productive mini drupal meetup a week early at the Beanery today.
Hozt
I am glad that you all were able to meet today and discuss things. I agree on creating a meeting dates schedule.
The second Suday's of each Month work for me typically.
Additionally, I'd like to present this next weekend about Dynamic Display Block on Drupal 7.
I would like to ask
Is there any more feedback that anyone would like to offer before having the meeting tomorrow morning? It sounds like we're agreeing with the idea of doing mini presentations or at least moving slowly to a structured agenda. We might not accomplish this by tomorrow, but at least it could be a topic of conversation.
Right now the group has people with different specialties and newcomers to Drupal. It would be great for us all to feel like we got what we needed from the meeting.
Something I know that is of immediate concern is checking to see where everyone is at with their Drupal 7 toolkits. I have not landed with a starter theme or "way" that I am completely happy with quite yet - still experimenting.
For themes:
http://drupal.org/project/panels_960gs looks very nice and I am trying it out. I have a bias towards Panels because it seems to cover a lot of bases and the people I work with tend to understand how it works. Its also HTML5 oriented and working with Grid systems makes a lot of sense as well.
http://drupal.org/project/omega looks like a great point and click, but powerful, starter theme.
http://drupal.org/project/fusion - I am waiting for this to be fully ready for D7. Did a few sites with it, and it worked fairly well, but suffered from "div-i-tis" or, having too much markup.
For content layout and construction
Core Fields / Panels / Context / Views - seems to be the way to roll. Media module for media - in D7, not fully there. (no vimeo support ? :( )
Hope this spurs some conversation! Right now, with the sites I am maintaining, I am putting a lot of energy into the placement and style of items on a page and watching how that converts to logins / registrations / and sales. Its becoming a more precise study, whereas before I was comfortable just banging things out.
D7 Themes
One day in late January I searched for all D7 themes and tried each one out. I mostly looked at how it made the overall site look, how many options/tweaks were available in the Drupal GUI (vs directly opening .css files, which I don't mind at all anyway), along with how well it installed, when the readme info seemed to be last updated (if it needed it), and a VERY cursory view of what might be needed to maintain the theme.
I was purposely shying away from "clean-slate" themes, as I currently find it easier to install something similar to what I want and tweak it instead of going "ground up". Besides D7 seems to have a decent clean-slate theme in the default install.
I found several good ones; and a few that weren't even D7 ready, although claimed to be. By the end of the day I settled on Mayo. I could be that I chose it because the experiment was a bit exhausting and Mayo was near the end of the sample. Although it seems that Mayo had some of the best options available for tweaking in the D7 GUI. The default layout seemed quite practical, and the structure under-the-hood didn't seem to have a bunch of weird "extra" stuff. Again, I didn't do a sensible estimation of the folder, files, and contents to access maintainability.
I wish I had noted down the names of some of the other themes that I liked. Maybe I'll run through the set of themes again and take notes for y'all. :)
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She was a whiskey maker, but he loved her still.
Q
Would someone please remind me the name of the module one would use to backup the cache of a site to Amazon, thus offloading much work from your DB?
The project is not currently
The project is not currently saving to S3, but it is called Save to FTP. There is a thread about possibly making it work with S3 here. It is only in Drupal 6 so the first challenge would be to port it to 7. I think the sending it to S3 would be the easy part.