Note: ROOM and FLOOR CHANGE - E51-145, same building
We will be hosted by the Sustainability@MIT – MIT Drupal Group in Cambridge in Building E51 - Tang Center in E51-145. Thanks again to Ed Carlevale and MIT for hosting us.
Parking and Transportation:
After 5pm, there is an unattended MIT lot called Hayward: http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=P5
Lightning Talks
Everyone is welcome and encouraged to present for 10 minutes on a topic of their choosing. You may show off your Drupal site, ask some questions of the audience, give a module demonstration, share some marketing ideas for Drupal, and so on. Just keep it brief. No expertise or planning required - just do it.
Dinner
After the meetup, some of us will continue the conversation over dinner at MIT's Muddy Charles Pub. We will likely pre-order some dinner so it meets us there. We'll take a count about half way through the meeting.
Please plan on bringing $10 to participate in pre-ordering food and some drinks. If you would like to sponsor dinner, comment below and organizers will reach out. You will be recognized at meeting as well as given the chance to do a featured talk.
Comments
Alas, I can't make this
Alas, I can't make this meeting. I'm seeing Phish in Mansfield. Bryan Hirsch has kindly agreed to lead this meeting. Have fun, all.
Please put "Save the Muddy" on the board for discussion!
Alas, I won't be there either but if you guys bring attention to this effort over beers or as formal chalk board discussion: http://groups.drupal.org/node/146899, that would be great! Thanks Bryan for running the show.
Cheep beer forever!
www.macpheedesign.com
Demoing Acquia Dev Cloud
I plan to attend and would like to demo Acquia Dev Cloud. My demo takes about 15 minutes, and with questions etc. it will probably take 30. Hopefully the assembled community will indulge the longer-than-average talk. As a special bonus, I'll have some valuable coupon codes to give away...
Acquia Dev Cloud looks pretty
Acquia Dev Cloud looks pretty cool. Lookin' forward to your demo at tomorrow's meetup Barry.
Meeting Minutes / Notes for June 7 2011 Meetup @ MIT
This is a VERY rough outline of the meeting and likely contains major inaccuracies and omissions. Hopefully those who were unable to make it will find it useful.
~45 Attended / 28 to Muddy Charles after-meeting discussion
These are the following lightning talks this evening, including prepared presentations and question and answers.
Benji
Drupal 7.2 and the three characters he added to the code
3mile.org Three Mile Island Camp using Danland Theme
Wrote a module to recognize volunteers. Module divides volunteer list across three columns. Module has not been contrib (yet)
Dani
Writing book 'Design for Drupal' - requesting suggestions on what designers think should be included
Jesse
Working on Omega Theme
Version 3 of the theme just came out!
It is 'responsive' which means:
Built from Mobile Version out to desktop - it scales out using CSS media queries
Doesn't work for IE8 - IE9 and older
Accounts for this by declaring a static size - like 960 pixels for
Nan
Question regarding Backing up
Backup and Migrate contrib module recommended by several
Tying Backup to running of a cron job
Suggestion to use Drush for ultimate level of automation but Backup and Migrate is a good start for nocvices
Suma
site is foodforeducation.org
Problem is migrating to Drupal from prior system
Wants Donors to be able to create their own Donation pages and integrate with Donation and donor tracking systems
Integration with Paypal + Salesforce
Donations -> Drupal site -> paypal -> saleforce automation -> Drupal site
Problems with IPNs
Suggested consideration of CivicCrm
email: suma@akshayapatrausa.org
Debate about whether to go to Muddy Charles or Asguard. Charles it is (despite the expected hordes of sailors).
Barry
Acquia Dev Cloud
Its an optimized drupal runtime
Varnish, APC, Memcache for sppeding up static pages
Optimized Developer experience
Running on Amazon EC2
walked us through process sign up, provisioning, etc
you can SSH into server OR
preloaded with all the popular Drupal distros OR
import existing Drupal site OR
export directly to Dev cloud from Acquia's DAMP environment
Drag and drop your code from Dev to Staging to Production site - cuts the necessary SVN tags
Safety lockout and undo capabilities
Raw backup snapshots run automatically
database backups nightly - held for 3 days
Developer subscription lets you do 3 dev cloud sites
discussion of workflow of changes from dev site to staging to prod..small Drupal shops may use a less formal process
Once site is complete, can be handed off to client's hosting OR transfer to client's Dev Cloud account
Demo of New Relic site performance monitoring + stats tool
Distributing 3 free month codes
Ed
Teaching people Drupal
Involving laypeople in Drupal, building features
openpublica, DrupalCommons
Demo of using Drupal Gardens with Media module, Theme editor, exporting site to localhost
Pat
very new to drupal
Teachers upload videos to website to use to teach students
how to route uploads to Amazon's S3 service?
Suggestion: use CDN to integrate with S3
James
Wall Module he's working on for Babson College
Implementing facebook's wall functionality to post in AJAX
already functional, provides a private facebook experience for students and faculty
looking for comaintainers
Jeannie
A resource for learning Views 3
Google query is "node one learning views beast" or just go to:
http://nodeone.se/blogg/taming-the-beast-learn-views-with-nodeone-0
This is an excellent screencast series by a swedish dev team
"off the cuff" unplanned but useful format - 27 episodes recorded over 18 hours during a flight
Drupal Meetup - 3- 100 people
Drupal Event/Camp - somewhere in between
DrupalCon - uo to 3,000 people
Propose a session for Design 4 Drupal upcoming event:
http://boston2011.design4drupal.org/program/sessions/proposed
only 315 person capacity
Jake Straw will be giving a talk on the Omega theme
Dries will be doing a keynote on Saturday
Sign up now!
Dave
A way to deal with config: Gold config
Managing config via install profiles and updates
not for everyone - no gui!
Set your config - text formats, roles, wysiwyg settings
You make changes to the gold config .inv
recommends: hook_modules_enabled() hook_install_tasks()
Marc
Announcing a new Drupal self help group at the Arlington Library
Robbins Library 700 Mass. Ave., Arlington
http://maps.google.com/maps?um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=Robbins+Library%0A700+Mass.+...
Question about social communities around Drupal besides posting to drupal.org
Recommended Drupal.org IRC channel
http://drupal.org/irc
Its 9pm and we're getting kicked out of the room - we only had it till 8:30. Off to the Muddy Charles Pub for beer and pizza.
Multicolumn filter
Thanks to all for your encouragement, and to Erik for mentioning my little module in the minutes. I have contributed my Multicolumn filter as a sandbox project: http://drupal.org/sandbox/benji/1181988. Until someone asks for a back-port, it only works with Drupal 7. When I get through the TODO list, I will ask to have it promoted to a real project.
Videos posted from June 7 meetup
Hi, I posted three videos from the June 7 meetup on MIT TechTV -- Barry's video on the Dev Cloud has already gotten 500 views, which I can completely understand. The combination of git, drush and Drupal 7 is going to be huge under any circumstances, but to package that as a hosting service with a drop n' drag interface... well, the only thing I can say is that watching Barry's presentation I felt like Bill Gates and Larry Page were looking over my shoulder and saying, "Yep, this is going to be very big."
http://techtv.mit.edu/collections/drupal
On a personal note, I'm finishing up my second year helping out with the Boston Drupal Group meetups, the Design camps, and many other Drupal activities, and this seems a good moment to step back from those activities. I've really appreciated the chance to meet so many wonderful Drupaleros during the past two years, and I wish you the best in your work going forward.
Ed
Ed Carlevale
Drupal Developer, MIT Energy Club