Seattle DUG November 2008

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robeano's picture
Start: 
2008-11-20 18:00 - 20:00 US/Pacific
Organizers: 
Event type: 
User group meeting

Please join us for discussions of Drupal, Drupal events, and everything Drupal.
Agenda:

  • pizza
    • we will be ordering pizza this time. If you are interested in eating some, please say so in a comment
    • CivicActions is covering the cost of the pizza
    • StartPad is offering sodas
    • THANK YOU CivicActions and StartPad
  • barn raising follow up (SCBA website)
  • winter DrupalCamp?
    • location
    • 2 days
    • 1 day sessions, 1 day open
  • Lightening Talks (tell us about something you just learned or a site you just completed or ?)
    • Demo of the new MuseumofFlight.org site
  • break out into smaller groups as needed

Location:

StartPad
811 First Avenue, Suite 480
Seattle, WA 98104

If you have any agenda items to add, please post a comment to this event.

Please sign up. It's nice to know how many folks are attending.

Comments

Head Count for Pizza

jdwalling's picture

Please signup if you are coming. We need a head count for pizza order. Mike Koss offered to provide sodas. If you signup and don't want to eat pizza, leave a message.

No Pizza for me

bryanzug's picture

Am coming -- no pizza for me though -- thanks!

Yes for pizza

LarrySwanson's picture

Yes, I'll be there 11/20 and would love some pizza.

pizza

jkopel's picture

If the question is pizza, the answer is yes.
Please.

Web developer @ tableau

Pizza

renga-gdo's picture

I signed up, and I most likely will bring a guest with me. So count me as two for pizza please.

Thanks,

Robert

1 more for pizza

jhodgdon's picture

I wasn't sure if you still wanted people to say "yes I want pizza" or only if you signed up and then didn't want pizza. Very confusing. Anyway, I will be there and would please like some pizza.

ditto

kanani's picture

ditto

FYI...I updated the agenda

robeano's picture

FYI...I updated the agenda to include pizza information. If you want some (Piecoras...yummy), please bring $7.00 cash.

Robin

Robin

No need to worry about

robeano's picture

No need to worry about paying for pizza. CivicActions is covering the cost of pizza and StartPad is offering sodas. Now who wants to come to the next DUG? :)

Robin

Robin

well in that case...

RockSoup's picture

I'll definitely be there... :)

I have dusted off the SCBA issue cue from the barnraising and I am investigating a place for us to do a little sprint to wrap the site up. When I can get a cool space for us I will start a new post about it.

-jared

Finally getting social

CrystalWilliams's picture

Hey guys, looking forward to attending my first Seattle DUG. Finally all moved up. :)

Pizza sounds nice. -- Andrew

AndrewBecherer's picture

Pizza sounds nice.

--
Andrew Becherer
http://andrew.becherer.org

--
Andrew Becherer
http://andrew.becherer.org

If there is pizza there, I will eat it.

MMc123's picture

I have no will power.

Pizza and technology, they go together like peas & carrots!

roddieo's picture

So, yes, love some pizza during the 11/20 meeting. Thanks CivilActions & StartPad! See you all then...

Roderick Overman, Drupal Wannabe
Living Lotus Massage Clinic

Client Relations / Operations Manager
www.livinglotusmassage.com
mobile: 206.290.0770

Roderick Overman, LMP & Drupal Wannabe
Living Lotus Massage Clinic

Client Relations / Operations Manager
www.livinglotusmassage.com
mobile: 206.290.0770

Can't Make It This Month

roddieo's picture

Rut Roah, got an autition/jam session that just hit my schedule for the 20th. Have to pass on the UG meeting this time...

Roderick Overman, LMP & Drupal Wannabe
Living Lotus Massage Clinic

Client Relations / Operations Manager
www.livinglotusmassage.com
mobile: 206.290.0770

There's a good 90% chance

gdd's picture

There's a good 90% chance I'll make it. If so, I'd be willing to do something on the new deployment system I'm putting together for a client of ours. It would be very very code/architecture-centric though so wouldn't be appropriate for everyone. Maybe be good after we split off?

I just finished up Drupal 6 / GMAP project

kanani's picture

willing to discuss some tips and tricks getting taxonomy and gmap views to behave.

Looks like I'll make it

gilgabar's picture

and yes on the pizza. Thanks.

SUG topics

MMc123's picture

I would like to get some basic tips on how to use Views, CCK, taxonomy -- or whatever works -- to create additional "Story" pages other than the one that comes with the basic set up.

I'm a content guy, I confess, and am having a hard time figuring out how to accomplish this, which I think isn't really so difficult.

But it's a bit of a mystery even after trying to decipher the cryptic discussions related to the topic on the Drupal forums.

I was having such a hard time, in fact, that I temporarily dropped my Drupal efforts and switched to WordPress - but would like to go back to Drupal eventually because I want to have the permissions features, forums, and other features Drupal provides.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

(My WordPress site is: www.localhealthguideonline.com.)

Michael

Yay pizza

ksenzee's picture

I'll definitely be there. If there were a cheese pizza I would be in pizza heaven.

Michael, it's trivially easy to create a new content type... but only if you know how! I just did some googling to see what I could find for documentation for you, and it wasn't easy to find what I was looking for. The drupal.org redesign should help improve the problem of how hard it is to find documentation. In the meantime, see if this helps. You'll notice in the first image, there's an "Add content type" link to the right of the "Content types" header. That link takes you to a page where you can create a simple content type with title and body fields. If you want something more complicated than that, try following this mini-tutorial. If none of the above helps, I'll walk you through it tomorrow. And don't feel bad... they did some usability studies earlier this year, and as I recall, people really struggled with creating a new content type. So you're in good company.

ugh nm I won't be there

japerry@drupal.org's picture

ooh yah I'll be there! Finally, a thursday night I have free =D

edit drat. I have to stay late at work =/ email is acting up today

Thanks ksenzee

MMc123's picture

Thank you for your help with this. Mucking about I felt I was so close to making this work I could smell it. 95% there. It's always that last 5%. I'll get to work on it and see how I do. Thanks. - Michael

thanks

feliciam's picture

Looking forward to my first meeting. Have just started exploring drupal (first installation today!) but am interested to see how it works for you all.

I may be a few minutes late--I probably don't need any pizza.

See you then!

agenda...

RockSoup's picture

could we talk about a wrap party on the SCBA site for a couple minutes? (answer questions, recruit volunteers and set a date...)

also...

I have made the leap to linux (!) and wanted to ping the group to see if anyone has experience with Komodo. Activestate was a sponsor of Drupalcamp and I am excited about using their product. I was wondering if anyone in the group uses Komodo and might have any config (Drupal-centric) tips.

-jared

Museum of Flight web site presentation tonight

mckoss's picture

Bart Clarkson has agreed to present his implementation of the new Museum of Flight web site at the Drupal meeting tonight. We're planning to video his presentation and Q&A in case anyone else would like to hear about the techniques used and his experiences building:

http://museumofflight.org/

  • Mike

Two more for pizza if it's not too late?

ksenzee's picture

Two of my coworkers just decided to come. If the pizza isn't ordered yet can we add two for pizza?

1 more

msteudel's picture

Sorry for the late rsvp, if pizza hasn't been ordered yet I'd enjoy a slice or two otherwise no big deal.

Mark

Seattle Cowork Thurs Nov 20, 2008 3-6pm

jdwalling's picture

I will arrive at StartPad around 3:15PM for cowork. - John

Seattle Cowork Thurs Nov 20, 2008 3-6pm
StartPad.org - 811 First Avenue, Suite 480 - Seattle, WA 98104
Building entrance locks at 6pm - look for escort message on door

Cowork signup (3-6pm): http://groups.drupal.org/node/16916
Cowork wiki: http://groups.drupal.org/node/7689

IRC: irc://irc.freenode.net/drupal-seattle

If it's not too late, I'd

nickvu2's picture

If it's not too late, I'd also like to partake in pizza. No worries if I've missed it.

Nick

If it's not too late for me too

walker6o9's picture

Sorry for the late RSVP. If it's not too late, I'd also like to engage in pizza consumption. Also no worries if I have missed.

Drupal written up in Information Week

lucidvein's picture

Collaboration Is At The Heart Of Open Source Content Management

http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/open_source/showArticle.jht...

"Drupal conquers new territory in content management for the Web, while Alfresco makes collaboration and interoperability the keystones of its enterprise content management platform."

Seattle

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