Demember Meetup Wrapup

We had a (central) Florida Drupal User's Group meetup at Mind Comet's offices in Altamonte Springs yesterday. Despite it being the weekend before Christmas, we had a good turnout - 12 people, including 5 new attendees (Daryl, Brenda, Damien, Kim, and Raheem).

The two main topics we covered were the "Do It With Drupal" conference and theming with Views 2.

Ryan (liberator) led a discussion about the recent Do It With Drupal conference held in New Orleans. He said he found the "Fantasy Sites" sessions very interesting (building Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and BaseCamp with Drupal). He also talked about this conference was geared more towards businesses using Drupal rather than developers improving Drupal.

I [Mike (ultimike)] led a discussion about Views 2 theming. I talked about the 4 main "categories" of View 2 template files (Display Output, Style Output, Row Style Output, and Field Style Output), naming conventions of template files using the "Theme: Information" link, and went through several interactive examples of overriding the base template files. I have attached a PDF version of my (short) presentation to this discussion.

We also touched on several other topics:

• Lullabot's Form Builder module
• Drupal 7 timeline
• Taxonomy/Pathauto/Views - stemmed from a question from Raheem
• Florida DrupalCamp - conference call first week of 2009 - date and time TBA (Joe?)
• Januray Meetup - 1/17/08, 1-5PM - topics - Drupal Menus (Ryan (liberator)) and (possibly) microformats, Case Study: Disney's Childrens Hospital at Florida Hospital (Andrew), extended Q&A - if there's a topic you'd like to see covered, please leave it in the comments!