We will be hosted by the MIT Drupal Group in Cambridge in Building E51 - Tang Center in E51-145.
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 the meeting as well as given the chance to do a featured talk.
Comments
Zemanta Module on Drupal 7
Would love to present our updated Zemanta module (http://drupal.org/project/zemanta) that now works on Drupal 7 and getting feedback from the folks in the group.
Thanks,
Tin
Boston Initiative 6:30 - 7:30 tonight
Just wanted to remind people: At tonight's meetup, we'll be dedicating one hour, from 6:30 to 7:30, to learning about and contributing to Drupal core. Here's some background and info about the game plan: http://groups.drupal.org/node/184424.
Folks interested in participating in the Boston Initiative, please try to come a little before 6:30 so we can begin promptly at 6:30.
7:30 - 8:30 we will continue with our regular program of lightening talks.
Bryan
Git instructions
This note is aimed at the four attendees who worked with me to get git installed on our laptops on Monday, but all are welcome to have a look.
I have started a Google Doc that will be a HOWTO for this step of the contribution ladder. Anyone with the link can both view and edit it: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18QjFiRCPPpQqsuTfvi0dVfxIPmBUTCly8s88...
So far, it is only an outline. Please help flesh it out. Once it gets to the stage where it is useful, maybe some more people will try to follow the instructions and point out where they need improvement.
This is a working draft, so you can add questions or notes in the document itself. If you prefer, you can use my personal contact form.
Drupal quick fixes
Hi all,
Here are the slides from the Drupal quick fixes presentation.
https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AQlOCsl0BgaoZGdtNXhwNHZfMTA4ZzN...
URL doesn't work via email
I received this comment via email, and when I tried clicking on the link, Google docs complained, "Sorry, the page (or document) you have requested does not exist." But clicking on the docs.google.com link on the actual comment page worked fine.
In the comment, the text on the link is truncated and ends with "..." but the href on that link contains the full URL. However the emails are sent as plain text, so only the text on the link arrives in the recipient's mailbox. As a result, what the mailreader displays as a clickable link is not a valid link.
Does anyone know what Drupal module causes:
to get converted to:
Can that be configured by the author of a post or comment?
This is the job of the url
This is the job of the url filter (Convert URLs into links) in your text formats. Check filtered HTML for example, and in the settings, you can set maximum link text length. Default is 72, which is the length of the truncated link above.
Filter module tuncates URL's
The Filter module is responsible for truncating the displayed text in a URL. Specifically, it is the URL filter. On D6, when I visit
mysite.com/admin/settings/filters/1/configure(config page for Filtered HTML) the first configuration option is "Maximum link text length:" and the default is 72.I do not think the author of a post can change it. What you did worked: wrap the URL in <code> tags, and the URL will show up as plain text, both on the web and in the e-mails. (I think it will be turned into a link if there are spaces between the URL and the tags.)
I am not sure how the e-mails are generated. Maybe the site admin could use different settings for the URL filter.
Thanks for the slides!
Thanks for the slides! timhilliard's Drush Debug Tools sandbox project indeed looks very handy.