Posted by BDaggerhart on January 19, 2012 at 2:47am
Start:
2012-02-15 18:30 - 21:00 America/New_York Event type:
User group meeting
Location:
Kernersville Public Library
Lower level conference room
130 E. Mountain St,
Kernersville, NC 27284
6:30 - 8:30/9:00-ish
Itinerary:
Keynote Speaker: Jonathan Daggerhart - Drupal 6 Panels
Other Session: Ray - Useful Drupal help sites
Issue Q&A's - Ask about problems or issues you're having on your site(s) and let's try to tackle it together.
Comments
Lesson
Hi All,
I'm debating over speaking about Panels (D7) or Drush. Since there is going to be a drush make lesson, would it make more sense for me to give a drush talk first, or is that too much drush for one night?
Note: To use drush, familiarity with ssh command line will be completely necessary. So, if you're not comfortable with ssh, this may not be the lesson for you.
Additionally, a Panels lesson would be somewhat translatable between D6 & D7 due to similarities in the UI.
I'm also open to other suggestions/recommendations for the lesson. Just let me know what you're interested in.
Thanks,
Jonathan
From Photoshop to subtheme
I will work on creating a presentation (for later in the year -- March, if you like) on how to take a Photoshop PSD and create a subtheme (using Omega in D7, since that's what I'm currently doing).
Katrina
Site builder, writer, trainer, graphic designer
Great Katrina, that's
Great Katrina, that's something I'm particularly interested in!
So, since there hasn't been a response yet for the location, and I don't know any specifics of the hotel off 68 that has been used before, I'm going to go ahead and plan on using the Kernersville library again. I know there was one computer that couldn't get online there, but I think we can work around that since the internet connection mostly works. I plan on calling on Monday and setting up our time (Wednesday, Feb 15, 6:30 - XXX) as long as no one posts here that the date or location is unworkable.
So do we have anything
So do we have anything actually scheduled for this month yet? I've set us up for the Kernersville library, Wednesday Feb 15 @ 6:30. However, do we actually have anything planned for the evening?
Drush make (and anything drush-related) is not going to be accessible to anyone that doesn't have extensive shell knowledge & access, so Ray and I have decided to delay that tutorial. No one ever responded about Jonathan's ideas, maybe we should just hold off on him coming up as well?
Feel free to discuss here so we have some ideas as to what to plan for! :)
I thought the plan sounded good
I thought the plan sounded good, as you described it in the last meeting. I'm not familiar with Drush make. Before James talked about Drush at a meeting last year, I wasn't familiar with it either, but now I try to use it whenever I can to save some time; it's a really great tool. For my part, I'm comfortable with ssh and working at the command line for what I know. There are some things for which I prefer a GUI interface (like when I work with MySQL). But I'm always happy to learn new tools and tricks.
I know at the end of our Jan. meeting it was suggested we plan our next meeting a month ahead while we're still together, and I think we all agreed with that - it would give someone presenting time to prepare. I appreciate that you wanted to invite Jonathan up for our meeting. Having him at a meeting could help us in a number of ways, given his experience with Drupal and also with the DUG meetings in Charlotte. I agree that the sooner we can settle on a standard format for our meetings and regular meeting location, the better for the group (getting away from last-minute arrangements would be good, right?). When we settle on a location, we'll know more what resources are at our disposal to make guests feel welcome.
So if Jonathan doesn't come in Feb., maybe we could be ready for him in March?
Ben
So Jonathan is still going to
So Jonathan is still going to come up and do a session on D6 Panels.
Ray and I talked a bit, and I believe Ray will do something on Drupal help sites. We also talked about the two of us doing upcoming sessions on drush, and to do that, we're going to play a session on shell first, hopefully to be done for next month (March). I've updated the first post with all the relevant info.
Looking forward to this one
I'm looking forward to this one, to meet Jonathan to hear about what's been helpful to Ray. Thanks for arranging J's visit for us!
In future, I would be happy to show how I do all my development work in a locally installed Virtual Box installation, if others are interested.
I really like the idea of discussing upcoming meeting topics at the end of our meetings, so we can get input from all the group.
Ben
Virtual Box
I'm very interested
I like developing in Ubuntu Linux
I like developing in Ubuntu Linux. Have you used Ubuntu? It's very straight forward to install, but seriously took a year or so for me to get comfortable with all the parts of setting up LAMP, tweaking for Drupal, and then maintaining it. Now it's my preferred environment by far. And Virtualbox just makes that easier, because it can work on "any" platform, whether Mac or Windows or Linux. Since most of my development work it done in Ubuntu Server, I would be showing plenty of ssh and CLI tricks, so it may be good to do this after we do a session on ssh.
Ben
I'm glad everyone's looking
I'm glad everyone's looking forward to this meeting! Let's go ahead and plan on setting aside at least 10 minutes at the very end to throw a couple options out on the table for the next meeting as well.
Ben, I've used Ubuntu here and there, but I've never really gotten into going full-blown into Linux for one reason - I do a lot of gaming, and Linux has yet to be fully supported by game makers. Sure, there's Wine, but the games don't run as well that way. So yeah, I've usually had it installed on every machine of mine since 1999, but I rarely actually go into it and do anything with it. I would like to, and it's possible when I get my Mac in the upcoming months (which will do the gaming I want to do), I may just go ahead and convert my dell laptop over to full-blown Linux, since all I'll be using it for at that point is web design/development stuff.
Can't make it this month
I have visitors coming that night, so I won't be able to make it to the meeting. But I do have one question (since you're taking questions regarding sites we're working on): Is there anyone in the group who's interested in porting contrib modules from D6 to D7? There are several modules in D6 that I really like, but they have not yet been ported to D7 (in some cases, the developers of the modules have no interest in pursuing a D7 version). I'm just curious if anyone would be interested in working on that.
Katrina
Site builder, writer, trainer, graphic designer
Interested in learning more
I would be interested in doing this, but I'm not sure how to begin doing it. Depending on the modules you need in D7, there may be something that I'm especially interested in because it would help me, too. Do you have a list of the modules you need to work with that aren't ported to D7? I'd like to see what you're thinking about.
It was great to see everyone
It was great to see everyone on Wednesday night! Dolf & Jeff, it was a pleasure meeting you, I hope you guys come back and visit with us again.
+1
I'll second that. It was great to have the presentations by Jonathan and Ray, I learned about several things I want to pursue with my Drupal work. And I enjoyed seeing new faces at this meeting. If anyone has suggestions or questions for the group, please post them here as this is generally where we communicate.
We got so much out of the presentations, we didn't get much time at the end for discussion of next month's possible sessions. I had offered to talk about Virtual Box and Ubuntu as a testing/development environment, but that may not be applicable for enough people. Another idea I had was to use the development environment to show a Drupal multisite setup, would that be better? It would be about Apache and Drupal configuration primarily and less about Ubuntu per se. I'm definitely looking forward to the discussion being planned on using the shell.
I thought the K'ville library worked well as a location for the meeting. Do you think we'll continue there in future?