Come out and join us for the Feb Mid Hudson Drupal Meetup at Vassar College. The Mid Hudson Drupal Meetup is a regular gathering of folks working with drupal in the area to get together, share information, ask questions, and overall get involved with the Drupal Community. All levels of expertise are welcome, from drupal professionals, hobbyists, to rank beginners just trying to learn something new. In our 8 months of meetings it's been an incredible learning experience for everyone involved, and people have picked up skills here that have greatly accelerated projects they're working on.
This Month: General Show and Tell - anyone is free to show something they've been working on, get comments, feedback, ask questions
Agenda
- Introductions - including what's you favorite module for the month
- Show and Tell
- Report from Drupal Camp MA
For first timers, here are Directions and Map.
Comments
CiviCRM
I've been investigating CiviCRM with Drupal integration for deployment for the Poughkeepsie Farm Project, and will be part of my show and tell. Would love to hear about any other experiences people have had with it, and will share my own so far.
Some Notes
This month half of the faces in the group were new so we went around the room doing introductions and getting familiar with everyone's level of Drupal. We had a good of experienced users and those completely new to everything so plenty of good things shared. Quick overviews or conversations revolved around
Sean got up and started off with showing his redesign of midhudsonastro.org which is now based on a responsive design and the Omega theme. The Decemeber meetup notes has some more information on how he accomplished making Omega in Drupal 6 be responsive. This theme and his mhvlug.org theme are available on his github page. Along with this site showing he shared:
Sean continued by giving an overview of what CiviCRM is and how he is using it for a non-profit site he works on.
Thor (other Sean) showed some of the configuration involved in the Messaging and Comment notify modules. Both feature less than intuitive interfaces and special attention has to be given to Comment notify's own token replacement system rather than supporting the Token module. Through these modules the users of his site get notified of new content, specifically forum posts and comments.
Another module that came up in conversation was the Coffee module. Only available for Drupal 7, but this module helps with navigating through the admin menus via a keyboard. Hit Alt+D (alt+shift+D for Opera) and start typing what you are looking for and you are there. Great module for keyboard users who want something like Alfred/Sherlock/Quicksilver/GnomeDo. Being able to type
:add articleto quickly add a new page is certainly helpful.The next meeting will be Thursday, March 8th at the same place and time. Tentatively the topic will be Organic Groups covered by someone from the ranks at kickball.com. Be sure to follow the g.d.o post or the meetup page for further news on that.