February User Group Meeting, Redux

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2012-02-08 18:00 - 19:30 UTC
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Reposting this an event so that we can get SIGNUPS! Please sign up below so we can gauge interest.

Get ready for fun at February's meetup! Melissa Anderson (@eliza411) is going to walk us through some awesome Workflow training in Drupal. This is a very hands-on exercise, so bring your laptops and get ready for between 1 - 1.5 hours of training on the workbench_moderation module. From Melissa:

By default, Drupal's core workflow is a simple published/unpublished setting. For Februrary we'll use an OpenSourcery Test Kitchen recipe to allow editorial moderation. Using workbench_moderation, we'll allow site contributors to create content, save it in a draft state, and pass it on to site editors when it is ready for review. Once an editor has published the content, it will stay live and the contributor and editor can collaborate behind the scenes until the new revision is ready to be published.

Sign up, and we'll provide a pre-configured Drupal sandbox that you can use to build this recipe during the meetup. If you're an experienced Drupaler, you can volunteer to lend others a hand. And of course, you can just sit back and watch.

Looks like fun! Come prepared to learn and/or help on February 8th at 6pm at OpenSourcery.

For March, we're going to have another hands-on, roll-up-your-sleeves session as Ryan Aslett guides us all to hit a remote desktop environment configured with the right tools to let us step through the Drupal 7 bootstrap.

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Sorry for the cancellation at

wastrilith2k's picture

Sorry for the cancellation at the last minute. Had something come up.

--James

--James

Is there laptop power

twardnw's picture

Is there laptop power available? My main laptop bit it last week, and the battery in my backup machine is useless. If not, I will just be taking plenty of notes :)

-Tyler-

Yes, there's power.

eliza411's picture

Maybe not enough for the usual user group size, but you should be able to find an outlet without any trouble. Sit near the pillars.

Ack! Not trying to be a

twardnw's picture

Ack! Not trying to be a flake, traffic is atrocious this evening. :(

-Tyler-

Follow up to Workbench Moderation

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Thanks to everyone who came out last night! I had contacted one of the active workbench_moderation developers, stevector, for feedback on the materials used in last night's presentation, and I just heard from him this morning.

He added:

  • Instead of using the second browser to switch between users, you could use a third browser. When I did the initial demo video I used three logins in Safari, Chrome and Firefox. That's ultimately just a personal preference question.
  • Please link to this docs page for how to save Views changes to code: http://drupal.org/node/1171066 (My note: Saving views to code allows you to deploy them from a staging site to a production server more easily and track them in version control systems, protecting all your configuration effort.)
  • There is a lot of refactoring work going into the 2.x branch. This work is mostly discussed here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/198188 Among other things, this will address the question of log messages for node changes vs. log messages for state changes which is alluded to in 7.1.6. Please encourage people to join the discussion in that g.d.o thread if there are changes or features they would like to see implemented.

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