Drupal NYC May Meetup
Start:
2009-05-13 06:30 - 09:00 America/New_York In the April meetup, we discovered all the problems we had with the usability behind Drupal. Join us in May where we'll fix some of those issues.
- When?
- May 13th, 2009, 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
- Where?
- 7 World Trade Center, 29th Floor (Mansueto Ventures)
- Directions?
- http://tinyurl.com/mansuetoventuresdirections
- Schedule
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- Views and Nodequeue with Ezra Gildesgame (tentative)
- Drupal IRC Bot Awesomeness, Part 2 with a healthy Charlie Gordon
- DoSomething.org: Case study with George Weiner
- Drupal Drinks and Drupal Fun, with a Ruby debriefing, at the Dakota Roadhouse
If you'd like to attend, you must click on the Sign up button below so that we can add you to the guest list. Also note that it is important that you fill in the Real Name field in your user account settings. See you there!
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oh yea here we go again
ok If people are interested in an image.module clone using views2 then I'll be willing to show it. This will be done just using cck,imagefield,views2,imagecache and panels2 which is typical modules that people use these days. I can also show a way to clone og_calendar.module using views2+date & calendar module too.
The calendar bit would be timely to me
I'd love to get quick tips on the calendar part-- just 30 min ago I was trying that for my day job's new intranet. Tia!
no problem, I might have a
no problem, I might have a demo showing some views2,panels3 stuff and this will include the per-user image gallery done with cck,views and panels and the og_calendar done with date and calendar module.
Food
Should we set-up a chipin for food? I'm all about the food. =)
On a side note, maybe the group should create a general spending fund that people can chipin money to so that we can have things like food and drinks at all the NYC Drupal Group meetups. Just a thought.
you should have come to the
you should have come to the bar after, Alonza Robertson from trellon paid for some drinks and a zillion white castle burgers.
I am willing to demonstrate
I am willing to demonstrate Mobile Application/Cloud Computing: Drupal + Android.
Drupal Module used: Views.2.4, Views_datasource
Android Module used: Barcode Scan, XML parsers
under the assumption that I will finish the demo by then.
finish that demo, I like to
finish that demo, I like to see it :)
Views and the Android
That sounds like a pretty interesting demo. Could you run with what Ezra puts together during the presentation to get it working on the Android? ;-) .......... Also might be a neat thing to suggest to Lynne for the next Android developer meetup! :-)
OK, I have basic
OK, I have basic Beer+Drupal+JSON(Views_datasource)+Android+Barcode demo setup, if there is enough interest, I will be happy to demo it for 10 minutes.
BTW, I intended to release this app on DrupalNYC May Happy Hour day; Beer Sommelier based on Drupal. http://greatbrewers.com/beer-sommelier
My 1st Drupal Meetup!
I plan on attending. I will be coming from Central Jersey and look forward to meeting everyone!
Also willing to demo
There's great topics already on the schedule. But if the following is interesting I could demo, or on some other night:
Deployed Ubercart on D5 at http://www.the-chocolate-lab.com (site launched)
Been developing corporate intranets at Cambridge University Press. One serves procedures documentation, the other is an e-publishing project management hub (both projects just started, D6/organic groups/views etc.). Topics here include the issue of getting an organization to be comfortable with open source, non-brandname software (in a word: persistence).
Not quite as cool as Drupal+Android barcode scanning though...
@rgammon I'd love to hear
@rgammon I'd love to hear more about how the Cambridge University Press is using Drupal! That seems like a great example of Drupal's increasing use in the publishing industry. If you're interested in presenting about that I feel like we could make time in the schedule, right folks?
We're just at the start
I'm stoked on Drupal at the Press, but we're just at the start.
Project 1: Using Drupal to support our ELT (ESL) e-Publishing group. The big part is Organic groups for project homepages that publish project decisions, milestone schedules, and assets. Previously this was done through a mix of Excel/Word files printed and emailed, an SMB mount, and project managers' notebooks. We're also going to use the system to track industry news. Calendars are a big part, with a need to have a group-wide calendar that shows holidays, industry conferences, staff vacations, and project milestones. We then need to filter the calendar views to just holidays/vacations, conferences, milestones for a project, and milestones for a project in a particular project phase (a relatively traditional PM methodology, but with agile-esque rapid iterations and prototypes between gates). This is what the note up above to likewhoa on OG Calendar cloning is about.
Project 2: Using Drupal to support our ELT division-wide procedures manuals. Some publishers produce beautiful textbooks using methods kept in dense 300-page ring-bound printouts. We want our beautiful textbooks to be published using a beautiful, paperless CMS. Content is sliceable by product lifecycle phase, type of product, and employee functional group. So you can quickly find, "What does a production editor do with art specs in pass 3 on a book with a CD in back?" Drupal's integrated search and the flags module are important for providing user-focused content access, as will be a number of interactive graphics allowing one to go from big-picture product lifecycle to phase workflow, to a more text-heavy description (books module org on those lower pages).
Both of these projects have just come out of a wireframe and light-demo for proof of concept. So there's not much in terms of glossy right now (say, September meetup for that?) The big lesson for a presentation right now (and I'm talking, 3 minutes and some Q&A) is, "Given an old, traditional company that has preferred name-brand solutions, how can Drupal get a chance?"
That said, there's also an exciting project with King Saud University in Saudi Arabia that is now published. The vendor is Arizona State University, and Drupal-Moodle integration is a huge part of that. So I guess we're gaining ground on the Drupal/OSS front.
Tonight I'm excited to see some Panels stuff, since content dashboards are definitely important for my in-house audience's usage styles.
Any Official NYC Stickers
Any official NYC Drupal stickers left? Just curious.
can't make it :-(
Unfortunately this month we have a school event that I am committed to at the same time.
I have a few of the stickers left, I could spare a couple.
Jean Gazis
www.jeangazis.com
www.webhostny.com
Would appreciate that, Thanks
Hi Jean,
Would appreciate that. I'll remind you before next meetup. Thanks.
Vinny
never went to one of these..
never went to one of these.. how is it? i'll be attending with a few friends.
I'm in NYC at the last
I'm in NYC at the last minute on business. I don't have a lot of time but I will be there for the first hour or so (conveniently for Ezra's talk it looks like) and make him nervous!
Will be there and looking for developers
We just won a couple of pretty big Drupal projects at Funny Garbage. We'll be there and looking for a couple of really experienced Drupal folks to supplement our team.
Will be there and looking for work!
If we don't find each other before or during the event, please contact me if you are still searching.
Sorry I'll miss it!
I'm stuck in Jersey and bummed I'll miss this month's meetup. Enjoy everyone!
Totally bummed that I can't make it
I have had a tough month - knee surgery & tons of dental issues. Have fun folks will try to make Drupal NYC beers
RobbieTheGeek
Missed my first Drupal meetup
I'm trying to put together my first Drupal application. I'll try to eliminate all my newbie questions before the next meetup. Cheers.
Thank you everyone for the
Thank you everyone for the great meetup. I enjoyed this month's presentations very much, cant wait for the next meetup.
For those of us that cant wait a month to geek out about drupal, join us to the next happy hour social on May 27th (http://groups.drupal.org/node/22129 ).
Boston Design DrupalCamp
Everyone,
Thanks for a great meetup. For those who were interested in the Boston DrupalCamp focused on design and theming, there's a real site in the works, but for now, you can follow the @D4DBoston Twitter user: http://twitter.com/D4DBoston .
Hope to see you all next month!
Boston Drupal Design Camp Website is Live!
For those who are interested. Check it out, sign up, etc.
http://boston.design4drupal.org
Bad luck...
I am having the worst luck with these...Sick for April, had already registered (and paid) for Webgrrls tonight, and the next social is the same night as my next Girls in Tech event. :-(
I've missed being at the Drupal meetups. I hope I can make the next one!!
Amy C. Cham
Managing Director, Girls in Tech - New York City Chapter
Twitter: amycham
FYI, Girls in Tech link is wrong
Just a heads up-- your Girls in Tech link goes to http://girlsintech.ent/
Matt
Large Animal Games | www.mattwkelly.com
D'OH!! Thanks, Matt!! Amy
D'OH!! Thanks, Matt!!
Amy C. Cham
Managing Director, Girls in Tech - New York City Chapter
Twitter: amycham
Thanks everyone
It was great meeting all you folks last night and I am going to try really hard to start making these frequently. We'll be posting those jobs in the next couple of days for anyone that didn't get my card.
Sorry I couldn't make it!
Sorry I couldn't make it! I had some friends in town that arrived here early.
I wanted to let everyone know that we're hiring php programmers that would be working in our Manhattan HQ. For more info, check out http://groups.drupal.org/node/22206
Hopefully I'll see everyone at the next event!
Cheers,
Matt
Large Animal Games | www.mattwkelly.com
Thanks, Earl!
Thanks again to merlinofchaos for answering so many of our questions!
Who's got photos from last night's meetup? Here's one of Earl in his great new hat: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ezrabg/3530620223/
what a great meetup
all --
i had a great time and am psyched already for the next one. took tons of notes, learned a lot, and am already putting much into practice. what a treat to see merlinofchaos at my first drupal meetup!
thanks again + well done
alexis
Notes from 5/13 meetup
Hi all,
Here are my notes from May's meetup, in the event you may find them useful: http://www.livetotry.com/2009/05/29/notes-from-the-drupal-nyc-meetup-51309/
Corrections welcome!
Thanks for posting this.
I wasn't able to make it this month so thank you!
Jean Gazis
www.jeangazis.com
www.webhostny.com
Thanks!!
I also missed the May meeting and appreciate you passing on your notes. Thanks again.