April Seattle Drupal User Group Meeting

Posted by RockSoup on March 21, 2012 at 7:05pm

Start:

2012-04-19 18:00 - 19:30 America/Los_Angeles

Organizers:

RockSoup

GregoryHeller

Event type:

User group meeting

Amazon South Lake Union Campus 421 Boren Ave N Seattle, WA 98109

Learn about Drupal and meet local Drupal enthusiasts. We will meet from 6 pm until 7:30 pm.

Agenda

Brief One Breath introductions
Remembering Drupalcon
PNW Drupal Summit 2012 Update

Come share and learn. If you have a showcase or demo or trick or tip to share leave a comment below and we will make sure you have time. If you have a question for the room also leave a comment and we can look at your problem.

Coworking will be at Uptown Espresso around 3:30pm.
500 Westlake Ave N
Walk route (2.5 blocks)

Afterwords we are likely to head to local bar/restaurant for some food and drinks.

Comments

twilio

Posted by jersu on April 19, 2012 at 10:09pm

It's been awhile since I've been to SeaDug, but I'm looking forward to getting back. I made a D7 module that might be of interest to the group. It uses the Twilio service. I thought I could demo it for the group.

edit: I'm drowning in work right now, I can't make it tonight. Sorry. I'll give this demo next time around if anyone is interested.

Node title suggestion...

Posted by jhodgdon on April 4, 2012 at 3:35pm

Can I make a suggestion for next month's announcement? Include "Seattle" or SeaDUG in the node title. :)

Two reasons (really the same reason):
- Many of us are members of multiple groups on g.d.o, and get them in the daily digest. So when I see a new post called "April DUG meeting", I don't know off-hand (without clicking through) if it's Seattle, Missoula, or what.
- All Event content in all groups is posted on the central GDO calendar:
http://groups.drupal.org/events
If you look at April 19, you'll see at a glance that there is one in Niagra, one in China (or Japan? anyway I can't read it so I don't want to go), and one mysterious one just called "April DUG meeting". :)

Just a thought. You could start by editing the current announcement title too. :)

Drupal programmer - http://poplarware.com
Drupal author - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920034612.do
Drupal contributor - https://www.drupal.org/u/jhodgdon

Good idea Jennifer

Posted by RockSoup on April 4, 2012 at 4:10pm

Will make the change.

-jared

While we're on the topic...

Posted by WarrenK on April 4, 2012 at 5:19pm

...please consider adding the date of the month to the body of the announcement. Although I know it's always the 3rd Thursday others may not and if they get emails like I do they would have to go to D.O. to see the actual date because it is in the D.O. header but not in the email.

mentored training for clinic

Posted by jkopel on April 6, 2012 at 3:46pm

At a past seadug meeting we had discussed doing a mentored training session for the clinic.
I participated as a mentor in a training that Chris Shattuck organized at Drupalcon, and I think it would make a great model for us. I would like to take a few minutes talk about how it went, and how we might organize one here.

-Josh

Web developer @ tableau

Feb topic: Mentored Drupal training vs Drupal Clinic

Posted by jdwalling on April 8, 2012 at 2:41am

Feb seadug topic: Mentored Drupal training vs Drupal Clinic
http://groups.drupal.org/node/207018#comment-686303

KEY POINTS:

Approach 1: Buildamodule
Overview:
http://chrisshattuck.com/blog/mentored-drupal-trainings-happening-around...
Training site:
http://buildamodule.com/train

Approach 2: NodeOne Learning Library
http://dev.nodeone.se/en/learning-library

Approach 3: Repeat Clinic from 2011
http://drupalkata.com/seattle-drupal-clinic/seattle-drupal-clinic-2011

Misc. Approaches

A. Acquia
http://training.acquia.com/hellodrupal
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1187094/hellodrupal/HelloDrupal-Guide.pdf
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1187094/hellodrupal/HelloDrupal-Manual.pdf
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1187094/hellodrupal/HelloDrupal-Presentation.pdf
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1187094/hellodrupal/HelloDrupal-PresoNotes.pdf

B. Itangalo's sandbox: Skill Compass
http://drupal.org/sandbox/itangalo/1508272

C. Custom video compilation from various Drupal libraries
http://www.listology.com/jwalling/list/drupal-beginner-resources

an excellent plan

Posted by doublejosh on April 9, 2012 at 6:38pm

Sounds like an excellent plan. Watched a program about the increased success you can have if the program can be something folks can mostly be doing on their own and have mentor helpers mingling around answering questions and getting people unstuck.

Certainly would be cool... and why not break the lecture mold!?
OR maybe this isn't want you mean at all :)

Willing to do a quick demo

Posted by doublejosh on April 9, 2012 at 6:41pm

Willing to do a quick demo of using the Drupal Coding Standards Sniffer within your IDE.

(Like using this http://ventral.org/pareview but much easier.)

Please do!

Posted by mortona2k on April 18, 2012 at 7:40pm

That's an issue I've been trying to work out.

More details

Posted by doublejosh on April 20, 2012 at 1:42am

http://doublejosh.com/post/19466733798/setup-drupal-coding-standards-sni...

Skill Compass

Posted by jdwalling on April 20, 2012 at 12:52am

Skill Compass - a new learning framework

Creator:
Johan Falk @Itangalo http://drupal.org/user/153998 | http://groups.drupal.org/user/8238
* Was working for NodeOne.com
* Now working on degrees in teaching
* Made many videos on learning drupal at NodeOne
* Drupal Learning Library
http://www.nodeone.se/blogg/introducing-nodeones-drupal-learning-library
* Inspired by Khan Academy http://www.khanacademy.org/

=============================
Itangalo Worked on Drupal Skill Sets
Graphics https://cacoo.com/diagrams/Fu6NuballS0GgW0d#9B601
Skill sets http://groups.drupal.org/node/172434
Roles in Drupal development http://groups.drupal.org/node/67763
Thoughts on open curriculum http://groups.drupal.org/node/184664
Roadmap http://groups.drupal.org/node/172429

=============================
Itangalo is now working on Skill Compass [SK] for Open Curriculum
Current project focusing on Drupal Learning
SK designed for any subject area, like Khan Academy
Itangalo plans to use SK for his teaching profession

SC Announced 4/13
Itangalo invites people to join in and help build the content
http://skillcompass.org/
http://skillcompass.org/node/20 earning points
http://skillcompass.org/blog/thoughts-about-learing-resources rationale for SC
http://drupal.org/node/1513354 Progressive permissions sketches

Skill Compass allows organizing resources for learning in a way that makes it easy to find
new topics to learn and resources for learning those topics.
http://drupal.org/project/sc drupal project
http://drupal.org/node/1513334 roadmap

Johan Falk and the Skill Compass module - Modules Unraveled Podcast
http://modulesunraveled.com/podcast/016-johan-falk-and-the-skill-compass...
http://modulesunraveled.com/sites/default/files/podcast/audio/016johanfa...

Video introduction to SC
120414 - skillcompass.org part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b25LHU_tRk&list=PL94B2B4AC81E9645F&featu...
120414 - skillcompass.org part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEULbUO3IpA&feature=autoplay&list=PL94B2B...

MY GOAL: To easily build classes curricula for mentored training Drupal users on a range of topics and skill levels.

My thoughts on the SC Roadmap to an LMCS/LMS
http://drupal.org/node/1532782#comment-5884196
SC is addressing content as a way to gather and categorize content units according to Drupal topics and potentially any other body of "real world" information. This "real world" approach gives SC an edge. Here is my updated top down POV :
1. Catalog Management (long lived content with regular updates) <== after 2 ? (see Note 2)
2. Course Management (long lived content) <=== next after 7 & 8 ?
3. Class Management (medium lived content, months)
4. Class Section Management (medium lived content, weeks to months)
5. Registration & Enrollment Management (medium to long lived for certification and learning management)
6. Learning Management (students' and teachers' content, frequent updates)
7. Topic Management (SC in beta) (long lived content) (see Note 3)
8. Learning Unit Management (SC in beta) (long and medium lived content)

A link to Drush Videos for Beginners...

Posted by hemant_saraf (not verified) on April 20, 2012 at 4:20am

http://tutr.tv/search/apachesolr_search/drush

Drush session was great... thanks... For the beginners, I think the above link will be helpful as well.

Thanks Everyone

Posted by Gaelan on April 20, 2012 at 5:21am

Thanks for making me feel so welcome at the meeting tonight. I really like the Drupal/Acquia t-shirt. I can't wait until the next meeting.

Gaelan
The Shortest Drupaler

Sweet, what are you going to

Posted by mortona2k on April 20, 2012 at 7:45am

Sweet, what are you going to demo?

-Andrew