Join our monthly Drupal meeting in Princeton. All community members interested in using Drupal as well as strengthening the Drupal community are invited. We'll discuss recent and exciting Drupal-related news, present interesting topics, and share knowledge. We'll start our meeting with three ten 10 to 15 minute sessions and/or one longer 30 to 40 minute presentation. Please propose a session or voice your support for a colleague's proposal using the comments section below.
DRAFT AGENDA
PRESENTATION
45+ minute presentation on Drupal 8 by Henry Umansky
LIGHTNING TALKS
- 10 to 15 minutes - leave a comment to sign up for a topic!
- How to use a hosts file for local development and pre-launch site building/configuration by Peter Wolanin
- Pushing Changes from dev to production with Features and Git by Chris McCafferty
LIGHTNING TALKS - You don't have to be a Drupal ninja to do a lightening talk! Share what you've learned and help spread the Drupal goodness. Use the comments section below to suggest your topic. Make sure you mention it is for the "lightning talk" otherwise it might get confused with a longer presentation.
PRESENTATIONS - Have a topic that needs more time? Trying to practice for a Drupal Camp presentation? Volunteer for a presentation. Make sure to tell us your intended audience.
WHERE
Join us in Room 109, of the Friend Center on the Princeton University Campus located on the corner of Olden and William streets.
After 5 pm, visitors may park in the University lot on William Street behind 185 Nassau Street.
visitor wifi details:
http://helpdesk.princeton.edu/kb/display.plx?ID=9713
http://helpdesk.princeton.edu/files/9713/OITVisitorWireless.pdf
Comments
signups closed?
Signups are closed for this meeting. I don't think we want that.
Ray
oops - I think that was an
oops - I think that was an accident since I initially posted with a 2011 date before fixing it.
If anyone is interested, I
If anyone is interested, I would love to do a "What's New in Drupal 8" talk. I would need about 45 to 60 minutes.
I'll put together a short
I'll put together a short presentation on using a hosts file - touching briefly on local development, but more around site migration or pre-launch configuration
I can do a Better Exposed Filters lightening talk
Looks like we need another 1 or two short presentations - I think better_exposed_filters would be something helpful for newer folks too. Happy to do it.
Ray
Pushing Changes from dev to production with Features and Git
This would be a talk on how to incubate new site features in a development space then automatically install them to production once approved.
Also, can we group up and take a step up the Drupal ladder after the talks?
You want to do that as a
You want to do that as a short (~10 min) talk?
Sure
Sure
Great Agenda
Looks like it will be a great meeting. See you all then.
Ray
Drupal quiz in development:
Drupal quiz in development: http://smarterer.com/test/drupal
might be fun to try out.
This is the module I
This is the module I mentioned briefly - http://drupal.org/project/stage_file_proxy . If anyone gets it working, and finds it useful, let us know.
Here are some of the other development modules people might find useful:
http://drupal.org/project/devel
http://drupal.org/project/xray
http://drupal.org/project/drupalforfirebug
http://drupal.org/project/demo
This is the link to the presentation Henry gave - http://webchick.net/drupal-8-slides
Posted the slides from my
Posted the slides from my lightning talk on using a hosts file: http://groups.drupal.org/files/pwolanin-hosts-files-2012-06-a.pdf
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