Drupal NYC Meetup -- April 3rd 2013

forestmars's picture
Start: 
2013-04-03 18:30 - 21:00 America/New_York

Where?: 7 World Trade Center, 29th Floor (Mansueto Ventures)
When?: Wednesday April 3rd, 6:30 - 9:00 PM

Directions?
http://tinyurl.com/mansuetoventuresdirections

Afterwards?
We head over to Suspenders (just a couple blocks away) for food, drink, merriment & networking.
http://maps.google.com/?q=Suspenders&cid=15798436359602217114

Final list will be given to the venue at 10pm on April 2nd (the evening before the meetup)
You need to sign up before then to get in.

Plans?

  • LIGHTNING ROUNDS
    Have a topic you can present in 5 minutes (with 5 more minutes for questions)? The basic idea is there are patterns for developing sites the "drupal" way ("what would drupal do? etc."). Tell us a quick 5 minute recipe for how to put the Drupal "bricks" together. Theming techniques or other things may also be appropriate. Propose it below. Make sure you mention it is for the "lightning round" otherwise it might get confused with a longer presentation.

    • NYC Camp Announcement
    • Nikkiana ~ Theming / TBA
    • Explain Explained - KMoll
    • 1 Module in 5 minutes - Bleen
    • DevShop in 5 minutes - ThinkDrop
  • 20-30 Min Talks
    Have a topic that needs more then 5 minutes, we have slots of 20-30 minute talks. The basic idea is there are broader subjects or more detailed discussions this is the type of talk you would want to signup for, please mention 20 min talk when posting your talk description and the audience you expect to speak to.

    • Project Management - Nicole Lind
    • Diversity in Software Development - DrNikki
    • Apache Solr - PWolanin
  • Break Out Sessions
    Breakout sessions take place in the "other room" and are more informal, covering any number of topics.

    • New 2 Drupal BOF table - New to Drupal? Bring your questions and problems for expert help. If you are new to Drupal and the talks don't apply to you some of us will take a group and talk with you about your issues.
    • Drupal Ladders Q&A - Get started on the Drupal Ladder! Break out session to prepare for Ladders contrib event this Sunday.
    • NYC Camp planning discussion - informal, ad hoc discussion to plan next Drupalcamp
    • Other ad hoc breakout BOFs - Have an interest? Start a BOF at a break out table

Signup Instructions!: 7 World Trade Center security checks your photo id against the list of attendees that we provide.

Comments

Lightning talk

bleen18's picture

A more thorough look at one of the 10 modules in 5 mins I did last time ... Haven't picked which yet

Which one?

forestmars's picture

DId you pick which module yet? Meetup is the day after tomorrow. ;-)

not too sure

kenp's picture

Hi was just hoping to get a clue how to theme and start converting a site to omega. Pretty new this would be my first drupal meeting maybe infrastructure? Are the talks separate? Thought I could just sit in and listen
Ken

That was for Bleen

forestmars's picture

Ken- Er, if you look at the threading you'll see that comment/question was directed at Bleen, who is doing a 5 minute lightning round on a module "TBD."

Looking forward to seeing you at the meetup, we'll be covering a lot of topics.

Lightning Talk

kmoll's picture

Even though its not Drupal specific, I can do a quick 5 minute talk about optimizing custom queries using Explain

Enterprise DevOps without the Devs or the Ops

skwashd's picture

I was down to present this last week, but it feel off the agenda. I'm still keen to present it remotely. Are people interested in me delivering it in April?

btw I'll be NY on Friday night for drinks, I'd be happy to talk to people about it there. More info available in this post.

Re: Enterprise DevOps without the Devs or the Ops

deanland's picture

YES! I've been eager as can be to see this. In earlier tries there have been technical difficulties, so might I suggest next time we try using zoom.us for conferencing -- I've used that in conjunction with join.me and had excellent results. Last time I used it there were people in London, NYC and Phoenix, Arizona, and the call went off flawlessly.

Sorry I can't make it on Friday, especially since this is here in NY.

Another time, no doubt!

Out of town

Elijah Lynn's picture

I will be out of town for this one, see you guys next month!

I told Forest I'd do a 20-30

pwolanin's picture

I told Forest I'd do a 20-30 min talk on Apache Solr

Yay, 1+ for Solr =)

Alexander Allen's picture

1+ for Solr =)

Jon Pugh's picture

I have fixed a number of bugs that made my last 5 minute demo of DevShop kindof disappointing. Lets try again!

In 5 minutes, we will create a brand new Drupal site from scratch, deploy it to test and live environments, make some changes, and then deploy it again. Then, we'll add a module or tweak some theme code, commit and push it, and watch as it magically makes its way to our dev and test servers. If that looks good, we'll Pull Code to live again!

And we'll do all of this without ever leaving the browser.

For more information, see http://drupal.org/project/devshop


Jon Pugh
Founder & CTO
THINKDROP
open source consulting
http://thinkdrop.net

I've made my slides public at

Jon Pugh's picture

I've made my slides public at https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1bqQR2YFjKoINUj0y9qAK72xSN61WZ0-v...

And the video is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d17sLaNQfQU
(Audio coming soon!)

Thanks everyone!


Jon Pugh
Founder & CTO
THINKDROP
open source consulting
http://thinkdrop.net

Regrets

RKopacz's picture

Although I had hoped to make it, will not be able to. Regards to all. Have fun!

I am not sure I am going to

kmoll's picture

I am not sure I am going to make it to the meet up tonight, and if I do I will probably be late, so I will need to move my lightning talk on Explain to another meet up.

Can't make it tonight

deanland's picture

Sorry for the late notice, sudden conflict arose. See you next month! Regards to all.

Updated Solr quickstart is at

pwolanin's picture

Updated Solr quickstart is at http://drupal.org/documentation/modules/search/quick-start-solr-3

I suggest downloading this in advance if you want to play along. A local Drupal 7 site + devel generate will also be helpful.

Not tonight, sadly. Heads-up about Sunday...

fureigh's picture

Unfortunately, I won't be able to make it tonight. Really sorry to miss this one!

If you want more Drupal in your week after tonight, stop by the Drupal Ladder sprint this Sunday to learn more about (and help with!) Drupal 8: http://groups.drupal.org/node/290083.

fureigh.com
fureigh on twitter and g.d.o.

Slide from my presentation

pwolanin's picture

Slide from my presentation attached at http://groups.drupal.org/node/292053

Feel free to leave feedback there.

Thanks!

oknate's picture

Thanks, pwolanin!

New York City

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