Keene Drupal Meetup: Thursday, April 4th

Notes from the meeting:

• We had six attendees (yay!): Damien McKenna, Beth Armour, Matt Goodwin, Mark Wallace, Rob Bayliss and Kelly Albrecht.
• Damien forgot to contact the person who managed the usual meeting location so we were locked out, we went to a local cafe instead. We didn't have coffee or a projector, but we did have refreshments :)
• The only reason Rob and Kelly showed up was because of a Tweet that Damien posted that mentioned the evening's location. Damien said he's going to do up some signs for next time.
• We discussed the latest on DrupalcampNH 2013. The plan is for a weekend in September or maybe the first weekend in October, presuming it wouldn't conflict with Drupalcamp Montreal, and to be held somewhere in Portsmouth. As a group we decided that we would do the website, so people who live closer to the proposed location could instead focus on the venue. Discussing the location options, Beth and others were shocked at the quoted price from UNH, stating that the college she was associated was basically free with just some minimal surcharges.
• Rob demoed Commerce POS, a Point-of-Sale system that Left Click built.
• Damien asked Rob & Kelly if they'd used any order subscription services which got into a long discussion on uc_recurring, commerce_recurring, Recurly, etc.; the consensus was that there was no working solution today for either D6 or D7 but that one was in the works for D7 (commerce_recurring) but just wasn't finished yet.
• Matt mentioned a search-related problem he was working on that involved the FuzzySearch module to improve the findability of content, especially working with partial words and typing mistakes. It was also suggested to try ApacheSolr as it can be customized to handle word variations, and that ApacheSolr was not needed in order to have search facets, all that was needed was FacetAPI and the submodule for core search.
• Mark discussed some ideas he had for a CSS preprocessor focused on sprite generation; Rob mentioned there was a Compass plugin for building image sprites which could be extended.
• Damien described some modules he had joined to co-maintain recently: Code-per-Node, AutoAssignRole, CacheTags.

Thanks to everyone who attended, we'll see you again in May!