triDUG Drupal Open Mic Night
When
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
7:00 pm - 9:30pm
Where
The Park Research Center
104 T.W. Alexander Drive
Building 18,[b] Room #1809[/b]
RTP, NC
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Drupal Open Mic Night
This is anyone and everyone's opportunity to give a short 5 - 10 minute presentation on any Drupal-related topic of their choice! Your presentation can be as simple as sharing a Drupal-epiphany you've had or as complex as giving a tutorial for some Drupal-trick you've learned. Remember, even if you feel that you are not a very advanced Drupal user, anything that you can share from your experience will help someone in the group.
There will be a sign-up sheet at the venue where you can volunteer to speak, but if you have an idea for a presentation, please comment on this event and let us know about it! Folks who let us know about their plans to present ahead of time will be added to the itinerary below and will get first-priority on presentation time.
The Night's MC
Julia will be the MC for our Drupal Open Mic Night. This means that Julia will moderate presenters (let them know when their time is up), manage Q&A sessions (keep everyone on topic) and fill in any gaps between presenters with her own information for the group.
Presentation
Using Views and CCK to create a 'clickable' flash-like slideshow on your front page.
I've been spending almost
I've been spending almost literally EVERY waking hour trying to fix this cron problem so I won't be presenting tonight. Plus, I remembered that apparently no PC laptops could connect to wifi at this location last time. If I don't make it out tonight, I'd be interested to know if any PC successfully gets on the wifi at this location.
from barebones linux to CMS system ....
If there's interest I can share some Linux HowTo/best practice info for folks
interested in running Drupal CMS on a barebones Debian or Ubuntu system:
load monitoring, logging, and capacity planning
Although these topics could be treated in depth, my intent would be to stay
practical and high level, and to keep the preso within a 5-10 minute window.
Suggested topic
I'd be interested in someone showing how to run Drupal locally off a jump drive. IF that's even possible.
Contributing back to the community
I'd like to give a talk about contributing back to the Drupal Community. And also one on Coding the Drupal Way(Drupal's API and Coding standards)
Adam A. Gregory
Twitter Me
http://twitter.com/adamgregory
Just wanted to let you know I
Just wanted to let you know I really enjoyed and appreciated your presentation Wednesday night.
Building a Forum
I put together a presentation on building a Drupal forum that I can give this time or in the future if we have a lot of presenters.
Suggestions for computing history site
If there's time, I'd like to get suggestions for improving UNC-Chapel Hill Computing History at http://ibiblio.org/comphist/
I've got it upgraded to Drupal 6 now and think I'm ready to start getting more people to contribute content.
Judy Hallman
views_slideshow is Soooo easy!
Take a look at http://ibiblio.org/comphist/ now. Thank you very much for suggesting slideshow. It was real easy to do. What took longest was trying to decide how big to make the slides and where to put them. I'm using the Drupal free theme Clean. The right sidebar looks best.
Judy Hallman