End of year meetup

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Posted by varunity on December 14, 2009 at 11:59am
Start: 
2009-12-17 18:30 - 19:55 America/Jamaica
Organizers: 
varunity
frazras
Event type: 
User group meeting

Chit Chat Session and end of year meeting

Agenda/Topics

  • Drupal 7 & code freeze
  • DUX
  • smallcore
  • whitehouse.gov
  • d.o redesign
  • drupalgardens
  • Rich Internet Applications
  • HTML 5
  • CSS 3
  • setup group sandbox?
  • useful contrib modules(and how to upgrade them)
  • upgrading a drupal site from 5 to 6
  • organising for Drupalcamp/Liaja workshop
  • Anything else I may have missed
  • Ideas for future presentations

OK, so we've decided to end the year with an informal chit chat session. Bring questions and comments. Signup for the event so we have an idea of numbers. I'll try to get some pizza ordered this time.

See you there.

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Location

Posted by frazras on December 14, 2009 at 1:15pm
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I am assuming same location and time

This meetup will be held at the Mona School of Business on the UWI campus at 6pm.

Directions are:

Go to MSB Reception (Building B) - Main Conference room

Top 40 Drupal modules

Posted by frazras on December 14, 2009 at 1:32pm
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We could skim through this also, found it VEEERY informative, must have for any active drupal developer.

Lullabot Podcast 80: Top 40 Drupal Modules Revisited
http://www.lullabot.com/audiocast/lullabot-podcast-80-top-40-drupal-modu...

Angie Byron, Jeff Eaton, Nate Haug, Kent Bye, and Jeff Robbins discuss the latest Drupal news and then revisit the Drupal Top 40 podcast, this time with a list of 50+ "must have" Drupal modules. Enjoy this epic 2 hour podcast!

The List

  1. Views
  2. Pathauto
  3. Admin Menu
  4. Devel / Theme Developer
  5. Schema
  6. WYSIWYG (was TinyMCE) or BUEditor
  7. Organic Groups
  8. Panels and Chaos Tools
  9. i18n
    1. Ubercart
    2. Flag
    3. Calendar and Date
    4. Drush
    5. Content Templates
    6. FiveStar / Voting API
    7. Mollom
    8. Diff
    9. Content Profile
    10. Backup and Migrate
    11. Embedded Media Field
    12. Filefield Sources
    13. Custom Links
    14. FeedAPI (soon to be 'Feeds')
    15. Services
    16. Views Attach
    17. Insert
    18. Automatic Nodetitles
    19. Views Slideshow
    20. SWF Tools
    21. Global redirect
    22. Data module
    23. Table Wizard/Migrate
    24. Scheduler
    25. Workflow
    26. CAPTCHA (or ReCaptcha)
    27. Login Toboggan
    28. Facebook Connect
    29. Comment Notify
    30. Content Access (or Private)
    31. NodeQueue
    32. Views Bulk Operations
    33. Better Formats
    34. Webform
    35. Google Analytics
    36. String Overrides
    37. Memcache
    38. Node reference url widget
    39. Node Clone
    40. Node Export
    41. Read more Link

In core for Drupal 7

  1. CCK
  2. FileField
  3. ImageCache
  4. Image Field
  5. Poormanscron
  6. Admin Role
  7. Vertical Tabs
  8. Token

This sounds excellent

Posted by dic_son on December 14, 2009 at 4:50pm
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Sounds like 2010 is going to a great Drupal Jamaica Drupal year!

Varun I will contribute Napkins, fork and plate, as well as, give something towards offsetting the cost of pizza.

thanks for offering dic_son.

Posted by varunity on December 14, 2009 at 5:06pm
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thanks for offering dic_son. This is great! Can anyone provide some soda or other refreshments?

I can get some soda and bring

Posted by axle_foley00 on December 17, 2009 at 6:04am
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I can get some soda and bring plastic cups if we still needed. I'll also contribute towards the cost of the pizza.

I will bring whatever napkins

Posted by mscale on December 17, 2009 at 6:15am
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I will bring whatever napkins or paper cups that I can as well.

Sorry I cannot sponsor any jucies or even water.

Food for the meetup

Posted by dic_son on December 17, 2009 at 6:24am
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Get sleep and let us sort this out tomorrow. LOL1

Jamaica

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