Please note the 6pm start time!
Feature Presentation: 45 Modules in 45 Minutes
John Rearick will lead the group through the top 40 modules with Drupal 8 support. This may become a collaborative effort to try to explain each module in 60 seconds. Hopefully it will generate some discussion of other useful modules.
Location
We realize that having a physical meeting in Ames might not be accessible for some people in the Des Moines area. We now have a second location set up at Webpec in Urbandale. We'll attempt to link with Zoom.us.
Science II
2310 Pammel Dr
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-1031
Room 333
OR
Webspec Design
5907 Meredith Drive
Urbandale, IA 50322
6-7 pm: Feature event
7-8 pm: Open discussion
After 8 we may retire to local establishment for refreshments.
About CIDUG Meetings
The first hour is our feature presentation where someone presents about a particular topic. After the presentation the meeting changes to an open discussion/question time. If you have a question, learned something cool, or would like to bounce ideas around with others, please come and share!
Please do sign up so you get a reminder the day before.
See you there!
Comments
The link to join us tonight
The link to join us tonight will be https://iastate.zoom.us/j/708760387
Recorded Presentation
With permission from the group, I recorded the feature presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkVlqsSNZvQ.
Honeypot
Just wanted to comment and say thanks. The forms in one of my D8 sites, with CAPTCHA, appear to have been compromised so I just switched to using Honeypot. Too early to tell if that will be better, but I would not have even known about Honeypot (and other options) were it not for the October CIDUG meeting. Thanks!
Mark
Honeypot
We use Honeypot here at IPERS, after having moved away from CAPTCHA/reCAPTCHA (because our members/retirees were commenting that it was too difficult for them to get past it to complete a form). We still had a little bit of spam coming in, so I also installed and enabled Antibot. Between the two, we seem to be good now. Just FYI.
https://www.drupal.org/project/antibot
anitibot looks interesting.
anitibot looks interesting. However, I'm a little concerned about the accessibility of it. It makes the form require JS and assumes certain inputs that may or may not be available by some assistive devices. I guess the same might be argued with reCAPTCHA as well. I just found https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wiki/Captcha_Alternatives_and_thoughts while thinking about accessibility of CAPTCHAs. Perhaps someone could do Accessibility and CAPTCHAs as a presentation sometime?
What's your turnout like?
Hi,
We're starting up the Omaha Drupal Meetup once again, after many years of not meeting (and then one in April of 2018), so I'm wondering how many people show up to your meetups, typically.
Yours,
Christian
Our last meeting we had 6
Our last meeting we had 6 total. 3 in Ames and 3 in Des Moines. One from Cedar Falls showed up briefly too. That total probably representative for us. We moved to the online format to be able to cast a wider net.
I was watching the Omaha Group get going again. When I saw the subject is the Lightning distro, for some reason, my brain read it as "Lightning Talks" (short 5 or 10 minute talks). I hope you can keep it going.
Meetings
John - couldn't the Omaha group always join 'ours'? To make for a potentially bigger turnout?
They could. However there is
They could. However there is something to be said for being able to meet face-to-face as well. A little of both could be a good compromise.
Bi-weekly vs monthly, bimonthly or quarterly
UPDATE:
I read your event frequency wrong. I saw "2nd Thursday" and read "every other Thursday."
ORIGINAL
I see that you meet every 2 weeks. We were hoping to get a meeting going 4 times a year to start with. I don't think we felt like we could do it more often.
What is the cost of your meetup? Do you do food?
I was thinking we'd need something to entice folks.
We meet online and in
We meet online and in conference rooms provided by our employers, so there is no venue cost. We don't offer food at our meetings, but I suppose people are welcome to bring food in if they want. We dedicate time during the meeting for open Q&A and sharing. It's nice to have that for people who have questions or want to share their ideas on how to solve a problem.
If you have the money and the ambition to offer food, by all means, it might be a good thing.
Online meetings
Because Cedar Falls is too far from Ames to drive down regularly for the CIDUG meetings, I like the CIDUG format with the video conference in addition to the meeting location. I watched John's presentation at the last meeting, and would likely join in on sessions from the Omaha group if a meeting had a topic that was of particular interest to me. I'd encourage you to have the physical location, but offer the video option (we use Zoom) so people in out-state Nebraska and over on this side of the Missouri River could take part.
Virtual vs Online meetups
We are actually remotely connecting to our presenter, so there's no reason we couldn't open up the Zoom link for anyone to join.
I'll add that to our meetup information.