Posted by jhodgdon on April 2, 2019 at 10:22pm
Start:
2019-04-18 10:00 - 12:00 America/Los_Angeles Organizers:
Event type:
User group meeting
We hope you can join us for the next daytime meeting of the Spokane Drupal User Group!
- When
- Thursday, April 18, 2019, 10 AM to noon
We usually meet on a Thursday morning at a library out in the Spokane Valley area. Log in and join the Spokane Drupal User Group (see sidebar on https://groups.drupal.org/spokane-wa ) to be notified of future meetings, events, and discussions (typically just a few email messages per month). - Where
- Spokane County Library - back at the Argonne branch this month, 4322 N Argonne Rd, Millwood. We are currently meeting in the small conference room at the library. From the hallway, go into the library proper, past the checkout/information desk, take a right and you'll see the room on the right.
- To be reminded, sign up!
- To receive an email reminder closer to the date of the meeting, log in and click the "Sign up" button; log in and click "Cancel signup" at a later time if your schedule changes and you can no longer come. There's no obligation to come if you sign up (but we hope you will!). There's also no obligation to sign up in order to come (it's up to you if you want a reminder or not). However, the meeting could be canceled if the organizer isn't sure anyone is coming.
- What
- We spend two hours in a question and answer format, with the participants around a table, and a laptop with a projector. Come with questions about a project you're working on, something you've learned that you'd like to share with others, a desire to improve Drupal in some way (documentation, programming, design, marketing etc.), or a desire to help others with their projects and questions. Or just come and listen and observe.
- Who
- Everyone is welcome -- the only prerequisite is having some interest in Drupal. This group is usually 5-10 friendly people, with experience levels ranging from novice to expert, so you'll fit right in. Because of the size of the group, you will have time to share something you've learned, or get your questions answered, or both!
- Need a ride?
- If transportation is keeping you from attending, please log in and post a comment here. Our usual attendees come from all around the area: downtown Spokane, South Hill, Mead, Hayden, Spokane Valley, Post Falls, etc. So, we can probably find someone to give you a ride without going too much out of their way.
Comments
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Meeting notes
What we talked about today:
- Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit - Seattle - not until 2020!
- BADCamp - Oct 2-5 in Berkeley CA https://2019.badcamp.org/
- There is a calendar for other Drupal events:
https://groups.drupal.org/events
https://dri.es/state-of-drupal-presentation-april-2019
https://www.drupal.org/psa-2019-02-25
Alternatives for your Drupal 7 sites:
* Pay for long-term support for Drupal 7
* Switch to Backdrop https://backdropcms.org/
* Upgrade to Drupal 8 (difficult, but probably doable)
https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019
Drupal is both dreaded and loved.
https://www.drupal.org/project/colorbox
Look at:
- Issues (are they being responded to? are there a lot of bugs?)
- When it was last updated
- How many people use it
- Automated testing results
https://www.drupal.org/project/colorbox
- The module page says it is a "field formatter". What is that?
- Go to the User Guide table of contents
https://www.drupal.org/docs/user_guide/en/index.html
And search the page text for the word "formatter"
- Read topics there to learn about field formatters and how to set them up
https://www.drupal.org/project/focal_point
Lets content editors choose the focal point of your images, then you can put that in an image style
https://www.drupal.org/docs/user_guide/en/structure-image-style-create.html
https://www.drupal.org/planet
Aggregator for Drupal blogs
https://www.drupal.org/security
https://www.drupal.org/docs/user_guide/en/security-update-core.html
https://www.drupal.org/docs/user_guide/en/install-composer.html
You can retrofit Composer on a site:
https://github.com/grasmash/composerize-drupal
Adding composer dependencies to your own custom modules:
https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/creating-custom-modules/add-a-composerjson...
http://www.drush.org/ -- has a ton of commands to mimic the UI
https://drupalconsole.com/ -- originally focused on generating skeleton modules
If you download Drupal using Composer and this project:
https://github.com/drupal-composer/drupal-project
you will get both of these tools bundled.
- Pantheon - has been around for a long time, focuses on Drupal and WordPress.
- Cloudways - has free accounts and low-cost accounts. No root level access. Get an affiliate link from Shawn.
- Generic cloud providers (Amazon, Google Cloud, etc.)
https://www.drupal.org/docs/user_guide/en/glossary.html
https://www.drupal.org/docs/7/understanding-drupal/glossary
- Has a Code of Conduct
https://www.drupal.org/dcoc
- Has a portal:
https://www.drupal.org/community
https://www.oreilly.com/online-learning/individuals.html
and get all the O'Reilly books/videos, plus Packt and other publishers, as you need them.
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