Doesn't this make much better sense as a wiki page?
Thanks to Ron Helwig for backfilling all the URLs for modules discussed.
I propose we set up all the Wave users just before we start the next time.
Show and tell for a church community website.
What caught my eye right away was the beautiful calendar:
http://drupal.org/project/calendar
http://drupal.org/project/date
Interesting: http://pingvision.com/blog/alasda/2008/drupal-upgrade-tip-converting-eve...
Using core's profile for first/last/biography fields appended to users.
simplenews - http://drupal.org/project/simplenews
There was a lot of discussion about simplenews. It's been a prominent powertool in my arsenal, and others This could be a topic of discussion all its own. -dan (Where it puts unconfirmed subscribers.)
Used a panel rather than custom page-front.tpl.php seemed fastest route to putting a couple sets of content on the home page. Possibility came up of using http://drupal.org/project/panels_node_restrict - to allow pastor or others to edit content of front page panel, but not configure the panel itself
Discussion of how to move term id's into arguments for a view, and then mask that url via path alias.
I almost wanted to interrupt and see if we could collectively solve this there. Seth quickly drew out the deeper complications in doing what the site needed. -dan
taxonomy_builder to move terms into code. - http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_builder
Possibility to user menu_block module to display other related (same term) announcements when viewing a particiular announcement. Menu_block was another great tool introduced last session.
A quick tour of the front page layout via panels.
A review of client.module settings in code. What a thorough job.
permissions_api to move grant perms to roles via an array
and he got debugging working with WAMP and eclipse
AND he learned it all in four weekends
AND he did all this to move away from .net nuke
:)
Strongly encouraged to share this work as a service or a distribution - since it is already structured to have configuration in code - on http://groups.drupal.org/churches and elsewhere!
I gave a presentation on Distributed Version Control, and attempted to differentiate it from CVS / SVN without a single branching chart, or any chart at all. http://is.gd/aiy1F