Join us for the first Berkeley Drupal Builders Lounge!
The Builders Lounge is a place where Drupal users of all levels can come to work, collaborate, share our problems and successes, and get support. Everyone is welcome. Please come willing to help and be helped.
Date: First Tuesday of every month, starting May 4 2010
Time: 3:30 pm
Location: 4 Dwinelle Hall on the UC Berkeley campus
Amenities: Conference tables, Wi-Fi, whiteboards, projector and screen.
Directions to Dwinelle Hall: Starting from the intersection of Bancroft and Telegraph, walk north onto campus toward Sather Gate. After going through the gate and over the bridge, the first building on your left will be Dwinelle Hall (use the campus map if coming from other directions). Facing Dwinelle's main entrance steps, follow the path to the left (southwest) leading downhill toward Strawberry Creek. Enter the door at the bottom of the hill, and turn right into the main hallway. Room 4 is the first room down this hallway on your right.
Access: The entrance above is wheelchair accessible, but does not have an automatic door. A ramp and automatic door are at the right side of main entrance (see directions above). From there, take the nearest elevator down to level C. Turn right, go down the hall, and turn left at the T. Room 4 is on the left near the end of the hall.
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Good work!
I'm happy to see this getting started!
I'm going to talk to my
I'm going to talk to my bosses to figure out if this is something I can attend on a regular basis. It would be great to get together to work with people at Berkeley, but that time is really hard. Hope either way that it is a success.
Drupal evangelist.
www.CoderintheRye.com
replacement of other meeting?
Is this going to replace the other meetings we had on the last Thursday of each month?
Complement, not replacement
No, we're intending this to be a working meeting, with people bringing in their sites/code and collaborating or getting/giving direct in-person support. Regular meetings continue on the last Tuesday at lunchtime.
See you all tomorrow!
The first Builders Lounge will be tomorrow, Tuesday May 4 at 3:30 pm. I hope to see some of you there.
Gonna Get to the Builders Lounge
I may have a meeting conflict for the first bit, but I am looking forward to the focused time. Thanks, cb!
Acinolak Netsequem
Elephant Eater
Bummer...
Not going to be able to make this one... hopefully next month!
Many thanks...
... to all of you who came to the Drupal Builders Lounge. We had 17 people, all with various interests and backgrounds and levels of Drupal knowledge. We introduced ourselves and spoke briefly about our issues of the day, then we coalesced into small groups for focused conversation and work. I've included notes about all this at the end of this post. I hope lots of you can come for the next meeting, which will be Tuesday June 1 at 3:30 pm, same location.
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Here are the topics people brought up in their introductions:
theme preprocess functions
networking with developers
converting designs to themes
managing uploaded files
academic/scholarly use
multi-site installation
general theming
user profiles by role for academic departments; user relationships
zen subthemes
workflow best practices
access control
looking for developers
Form API
site building
user migration
CMS issues - data organization
CAS (central authentication service)
And here are some brief notes on what we talked about and accomplished:
theme preprocess functions:
overriding revision uid with uid, update datetime with create datetime
multisite:
multisite vs. multiple installs for dev/prod environments: setting up apache and hosts file on local machine
managing files:
file path alias module (clean URLs for files), file insert (creates db table that maps file path to server location); cleaning up long paths to files caused by multisite installation
user profiles:
content profile and user reference access modules to support an academic department site with relationships between people, courses, other content types; delegating edit permissions for user-owned content
CAS:
central authentication server, using for login and user management
Great!
cboyden...a great meetup! I missed it...but it's great to hear that lots of people there having a great time. I will be seeing you next month.
Jack
Builder's lounge photo
Here's a snapshot from the first Berkeley Drupal Builder's Lounge. Thanks to everyone who showed up for this. I was really excited about how effectively and efficiently we were able to self-organize and accomplish so much in one gathering. I hope everyone walked away with something - I know I did! I only wish there were 3 of me, so I could have sat in on more of the workgroups. But this structure allowed us to go into more depth in a particular topic and be flexible, so I think it worked really well.
Looking forward to seeing you all next month!
Michelle Z