2nd Drupal Meet Up - Photos

In an earlier post, I suggested a presentation of Drupal website work-in-progress. I just thought why not also have a case study of a finished Drupal website?

The moderator can ask those who are interested to present to first submit their Drupal website abstract. This will consist of an overview of the website, why Drupal was selected, what modules and themes were used, what customizations were done, and what challenges were faced.

From there, the moderator posts each Drupal website abstract and conduct a poll as to what Drupal website will be presented.

I think this could make our meetings more interesting.

Naisip ko din that in future meetings, we can perhaps video the whole proceedings.

:-)
Jun D!
Life is like a box of chocnut, you never know if its durog or not

Aside from making our meet-ups longer in order for us to have more time to discuss things, I suggest that we set up a demo/sandbox Drupal website whereby guests can use Administrator access - catering to various Drupal versions. I know this has been done countless of times before pero, this way sana, we can support each other even when not in meet-ups by allowing us to show others how do to which and where to do what - while keeping the discussions here sana sa groups.drupal.org/philippines or wherever mas appropriate. I'll see if I can host this in my loloyd.com account. Pero mas maganda sana if we use a domain name reflective of our Philippines Drupal group. One thing to consider is to allow guest admins to tinker with enabling and disabling modules pero I doubt if we should be allowing uploads dahil baka nga naman may mag upload ng PHP script e di mabubutas ang security ng demo site natin. I believe many of us are willing to share our experiences with Drupal and, of course, more are keen to learn more. This Drupal demo site within our own control can further help us do just those things.

Other good things that may arise out of having our own demo site:

Wiki-ing the things we wouldn't normally be able to elsewhere. For example, we can wiki a CCK node type. Galeng di ba? Imagine the possibilities.

Increased scope in place and time. So hindi lang makikinabang ang mga nag-a-attend ng meet-ups, pati na rin yung mga nasa remote places sa Pinas at pati na rin yung mga natutulog sa pansitan.

We would also need a more detailed set of contact info than just that made available here in our groups.drupal.org/philippines account.

Every time I attend a local Drupal meet-up, I really get impressed. Ideally, we can hold monthly meet-ups sana but this would cost us some dough. Even setting up a dedicated Drupal demo site that caters to us would eventually require voluntary donations. Siguro we can start setting up a group fund na for these and other future purposes.

I may have said too much na. Sorry about that.

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