Posted by laken on May 28, 2010 at 5:55pm
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2010-06-01 18:00 - 20:00 America/Denver Organizers:
Event type:
User group meeting
Our next monthly weeknight Drupal meetup is Tuesday June 1, at 6pm (note time change) at ZooTown Brew. We've booked the downstairs meeting room at Zootown, so look for us there. Zootown has changed their hours for summer and now close at 8pm, so we're starting 30 min. earlier than usual. If there's still energy in the group after 8pm we could adjourn to another location for more…
This will be an open meetup with time for short presentations and informal learning and networking. We will have a projector to use. If you'd like to present something (or see something presented) please leave a comment here and let us know.
Meetup Details
6:00 to 8:00 pm
Zootown Brew (downstairs mtg room)
121 West Broadway
Missoula MT
(406) 543-2549
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Comments
Multisite
Andy,
Would love to see a brief demo of your multi-site setup and a roundtable discussion about ways to setup and optimize multisite implementations of Drupal.
On that note, do you (or anyone else) have any experience with Aegir?
-Scott
Scott Rouse
http://about.me/scott.rouse
Lots of options!
Always happy to talk about my multisite setup, but I'm also psyched to present about either: Menu Block module, which helps you set up spiffy secondary/tertiary navigation menus, – or – Context module, which helps you define different sections of your site and display blocks and supplementary content more flexibly than the core block system. Both are helpful and powerful and build well on what we've been covering in the Getting Started series.
No, I haven't fooled around with Aegir yet, but I've seen demos of it which are amazing. Not sure if it's very useful if you're only running a few sites though. There's a lot of buzz around it in the Drupal community for sure (e.g. http://www.lullabot.com/podcasts/lullabot-podcast-82-how-do-you-pronounce-ægir ).
Anyone else like to present something Tuesday?
Thoughts
Didn't we already touch on the Context module?
I enjoy hearing about whatever, but do enjoy advanced topics in this meeting...saving basic topics for the other monthly meeting.
Multisite is a topic that would help me. Also, a discussion of "how could one build a site similar to..." in Drupal might be helpful. Not a step-by-step demonstration, per se...more of a theoretical discussion.
Scott Rouse
http://about.me/scott.rouse
Agreeing with Scott
Yes, Scott has a great point about delineating newbie stuff from old Drupal hackers, uh...I mean coders. If a noob (like me) decides to attend and gets lost, oh well.
In fact I have been to other meetings where it is announced in the beginning of the meeting what this meeting is about, who it addresses, etc. So if there is someone new, they will understand what they are in for and where/when beginners meetings are.
All would be happy?
Aegir
I would use Aegir for launching dozens of sites (hopefully). I'll check out that podcast...cool stuff.
I'm always happy to present "how I did it" demos of:
Scott Rouse
http://about.me/scott.rouse