Hey everyone,
Just a friendly reminder that this WEDNESDAY (August 11) is the date of our monthly Portland Drupal User Group Meeting.
I'm super excited for this one.... We've got two awesome presentations on the agenda:
1. "Janrain Engage: Connecting Drupal with the Social Web" presented by Brian McGinnis, Forest Basford & Larry Drebes (Janrain team members)
Need to quickly connect your Drupal website to the social web? Janrain Engage (formerly RPX) may be just what the doctor (or developer!) ordered. Key team members from Portland-based Janrain will be here to discuss their Janrain Engage service and how it empowers your site visitors to sign-in with their existing accounts on Facebook, Google, Twitter, Yahoo!, MySpace, AOL, or other networks, and then simultaneously publish user comments, reviews or other activities from your site to multiple networks. In particular, the Janrain team will address the current state of the Janrain Engage Drupal module (http://drupal.org/project/rpx), ongoing efforts to port the module to Drupal 7, and the latest roadmap for future module enhancements--plus important insights into how you can best leverage the power of third-party social networks. It's also a great opportunity to learn how local Drupal developers can get involved.
2. "Git for Drupal (Part II, Advanced Git)" presented by Michael Schwern
At last month's meeting, local git expert Michael Schwern did a great job introducing us to git--even demonstrating for us (with tinker toys!) git's underlying simplicity and elegance of implementation. Now it's time to kick things up a notch by going beyond the theoretical to the practical: In this more advanced presentation, Michael will delve deeper into essential git commands--including how to best create repositories, add files, clone, commit, fork, branch, stash, and merge. Because a Drupal project has some special considerations that other projects don’t, he'll cover some important key action steps (such as using remote vendor branches to track Drupal core and modules, leveraging the benefits of github.com, and merging in your local patches). We'll also open up the discussion to experienced git users in the audience who will offer their insights into best practices for using git with Drupal. With Drupal.org switching from CVS to git, now is the time to embrace version control in your projects and become a power git user!
Finally, here are the meeting details:
Date: Wednesday, August 11
Time: 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. (after the meeting, we head to Lucky Lab for drinks and conversation!)
Location: OpenSourcery offices (1636 NW Lovejoy St. Portland, OR 97209)
It promises to be an awesome meeting... you absolutely don't want to miss it!
See you there,
Ben
Comments
Git and multisite
A request for the Git presentation: include how to use in a multisite environment, particularly where one of the sites is a development for another in the multisite.
Janrain Engage publishing widget for new nodes
Hi guys, do you guys perhaps know whether the Janrain Engage module allows for publishing to social networks upon the creation/saving of new nodes instead of upon saving a new comment? I have looked at and played with the module quite a bit, and this doesn't seem to be possible at the moment?
DANGIT
Missed this meet up group... had a few questions... oh well.. :)... hope i get ahold of the members i wanted to