Phoenix Drupal User Group Meetup

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Posted by rkeppner on August 12, 2010 at 3:01am
Start: 
2010-08-25 19:00 - 20:30 America/Phoenix
Organizers: 
rkeppner
kevinwal
Event type: 
User group meeting

Location: KWALL Office, 15023 N 73rd Street, Suite 205, Scottsdale, AZ 85260
Map: http://bit.ly/kwall-map

I suspect this month's meeting will center largely around plans for the upcoming Phoenix Drupalcamp.

Head over to http://www.meetup.com/Phoenix-Drupal-User-Group/calendar/14379532/ for further details and to RSVP.

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Recap

Posted by rkeppner on August 30, 2010 at 12:39am
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The meetup turned out really well, being held at the Kwall offices. (The coffee shop was way too crowded, and we always needed more time, but the shop closed at eight.)

There was a great discussion about the upcoming Drupalcamp Phoenix (with notes on the Meetup site). Some of the highlights:

  • We have the location (thanks to Jeff Beeman). November 6 at ASU, at least 4 rooms. And it's free!
  • Kwall will head up the sponsorship efforts, and will be one of the sponsors.
  • Kwall will also spearhead getting a web site put together for the camp, possibly soliciting a sponsorship from a design shop to design the Drupalcamp site.
  • We brainstormed a lot of ideas for presentations. In the end we want to get them on the new site (along with any others submitted directly from the community) to gauge interest.
  • There's still a lot of work to get done in the next few months!

Recap, part 2

Posted by rkeppner on September 3, 2010 at 5:09am
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The second half of the meeting was spent on our new "project", creating an example business site for a non-existent cigar company.

This time was mostly spent installing (via Drush) and enabling (via the GUI) the needed modules, then configuring them. This was/is meant as an exercise in practical Drupal usage in the "real world", especially for some of our members new to Drupal.

One of the most useful things from this exercise was learning the list of standard modules that Kwall installs on its sites (also found at the Meetup site).

I don't know that I want to install all of these by default, but there are a number of them I want to check out, now.

Thanks for the list

Posted by msypes on September 3, 2010 at 5:33pm
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Learning about what modules are out there is possibly the most important part of creating a Drupal site.
Glad I learned about better formats at the last meeting. It completely sold me on switching over to it in combination with WYSIWYG and TinyMCE.

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