March 2008 Gathering

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skowyra's picture

On Tuesday, March 11, we have the Quebec Room at the Lord Jeffery Inn, Amherst (30 Boltwood Ave) from 6-9pm.

Sorry I won't be able to attend this one. A slip on the ice Superbowl Sunday resulted in a knee injury which keeps me immobile until mid-March. Otherwise, the room is set.

I can start setting these up for the first Tuesday of the month. That means the next one would be April 1st.

Also, I tried creating this as an event - got an inactive spam filter error. Anyone run into this problem?

Jim

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Thanks Jim

rick hood's picture

I'll be there.

No I hadn't encountered that problem before.

Off to Druplacon next week. Man, like I have 4 days to spend on that? No. Trying to get caught up this week but... ;-)

See you there

sdondley's picture

I'll keep an eye out for you. Going to be tough with 800 people. I'll be at the job fair as a sponsor, Prometheus Labor Communications. Stop by.

Cool...I'll definitively

rick hood's picture

Cool...I'll definitively come by and find you.

Putting this on my calendar

sdondley's picture

Going to try to make one of these.

I'll try to come

drywall's picture

Hey there. I'm pretty new to Drupal but am at Drupalcon and am learning a ton. Have decided to try and get myself more involved in the community, would love to meet others from W. Mass and discuss Drupalcon impressions!

Does anyone have access to a projector?

usonian's picture

It's difficult for people to show off work or share a quick "how-to" if everyone else has to get up and crowd around their screen - if anyone planning on attending could bring a projector that would be great.

It was good to see some familiar faces at Drupalcon, and tell a couple more people about the Western Mass meetup. (No, I probably won't be able to resist wearing my shirt to the meeting. :) )

I might

drywall's picture

My office has one that I might be able to steal for Monday evening.... won't know until Monday morning though.

My office (in Florence) might also be willing to host future meetups to facilitate such things as projector use, if folks are interested.

Projector is coming

drywall's picture

Sorry about the "Monday" confusion there. Anyway, I can definitely bring the projector from my office for Tuesday's get-together, so plan accordingly!

The projector has a basic VGA cable. Adapter for your particular laptop's port will be your responsibility....

Great

usonian's picture

Thanks Ben,

I'll plan on giving a quick demo of the Form Table module, soon to be rolled into the Elements module (but probably not by this evening. :))

Cool

rick hood's picture

Wow Form Table looks really useful.

Bad News

drywall's picture

Hey,

Something has come up (specifically, I need to replace my bathroom toilet) this evening and I won't be able to make it. Thus, no projector.

Sincerest apologies — pulling out the rug from underneath everyone wasn't exactly what I wanted my first impression to be.

Ben

Hey no problem...gotta have

rick hood's picture

Hey no problem...gotta have a toilet! Catch you next time.

i'd like to attend

maufunct's picture

is this an open meeting?

Yes

rick hood's picture

It sure is...hope to see you there!

Notes from the meetup

usonian's picture

Western Mass Drupal Meetup 2008-03-11

Installing Drupal on Windows/Mac

Most hosting services who offer PHP/MySQL with their plans are running some flavor of Linux or Unix

Modules mentioned

  • CCK - create new content types
  • Views - create custom views ("reports") around your content
  • Page Title - give the content a separate value than the HTML title element
  • Five Star - Add user ratings to content

Themes

Helpful Resources

Western Massachusetts

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