Hey everyone,
Just a friendly reminder that this WEDNESDAY (Oct. 13) is the date of our monthly Portland Drupal User Group Meeting.
Here's what we've got on tap:
1. "Organic Groups: There's A Party In Your Drupal And Everybody's Invited" presented by Chris Bloom
If you've ever wanted to foster group collaboration on your website, we've got the presentation for you! Led by Chris Bloom, a Drupal developer with Orchestra and a themer for Sony Music websites, this presentation will demonstrate best practices for deploying the powerful, yet sometimes confusing, Organic Groups module (http://drupal.org/project/og). To do this, Chris will showcase a couple of cool Organic Groups case studies--including a huge video gaming community site he built (it's awesome) and a client site that needed Organic Groups with international pricing and user-hub access. He'll then take things one step further by showing how the ground-up rewrite of Organic Groups in Drupal 7 has addressed many of the shortcomings of the Drupal 6 version. I am really looking forward to this presentation!
2. Lightning Talks: Favorite Modules and More
It's been awhile since we've had lightning talks and they are back by popular demand. These are short, 5 minute presentations on your favorite module, cool Drupal website, or anything else of interest to the group. You can sign up to deliver a lightning talk by suggesting a topic in the comments below. To get us started, here are two lightning talks we've already got scheduled:
a) 'Notifications and Messaging modules' by Melissa Anderson: Learn how to better manage user subscriptions on your websites with the Notifications (http://drupal.org/project/notifications) and Messaging (http://drupal.org/project/messaging) modules.
b) 'Private Message module' by Ben Kaplan: Give users their own mailbox on your site and facilitate user-to-user messages, user-to-role messages, messages from the site administrator, and much more. It's easy to do with the Private Messages module (http://drupal.org/project/privatemsg).
3. "Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit 2011: Let's Make It Happen in Portland" moderated by Melissa Anderson
Planning has begun for bringing Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit to Portland next year. Melissa will moderate a short discussion about this and start the brainstorming and planning process (including a possible schedule for separate planning meetings). If you're new to the PDX Drupal User Group and want to get to know other Drupalers in the community, volunteering to help with planning this event is a great way to start!
Finally, here are the meeting details:
Date: Wednesday, Oct. 13
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 going to be a great meeting... you don't want to miss it!
See you there,
Ben
Comments
Lightning talk ideas?
For tomorrow's Portland User Group meeting (Wednesday, Oct. 13), we need some great lightning talk ideas... Adding a comment to this thread is the official way to reserve your spot. Please fire away with your presentation ideas below!
Thanks,
Ben
Open Layers Theming
I'd be down to present on how to make OL not look like the ghetto country cousin of GMaps v3. Gotta good example site that went into beta this week. It'd be fun to show off how the some of the advanced bits work.
Sounds great
Nice, Sean! I've reserved you a spot for a lightning talk (and I'm personally interested in your topic, too). Anyone else got lightning talk ideas for tomorrow's meeting?
--Ben
VoiceBox demo
I'll do a VoiceBox demo. I'd love to go through some of the nooks and crannies of the install.
FunnyMonkey
Awesome
Very cool, Bill. I've reserved you a lightning talk spot. I've heard great things about VoiceBox and it will be fun to check it out!
--Ben
Great Turnout!
Thanks to everyone who came to the User Group meeting yesterday. It was one of our biggest ever with 50+ people in attendance. We've been growing each month so this is great to see.
And thanks to Chris for the awesome Organic Groups presentation. There were also some very interesting lightning talks and a thought-provoking PNW Drupal Summit discussion.
See everyone at Brewpal in two weeks!
--Ben
Yeah that was pretty cool.
Yeah that was pretty cool. Your talk about the work on the private messaging module in D7 has actually probably swung us to use D7 now for a project of mine, which required some role-specific message constraints and some other stuff.
Just as long as a conversation can be limited between 2 people - instead of privatemsg's default of "as many people as you want can join in" - that was the biggest thing I wanted to make sure was addressed in my usage of a messaging module. My requirements are strictly 1:1 discussion