Location
Denver Public Library - Central at 10 W. Fourteenth Ave. Pkwy. Denver, Colorado 80204. We will be meeting in the computer lab located on the fourth floor.
Paid Parking is available at the Cultural Complex Garage on 100 W. 14th Avenue Parkway located just south of the Library. It is approximately a 20 minute walk from the 16th and California Light Rail station.
Tentative Schedule
Our space will become available at 10:00. We will be in the reserved computer lab on the fourth floor.
- 10:00 to 12:30: Introductions, Presentation of sites and projects.
- 12:30 to 1:30: Lunch Break
- 1:30 until 5:00pm: Discussions and presentations about Library Drupal modules, system integrations, Drupal, content management and other library topics of interest.
- 5:00pm until whenever - optional evening activities.
About Discussions and Presentations
2010 was a busy year for many libraries adopting Drupal and there will be much to discuss. Be ready to show off your Drupal site and related projects. If you are in the midst of building a Drupal project and would like feedback and/or advice, please present your project. The discussion will be very valuable to both the audience and presenter.
A projector, wireless internet access and computers are available in the lab.
Please post comments recommending discussion topics that interest you and the sites you would like to present or see presented.
Comments
So excited about this!
I'm a librarian living in Denver working remotely for NC State University - We're just now migrating to Drupal. Looking forward to this event! I would love to hear some folks speak about multi-site installations. Do we need to register for this?
Thanks,
Susan
Registration
Hi Susan,
Registration is not required and the event is free. It would be nice to get a feel for how many people are coming.
I look forward to meeting you.
Thanks,
Justin
Signups are closed?
It might be easier to get a feel for how many people are coming if you turn signups on for the event. :)
It sounds interesting.
-john
Sign Ups
Sign ups have been enabled.
This rocks
I booked cheap airfare on SW from LA for $140 and Pricelined the Marriott Courtyard for $75. It's almost cheaper than staying home!
See you there.
Drupal 7
I'm working on a Drupal 7 public website and Intranet for the Pueblo City-County Library district. I'd love to hear about modules that were helpful/well made for your library.
I'm looking for an events calendar for both sites, a room reservation system for the public site and possibly replacing our a trouble ticket system internally.
Looking forward to it!
We've been developing some
We've been developing some solutions for events calendar, events registration, and room reservations on the Anythink libraries site. The features are currently in Drupal 6 but will eventually be migrated to 7. If BoF attendees are interested, we can showcase some of the past challenges and new features moving forward.
Much of the development has required very specific requirements -- for example, event registration needed to work per library card number for anonymous users and was sign-up per date repeat (using the Date Repeat API) not the actual event. There were also requirements about how many sign-ups an individual could make in certain time periods for events of specific taxonomy terms. Because of this, much of the development was custom, and did not leverage existing solutions such as the signup module.
I am hoping to contribute some of the work for the Date Repeat API signups to signup module in the future.
I'm very interested!
I would definitely be interested in hearing about your solutions.
And I may be able to help out with the migration, if needed - I am fairly comfortable with php/mySQL, just haven't done any coding related to Drupal yet.
Presenters
A very tentative list of presenters and their topics are listed below. There is plenty of room for more. Please volunteer to present by making a comment.
Even though it's not
Even though it's not explicitly Drupal-related, perhaps someone from DPL could discuss the switch from AquaBrowser to Polaris and some of the ILS selection criteria? Just a thought.
I think that we should stick
I think that we should stick to Drupal. Our time is pretty limited.
You might be able to make this connection out-of-band while we are there.
It's a Good Idea
From recent conversations, I think the DPL would be happy to discuss recent projects outside of Drupal also. I am sure members from other libraries will be interested. Most of the other library systems relate or integrate with Drupal and I think it would be valuable to see what the DPL has done and/or plans to do.
Bummer
I am unable to stop coughing, so I won't be getting on a plane tomorrow.
Have fun!
Heat at the Central Library on the 15th
Just heard that they are working on the heat in the building tomorrow and it may be off most of the day. Dress warmly!
Book Raffle
We have two copies of Tom Geller's new book: Visual QuickStart Guide to Drupal 7 that will be raffled off during the gathering.
Kudos to Tom Geller for providing the books.
Search Modules for Creating Communities
XC Drupal Tool Kit (Harvester)
http://drupal.org/node/499770
Dublin Core to CCK Module
http://drupal.org/project/dc2cck
Apache Solr for Drupal
http://drupal.org/project/apachesolr
Creating Communities Article with some documentation
http://drupal.org/node/903926
Thanks, Justin :)
Thanks, Justin :)
Next Meet-up?
It was nice meeting everyone yesterday and talking Drupal/libraries. We were thinking about hosting a meet-up at Anythink Wright Farms in Thornton in a few months. Maybe mid-May? We can chat about where everyone is in their projects and hopefully keep some momentum going for meeting on a more regular basis. LMK if you're interested.
Stacie
I'd like to sit in.
This subject may be over my head, but I'd like to sit in anyway if it happens. :)
Interested in a next meet-up
Stacie
Would love to be able to continue our conversations and learnings about Drupal/libraries. Plus a visit to the new Anythink is always a plus! If it's early May i would be free. Mid to late May is high school graduation season......
cynthia
Thank you for the awseome gathering.
Thank you so much for attending the 2011 Colorado Library BoF gathering.
I would like to thank everyone who presented and participated in the event.
Special thanks to Greg Knaddison and Stacey Watson for helping me organize the event, Tom Geller for donating the books that were raffled off, LarsDesigns Information Systems and Growing Venture Solutions for providing the fantastic lunch and the Denver Public Library for providing the space and internet access.
I am looking forward to the next gathering.
Thanks,
Justin Christoffersen