DrupalNYC Meetup -- March 2nd

Posted by winston on February 8, 2011 at 2:48am

Start:

2011-03-02 18:30 - 21:00 America/New_York

Organizers:

winston

orbgasm

Event type:

User group meeting

Where?: 7 World Trade Center, 29th Floor (Mansueto Ventures)
When?: March 2nd, 6:30 - 9:00 PM

Directions?
http://tinyurl.com/mansuetoventuresdirections

Plans?

LIGHTNING ROUNDS
New feature. Have a topic you can present in 5 minutes (with 5 more minutes for questions)? The basic idea is there are patterns for developing sites the "drupal" way ("what would drupal do? etc."). Tell us a quick 5 minute recipe for how to put the Drupal "bricks" together. Theming techniques or other things may also be appropriate. Propose it below. Make sure you mention it is for the "lightning round" otherwise it might get confused with a longer presentation.
- Collecting Information Quick/Easy with Webform - winston
- Multi-site setup with Drupal 7 - esod
- Creating and Submitting Patches - bleen18
Drupal Open Curriculum Report Back - winston
Conference Organizing Distribution (COD) Deep Dive - ezra-g
Aegir UI Walkthrough - skottler
node.js + Drupal - justinrandell
BOF - Drupal NYC Lecture Series - robbiethegeek
BOF - Drupal Camp or NYC Unconference Planning?? (if there is a quorum and interest)
BOF - Supporting the Drupal Open Curriculum - winston
BOF - Aegir Setup - skottler
Drupal Drinks and Drupal Fun at Suspenders

Signup Instructions!: 7 World Trade Center security checks your photo id against the list of attendees that we provide. Therefore, if your name is not on the list they will not let you in. Please ensure to put your full name in your groups.drupal.org profile. Also, Signup closes midnight of the day before the event. We don't have the luxury to add "last minute" attendees.

Comments

Drupal Open Curriculum

Posted by winston on February 8, 2011 at 2:57am

Added a "report back" on our first Drupal Intro Training Camp run as a separate event. There were about 60 students, with 4 instructors and another 4 to 6 assistant instructors.

I'll report back on the feedback from both students and instructors on the courseware and the concept.

I also added a Birds of a Feather breakout session for anyone who wants to talk about next steps for this or how to help with the Drupal Open Curriculum project!

If you don't know what I'm talking about here's a link http://groups.drupal.org/node/115279

Intro Module Dev & COD

Posted by ezra-g on February 8, 2011 at 3:00am

If folks are interested, I can potentially make a full ~45 minute-1hr presentation on Introduction to Module Development and another on COD, the Conference Organizing Distribution of Drupal.

Um, drupalcon practice ;)

Posted by winston on February 8, 2011 at 3:19am

Not that I'm complaining mind you!!

COD

Posted by winston on February 9, 2011 at 3:15am

I'd be interested in COD if you will actually go into some of the implementation details. Modules chosen, where was custom coding needed, were there hard choices, etc.

Same interest as winston

Posted by kbell on February 26, 2011 at 11:21pm

I'm curious about the custom coding, implementation details, etc. too, and also plans for Drupal 7 migration. COD is one of my fave distros - I've used it on several projects, and really want to hear not intro stuff, but coding details and strategies.

--Kelly Bell
Gotham City Drupal
twitter: @kbell | @gothamdrupal
http://drupal.org/user/293443

Interested in COD

Posted by lp on February 9, 2011 at 4:31am

From my perspective, I'm particularly interested in logistical & UX choices.

Aegir

Posted by skottler on February 8, 2011 at 9:49pm

I can do a 15-30 minute talk on Aegir. Not so much setup, but more showing off features and management. If people are interested, I can also do a walk through of the setup procedure as a BoF.

+1 Aegir, particularly within

Posted by jasloe on February 9, 2011 at 5:13am

+1 Aegir, particularly within the context of multi-site environments.

+1 on Aegir

Posted by divbox on February 9, 2011 at 5:24am

Also interested in this as it pertains to multi-site.

I'm interested in module

Posted by tabestan on February 8, 2011 at 9:56pm

I'm interested in module development and Aegir.

node.js + Drupal

Posted by justinrandell (not verified) on February 21, 2011 at 4:47am

i'm in the US pre-drupalcon, so i could do something on node.js and Drupal integration if there's any interest.

+1 for node.js

Posted by tom_o_t on February 21, 2011 at 5:01am

I'd love to hear about this.

http://www.thomasturnbull.com
http://twitter.com/thomasturnbull

would like too hear more

Posted by patoshi on February 21, 2011 at 5:13am

would like too hear more about this too! +1

Oooh, added that one.

Posted by winston on February 22, 2011 at 2:41am

No brainer.

I'm sad that I'm going to

Posted by ericduran on February 23, 2011 at 9:11pm

I'm sad that I'm going to miss this.

+1 for node.js

Posted by kbell on February 26, 2011 at 11:22pm

me too.

--Kelly Bell
Gotham City Drupal
twitter: @kbell | @gothamdrupal
http://drupal.org/user/293443

My Front End Coding environment + Theming

Posted by patoshi on February 23, 2011 at 1:26am

Suggesting 10-15 minute presentation:

I'd like to share my coding environment and go through a quick overview of why i believe e-text-editor (www.e-texteditor.com) is one of the top coding editors for theming and editing html/css in general. Also I'd like to go over some good habits while coding or customizing your theme files, good for newbies.

I mostly work in the shell in vim for on the fly editing, so i can go over that if anyone is interested.

Hopefully the projector doesnt die out again. =(

Yes! I always enjoy

Posted by capellic on February 23, 2011 at 1:44pm

Yes! I always enjoy presentations that share tips and best practices.

I'd be curious to know what you think about CSS Watch, a new module that refreshes the browser automatically every time a CSS theme file is updated. I just used it and it eliminated the need for me to have to refresh on my main browser (FF) and IE on the computer next to me - I could just glance over and see, "OK, IE 7 didn't throw up on that bit, good!" It was very handy and facilitated me testing on IE throughout the CSS process instead of dealing with it at the end. If you like it, maybe you can add it to your presentation?

http://drupal.org/project/css_watch

tats a pretty awesome module!

Posted by patoshi on February 23, 2011 at 10:15pm

tats a pretty awesome module! ill definitely bring that up. thanks for saving me a bunch of reloads and shift f5's from now on. im surprised no one thought of that sooner. its pretty interesting that these simple ideas are so obvious after the fact.

another thing i might bring up is my coding setup and which are good keyboards for coders. my preferred is the usb thinkpad touchpoint keyboards since the mouse is right next to your finger and you'd save alot of time from moving your arm to reach for the mouse. until the day comes where we can code telepathically we can only figure out which devices to save us time while coding. another popular coder keyboard is the kenisis or the uber expensive datahand keyboard. anyone else want to share their coding setup?

new member

Posted by Rao Rampilla on February 24, 2011 at 8:02pm

Hi, I am a new member and I like to come to your meetings. Could someone advise me about a meeting that I can attend? Meanwhile I like to meet some drupal member-how could I do that?

hi Rao, if you like to come

Posted by patoshi on February 24, 2011 at 9:11pm

hi Rao, if you like to come to the meetups just click the "sign up" button on the top of the page and they will have your name on the list. After that is confirmed you can just show up at the meeting at the address above.

I have hard time finding that

Posted by Rao Rampilla on February 25, 2011 at 1:38am

I have hard time finding that "sign up" for March 2nd event. I guess ignorance not a bliss in my case. There got to be a easy way. One of the reasons I am coming is that the people that built my website using drupal are shutting their web server by Feb 28 and I have to find a new web host for my website. They said that I could find someone in the group that could help me suggest web hosting service that is reasonable and even help. They said they would make available a tarball of my current site plus data base. Ignorant as I am confused and clueless and desperate for help. thank you.

Rao, be sure you're logged in

Posted by kbell on February 26, 2011 at 11:24pm

Rao, be sure you're logged in - you can't see the signup button unless you're logged in, I believe. Hope to meet you March 2nd! Welcome!

--Kelly Bell
Gotham City Drupal
twitter: @kbell | @gothamdrupal
http://drupal.org/user/293443

Just found out that I'm doing

Posted by bleen on March 1, 2011 at 4:51am

Just found out that I'm doing a 7-minute lightening talk on "Creating & submitting patches" at DrupalCon ... can I do a practice run a this meetup?

As a bonus, people will learn how to create a patch and submit them :)

+! on this - I'd love to have

Posted by kbell on March 1, 2011 at 8:44pm

+! on this - I'd love to have you practice on us!
-K

--Kelly Bell
Gotham City Drupal
twitter: @kbell | @gothamdrupal
http://drupal.org/user/293443

Ooops, I'll add it

Posted by winston on March 2, 2011 at 2:42am

Thanks. Sounds good.

Reminder - please sign up if you want to attend

Posted by winston on March 1, 2011 at 4:39am

Check NOW to make sure that you name appears here http://groups.drupal.org/node/125264/signups and that your name (as it appears on your picture id) is there.

Topics Topics

Posted by winston on March 1, 2011 at 4:52am

Could still use a Lighting round topic. Think putting the pieces together for newbies. Something not hard to show in 5 min, but not obvious to less experienced Drupal folks.

I think we're good on primary topics if we get a deep dive on COD, node.js integration, and Aegir...

see my comment above ... :)

Posted by bleen on March 1, 2011 at 4:54am

see my comment above ... :)

I just posted a discussion

Posted by robbiethegeek on March 2, 2011 at 1:49am

I just posted a discussion about my idea for a Drupal Lecture Series (http://groups.drupal.org/node/130819) if we have interest / time maybe we can do this as a BoF.

Robbie

@RobbieTheGeek

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Aegir

Posted by Drupalgoddess on March 2, 2011 at 1:53am

Looking forward to Sam Kottler's Aegir talk tomorrow night!

Hally Gruber
917 454 8270

no go...

Posted by patoshi on March 2, 2011 at 5:11am

Sorry wont be able to make it this month for my presentation, but if anyone is still interested about coding environments I can do it next month. Or if anyone likes I can talk about the new Google Algorithm update that has happened in the past moth incorporating social search and how it has changed the seo playing field for both white/black hatters.

Portable presentation device?

Posted by winston on March 2, 2011 at 9:48pm

Anyone can bring a portable presentation device? There is an outside chance the one at MV won't be functional tonight.

If it is non-functional and no one can bring a spare then we'll do more breakout sessions/BOFs and less presentations.

Disregard

Posted by winston on March 2, 2011 at 10:12pm

Disregard my previous comment. MV projector is working so we're good. See you soon

Digital Rhino will!

Posted by skottler on March 2, 2011 at 10:06pm

@winston, DR can bring our projector along.

See you then!

Can't come tonight after all :(

Posted by kbell on March 2, 2011 at 11:03pm

Hey everyone,

This sucks beyond belief - I REALLY needed to be at the meeting tonight - but I just had a brand new client call me with an emergency issue on their live site (I haven't touched it yet, so have no idea how long it's going to take). It's looking very unlikely that I will make it tonight. This is I think the second time this almost-exact thing has happened in the last 4 months. I wish I understood why fate seems to want me to stay home on Wednesday nights. :(

Justin, I would really like to hear you talk about node.js - if you record your talk, may I get a copy?

The worst part is missing the planning session for the upcoming unconference in April, and planning stuff for DC - please forgive me guys. I still am planning to help as discussed in the list - I just won't make the meeting tonight.

I'm not going to cancel my signup, because it's too late to do anyone any good anyway (the list has already gone upstairs, I'm sure).

See you all in Chicago!

--Kelly Bell
Gotham City Drupal
twitter: @kbell | @gothamdrupal
http://drupal.org/user/293443

tonight's meeting

Posted by joebachana on March 2, 2011 at 11:21pm

Am really wiped, still suffering from jetlag, although I really wanted to make the NYC Unconference BoF. If this planning session does happen tonight, let me know what I can do to help organize the event. Also, my organization will help with sponsorship money.

Joe Bachana
First Employee at DPCI
1560 Broadway
NY, NY 10036
212.575.5609
www.dpci.com

Unable to make it tonight

Posted by fureigh on March 2, 2011 at 11:36pm

Unable to make it tonight after all, but I look forward to hearing more about the unconference (and node.js, if someone records the presentation or takes notes). I may be able to help with sponsorship as well.

fureigh.com
fureigh on twitter and g.d.o.

Thanks to all for the presentations

Posted by repoman on March 3, 2011 at 4:07pm

Thanks to all for the presentations. They were very informative and I would love to get a hold of the presentations in PDF or whatever format. Please post or link to.

Thanks!