Note: ROOM and FLOOR CHANGE - E51-145, same building
Feature presentation: A (Web) Face for Radio: Building a Platform on Drupal 7. This presentation, by David Moore, details the National Public Radio's new Drupal powered platform.
We will be hosted by the Sustainability@MIT – MIT Drupal Group in Cambridge in Building E51 - Tang Center in E51-145. Thanks again to Ed Carlevale and MIT for hosting us.
Parking and Transportation:
After 3pm, there is an unattended MIT lot folks can use. It is Hayward Lot http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=P5
Lightning Talks
Everyone is welcome and encouraged to present for 10 minutes on a topic of their choosing. You may show off your Drupal site, ask some questions of the audience, give a module demonstration, share some marketing ideas for Drupal, and so on. Just keep it brief. No expertise or planning required - just do it.
Dinner
After the meetup, some of us will continue the conversation over dinner at MIT's Muddy Charles Pub. We will likely pre-order some pizza so it meets us there. We'll take a count about half way through the meeting.
Please plan on bringing $10 to participate in pre-ordering food and some drinks.
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Note: ROOM and FLOOR CHANGE - E51-145, same building
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I'm happy to announce that we
I'm happy to announce that we will start the meeting with a feature presentation: A (Web) Face for Radio: Building a Platform on Drupal 7. This presentation, by David Moore, details National Public Radio's new Drupal powered platform.
See you all on Tuesday.
Thanks for the help on COPPA
I just wanted to thank everyone for a very helpful (if overlong, for a lightning talk) discussion about ways to address COPPA issues. We did go back and rethink how we're going to approach this, and I think that everyone involved will find the results both more compliant to the law, and more fun to use, as a result.
If there is a "lesson learned" it probably revolves around the idea that making something more complex or harder to use is not the same as addressing the specific security needs of the situation and can even result in more liability and less security.
In the case of COPPA, the issue is ensuring that no marketing-useful data for the under-13 child is being exposed. The solution is not to make the page obscure, nor is it to share a "read-only" password--both of which can spread infinitely, and both, like most data posted to the internet, are immediately beyond control. We can, however, ensure that there is no such data on any page accessible to the kid's friends or family to begin with, and move on. We can further do other simple things (notification to the parent whenever something is made public) that provide affordances for the parent to be engaged with what the child is doing in the one place online.