Posted by mdmattin on March 24, 2011 at 6:27pm
Umass Drupal User's Group (UDU) meetings will take place at ISB 241H, 2:00 - 4:00 for the first Thursday of each month through May. Next meeting is April 7.
Proposed agenda topics are:
Best practices for creating sites to be maintained by non technical people
What are essential features for a basic template to be used by UMass departments?
Configuration of basic stack, included modules, etc.
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Minutes
Here are the minutes I took of the meeting:
udu-20110407
Attendance
Dave Ruderman
Thomas Bunnell
Beth Armour
Andy Slocombe
Tom Hoogendyk
Steve Brewer
Matthew Mattingly
Craig Miller
Jang Kreetong
Gary Parker
Introductions
Agenda
Updates
ubercart civicrm
open atrium -- faculty senate
open atrium purchased
SRRI
needs
update site from drupal 5
find new hosting
OIT
part of a multi-site
update modules
only drupal 6 right now, drupal 7 available later
go through UR
set up site
devel, test, live
on umass.edu
load balance, multiple servers, redundancy
many modules available, approval process
ubercart, ecommerce?
separate sites for store and site
cybersource only university-approved payment service
ubercart needs patches to work with cybersource
Common site-building approaches
Common themes approaches
common stack of modules
end-user updating
best practices