Posted by cleaver on April 8, 2011 at 12:53am
Start:
2011-04-18 18:30 - 20:30 America/Toronto Organizers:
Event type:
User group meeting
April 18th meetup at CSI, 215 Spadina Ave, Suite 120. Note that the front door closes at 6pm, so you may need to go through the café. The café closes at 7pm, so you may not get in after 7.
Updated Agenda
The following people expressed interest in presenting this month:
- HTML 5 - Chris (motionblur)
- Drupad app - Chris (motionblur)
- Making mega navs using views and features, a case study - Darko (darko)
- Scrum/Agile development - Yashar
- Single Sign-On explained by sock puppets - Cleaver
Comments
Easter Monday?
Darko just pointed out that the 25th is actually Easter Monday. Does anyone want to move the date to the 18th.
Personally, the 25th is good and the post-meetup beer might be the antidote to chocolate overdose. Please post your thoughts or contact me directly... we want a good turn out!
http://cleaver.ca
I'm in favor of moving the
I'm in favor of moving the meeting. I will probably be out of town that weekend, and hence my third missed meetup in a row :(
"I am a very model of a modern major general"
Either date works for me.
Either date works for me.
Update: I'm moving May 2nd, so I won't be available that day.
I can't do the 18th. I'm
I can't do the 18th. I'm fine with Easter Monday.
Maybe move it to May 2nd? There are five Mondays in May.
If anyone bails I can do a
If anyone bails I can do a presentation on Scrum/Agile Development or for the following month.
April 18
So, the 25th is a holiday and some will be away... May 2 is election day...
sigh Let's make it the 18th. Sorry for the late notice.
http://cleaver.ca
I like the 3rd Monday
Apr 18 is great to me.
I hope the monthly meeting is always held on the 3rd Monday.
Directions?
I listened to the discussion regarding possible directions at the meeting last night.
As a 6-month newbie, what I think would be very valuable to me would to analyze various some existing websites, and come up with strategies or best practices for approaching the problem of building a similar website with Drupal.
As an example, please look at http://www.canadasflyfishingoutfitter.com/
I've been told that this site was built with Joomla. I have no idea how to approach such a project with Drupal. Seems to me it would be great to take something like this apart and then discuss a strategy for developing a similar site with Drupal.
Does this sound worthwhile to other people?
Thanks, Jim
Yes, let's demo early analysis & architecture
I wholeheartedly agree with jimbo. It's easy to find documentation on the
mechanics of Drupal — how to set up views, theming a site… — but I would
love to get more information on the analysis phase to ensure a project will
be built sanely. For example, there are many ways to organize your nodes:
standard Drupal menu, taxonomy menu, node hierarchy… where would you use
each of these? And why?
Making the wrong decision at the beginning of a project can have a major
impact on the amount of hair-pulling later on. Along with the mini-case
studies, this is one of the most useful topics I would hope to see explored
at DUG-TO.
MC
Drupal Kitchen
Just a thought that this might be an excellent place for the Drupal Kitchen. Check for an event posted here--it's May 9, IIRC. There's no better way to pick that up than a real life project.
That's not to say we can't do it at a regular DUG-TO meeting as well. Also, keep in mind that you could volunteer to lead a session even if you don't know all the answers. Just do it as a facilitator and call on some of the experts in the room to give opinions. That seems like a great way to share best practices.
http://cleaver.ca
Has anyone considered...?
I agree with jimbob54 and UTAN_dev. I would find it very useful to see people with expertise analyze websites and break down components into the parts to understand how functionality can be put together.
I'm not sure what Drupal Kitchen is about though so I'll have to check into that.
Here's one thing to consider though. I live in Barrie and work until 6pm. It is impossible for mne to get to anything in downtown Toronto before 8 pm so although I would have loved to attend previous events, I haven't.
I can see a business opportunity for someone who wants to film these events, provide them for free for the first week they're uploaded on a website (or not) and then charge for viewing them. That way, many people can benefit from the sessions. Like Lullabot did. Maybe this could be arranged to happen in other locations besides Toronto too.
I know I would pay to learn things this way. If I could watch the events live at home, that would be a bonus. And be able to send in a question via the internet would be really cool too.
Greg Mount (pasada) has been
Greg Mount (pasada) has been recording the past few events and you can find these videos at http://vimeo.com/torontobodymind