I took some meeting notes....

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Posted by Tresler on September 27, 2006 at 2:23am

FWIW here are some notes. If people have their own, add them to comments and we can roll it back into an archive of sorts - I'm sure I missed some things:

Beginning of the meeting Noel talked about his experiences at DrupalCon.

  • Specifically talked about the Drupal Foundation being setup to protect copyright and legitimize Drupal as a project in the Open-source community.
  • See Frontpage post about foundation.
  • Dan Robinson's tlak about module developmnet. His methodology about presenting a module is good for promting community support.
  • Build out module for use cases as opposed to technical specifications.
  • Session for using drupal as a software development platform
  • Presentation about using Drupal as a distributed video platform.
  • See Drupalcon.org website
  • How lullabot built the MTV.uk website. Kind of a Myspace for MTV.uk
  • JQuery in Drupal 5.0 - HUGE!!!! You'll really want to need to know this.
  • Translations. How to develop code to be truly translatable as oposed to english.
  • Possible Mechanical Turk option for content vis-a-vis an outside translation service.
  • Talk of getting such a 'bi-lingual' service sponsored by google.
  • Will be new group for l8nr
  • Serious Wiki Module.
  • Taking over liquidWiki Module. Discussion of re-writing it for 5.0.
  • Will be new drupal group for wikis
  • The Beer was great.

    • Discussion of review of Drupal, Plone, & Joomla.

  • Plone too difficult.
  • Drupal too extensible.

    • Discussion of Trellon's move towards integrating a lot of project management and issue tracking software into Drupal

  • Basecamp
  • PBwiki
  • Track
  • Subversion

    • Barcamp his weekend, signup now

    This about CitizenSpeak: http://drupal.org/node/86114

    Demonstration of CCK and contemplate.

  • Contemplate vs. .tpl.php
  • Contemplate originally meant to theme RSS feeds that never go through the phptemplate engine.

    • Discussion various contrib modules

  • Blockbar for menus and content
  • Logotool and how to hack it for other variables

    • Jacob broke his powerbook. We were all sad for him.

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    Hahaha. Superb

    Posted by DaveNotik on September 27, 2006 at 6:26am
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    Hahaha. Superb recollection.

    Look forward to more connecting.

    Have a great rest of the week, all.

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    Recollection?

    Posted by Tresler on September 27, 2006 at 2:42pm
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    This is what I was typing into my text editor the whole meeting. If I don't write something down, forget about it, its gone.

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    Interested!

    Posted by pobster on March 4, 2007 at 5:21pm
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    As the author of Logotool I'm VERY interested in this;

    • Logotool and how to hack it for other variables

    What was this section about? Do wish someone would tell me about these things and not have to find them completely by accident!

    Thanks

    Pobster