Another Successfully Awesome Gainesville Drupal Meetup!

Last night the Gainesville Drupal Users Group (heretofore to be known as GatorDUG) held its month meeting (which occurs on the 2rd meeting each month). We had 5 people in attendance (Mike, Jen, Nadia, Ricky, and Mark) this month, which is a bit lower than usual, but it is summer up here (when everyone leaves town).

Quick Recap

1. Mike demoed a development site and theme that he is working on for www.VisitNosara.com (hopefully to launch within several weeks)
2. Mike previewed a new website mockup for www.GatorTailgating.com and ran basic usability tests on the group... this led into an interesting conversation of usability theory and topics.
3. The group talked about increasing attendence. We have a 50,000+ student university in our backyard, but only one or two regular attendees from said university.
   1. Emailing the UF Web Managers email list
   2. Emailing the UF CCC email list (not sure what that stands for...)
   3. Emailing the UF Linux email list
   4. Doing a Gainesville Drupal Users Group Website
      1. Mike registered both GatorDUG.com and GatorDUG.org
      2. Jen will handle hosting (via WebEnabled)
4. We previewed the Denver Drupalcon website and discovered its not running Drupal!
5. ...which led into a discussion on deconstructing live Drupal websites via HTML source, and HTTP headers. Mike will give a session on this next meetup
6. Jen gave an awesome demo of the Features Module, and showed us how to export content types, fields, and views, and then add them back by installing the created module
7. Somehow the discussion led into input formats. Mike discussed creating a 'raw' input format and how to secure, and remove filters to enable a secure user to input javascript/iframes, etc.
8. Mike also demoed the Better Formats Module, which enables Drupal to set a default input format (and therefor WYSIWYG editor) per content type.

Ideas for the GatorDUG.org website

• Members will write an article before giving monthly presentations (this will build up content quickly)
• Facebook integration
• Profile fields to link to profile on Drupal.org
• Members page (a user view) with images of each user.
• Easy to create an account and use.
• Other websites can link to this site using the "Gainesville Drupal" and "Drupal Gainesville" anchor text, which should rank us for those keywords in the search engines

Next Meetup is June 9th!

• Meetup will be held at the Alachua County Library HQ
• Mike will give presentations on Deconstructing Drupal, and also theming Webform submission emails.
• Plus much much more!
• Come see us!