Meeting wiki agenda Oct 16

Copied from Event http://groups.drupal.org/node/15842

• barn raising follow up (potential dates: Nov 8th or 15th) - Looks like Nov 15th is better for some people at least. Where is the issue list??? Jared - can you make a list and put a node up?

  • A sprint to wrap our Barnraising project from last year. This site has been seriously neglected by myself and I would like to push it to
    completion and would love to work on it as a group if others are interested. I am planning on doing some QA and updating the issue queue on it so that it would be a pretty straight forward event... Maybe a Saturday morning meetup for a few hours followed by sandwiches ???

• Lightning Talks and Quick Notes and Quick Questions (tell us about something you just learned or a site you just completed or ?)

  • gdata auth / google calendar demo
  • Places to get SVN/Trac hosted for a project: assembla.com (free in some cases) recommended by HeyRocker Greg, devguard.com recommended by Jennifer
    • see also http://subversion.tigris.org/links.html#hosting
  • Faceted Search Drupal module is really cool; if you want to use it with CCK, get CCK Facets too (Faceted Search normally works with Taxonomy terms)
  • File names with + signs - when uploading, bad things happen in Image Cache... want to change the file names when uploading, filter? Can you tap into whatever Upload does with allowed extensions and do something with file names? There doesn't seem to be a module that does this...
  • Acquia - They are offering a package with Drupal and some modules and a theme... HeyRocker Greg says their theme had some problems... They are selling a service including web monitoring and support, for a fee. "The Red Hat of Drupal".
  • Views Bulk Operations - cool module for doing bulk operations on nodes, using views. Example: you need to review a bunch of nodes. Set up a view that lets you review them and check them off. Example 2: better filtering options than what you get on admin/content/node. Example 3: when you build the list, you can show different fields. (Jennifer says: Views Actions Links (drupal.org/project/views_actions_links) does some things like this too.)
  • Taxonomy Manager module: good for free tagging. Not a good idea for taxonomies with weights.

• winter DrupalCamp?

  • Thought: After the wildly successful camp this summer there was some discussion about pushing the camp date back into the dark months here in Seattle rather than during the short summertime. Is that still something people are into? If so, how soon would that need to start being talked about?
  • The next Drupal Con is in Washington DC in March, starting on the 4th.
  • Might be nice to have our camp several weeks before - we could hone our sessions/presentations, get inspired, etc.
  • Might be nice to space things out between Portland, Vancouver, Victoria, and our camp - last year all 4 were within a few weeks of each other (or at least three of them)
  • If we do a 1-day camp. let's do it on a Friday. If it's a 2-day camp, let's do it Friday/Saturday. Or maybe do a 1-day full-on camp (sessions, learning, etc.) and have the 2nd day be informal, a barn raising, in Office Nomads or some space like StartPad (but bigger), where people can hang out and do stuff.
  • Try to attract local folks, build community, etc. Rather than having people travel in. If it's only 1 day, will be more oriented towards local people rather than people far away.
  • Adobe was interested in hosting our 2008 camp, but we had a communication problem. They might very well be willing to host this time around.
  • Maybe sometime in February? Gregory and Robin are at a Civic Actions, returning Feb 2nd. DrupalCon is in early March. Maybe Feb 20th is the best middle ground?
  • Maybe the 2nd day would be a "non-conference": Everyone comes prepared to work together, and it is self-organizing. Give a talk. Get some people together to work on a module. Don't have an agenda in advance. Don't overthink it. We need space, markers, and internet access.
  • How many attendees? Target about 80, depending on the space. No more than about 125 people. We had 85 there each day this year, about 100 different people total the two days.
  • We need to talk to
    • Vancouver - Gregory sent message, might also post to their group
    • Victoria - Gregory sent message, might also post to their group
    • Portland - Gregory will send message, may need to post to their groups.drupal.org
    • Adobe and Seattle Univ as possible venues - Robin will check with them - better than West Seattle, less planning for hospitality
    • Gregory may have a connection at UW, he will check there

• break out into smaller groups as needed
  AT A LOCAL EATERY - Robin is HUNGRY!!!!