Lightning talks for Tuesday August 30th Meet-up

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dgoldenbaum's picture

Let's do lightning talks at our meeting next Tuesday. Essentially, that means folks will volunteer to give a 5 to 10 minute demo on anything Drupal. No presentation materials required but we will have a big screen you can hook your laptop up to if you want to do a demo. You can talk about a module you like, an issue you had building a site, an idea for a drupal module project etc.

The purpose of doing such short talks is to bring up topics that we might want to address in more detail, get to know each other, and reduce the anxiety that generally comes along with public speaking... these are totally impromptu, not a big deal.

Here are the demos I think we have so far...

Drupal 7 Image styles and imagecache actions
Syncing database files with Drush
Using the context module
Using the features module

Please chime in with your topic!

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Good start

HaloFX's picture

Sounds like a good way to jump start the group back to life. I would be interested in hearing if anyone is using Omega/Delta with Context, and their experience. I have just started expirementing with them and it looks like a very intriguing alternative to the legacy Blocks system.

Interesting...

dgoldenbaum's picture

I'm certainly for using context over the legacy block system in general, but not familiar with Omega/Delta. I'm assuming this is what you're referring to: http://himerus.com/blog/himerus/omega-intro-2-delta-module-contextual-th...

If so, and if no one else has experience, we can certainly throw this quick intro up onto the screen and discuss.

jumping point to a group discussion

ay13's picture

there are several different alternatives to using blocks (boxes and features_extra). it might be nice to set up a discussion at a future meet up of different ways of making blocks exportable.

Has anyone here used the

patrick.thurmond@gmail.com's picture

Has anyone here used the Omega or Delta systems (theme and module)? I would like to hear more about this from someone with first hand experience. After a bad run-in with another base templating theme I am reluctant to try another. Though the HTML5 960.gs setup is very intriguing to me.

Yes, I'm curious about the

rohr's picture

Yes, I'm curious about the HTML5 theme options and the pros/cons at this point.

Topic sign up

dgoldenbaum's picture

I posted a google doc for people to sign up for lightning talks. Feel free to add your topic!
http://tiny.cc/hgqfn

Thanks!

buzzkc's picture

A big thanks to all that presented. Enjoyed the meeting and looking to more meetings in the future. Darren

Kansas City

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