Notes from the first Vancouver Drupal Bike-In #1

Drupal Bike-In
November 2, 2006

Attendees:
Scott Nelson [open source for 5 years, sys admin, car free since ‘93]
Mack Hardy [sys admin, programmer, Drupal for adhoc groups, locations modules, started reverse bounty OG2list, looking for funds to devel. PCI and other clients Drupal since Feb 06 EComm bckgrd];
Jennifer Campagnolo [Business process and gluing organizational needs to technology solutions, Drupal since January ’06 focus on communication and maximizing community/group development, former ecomm];
Bill Tubbs [Closet Geek, WorkLess party site; Mambo, RideShareBC.com application in Drupal;
Ryan Golbeck [?] [UBC Comp Sci PHD student, Drupal since one month];
Ifny [forum for bike community with Ryan, umbrella site, voluntarily accessed advertising, demo avail., wants to learn about integrating, i.e. event calendar, not intimidating];
Amy [publisher and editor of Momentum, wants to work passionately with others (<00>) without getting burned out and being able to pay the rent, current is a Drupal website, ideas person, looking for people to do the backend, strength is developing content, bringing people together];
Colin, marketing for Momentum, some Ecomm experience, looking to expand readership];
Bob [ Drupal for last year seriously, works with brother in Edinburgh, making feature length doc. “you never bike alone” premiere on Sunday Nov. 26th at 2pm at RIO theatre, using Drupal site to promote it; using newsletters and path-auto, test worked];
Wendell [“is a hack”, Drupal for a month Site: http://www.fearlessgearless.com/ does research, uses Drupal, looking at online publishing, “Tech” (?) typesetting language = one step to publishing, potential to enable developing world text book publishing, also how to books for the bike world]

Show and tell
Agree to share learning, logins, sites.
Everyone share what they are liking and not with the with show and tell.

Amy:
Momentum site http://momentumplanet.ca/

Doesn’t like the template as is too blog like; no search; likes that it is space
Amy needs more hands or ability to allow others to provide feedback and input
Contributors can contribute, some will have editor role,
Check out http://digg.com writing content and ability to rate it. Keep it simple, yes/no
Needs to let people to add content to the calendar – Wendall offered to make this happen – NOW!
Three people working on the site, not coordinated. Needs management

How long does it take to implement digg style; needs 6 modules

Mack:
Noticed, nobody is tracking their membership. Suggests Civic CRM to organize and connect; espy for campaigns, puts people into groups;
Showed www.Relocalize.net and the following modules
CCK
Galleries and images solutions
Locations module
Nice menus = content centric menus
Video module - playin’ – upload;
Gmap
CiviCrm
OG
LDAP
“Always use a test site”

Bob: http://www.youneverbikealone.com/

Stats – to see how often a node has been accessed
Newsletter module – limited, can’t tell if someone’s already up there, off Drupal site called newsletter
Profiles

1. Bill.

www.wikiwalki.com
www.nelsoncar.org

My site: www.ridesharebc.com
- Post, view rides, ride requests - need an explanation key
- Gmap module
- Marketing, postering, magazines
- User feedback? Use user points module
- Pull in postings freom craigslist, be open to sharing

1. Ifny, Wendel
   Place for bike riders in Tokyo: sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/tokyofreewill (?)

- Issues: User ids, reputation
Bicycle bee blogger: http://www.bicyclebee.blogspot.com/
- The 'opensource' of bicycle community

Our site: arkady.indymedia.org/velo
- live since Monday
- purpose: aggregates all info. keep track of whats going on
- use module 'wordpress to drupal' - pulls content to drupal
- local comment box required
- need a filter for RSS feeds? - try google news feeds
- automatic feeds from Amy's calendar? use a taxonomy type? or php icalendar
- e.g. different colours like calendar.shifttobikes.org
- how to help people navigate people to the site?
- e.g. like a ballroom with different doors
- ethics of linking? people being subjected to ads all the time
- idea: clicking gallery - generate revenue for site!
- see insert block module
- can you have automatic tagging? - special node types

1. Meeting feedback

- different skill levels
- use of terms, need definitions
- idea: do show and tell - newest to oldest site
- too much information or just throw it out?

1. Wendel
   www.fearlessgearless.com - only been up for a week!

• Frontpage module - allows 2 different views
• design philosophy - layout
• holy grail template - loads content first
• organic groups - any user can create a group
• events calendar
• gallery2 integration
• download of data from wordpress
  Meeting direction:
  • getting word out to the community - e.g. RSS feeds, calendar stuff
  • automatic multiplier effect through Drupal
  • social bike rides
  • freegeek.org
  • lets standardise the way we work!

Announcement:
- This saturday Hawks/Union ride meet 10pm, ride 11pm.

Zoe
- geocoding in drupal

Next meeting:
- lets make drupal.org our tool for communicating! (scott will set up a group)
- but face to face meeting is important
- subgroups and documentation