February Drupal Meetup: 2/18/09

I'd like to second the idea of having a quiet place. Not sure if Indy Hall is even an option. I understand they're doing evening hours now for their members.

I'm more than happy to contribute to pay for the room if there's a fee.

Do most people want it to be in Center City? I'll go if it is, but I know there's a lot of people in this group that live North and West.

Nate, do you think we should put up a poll and ask people where they want the meet up to be?

Sam

I can't make it on the 18th, but as I'm not a regular attendee it probably doesn't make sense to shift things on my account. In any case, whether it's on a different date in February or at a future meetup, I could do a short piece on the work I've been doing on www.casinofreephila.org (D6 site).

There's nothing too fantastic about the setup, but one thing that occurred to me was my discovery of how easy it was to get Views2 to hook on to CCK's node_reference fields in an argument to display "reverse node reference" views (i.e. you create a content type called recipes with a node referrer of ingredients, and then at the bottom of every ingredient node you display a block view of recipes that refer to it). For instance, the related images on this page: http://www.casinofreephila.org/campaigns/2006/operation-transparency

If most of the folks who show up to the meetups are programmers this could all be utterly beneath them, and I confess to being mostly a theming-and-configuration person anyhow. But if it seems useful I'd be happy to run through it in a few minutes.

The 18th works for me! I like the idea of meeting at Zivtech, they have a nice office and it is in close proximity to a couple of bars for the aforementioned frosty beverage! I'd also be willing to chip in for Indy Hall, etc.

I could present some recent work I've done integrating Drupal with Flash via both XML and AMFPHP or on the basics of working with the Views 2 API (view specific settings, overriding the default render, the way plug-in .tpl files work by default, etc.). It's very easy to work with if you understand the basics of OOP.

Are we planning on a meetup? For next week?

Alex has graciously offered ZivTech's office for a meeting, so let's plan to meet there (see body of post for address) And we're starting to get volunteers to show some things off. Please continue commenting below if you wish to present something -- can be 5-10 mins, nothing huge. Just complete a site in Drupal? Show it off! Working on something and have some questions? Stand up and show us your problem and I'm sure there will be folks ready and able to offer some creative ideas.

Don't forget to RSVP here if you're coming!

Bah - monday morning - brain not fully engaged.
The meetup is this wednesday the 18th at 7pm, at ZivTech.
Sorry for the confusion.

I'm afraid I made other plans after there wasn't any response last week. Hope to see a lot of you guys at the PHP meetup at Kildare's in King of Prussia next week!

Have a cold one for me!

sorry, can't make it after all -- too much work, too many deadlines -- enjoy the evening

Will try to make it next time .Thanks for organizing.