Drupal Indy Meetup: Feb. 23

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Posted by dudenhofer on February 15, 2009 at 11:22pm
Start: 
2009-02-23 18:00 - 20:00 America/Indiana/Indianapolis
Organizers: 
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dougvann
Event type: 
User group meeting

Drupal Case Study Show-And-Tell.

The topic of this meetup has been under discussion and it has been decided that we will have a Drupal show-and-tell session! Come and bring something Drupal-related. Many of us are working on different aspects of Drupal, finding different ways to accomplish what we need with the different websites that we are creating. This session will allow us to trade ideas as well as get new ones when we see what others are doing. So this has turned into less of a tutorial meetup and into an open house of ideas.

The time-frames will be broken up based on how many users show up and how many want to present their case-study.

Come and join us! Bring $5 or so to chip in on Pizza and Drinks and Drupal ideas, topics, and questions!

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Just my two cents: The way

Posted by joshmiller on February 18, 2009 at 1:32pm
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Just my two cents: The way the SVN thing is being presented requires a pretty heavy understanding of command line and not Drupal. I think we should stick to something a little less scary than Views for the "non-coder" session.

Also, perhaps we should vote on a time keeper so that each session gets their allotted time.

josh

point taken

Posted by dudenhofer on February 18, 2009 at 8:55pm
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point taken.... however... personally I think Views is one of the most powerful and probably most valuable modules for "non-coders" especially used in a case study ;) I don't think there's many who wouldn't say "Views and CCK" for the must-have modules for newbies to learn. So... too scary? yes and no. But we could always do an Intro to Drupal if you prefer! :) ha ha

But seriously, though. I love the feed back. thank you!

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More than two cents.

Posted by dougvann on February 18, 2009 at 7:15pm
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Thnx for the contribution Josh. I have suspected that some people might be thinking exactly what you're thinking. I'm certainly glad that you spoke up.
Here are some options and I need the attendees to weigh in on this... btw, Josh, Sign-Up as attending if you're coming :-)
a] I can go ahead with the unfuddle, and it will certainly contain some command line functionality.
OR
b] Brad and I can do a case study on a client site that is about to launch. It has some fun development challenges that we overcame!
The client sites has the following development points any of which are open for discussion.

  • Nice Menus (module for mouse over/reveal effect for "nice" looking menus) http://drupal.org/project/nice_menus
    incl. Brads CSS additions that add "pointers" to the revealed menus.
  • Webform (module for creating web forms that do not create nodes but are emailed to designated recipients) http://drupal.org/project/webform
  • Coherent Access (module for allowing an admin to give edit rights of a node to a user who doesn't own it) http://drupal.org/project/coherent_access
  • Form Validation and Forms with memory (Brad and I wrote a custom module to pass data from one form to another and then validate the email addresses of non-cck fields)
  • Videos (Brad and I found a work around that allows nice-menus to not be covered up by embedded youtube objects)
  • More...

If you're coming to the meeting PLZ reply and let me know which one you want to see.

  • Doug Vann [Drupal Trainer, Consultant, Developer]
  • Synaptic Blue Inc. [President]
  • http://dougvann.com

nice menus +1

Posted by dudenhofer on February 18, 2009 at 9:02pm
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You could do nice menus and talk on the video issue. I've used nice menus before and could give some input, but I'd like to see how you handled the video overlay problem.

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SVN

Posted by sdudenhofer on February 18, 2009 at 7:38pm
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I would prefer to step away from SVN. We've had basically 2 full meetings devoted almost solely to SVN.

I have tried nice menus and found the experience, less than stellar, so it would be interesting to see what you did to make everything work.

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Taxonomy menu

Posted by indytechcook on February 18, 2009 at 7:57pm
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I would be happy to talk about the module that has been taking up all of my time. I can go through my design process and share information about ways people can contribute. Taxonomy menu http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_menu.

I'm adding invokes in there and would love other developers opinions. http://drupal.org/node/307117

Neil Hastings
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Topics of discussion

Posted by dudenhofer on February 18, 2009 at 9:04pm
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These topics were only picked because of lack of input. Doug offered to do Unfuddle, and in an effort to mix it up, I was going to do the case study.

Indytechcook - you're more than welcome to present on your module! You could take my slot I'll step in later when the suggested topics are lacking :) Let me know! I'll update the event description with that and what Doug decides to go with.

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+1 on Case Studies

Posted by joshmiller on February 19, 2009 at 3:07pm
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Crazy idea: What if we allotted time for all of us to shout out urls for different Drupal websites that we have created and we could talk for (no more than) 5 or so minutes. Nothing formal, just some "show and tell." We could encourage questions, and then it would be more like "show, tell, and answer."

This way we could get a number of "case studies" out there and get more people involved.

Josh

I like it!

Posted by dudenhofer on February 20, 2009 at 2:23am
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Yeah, we could have a website show-and-tell this meetup! Great idea :) That way we won't have to mess with all the detals about how to do something, but what we did. It will help open up ideas for all of us.
Great idea!

+1 here

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+1 on Case Studies

Posted by indytechcook on February 19, 2009 at 3:44pm
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I like that idea.

Next meeting I can discuss how you can contribute to drupal. (modules, patches, documentation, etc..)

Neil Hastings
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