Ok, this notice got out later than we preferred but alas, we hope to see many of you there next Tuesday evening...always put the 1st Tuesday down in your calendar app of choice for Boston Drupal Meetup!
Thank you December Sponsor, BioRaft!
Due to their awesome generosity, BioRaft treated attendees to a dinner spread at the Muddy after the meetup.
BioRAFT is an enterprise web application based on Drupal used by universities and research centers across the country.
Great things are coming their way:
- funding
- development office in Cambridge
- active participation in the local Drupal community
And hey, they are hiring! Check out http://www.bioraft.com/careers
Spread the word.
We will be hosted by the MIT Drupal Group in Cambridge in Building E51 - Tang Center in E51-145.
Parking and Transportation:
After 5pm, there is an unattended MIT lot called Hayward: http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=P5
The Boston Initiative
January 3rd will be the third meetup leading up to Drupalcon Denver where we dedicate one hour, from 6:30 to 7:30, to learning about and contributing to Drupal core (see http://groups.drupal.org/node/194708 for more information).
Lightning Talks
Everyone is welcome and encouraged to present for 10 minutes on a topic of their choosing. You may show off your Drupal site, ask some questions of the audience, give a module demonstration, share some marketing ideas for Drupal, and so on. Just keep it brief. No expertise or planning required - just do it.
Dinner
After the meetup, some of us will continue the conversation over dinner at MIT's Muddy Charles Pub. We will likely pre-order some dinner so it meets us there. We'll take a count about half way through the meeting.
Please plan on bringing $10 to participate in pre-ordering food and some drinks. If you would like to sponsor dinner, comment below and organizers will reach out. You will be recognized at the meeting as well as given the chance to do a featured talk.
Comments
Correction: Next Meetup: January 3rd, **2012**
Ok, I must leave 2011 gracefully and really get ready for 2012!
Need a Drupal resolution?
- bring someone new to the meetup
- participate in the Boston Initiative
- volunteer at a DrupalCamp
Happy New Year everyone and we will see you next year.
~Jeannie
Boston Initiative: Game plan for Jan. 3 meetup
As with the past few meetups, on January 3 we will be dedicating one hour, from 6:30 to 7:30, to learning about and contributing to Drupal core. (This activity is part of the Boston Initiative, which our group is doing leading up to Drupalcon Denver in March.)
Based on feedback after last month's meetup, I'd like to propose a few small adjustments in our approach, and ask for some people's help preparing for Tuesday:
First, I have prepared new materials and exercises for people just getting started. Several people have been frustrated by the time it takes trying to find issues in the issue queue to practice on when learning new skills. So, I found a good practice issue and prepared some exercises we can do with it.
Second, let's try pairing people up to take ownership of issues (one issue per pair) in the issue queue and work through them together. One hour isn't enough time to resolve an issue. My hope is that people who know the basics and want to work their way up the ladder would be willing to commit to shepherding an issue through the queue. There's some stuff you have to learn by doing. And at the end of the day, this initiative is only going to make an impact if we can move issues through the queue. So, the idea here is that people team up and work as a team at the monthly meetups, and stick with their issues until they're resolved. We have a wealth of knowledge in our group. Teams can obviously enlist other members of our group for help if they get stuck.
For people interested in pairing up to work on an issue beginning Tuesday, if you have time, please try and find an issue you would be interested in working on before Tuesday. That way, rather than spend the hour looking for something to work on, you can spend the hour with your new teammate getting down to work. If you have time, find a few issues you think other people may want to work on too. You can post issues you want to work on or suggest to others here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjEp9HDGLykIdEJkOTAzREdLbDZ...
I re-worked the Drupal Ladder to incorporate feedback and make more documentation readily available. Please take a look and let me know what you think.
See you Tuesday!
Bryan
Git instructions
In case anyone plans to install Git at the meetup, here is a link to the instructions I have been drafting. Sorry, I have not updated them since last month. https://docs.google.com/document/d/18QjFiRCPPpQqsuTfvi0dVfxIPmBUTCly8s88...
Documentation rung
Hi Brian,
What happened to the documentation rung on the ladder. Are we scrapping that?
Laura
Hi Laura, Yeah. I reworked
Hi Laura,
Yeah. I reworked the ladder quite a bit based on feedback from the December meetup. I talked about the changes at the beginning of the evening last night.
The newest revision is here:
http://bit.ly/drupal-ladder
You can see all revisions of the ladder here:
https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0ATEp9HDGLykIZGRiMzZwbmpfNTBmZmc...
If there's something missing on the new ladder you'd like to see added back from the old ladder (or if you have other ideas about what should be on there), please let me know. This is very much still a work in progress.
Bryan
Thanks Bryan. I had to miss
Thanks Bryan. I had to miss the beginning of this months meetup so I missed your comments.
Laura
This makes we wish I didn't move...
Thanks for the great resources, Bryan. I've sent around to our team and look forward to using it in our Drupal contribution strategy.
ethanw
ethan@echoditto.com
Instructions for getting set up with Drupal 8 & Git
Here's a link to the shared doc. Feel free to improve.
http://goo.gl/9XUHR
The vimrc project
Thanks to those who encouraged me last night, and apologies to those who were bored. (I know that vim is not for everyone!) The project page is http://drupal.org/project/vimrc and the main documentation page is http://drupal.org/node/1389006.
Some of the features I demonstrated require additional programs. As I said, we hope to provide some sort of automatic installation, but for now you need to RTFM if they are not already installed.
Some of the features have not been committed to the project. See pending patches for a list of features that need to be reviewed before I can commit them. Or clone my personal branch from https://github.com/benjifisher/Vim-Plugin-for-Drupal to get everything at once.
The vimrc project
This is brilliant! Thanks very much. I wasn't able to attend the Meet-Up last night but saw your post this morning and have been having fun extending vim for the last couple of hours (in addition the vimrc project I installed NERDtree and Tagbar). Everything is working just fine.
One gnit... I'd like to see the README.txt lead with using pathogen or at least use the same strength language as you have in your Recommended plug-ins page. I didn't know anything about pathogen prior to this morning and just installed your vimrc in the ~/.vim directory. Then, after learning about your Recommended Plug-ins, I realized I really needed pathogen and then had to move all the vimrc files to the bundle subdir. As I say, it's a minor point, but had the README.txt recommended pathogen rather than just saying "if you use pathogen..." then it would have saved some steps.
Thanks again for the great work and for sharing.
Mb
Vimrc project
Mb, constructive criticism is always welcome, and I am glad you are excited about the project.
What is even more welcome is a patch. How would you like to copy some text from the HTML documentation, paste it into README.txt, and format it to 80 characters per line?
I forgot to mention: I have offered to give a longer presentation at the W. Mass Drupal Camp. If a few people vote for it (or add it to their agendas) then my proposal is more likely to be accepted: http://drupalcampma.com/power-editing-vim.
documentation patch
I will take care of it and I will be attending your sessions at W. Mass Drupal Camp (I've added it to my agenda).
Thanks,
Maury
Looking forward
Maury, I look forward to getting a patch, and to seeing you at the Drupal Camp. Just yesterday, I revised the HTML documentation and added a few new pages.
BTW, I have previously written on d.o that vim's diff mode rocks. A few days ago, I took advantage of diff mode, Git, and the fugitive plugin to merge some changes. Without these tools, I would have lost hours!