Notes from 3/24 IRC Session

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Posted by mfer on March 24, 2009 at 9:36pm
Last updated by mfer on Tue, 2009-03-24 23:07

  • $FIELD_NAME_rendered exists in CCK D6 and Fields D7 in .tpl files. This is documented in CCK advanced help (advanced help module required). Where else should this be documented? More detail at http://groups.drupal.org/node/20440.

  • Discussed the 'needs design review' issues for drupal 7. Link in left sidebar of group page. http://drupal.org/project/issues/3060/term/523.

    • What can we do to promote designers/themers to visit it?
    • promise them fame & fortune
    • have a top 10 list of most active designers (how to we measure this?)
      • Figure out how to measure this or kids kudos (think ohloh).
    • TASK for mfer: See about posting issues on g.d.o/d4d
    • mortendk asked how to contribute to something like http://drupal.org/node/410956. mfer responded to provide your thoughts on this for justification to those who can/will code it.
    • smerrill setup http://twitter.com/d4dreview for designers to follow the design issues on twitter. awesome!

  • Drupal Camp statues.

    • Copenhagen update (by mortendk).
      • Venue: http://www.rummetirepublikken.dk/galleri-rummet/ (holds 150 - 200)
      • Going to be in english
      • Going to look for sponsors next week.
      • mortendk will notify when the site (drupalcamp.dk) is live for people to share and broadcast.
      • Need speakers (would like to get some developers on). There will be a cph meeting later this week to discuss.
    • Boston (susanmacphee)
      • A group email list on google.
      • A group doc where there are lots to spreadsheets to keep track of things.
      • The location and dates are still being worked out.
      • Already have one sponsor interested giving money and speaking. Maybe more... already...
      • claudio has a domain to use for the camp. We need a sexy design for the site. prestonso and mortendk will team up to create theme.
    • Brought up http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-camp

  • New themes for drupal 7.

    • mortendk asked if the themes should be a new starter theme or a sexy theme. The response was both.
    • A call for designs.
      • TASK for mfer: a post on g.d.o calling for designs. (add what makes it core worthy)
      • TASK: blog posts about a call to designers and tweets about it.

  • eigentor is interested in building a pattern library. Need to contact him.

  • Next meeting 4/7. http://groups.drupal.org/node/20517