Posted by Mark EWERS on February 27, 2012 at 4:46pm
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2012-03-29 19:00 - 21:00 America/Chicago Event type:
User group meeting
Please join us at the March instance of the St Louis Drupal Users Group.
Place: The St. Louis History Museum, the Millstone Rm
Time: Thursday 29-March @ 7 pm central
We've pushed the meeting out to the last Thursday in the month this time around because Drupalcon will be happening during the previous week. At least two from StL will be attending - Julia Koelsch, from Spry Digital; and Jeff Geerling, of Midwestern Mac, LLC.
With so much new information and experience in the room we're really looking forward to basking in 2 hours of reflected Drupalcon.
Whether you're a long-time Drupal user or a new developer just getting your feet wet there will surely be something new here for you. Hope you can make it.
Mark
Comments
Errmm, that's Julis Koelsch
Sorry about that Julia. Fingers moving faster than the speed of brain
hah
might check this one, too. ;)
Driving errors relentlessly toward zero...
Yep, fingers faster than brain
Meeting
Can recruiters come at the beginning?
No objection here
It's an open meeting. There are no rules prohibiting anyone from joining. By all means come and introduce yourself. Stay as long or as little as you like.
I'd say the only rule we have is this: We respect everyone's opportunity to ask questions, present, or discuss whatever Drupal matters he or she considers important.
Location ??
Are the Saint Louis History Museum and the Missouri History Museum the same thing?
I can't find the former on any map search.
Also, what's the address? I got two different locations for MO History Museum.
Thanks,
Jerry
(first-time attender looking to get back into Drupal)
Jerry, Here's the address to
Jerry,
Here's the address to the Missouri History Museum:
5700 Lindell Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63112-0040
See the info in the link below for specific instructions on how to find us:
http://mohistory.org/your-visit/plan-your-visit/how-to-get-here
Thanks
Thanks, on the calendar. Will be there barring last-minute override emergency thing.
Jerry
I'm hoping to make it
I'm hoping to make it tonight!
Follow up
It was a pleasure meeting all of you who attended last night.
I believe that Jeff, Ken, and Julia brought back interesting info from DrupalCon. It was definitely nice to hear others talk about their experience being there and i wish we could have stuck around till the end but we had to run last night. So i apologize if anyone felt offended. Next time I'll organize better :)
What i mostly liked about DrupalCon was anything related to: Symfony, Mobile, Module Development, and Best Practices/Learning.
What i did not like were those uncomfortable chairs they lined up in each room. They had this bar above the back support that was sticking out a bit and constantly pushing up against my upper spine. In other words, i pretty much enjoyed every session i attended but mostly the ones mentioned above.
Mobile of course was the biggest topic floating around.
There are just so many ways to develop your mobile apps involving Drupal. Here are a few things to use:
The "Mobile App Generator" is a module available for D7. I'm not sure if anyone ended up talking about it after I left last night but what it does is it lets you create a mobile version of your site (visually) and export/import it into PhoneGap. The sucky thing is that it creates static html, so you'll have to get into the code and find out how to make it dynamic using Services module. Check it out http://drupal.org/project/mag
I have to run once again :) Till next time.
Looking forward to the next meeting.
Emir
Doh
Sounds like a really interesting meet up last night, I wish I could have made it. :( Just couldn't get away from work.
Thanks
It was nice meeting everyone last night. I hope to give Drupal a shot these next few weeks and come back next month with something to show.
David
Some links
This is a non-comprehensive beginning to some links from last night's meeting. If anyone else has more, please add them.
Style Tiles is at http://styletil.es/
Design Shack had an article about Style Tiles just yesterday http://designshack.net/articles/graphics/style-tiles-the-flip-side-of-wi...
Here's the link to Adobe Shadow http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/shadow/ and an article about it on .net magazine http://www.netmagazine.com/interviews/adobe-s-bruce-bowman-adobe-shadow
the Shadow article also has links to the Luke Wroblewski and Ethan Marcotte responsive/mobile-first resources mentioned last night.
Thanks for a great discussion
Thanks to everyone who came out last night! I really enjoyed our discussion.
Emir, thank you for your thoughtful follow-up. I don't think anyone was offended by your early departure. We all have lives and other commitments! I'm glad that you were able to attend and talk about your DrupalCon experience. Thank you also for your summary of Drupal mobile development. Mobile App Generator looks really interesting. The module we learned about from the developer is DrupalGap: http://drupal.org/project/drupalgap.
Jean, thanks for posting some of the links from last night. Here are a few others that I can remember talking about:
http://www.thismanslife.co.uk/projects/lab/responsivewireframes/#desktop -- the demo of desktop wireframes turning to mobile wireframes
SASS: http://sass-lang.com/
SASS for Drupal: http://drupal.org/project/sass
LESS: http://lesscss.org/
LESS for Drupal: http://drupal.org/project/less
Here is the resource I mentioned regarding learning Drupal and organizing "learn sprints" and "issue sprints" for local user groups: http://learndrupal.org/ They are working on developing the content now, but there's plenty of helpful information there already.
I mentioned this last night briefly, but would the group be interested in spending part of our meeting working on issues in the issue queue? You don't have to be a Drupal "rockstar" to help contribute. Like Jeff said last night, there are plenty of ways to help without knowing the deep working of core, like testing patches and writing documentation.
Jeff, I think the idea of hosting a Drupal Camp is a great idea, and I'm happy to help!
about the issue queue
Julia, I am one of those who cannot contribute code, but I can write, or proofread others' writing; I am also pretty experienced with beta testing, so I can help with testing.
A few more links
Emma Jane Hogbin's learning-to-theme site http://designtotheme.com
and of course Lullabot for anyone who hasn't yet found it http://www.lullabot.com, and their subscription training site http://drupalize.me
I didn't mention Mustard Seed Media last night, but I have learned a ton about site building and theming from Bob's videos. http://mustardseedmedia.com
Wow - discussion has exploded
Wow - discussion has exploded in this comment thread!
I'm compiling some of my notes and ideas about hosting a DrupalCamp in St. Louis, and for reference, here's the totally incomplete Drupal 7 site I've set up at http://drupalstl.com/ - And on twitter, follow @drupalstl :)
I'll post a new discussion topic in the group here to start the ball rolling on DrupalCamp, hopefully within the next week.
Awesome. FYI, drupalstl.com
Awesome. FYI, drupalstl.com didn't come up but drupalstl.org works just fine. Let me know if you ever need any help with building modules for the site. Like I said yesterday, I can't make it look pretty but I can definitely make it do what needs to be done.
Whoops! Just bought
Whoops! Just bought drupalstl.com and redirected it to http://drupalstl.org/
Notes
Looking forward to those notes
Responsive designs
For those not subscribed to Drupal Planet's feed, I posted an article about responsive design tonight that might be of interest to some of the people who were asking about it at the March meetup. I've just 'responsivized' two of my personal websites: http://jeffgeerling.com/ and http://www.lifeisaprayer.com/ (check them out on your smartphone and see how they look, or resize your browser window to make it really narrow).
Here's the article: Making your current Drupal theme responsive, simply.
Since all the talk of
Since all the talk of responsive design I thought others would be interested in this.
http://www.sagarganatra.com/2012/04/content-flow-in-css3-regions.html
Webkit only but still pretty cool.
Nice, I didn't get a chance
Nice,
I didn't get a chance to dig into responsive design yet but the thought of how regions fit into the picture always hovered in my mind. Are there other solutions to pull this off?