Central NJ Meetup - May 5th

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davidhernandez's picture
Start: 
2009-05-05 19:00 - 21:00 America/New_York
Event type: 
User group meeting

The second meeting in central NJ for the New Jersey Drupal group. To be held at the Institute for Advanced Study. The main topic will be installation, covered from beginner to expert.

Address:
Bloomberg Hall
1 Einstein Drive
Princeton, NJ 08540
(we are marked on Google maps)

IAS is a short distance from Mercer Street. See here - http://www.ias.edu/about/directions - for directions and a campus map. For those who are familiar with Princeton University, we are basically on the other side of the golf course. It is a little over a mile from the train station, so walkable, but maybe we can get volunteers to pickup anyone coming by train. For those coming by car, park in Lot A. There should be plenty of parking in the evening.

Bloomberg Hall is building 4 on the map. The front entrance is in the middle (near the letter "e".) It should be well lit. The exact room we will meet in is still being worked out, and may not be final until a couple days before the meeting. Regardless, the entrance will be well marked with the location, and it will be posted here before the meeting.

We will have a projector, and the building has wireless (which requires registration.) If anything else is needed, please let me know.

[UPDATE: May 5th] The meeting will be held in the Biology conference room of Bloomberg Hall (room 113). Signs marking the way will be posted. For those entering the front of Bloomberg Hall, turn left, go down the hall and passed the stairs. Once in the new part of the building, which has an open layout and blue carpet, turn right. You can also enter the building from the left side (near letter f on the map) and go up the stairs. The room is near the top of the stairs on the next floor.

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What time is the meeting?

kwang0274's picture

Looking at this post, I can't seem to find information regarding the time of the meeting. Thanks.

It is posted at the top in

davidhernandez's picture

It is posted at the top in the "Start." 19:00-21:00 (7pm to 9pm, or however long it lasts.)

Sorry

kwang0274's picture

Oops... my bad... didn't see that. Thank-you for the clarification.

also, towards the end we can

pwolanin's picture

also, towards the end we can maybe have a little CVS/svn intsall-fest and primer.

http://twitter.com/webchick/status/1579206349

SVN

allanhoffman's picture

I'm really interested in the SVN primer.

I know the SVN primer will need to be brief, but if it could answer even a few of these questions, that'd be great (sorry for the truly newbie nature of these):

I'd love to gain an understanding of what is actually stored in the SVN repository and what is not. For instance: If you change settings for a module, will those settings carry over when you update? Would it make sense to use SVN to test a new module and then update to the live site?

If you're working with a local dev environment, do you use SVN to update the live website, or is it important to have a test environment on the server, too, in order to test changes there first?

Also, any tips on GUI tools to make SVN easier or more accessible would be great, as well as views on whether to use paid services like CVSdude and Unfuddle (also billed as ways to ease use of SVN).

Thanks!

Allan

yesss

andrewbenkard's picture

Ha! I took the first steps on that today. SVN, here I come.

To those interested in

davidhernandez's picture

To those interested in attending, please signup. It will be helpful for me to have a somewhat accurate headcount. If anyone is planning on getting here early, let me know.

Also, is anyone planning on doing any demonstrations/presentations, or will we be playing by ear?

Well, following from your

pwolanin's picture

Well, following from your suggestion, I think we'll at least start by going around the room and briefly talk about what kind of installations people are using currently (single/multi site, OS, webserver, etc). This goal is a better understanding of what environments are being used, and what kind of help people need or assistance they might offer.

From there we could do a basic tutorial for anyone who is not comfortable installing, and then talk in more detail about multi-site, modules used, themes, server configs, hosting, tips, common problems, etc.

Finally we can have a little tutorial on revision control systems and maybe a demo of applying and creating patches.

Too Much on the Agenda for One Meeting

Shai's picture

I won't be able to come to the meeting :(, but my 2 cents regarding the plan for the meeting is that it is a great plan... but for a 4 hour meeting, not a two-hour meeting. I'd leave version control and patching to a different meeting for fear of people coming to the meeting specifically for that, and then being frustrated that it didn't happen.

Shai Gluskin
Content2zero

Shai Gluskin
Content2zero

We can do a bigger session on RCS another time

pwolanin's picture

We can do a bigger session on RCS another time - I was imagining just a ~15 min quick session.

For anyone interested in a Drupal-centric primer, see: http://drupal.org/handbook/cvs/quickstart

and esp the handout from dww: http://drupal.org/files/maintain-release-handout.pdf that's attached to http://drupal.org/node/84256

I updated the event with the

davidhernandez's picture

I updated the event with the room specifics. See the event description.

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