Posted by sheena_d on April 16, 2009 at 6:02pm
Hi Everyone,
It's about time to start planning our next Meeting (not counting the Hack Night) and I think this would be a good place for folks to start throwing out some proposals for presentations they would like to do, or they would like to see others do, and also to comment on others' proposals and get an idea of which would be the most popular.
So, give a title and brief description of your proposal, the estimated time it would take, and also the target skill level.
Hopefully we will get enough proposals in the next couple of days that we can pick the ones that will be presenting in May and give the presenters 2-3 weeks to prepare.
Comments
Hacking core search without
Hacking core search without killing kittens
- a discussion of the many (mis)uses of hook_search()
Time: 20-30 minutes + QA
Target skill level: advanced
OR
Drupal Events Calendar
- implementing a feature-rich events calendar in Drupal 6
Covers:
- CCK content types & node reference
- Location + gmap
- Views + Calendar, Views + Location, Views relationships, Views arguments
- (optional depending on time) setting up multi-axis user reviews with Fivestar and Node Comment
Time: close to an hour if there are questions.
Target skill level: beginner to intermediate
OR (possibly my favorite)
Baiting Chuthulu: how to convince Drupal to eat your lunch in $n easy steps
- a brief discussion (with real-world examples, yay!) of common missteps on the Drupal learning curve and their consequences.
Time: 15-30 minutes + questions
Skill level: beginner to intermediate
Events Calendar sound interesting
I'm still at the thinking about it stage right now but I may want to implement one. Besides, it covers some of CCK and Views.
I love "Baiting Cuthulu",
I love "Baiting Cuthulu", but I think it would work best as part of a Drupal Bootcamp :)
calendar, chuthulu
I'm interested in the events calendar also...I have one on my site that was foiled by a bug that resets "now" to 1/1/09 in Views:
drupal.org/node/386406
...but am also interested in how to set up a way to rsvp to events, ideally in a similar fashion to meetup.com's rsvp functionality.
Also interested in anything that catalogs potential missteps. It's so much more efficient to learn from others' mistakes rather than making my own. :-)
alas, I can't make meetings on the 4the wednesdays...so my vote on meeting topics may be for naught.
SVN/CVS and Drupal, Optimizing Drupal Sites
I'm definitely interested in Hacking Core and Events calendar.
Other topics of interest to me are setting up an SVN/CVS system to be used with Drupal and optimizing Drupal sites.
Events calendar and SVN/CVS
I have been using the Event module with Drupal 5, but intend to switch to the Calendar module when I upgrade to Drupal 6 and I may use CiviEvent with one or two sites, so I am definitely interested in learning more about calendar options.
I don't know anything about SVN/CVS and would like to know what they are and why I might want to use them.
Judy Hallman
Judy Hallman
jQuery talk, anyone?
I'd love to see a little talk on jQuery, like how to making sexy flashing, fading, spinning, blinking, moving HTML objects. I'm getting tired of the < blink > tag ;)
Tired of the blink tag?
If the blink tag isn't doing it for you anymore I cordially invite you to step up your game and investigate the majesty that is <marquee>
Updating user profile and CCK data from other systems
I needed to be able to move user profile information and CCK data in and out of Drupal in real-time to keep Drupal information synchronized with outside systems. I would be glad to share our approach of using CCK and the Services module to do this.
Taxonomy Show-Off
I'd like to have a day where everyone shows how they are using taxonomy on their site and someone presents examples of all of the ways it could be used. I always get the sense that there are limitless possibilities with taxonomy and I would really like to see some innovative examples.