The "co-working" meetup we had today went really well -- everyone who attended was either working on a site, helping others with their sites, or observing -- join us for the next one if you can!
When: Thursday, June 21, 2012, 10 AM to noon
Where: Spokane County Library - Argonne branch, 4322 N. Argonne Road, Millwood (in the small conference room - go past the circulation desk and take a right)
What: "Co-working" time - bring your laptop! Come with either a project to work on, a willingness to volunteer to improve Drupal in some way (documentation, programming, design, marketing etc.), or a desire to help others with their projects. Or just come and observe.
Who: Everyone is welcome!
Note: I realize that some people cannot make it during the day on weekdays, and I'm sorry if this time doesn't work for you... but it is a lot more convenient for all the regular attendees of our past meetings (and for me). If you'd like to have a meeting at another time that is more convenient for you, please feel free to organize it! See http://groups.drupal.org/node/161584 for a Wiki where people have listed when would be convenient for them to have meetings.
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Report from yesterday's co-working meeting
At yesterday's co-working meeting, we discussed and worked on the following (I am probably forgetting many items, and they're in no particular order):
- Blocks vs. theme regions in a custom theme
- Core Blocks module vs. contributed Context module for managing block placement
- Added a new content type and view to an existing web site, to replace what had been a single page of "tips".
- CSS tweaks to fix an alignment problem.
- Adding a new tab to the main navigation menu on a site (add the page first! you can't add a menu item before the page exists)
- Misconceptions and pitfalls that people experience when they're experienced programmers new to Drupal
- Overview of how Drupal decides what to send to a browser in response to a URL request
Be sure to come to our next meeting on July 19 to get your questions answered. As you can see from the list above, we don't have a set agenda -- the meeting is informal and is driven by whatever people want to discuss.
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