Drupal NYC Meetup -- July 11, 2012

Posted by forestmars on June 26, 2012 at 12:55am

Start:

2012-07-11 18:30 - 21:00 America/New_York

Organizers:

forestmars

robbiethegeek

Event type:

User group meeting

NOTE: Drupal NYC Meetup is ON A DIFFERENT DAY THIS MONTH
Due to Independence Day, meetup will be on the SECOND Wednesday of the month

Where?: 7 World Trade Center, 29th Floor (Mansueto Ventures)
When?: July 11th, 6:30 - 9:00 PM Wednesday Night

Directions?
http://tinyurl.com/mansuetoventuresdirections

Afterwards?
http://maps.google.com/?q=Suspenders&cid=15798436359602217114

Final list will be given to the venue at 10pm on July 10th (the evening before the meetup)

Plans?

LIGHTNING ROUNDS
New feature. Have a topic you can present in 5 minutes (with 5 more minutes for questions)? The basic idea is there are patterns for developing sites the "drupal" way ("what would drupal do? etc."). Tell us a quick 5 minute recipe for how to put the Drupal "bricks" together. Theming techniques or other things may also be appropriate. Propose it below. Make sure you mention it is for the "lightning round" otherwise it might get confused with a longer presentation.
- SVG for UI graphics using Sass and Compass ~ alienresident
- Propose your session below in comments
- Propose your session below in comments
20 Min Talks
Have a topic that needs more then 5 minutes, we have slots of 20 minute talks. The basic idea is there are broader subjects or more detailed discussions this is the type of talk you would want to signup for, please mention 20 min talk when posting your talk description and the audience you expect to speak to.
- SASS indoctrination ~ Snugug
- Media & Panels - willyk
- Bitcoins 101 / Bitcoins & Drupal ~ duckx
We will also have the New 2 Drupal BoF(birds of a feather). If you are new to Drupal and the talks don't apply to you some of us will take a group and talk with you about your issues.

Signup Instructions!: 7 World Trade Center security checks your photo id against the list of attendees that we provide.

Comments

Lightning talk on using SVG for UI Graphics

Posted by alienresident on July 9, 2012 at 3:06pm

I can do a lightning talk on using SVG for UI graphics using Sass and Compass. This is some compass trickery that I learnt about at Sass Compass meetup last month (thanks Sam [snugug] and Mason). SVG is a great solution for UI elements on retina displays. The Sass Compass mixi uses modernizr to detect svg capability and provides a png fallback for browsers that can't use svg.

I'll also show al litte of Inkscape—the open source, cross browser svg editor (it's kinda the GIMP for Vector Graphics). It also has CLI which is great for exporting PNG fallbacks.

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Posted by Snugug on July 10, 2012 at 9:03am

Always happy to talk. I can do a talk on a Compass toolkit I'm building/is basically done called, aptly enough, Toolkit, that has a handful of awesome RWD/Progressive Enhancement stuff (including the aforementioned SVG/PNG Compass stuff wrapped in a neat mixin as well as some nifty Fluid Media hackery based on an earlier version of the Intrinsic Ratios for Video awesomesauce, and a quick rundown how to use yepnope for conditional async asset loading.

Or a general Sass/RWD Q&A would also work.

Basically if you all aren't sick of hearing from me on this stuff, just let me know and I'll talk summore.