Join our monthly Drupal meeting in Princeton. All community members interested in using Drupal as well as strengthening the Drupal community are invited. We'll discuss recent and exciting Drupal-related news, present interesting topics, and share knowledge. We'll start our meeting with three ten 10 to 15 minute sessions and/or one longer 30 to 40 minute presentation. Please propose a session or voice your support for a colleague's proposal using the comments section below.
Meeting in room 109 in the Princeton Friend Center.
AGENDA
PRESENTATION ~30 minutes
- TBD
LIGHTNING TALKS
- 10 to 15 minutes:
- TBD
- TBD
LIGHTNING TALKS - You don't have to be a Drupal ninja to do a lightening talk! Share what you've learned and help spread the Drupal goodness. Use the comments section below to suggest your topic. Make sure you mention it is for the "lightning talk" otherwise it might get confused with a longer presentation.
PRESENTATIONS - Have a topic that needs more time? Trying to practice for a Drupal Camp presentation? Volunteer for a presentation. Make sure to tell us your intended audience.
WHERE
Join us in Room 109, of the Friend Center on the Princeton University Campus located on the corner of Olden and William streets.
After 5 pm, visitors may park in the University lot on William Street behind 185 Nassau Street.
visitor wifi details:
http://helpdesk.princeton.edu/kb/display.plx?ID=9713
http://helpdesk.princeton.edu/files/9713/OITVisitorWireless.pdf
Comments
Sass
I would like to volunteer for a lightning talk on Sass. Mainly Sass on Ubuntu but I will try to give some resources for Windows and Mac users to use as well.
Try to add Compass as well…
Hey Elijah,
talking about SASS is a great. I'm using is for quite some time now and it helps a lot and makes CSS fun again (at least for from a developer perspective). If you do the general approach, you might want add Compass as well. I works on all plattforms and adds another ton of cool features on top of SASS.
If Compass is out of scope for this time, I might talk about it the next time I'm back in NYC, probably November.
Link: http://compass.handlino.com/
Compass is included
Yes, Compass will be included in my talk as using Sass and not complimenting it with Compass is a bit silly but that is not really clear when first starting out.
It will be more of a Sass and Compass for beginners as that is the perspective I have on it. I haven't used Compass.app yet and am not likely to but I can mention it as a tool worth exploring.
My Presentation
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13TQ7wKYdwKPkOJe0TSmG6naUHHa1-HiE...
Sass & Compass Hangout - Saturday 1pm ET
As a follow up to my presentation/lightning talk I have scheduled a Google+ Hangout entitled "Up and Running with Sass and Compass" to help people get all of this installed on their local environments.
RSVP here -->https://plus.google.com/events/cd9tr2cncn620f78b4jqqodd2sc
Sass, Zen, and responsive design
I have put together some responsive themes with Zen Theme. Zen is now Compass/SASS-based. There are reasons I think Zen Grid-based responsive themes are more flexible than 960.gs-based themes, such as Omega. Let me know if anyone is interested in hearing about this.
Comparison!?
Hi Chris,
well I guess it would be really interesting to see the different approaches and learn more about what are their pros and cons. Now that Omega 4 is on it's way it would be nice to put it into contrast with Zen 5 + Zen Grids. Maybe someone can say something about Omega 4 as well. I just started playing with it and can't be there this time.
Are you playing with Omega 4
Are you playing with Omega 4 or 3? Maybe you could do a lightning talk on 4 at the next one? I am really curious to learn more about 4 and its Sass emphasis!
Looking forward to learning
Looking forward to learning more about Zen! Thanks for putting this together!
Looks like we have our topic
Looks like we have our topic for this month: Theming in Drupal. We'll start with cilefen's ~30 minute presentation on Zen Drupal Theme then transition into Elijah Lynn's ~15 minute lightening presentation on SASS and Compass. Please let me know if anyone else would like to give another Drupal Theme related lightening talk, otherwise we will have an open forum discussion after Elijah's talk.
See you on Thursday!!
Good program
Sounds great. Thanks for volunteering!
Ray
I will probably have to leave
I will probably have to leave after the planning meeting to attend the local mayor candidates debate. However, a topic for discussion might be this article: http://opensource.com/business/12/10/whats-holding-back-mainstream-drupa...
especially WRT what kind of training we should offer at the camp, how to make meetups more accessible or productive for people learning Drupal, and how to reach out to more students e.g. at Princeotn , Rider, and TCNJ.
Spriting with Compass
At the meetup Elijah and I mentioned spriting with Compass (see http://compass-style.org/help/tutorials/spriting/). Here is an example done with two images, arrow-right.png and arrow-down.png.
/* .sass file */ @import "my-icons/*.png"; @include all-my-icons-sprites; .my-icons-arrow-right{ width: my-icons-sprite-width(arrow-right); height: my-icons-sprite-height(arrow-right); } .my-icons-arrow-down{ width: my-icons-sprite-width(arrow-down); height: my-icons-sprite-height(arrow-down); }Compass generates the sprite image in /images automatically and creates this CSS:
.my-icons-sprite, .my-icons-arrow-down, .my-icons-arrow-right { background: url('../images/my-icons-s94261d0a3f.png') no-repeat; } .my-icons-arrow-down { background-position: 0 -31px; } .my-icons-arrow-right { background-position: 0 0; } .my-icons-arrow-right { width: 30px; height: 31px; } .my-icons-arrow-down { width: 31px; height: 30px; }Then, in your template or node:
<div class="my-icons-arrow-down></div>