Hey all...
Last year a group of us started a virtual study group to learn how to make custom modules. We had a handful of people join the group. It was fun and I, personally, learned a lot. I'm still not an expert, but I know more than I did then.
I'm getting another group going and wanted to share the information. I learned a lot from that first go around and have changed some of dynamics to make it more focused and streamlined. You can read about it here: http://groups.drupal.org/virtual-drupal-co-learning-group. I'm waiting to hear back from the rulers of the groups realm to decide whether or not we will be a sanctioned group. But in the meantime, I've set the first meetup for next Monday.
As this is a new group we are thinking about doing custom modules again as the first go round, but of course, we are open to suggestions. The decision will be ultimately made by the group in the direction of the greatest interest.
Please join us if you have any interest in participating, or in being a "resident expert" we can tap for great stores of knowledge!
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Would love to join your study-group virtually from San Diego...
Let me know when and how to connect? We did a face-to-face study group here at Sage in San Diego earlier this year and it was a lot of fun. I am ready to trying coding (virtually)!
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Awesome
I did see your study group listed, and actually posted a question about it http://groups.drupal.org/node/204578#comment-828843
One of the things we'll be talking about is integrating learning resources into the process. We are not going to follow a book, per se, but we'll have to go somewhere to figure out what it is we want to figure out.
Our goal is to also have a sandbox area were we can add and test projects completed members. I think you guys did something similar, so I wanted to pick your brain about that as well.
Sign up for the meeting. We are looking to start by using Skype and I just need to add each other to our contacts. I'm Kappaluppa on Skype too.
Thanks!
K
Is this a continuation of the
Is this a continuation of the discussion at http://groups.drupal.org/node/235103#comment-814803 or is this a completely new initiative?
During the in-person meeting we had, several people offered to be "resident experts" for something like this. Mondays are still good days for this at Droplabs if a physical meeting component is desired.
The same but different...
Hi,
Yes, this is based on the same premise, but we want to focus on a more virtual organization that meets occasionally in person, rather than vice-versa. We'd love to use Droplabs for one of those localized-virtual meetups once we get going. One of the advantages to being primarily virtual is that we save a lot of time (and gas money) that we would have been spent driving. Hopefully this makes it accessible to more people.
Once we get a plan in place for our first learning subject I'd love to have some one who can give a lesson, insight, help members over hurdles, be a speaker (so to speak) on whatever subject we are discussing. Hence the 'resident expert'.
Virtual meeting is a great idea!
for those of us who cannot travel. I am interested in mastering images, maybe Colorbox, manipulating images, slideshows - I am still having issues with images and would like to become an image mogul.
Antoinette A
On images
I like the idea of a virtual organization, such as discussed above.
@aarsic: if you would like to 'become an image mogul', you may want to take a look at the following tutorials:
http://jamestombs.co.uk/2011-05-26/create-album-based-image-gallery-drup...
http://jamestombs.co.uk/2011-08-18/use-panels-override-node-output-drupal-7
These tutorials helped bring a lot of different elements of Drupal 7 together for me; I think they could do the same for you on image applications.
Thank you very much
for the tutorials. I finally got Colorbox and Slideshow to work! SO happy. I will def. check these out.
Right now - in Safari, Firefox, and Chrome - my drag and drop does not work. That would be very helpful to me in displaying and managing fields.
Antoinette A
No drag and drop? I haven't
No drag and drop? I haven't heard too much about that kind of problem. What kind of OS are you using? I had a problem with Red Hat Linux back a while where the cursor would disappear because of the Nvidia graphics card I was using. Currently, I have problems using the keyboard sometimes on my computer (HP) because it's sticky, but using a mouse works fine (except when my cat is sitting on it)
Mac OS X
Mountain Lion
Antoinette A
FullCalendar?
I just ran into this comment about FullCalendar with D7:
Editing (drag, drop and resize) gcal events is not possible at the moment...
in http://drupal.org/node/1237774
Don't know if this is applicable to your situation...
I fixed it!
"Triumphent" told me: configuration>development>performance and check the Aggregate JavaScript files box.
That worked! SO happy. Thanks for your help.
Antoinette A
Ron, Stew and I are beginning
Ron, Stew and I are beginning a 10-week module development boot camp and I thought everyone here in this thread might be interested. It's at Droplabs in Los Angeles, so it isn't virtual (like this virtual co-learning group) but it does include optional lab hours that can be done virtually.
Drupal Module Development Boot Camp
http://www.droplabs.net/modbootcamp
The boot camp is using Drupal 7 Module Development as general courseware and it goes from July 8th through November 25th. The optional lab hours can be done anywhere, any time, including virtually or at Droplabs.