January Santa Cruz Drupal User Group Meeting - Nextspace 7pm to 9pm (Tuesday Jan 8, 2013)

I shall attend tonight

I'm hoping to make it . . .

It was lovely seeing everyone again and the round-robin was filled with a ton of interesting topics.

Here are some quick notes:

• Tower as a GIT GUI on a Mac is powerful for quick branch visualization.

Responsive:
* Responsive image gallery woes - flexi-slider
* /pictures project - Look into the picture (responsive images) and may deal with retina display versions of images.
* Use of Feeds, Feeds Tamper - possible preso of Feeds vs. Migrate

Rules:
* Use of rules, etc
** possibly Rob cover that next session because he's heads down in it.
** need to grock Entities and Entity Wrappers for Metadata when rollin' with Rules
* Look at Node One training for Murias' rules woes

Organic Groups:
* extending theme info for group admins

DOM YOU Javascript!
* Block is at the end of the sidebar woes - add an empty div! it worked!
* MaxiMenu - the use of views slideshow in each menu link - awesome!
* Leverage Drupal Behaviors for dealing with some of the javascript complexities of above implementation

Multi-lingual:
* Auto translate of comments with lingo tech

Options and extensions of Features / Portable configurations Exports / Configuration Project, FTools

Quote of the night:
"If you get off the pot that many times, you have the runs"

Wow, Aimee, thanks for the great notes!

One thing I recall talking about was that I'm planning on documenting a website for its new owners with a series of screencasts. (I think this will be easier for me rather than writing a bunch of documents, and I think it will be easier for my client.)

There's a product called Screencast O Matic (http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/) that is platform neutral and runs as either a download or an install on your computer (it will install on a Mac or Windows platform, but it works as a download only on Ubuntu). It's free to use to make videos up to 15 minutes long in multiple formats (but they put in a watermark for their site). For $15/year, you get unlimited length and no watermark.

There are a bunch of tools and you can record in a number of different sizes.

My idea is to upload the videos to YouTube, either unlisted or password protected, and then include links to them at various points in the website admin pages, for instant reference.