Central NJ Meetup, Thursday, March 14, 2013

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davidhernandez's picture
Start: 
2013-03-14 19:00 America/New_York
Event type: 
User group meeting

Come share your love of Drupal at our monthly meetup 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 two 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 008 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

Migrate module talk

dbcollies's picture

I could give a talk on using the Migrate module to bring legacy data into Drupal. I"m certainly no expert, but I can share my experiences in using Migrate and CSV files to populate Drupal from a legacy database system.

The audience would be developers, as Migrate requires the creation of a module to manage the migration process. It would probably be better as a longer talk, but, if needed, I could try to pare it down to a lightning talk

I would enjoy hearing about

pwolanin's picture

I would enjoy hearing about migrate - shoudl we put you down for 30 min?

Also, note we are still waiting for confirmation on the room - almost certainly not 109, likely downstairs in 008 in the same building.

I second that

seantwalsh's picture

Definitely interested in hearing about your experience with Migrate. I could do a lightning talk on using Feeds Importer to accomplish data migration/updating. Kind of a point counterpoint, unless you're planning on covering that.

Sounds like a plan

dbcollies's picture

I haven't used Feeds Importer, so that sounds like a good, well rounded discussion

update: we have Friend 008

pwolanin's picture

update: we have Friend 008 reserved

Theming help?

kenp's picture

Hello I am trying to set up a theme for some specific looks and was wondering if this would be a good place to look for someone that could help me get started. I have been using drupal for about a year.

Hi Ken, Yes this is a great

seantwalsh's picture

Hi Ken,

Yes this is a great place to talk about themeing and all things Drupal. Generally there is free form discussion/networking time after presentations are made, and I'd be happy to talk to you on Thursday.

Sean

Thanks look forward to it

kenp's picture

on another note what address works best for GPS? any idea?

Try this. 35 Olden Street,

davidhernandez's picture

Try this. 35 Olden Street, Princeton, NJ 08544. You'll want to park on William Street and use the entrance there.

Links to migrate session resources

dbcollies's picture

For anyone interested, the links I presented in my talk today:

Migrate documentation: http://drupal.org/node/415260
Example code: http://dwayne.thebaileys.name/appeal/migrate_appeals.tar
Slideshow: http://dwayne.thebaileys.name/appeals/migrate.ppsx

Contact info:
Dwayne Bailey
Eyestreet Solutions
Dwayne.bailey@eyestreet.com
609-815-0787

Feeds Resources

seantwalsh's picture

Here are the links to the modules, presentation, and quick video tutorial about Feeds.

Modules:
Feeds - http://drupal.org/project/feeds
Feeds Tamper - http://drupal.org/project/feeds_tamper

Presentation:
http://www.crowdcg.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Migrating-Feeds-031413.pdf

Quick Video Tutorial:
http://mustardseedmedia.com/podcast/episode55

Contact Info:
Sean T. Walsh
Co-founder & CEO
Crowd Communications Group, LLC
sean@crowdcg.com
732-544-2329

next meeting?

kenp's picture

Hi guys
very sorry to say i messed up getting to the meeting when is the next on?
I really wanted to make it. In the mean time can i ask a question about some thing

I have been trying to figure out how to get this page to not ask for an email to download our files and for the life of me cant turn off this feature

this is the page

https://iamfortress.org/download

also would like this page to not redirect and download too

https://iamfortress.org/projects

any ideas?

Ken