Posted by kbahey on March 27, 2013 at 10:07pm
Start:
2013-04-18 19:00 - 21:00 America/New_York Event type:
User group meeting
For April's meeting we are having something new ...
Our guest wants to build a site for a specific audience and wants to know the following:
- Is Drupal a good fit? Or other technologies are better/simpler/easier?
- What modules to use?
- What information architecture to base the site on?
- and many other details on how to build a site using Drupal.
The person who wants the site built will do a brief 15 minute presentation, and then the rest of the evening is will be using the "wisdom of the crowd" to ask questions, propose answers, have discussions, and find solutions ...
As always, you don't have to be an expert to attend. If you have not built sites with Drupal before, you can come over and listen to the discussion and learn. We all learn that way ...
Glenn Cooke is our guest in April. He has presented on Google Search and SEO for the group before.
Comments
Great idea!
Sounds like fun :)
Reminder: How can Drupal be used to build a site ...
Reminder: tonight at 19:00 to 21:00 we will have a new experience where we will do a group think exercise for guiding a new site on how to use Drupal to build it.
Come over and share your thoughts, and learn from others ...
Drupal performance tuning, development, customization and consulting: 2bits.com, Inc..
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A few followup notes from
A few followup notes from today's meeting:
The Drupal ELMS project was split into a few components for D7. The closest to what we were talking about is probably Collaborative Learning Environment.
Drupal Commons and the associated project page on drupal.org.
For Drupal Commerce, take a look at Commerce Kickstart which is a great way to get started with it if you're new to commerce or Drupal.
And, the famous Drupal Learning Cliff. Trust me, it's most fun when you're hanging upside down!
I promised some resources
I promised some resources too.
Sadly, it looks like Angie Byron's video from Drupalcamp 2012 is gone, because the site no longer exists.
I have a version of the talk I gave at DrupalCamp on the KWLUG site: http://kwlug.org/node/869 . There is a PDF here: http://kwlug.org/sites/kwlug.org/files/2012-09-10-drupal.pdf
At the risk of being burned at the stake, I was looking into a few of the hosted solutions Glenn might consider for his site. There are a bunch of "private social networks" which could help with the community (and maybe courseware) aspects of this project. Most of them are aimed at existing businesses, however, and so do not have good payment processor support. Some of the names are Yammer, Chatter and Jive. I am pretty sure I ran across something similar that was FLOSS, but now I can't find it again.
Wait, Angie posted her slides
Wait, Angie posted her slides here: http://webchick.net/drupal-8-slides
Stake?
I will schedule this for our next meeting ... Hee hee ...
Drupal performance tuning, development, customization and consulting: 2bits.com, Inc..
Personal blog: Baheyeldin.com.