Come share your love of Drupal at our monthly meetup in Princeton!
We're going to try a new format - 3 sections, with 2-3 people for each section. We need you to participate! Please contact the organizers or comment below to claim one of these slots. All of these are open and appropriate for you regardless of your experience level with Drupal - beginner and intermediate topics are especially helpful to others.
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.
Meeting in room 008 in the Princeton Friend Center.
AGENDA
1) 5 minutes/per person Site showcase and feedback
Show off your work-in-progress or recently completed project in < 5 minutes, and get feedback and suggestions
- Melissa Wallace on http://www.sdtn.com/
- crowdcg on achieve3000 dev site built with Panopoly
2) 10 minutes/person- Get a question answered! Leverage the knowledge of the crowd.
If you have a Drupal configuration theming, or development problem that you are banging your head on, or a new piece of functionality that would benefit from group brainstorming on how to implement claim one of these slots and bring a concise description or demo of the problem so we can help.
- ukrhec: looking for help making a useable "online exhibit gallery" (for an museum/archive site) that has some of the functionality of the Omeka platform
- Stephen Shaw (ElegantSolutions): Security Review module suggests changes to file permissions - what's the correct/secure answer?
- davidhernandez: Is there an easy way to specify the text format on a field, without giving the user the choice?
3) 20 minutes/person - Present something new (or new to you)
If you have been trying out a module and want to demo it, want to teach others about a technique, outline best practices, or preview a talk for a upcoming camp or conference, this is for you. Make sure to describe your intended audience.
- byronveale: demo of using fail2ban module to lower spammers' traffic
- pwolanin or wheatpenny?
WHERE
Join us in Room 008, 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
possible question to be answered
I have been struggling with designing a useable "online exhibit gallery" (for an museum/archive site) that has some of the functionality of the Omeka platform (www.omeka.org) but within Drupal. I have considered a number of possibilities, ranging from the "Books" module to taxonomies to entity reference, but haven't jumped in for fear of spending hours and hours designing something that ends up being unworkable for a reason that I didn't foresee (due to my inexperience).
If this is would be an interesting question for the group for the #2 item on the agenda, I'd love to talk (ask) about it.
Mike
New format
The new format will involve more people and participations. I am on a trip and will miss you all for the next couple meetings.
Kurban Niroomand
fail2ban
I could demo using fail2ban module to lower spammers' traffic. I recently had some success adding additional filters to block what look like crude automated hacking attempts, coming from places like China, Russia, and Miami...
Please Do
My hosting service had just recommended it for my new VPS, so your timing is perfect.
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay
Interested in fail2ban
I'd be interested in seeing this demo. We use fail2ban on our ssh servers already, so this would be good to see.
some details
Glad others are interested in this. If you are a Drupal developer who is also a system admin on your own Linux box, I think this would be right up your alley. I'll try to keep it interesting for everyone, though. If you've ever looked at your logs and cringed at the sight of loads of spam-laden traffic, with some less-than-desirables looking for an easy way in, this may help...
Adding ukrhec and byronveale
Adding ukrhec and byronveale to the agenda, thanks!
@ukrhec - I suspect people may not be familiar with Omeka , so a short demo or example of what you want to achieve would be helpful.
Will do.
I realized that Omeka is pretty niche-market, so I was already planning to demo the relevant aspects of this CMS-like platform...
I have a couple minor things
I have a couple minor things we can discuss.
Is there an easy way to specify the text format on a field, without giving the user the choice?
Is there an easy way to alter the node add/edit form? Removing the help boxes, and tightening up the interface.
What are some good ways to alter the standard front page, besides just making it a view?
I can also show something quick on form alters, nodequeue, maybe some other things.
Request for a discussion about using Security Review
I just upgraded my hosting from shared to a VPS to ease the transition to D7.
I installed the Security Review module on the new D7 site and ran it. It pointed out file permission issues, so I followed its help link to read about it.
http://drupal.org/node/244924
Its several hundred lines long including endless discussion back and forth between seeming very knowledgeable people and endless disagreements on the proper way to set permissions.
It also refers to a Drush solution with similar debates.
I am using Media Temple's Plesk interface that has a CentOS.
Could one of you Linux gurus discuss this issue?
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay
@ElegantSolutions - can you
@ElegantSolutions - can you present the problem in section #2?
Security Review
Yes, I will present my issues.
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay
I presented last week at the
I presented last week at the NYC meetup for ~30 min, so I could give that in section 3 if there is interest: http://groups.drupal.org/node/292053
consider this...
...interest