This Users Group meeting is Thursday, July 11 at 2pm in ISB 145.
This meeting is off by a week for Indepencence day. Regular meetings for the UMass Amherst Drupal Users Group are the first Thursday of the month. They are open to anyone interested in Drupal and not limited to the UMass community. Bring questions and ideas. Offers to make presentations are welcome.
The meeting is at the UMass Integrated Sciences Building (ISB) (See map here.
Room 145 is a meeting room near the elevators on the first floor.
Agenda:
- Introductions
- Open topics: discussion, problems, show and tell, etc.
- Possible topics: Commerce, Node.js, D8
Please post here if you plan to make a brief presentation at the meeting so we can add it to the agenda.
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Minutes
Umass Drupal Users
July 11, 2013
Attendance
Steven D. Brewer
Martin Beveridge, UMassAmherst Alumni Assoc.
Sarah Harvey
Thomas O'Dougherty
Dave Ruderman
Carla Williamson
Gary Parker
Jonathan Hills
Samantha Kolovson
David Powicki
Matthew Mattingly
Phil Bascom
Nate Develder
Joanne Patalano
Topics:
Parker: UMass policies re: drupal 6 to 7 migration
Patalano: migration path of sign-up module
Williamson: what modules are approved by UMass
Beveridge: Merits/Comparison of Drupal and Wordpress
Mattingly: How to incorporate new people?
Drupal 6 to 7:
Basically 3 months after D6 EOL
Need best-practices for departments
Patalano: Migration path for sign-up module
drupal ladder to learn how to contribute bug reports and patches
using mamp, wamp, aquia dev desktop, or simplytest.me to do local testing
Williamson: module approval at UMass
in drupal 6, it needs to be maintained, upgrade path, usage, and active dev community
just ask Gary Parker
best practices and recipes would be desirable
communication to CIO about status of drupal community
UDU "Showcase" -- Dave will try to set up
Beveridge: Merits/Comparison of Drupal and Wordpress
This is a drupal group.
Drupal r00lz!
Mattingly: How to incorporate new people?
training new people, how to find resources?
drupalize.me
drupal ladder
agile