Come share your curiosity about, love of, or musings about Drupal at our monthly meetup in Princeton!
Contined 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
- [Levi (wheatpenny) intro to Omega theme
- [slot 2 TBD]
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.
- Sean (crowdcg):
How to retrieve fields from referenced nodes/users when using Rules?
Content, layout, and/or module recommendations for providing a simple and useful "My Account" page for basic users.
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.
- (45 min) Dwayne (dbcollies) integrating Drupal with Salesforce
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
cross-listed on meetup.com: http://www.meetup.com/Central-NJ-Drupal-Group/events/131497212/
Comments
Possible talk
I'm working on a talk for Drupal4Gov in DC in a few weeks that I wouldn't mind "testing out". It will be on a project I'm working on integrating Drupal with Salesforce. I think my target presentation time is longer than the 20 minutes on this schedule, but I could just do a portion of it, if there would be any interest.
Areas I'd be touching on in my talk would be
@dbcollies - if you have the
@dbcollies - if you have the full talk done, might make sesne for you to do the whole thing in the last section to get feedback.
The talk isn't done yet, but
The talk isn't done yet, but that would give me some incentive to get it done. ;) I would have suggested that, but I didn't want to hog the entire agenda.
I'm fine with a longer
I'm fine with a longer presentation. How long do you need? A full hour?
Well, i THOUGHT it was going
Well, i THOUGHT it was going to be an hour, but I've since learned that I've got 45 minutes. So I guess that's what I'd need to use for this session as well. ;)
Questions
I have a couple of questions that I could use some feedback on, specifically:
How to retrieve fields from referenced nodes/users when using Rules?
Content, layout, and/or module recommendations for providing a simple and useful "My Account" page for basic users.
Behat
Is anybody interested in Behat? I just started using it and could give a basic presentation.
Thanks everyone!
Just wanted to thank everyone for letting me ask so many questions last night. Today, I was able to resolve a couple of the issues I was having trouble with!
Thanks everyone!
Just wanted to thank everyone for letting me ask so many questions last night. Today, I was able to resolve a couple of the issues I was having trouble with!