Drupal au Jus -- 2nd LA Drupal Meeting

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schavester's picture
Event type: 
User group meeting
<p>The next Los Angeles Drupal Meeting will take place at <a href="http://www.philippes.com/">Philippe&#8217;s The Original</a> on Sunday, April 1st at 4 PM.  </p><p>Philippe&#8217;s is freeway close and across the street from Union Station, a major public transportation hub.  The <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1001+N+Alameda+St,+Los+Angeles,+CA+90012&#38;ie=UTF8&#38;om=1&#38;z=16&#38;ll=34.060695,-118.236794&#38;spn=0.006737,0.021179&#38;iwloc=addr">Map</a> should be consulted for further directions.</p><p>We will convene upstairs in one of the additional eating areas.</p><p>A telltale copy of <a href="http://drupal.org/node/42201">Building Online Communities With Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress</a> on the table should be a sufficient shibboleth.</p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_dip_sandwich">Wikipedia entry for Philippe&#8217;s</a></p><p>Philippe&#8217;s hosts a Wifi network.</p><p>That is all,</p><p>Richard</p>

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Better than expected!

LarryEitel's picture

Thanks to all for a productive meeting today. The ability to collaborate with 'local' Drupal'ites will surely enhance my Drupalize wizardry. :)

march meeting

mike stewart's picture

what was discussed/covered in the last meeting?

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mike stewart { twitter: @MediaDoneRight | IRC nick: mike stewart }

awesome

mike stewart's picture

awesome!

thanks for compiling AND SHARING! Now if we could only login using our drupal.org ID (in my case, mdrmike@ drupal.org)

I'm planning to attend the April meeting.

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mike stewart { twitter: @MediaDoneRight | IRC nick: mike stewart }

Change in plans - pushing back my proposed presentation

gusaus's picture

I'm going to have to push my planned 'presentation on how to build kick-ass hyperlocal media network' to...well...after it's actually complete. I've been documenting the process, breaking it down to various topics for learning/workshopping, and have been looking at ways to open up the project to collaboration. I'll post more detail this week and can discuss during our meetup on Sunday.

Having said that, I've posted a proposal for a 'mission critical' project that we could workshop on Sunday. It would be a tremendous way to learn AND make a valuable contribution to the entire community.

Gus Austin
Director of Chaos and Confusion
PepperAlley Productions
What am I trying to do with Drupal?

Gus Austin

I can give a tour of Ourmedia

apperceptions's picture

I can give an admin and developers tour of ourmedia.org if people would like.

Markus Sandy
http://Ourmedia.org

done

schavester's picture

looking forward.

60 minutes, will commence about 30 minutes into the meeting.

thanks,

richard

Proposed Outline

apperceptions's picture

Here is a proposed outline of what we might be able to demo and discuss in that time.

  • Site Overview & History
  • An Admin's View Behind the Scenes
  • Theming and Contributed Modules (Organic Groups mainly)
  • Custom Modules and Interaction with the Internet Archive
  • Future Directions and Contributing Back to the Drupal Community
  • An open discussion about contributed modules

We have about 1/2 dozen custom modules for cross-uploading to the Internet Archive and assigning Creative Commons licenses and managing various media types. These were all written in Drupal 4.6 and we would like to upgrade these to 5.1 and contribute back to the Drupal community. I would love to open this up to a discussion of what are people's favorite modules and which ones make sense for us to contribute as new and which ones should be rolled into existing modules.

BTW, I'm bringing a projector.

Markus Sandy
http://Ourmedia.org