Note the new meeting location:
Tableau Software - 837 North 34th Street, Seattle
Learn about Drupal and meet local Drupal enthusiasts. We will meet from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m.
Agenda
Drupal and E-commerce $
This month, we will begin a series on using Drupal for e-commerce.
Agenda:
- Introductions
- Job Postings
- Drupal Summit
- Drupal 8 Update
- Other Drupal News
Discussion time to plan our next few months of talking about Drupal and e-commerce
- What commerce subjects would people like to talk about?
- Evaluating the different ways to take money on a website
- Looking at the hosting requirements
- General Drupal concepts in Commerce i.e. Rules, Workflow, Entities, etc.
- Coupons and Discounts
- Selling Physical good vs. Virtual goods
Bring your questions!
We will spend time taking questions to help YOU with your Drupal site! Stuck trying to decide what module to use? Can’t find one? Not sure how to layout your pages? Have a bug you can’t figure out? Bring your questions and a room full of Drupal experts will help you out. Leave a comment below to submit your question.
September 19th, 6:00-8:00pm.
Tableau Software, 837 North 34th Street, Seattle
Pay parking is available adjacent the east side of the building, right underneath the Aurora bridge in a U-Park lot ($5-7).
The main entrance is along 34th Street, right next to the Anytime Fitness (there are stairs up to 34th from the lot). The door may be locked, so feel free to call/text 206.437.2368 for entry.
Public transit: 26, 28, 31, 32, 40 all stop at N 34th and Fremont; additional routes a few blocks further away: 5, 82
Coworking is available from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at a meeting room in the Fremont Library (731 N. 35th St.).
Comments
Commerce and Taxes
Good timing as I am starting on my first Commerce site. I've used Ubercart in the past.
Has anyone done taxes with Commerce? I see there is a way to connect it to a service called AvaTax, which does all the calculation per state or down to the zip code level. Otherwise it looks like you can set up rules for each tax, but that would be really tedious for state taxes.
We're using the Commerce
We're using the Commerce AvaTax connector, but the module is still in development, so its usability might depend on your specific use case.
Snacks and Beverages
Tableau is nice enough to allow us to bring in food and beverages. Anyone interested in bringing any food/drinks tonight?
-jared
I'll grab something
I'll grab something non-alcoholic
Doug
Douglas Urner
I'll grab some drinks to
I'll grab some drinks to bring!
Drupaler and Mobile Ninja
Cellar Door Media - Beautiful Mobile Solutions
First meeting I can make in nearly a year!
I'll pick up some donuts on the way over.
Aack, me too
First meeting I've been able to get to in months, but couldn't get in. ;-(
Backdrop discussion followup
At the Sep 19th Seadug meeting, we spent about 25 minutes discussing the Backdrop fork of Drupal.
In this lengthy Sep 20th podcast from Lullabot, Addison Berry is joined by Nate Haug and Jen Lampton to talk about their new project in detail. Several questions via Twitter were answered:
http://lbt.me/mNZ
https://www.lullabot.com/blog/podcasts/backdrop-drupal-fork
My take-aways:
* BD forked from an early verision of D8
* Twig will not be used for BD theming
* The project is operating on a shoestring, hence Indiegogo
* There is ~9 months of work before a release
* ~50 people are collaborating on github
* Jen and Nate will be at Druplcon
* Performance is a goal, hence no database abstraction, etc.
* Porting D6 & D7 modules to BD will be easier than to D8
* BD will capture a good % of developers who won't move to D8
* Nate will port his modules to BD instead of D8
* Jen wants to be able to fix her client website problems in her sleep.
For more information:
Github: https://github.com/backdrop
Issues tracker: https://github.com/backdrop/backdrop-issues/issues
Freenode channel: #backdrop
Twitter: @backdrop