Location: Central Upstairs Conference Room, CF Public Library
The event is geared toward beginners to intermediates...some technical discussion, but also sharing of best practices and ideas for professionals who are using Drupal in their daily work (like me!). Would love to have Experts attend as well, but we likely won't be getting into really advanced topics at these sessions (in order to keep it accessible/useful to the newbies).
Planned agenda:
3:15 - Setup, meet & greet.
3:30 - Welcome, Group Introductions.
3:45 - Drupal Skills Discussion. Will discuss contextual filters, one of the more complicated but powerful functions of Views.
4:15 - Site Showcase. IDEX Corporation projects (Rob Green & Scott Hamerlinck give an overview VikingPump.com and TreborIntl.com).
4:45 - Next steps, ideas for next quarterly meeting in early January.
5:00 - Adjourn
5:15 - 7:00 - Dinner & fellowship at Tony's Pizzeria (across the street on Main)
Comments
Carpool?
Anybody happen to be attending this meeting and passing through Toledo (intersection of US Hwy 30 and US Hwy 63) on the way?
My daughter is a student at UNI and she can bring me home (to Toledo) after the meeting IF I can find a ride there. I will be working from home on October 9, I live less than 1/4 mile from the intersection listed above, and would certainly be willing to chip in for gas too.
Let me know. Feel free to reply to mcfatem@grinnell.edu. Thanks and take care.
-- Mark
Mark
Links from the meeting
Thanks to all who made it to the drupal meet-up last week. The links that were mentioned in the meeting are:
http://www.artisteer.com/ -- build Drupal themes without having to hand code HTML or CSS.
http://megadrupal.com/project/md-megamenu -- MD MegaMenu, the versatile menu system that Rob and Scott use at Viking Pump / IDEX for our menu configurations
http://islandora.ca/ -- Islandora is a Drupal/Fedora based CMS for education.
I'm looking forward to our next meetup in January-ish, which may occur in Cedar Rapids or Iowa City (in order to have a regular rotation between our 3 towns).
Also, I'm hoping our next module spotlight can be on Workbench, which I know some of our members are already using...possible to do this in January?
Thanks! ~Rob
Rob Green / robgreeniowa
Cedar Falls, Iowa