Posted by robeano on March 20, 2007 at 11:38pm
Start:
2007-04-19 18:00 - 20:00 US/Pacific When: April 19th 6pm - 8pm PST
Where:
Elliott Bay Book Company (http://www.elliottbaybook.com/)
101 South Main Street
Seattle, Washington 98104
local phone: (206) 624-6600
toll-free: 800-962-5311
Agenda:
* Introductions
* Announcements (if any)
* Anything you want to show off?
* Drupal Questions?
Please post topics you would like to discuss as comments to this post.
Comments
Let's plan a drupal camp
Let's plan a drupal camp for.... May?
It would also be great if we could pre arrange some specific demonstrations, or specific problem solving.
http://www.CivicActions.com
http://www.GregoryHeller.com
http://GregoryHeller.com
It's funny that you mention
It's funny that you mention a Drupal Camp. Sean and I were talking at the end of the last meeting about it. I was suggesting we hold off on hosting a Drupal Camp until we have a few more folks regularly showing up for the monthly meetings.
I'm happy to keep the meetings low key and forego a Camp for now. With monthly meetings I think the basic concepts of :
provide the kind of support Seattle needs at this point. I understand that a Drupal Camp will help increase the numbers for our monthly meetings, but I'm not interested in burning out anyone in core group at this point (a bit of catch-22 I guess).
I think pulling off a Drupal Camp requires more volunteers than the 3-4 of us who have consistently attended DUG meetings. If others are interested in running a Drupal Camp, then please participate in the next meeting.
Thoughts?
Robin
www.rufdesigns.com
Robin
DUGs
Hey.
I was away during the last 2 DUGs, and thus couldn't make it. But I do plan to start going again---Thursdays at Elliot Bay books works well for me. Barring anything unexpected, I'll definitely make it to the one on April 19th.
Take care,
jessi
Planning a camp, especially
Planning a camp, especially if it were one day, or a half day, wouldn't take that much coordination. I planned the one last june with bryght and other than the fact that I was having a complete crisis unrelated to drupal camp the morning it started, it was pretty easy to pull off. I think that between you me and Shawn (and maybe another person or two that has been through) we could put together a few sessions that would allow us to go deeper than we can during the regular dugs.
I could present on drupal adminsitration, cck and views, this could be in the form of "build a website in 90 minutes" walking people through installing and configuring dupal for a fairly basic community news website.
We would need a session on module development and another on theming, maybe an addition on CiviCRM and a show and tell
That's probably about 6 hours of sessions. I could rent the Hugo house again. Perhaps we just take a friday in may or june and do it?
Alternately, maybe we should plan out "lessons" on each of these topics for the next 3 months. I kind of feel like more people might attend a regular meeting if there is an announced "lesson" or workshop.
http://www.CivicActions.com
http://www.GregoryHeller.com
http://GregoryHeller.com
I agree that more people
I agree that more people will attend the monthly meetings if we hosted a camp or had lessons for our monthly meetings. For me personally I would love to give us a chance to practice our talks by doing them at the monthly meetings, then host a camp.
Remember we had trouble with the wireless at Hugo House last time. I think someone mentioned Media 911 as a possible Drupal Camp location.
Let's start hashing it out a bit at the next meeting and see what we come up with. Do you think some folks from Bryght or others might be interested in participating in the Camp?
Thanks,
Robin
www.rufdesigns.com
Robin
How-to: Import data into CCK nodes (5.x)
How-to: Import data into CCK nodes (5.x)
http://drupal.org/node/133705
If anyone has experience with this Handbook item, I will be interested to hear from you at the April meeting.
John
Great reference
Will definitely try this out and see how it works. Thanks for the link...
I am new to Drupal and live
I am new to Drupal and live in Kirkland...Hopefully I will see you all there on the 19th...
New to drupal, looking
New to drupal, looking forward to the meeting.
-Tyler
-Tyler
Scooter-Relief.org
An organization that I run, Scooter-Relief.org (http://www.scooter-relief.org) had a web catastrophe a while back and we lost our entire site. I have been negligent in getting a fully operational site back up and running, but I am ready to bite the bullet. I was thinking that tonight might be a good time to do it.
We could upgrade my current site from 4.7 to 5.1 and then go about setting up menus and various modules and configurations. Taking time to point out tips and tricks and answer questions as we go along!
http://www.CivicActions.com
http://www.GregoryHeller.com
http://GregoryHeller.com
Similar experience
I feel your pain.
I lost a web site when the host service moved the server. My good backups were out of date and the last backup was corrupted. I am picking thru the database records to retrieve content, like a forensic anthropologist. I think I need to maintain a working offsite backup web site to prevent future losses.
John
I am guessing you are using
I am guessing you are using MySQL. Does the built in backup tool not work well? You all talking like this has me worried about my database. Is it worthwhile to have a script that automates the mysql backup script, gzips it? tar up and gzip the rest of the drupal site files on a regular basis, again this can be scripted and then "in theory" the hosting provider has tape backups which one could recover your tar balls from. obviously this is all predicated on one have a hosting provider that allows you to do such things and one knowing how to do shell scripting.
Backups are essential
Absolutely! It's always best practice to have a couple backups handy in case of database meltdown or corruption. Also offers a good way to verify data inconsistencies or clean up after a spam assault.
Also set up a cron or task on another site or local machine that downloads the backups regularly and you shouldn't have to rely on the host for tapes.
#!/bin/sh
# This file will run a backup of your desired MySQL database and
# remove any backups older than 7 days.
#
# If you'd like to preserve backups for longer than a week, like say
# 2 weeks, then set the '-mtime' value from '+7' to '+14'.
#
# NOTE: Make sure to create a 'backups' folder in the root of your
# account and replace USERNAME, PASSWORD, and DATABASENAME with
# the appropriate values.
/usr/local/bin/mysqldump --opt --skip-add-locks --user=DBUSERNAME --password=DBPASSWORD drupal | gzip > ~/backups/drupal_`date"+%Y-%m-%d"`.gz
cd ~/backups/
/usr/bin/find *.gz -mtime +14 -delete
Going through the setting up
Going through the setting up the actual site (meaning post install) would be very helpful for me I know. I have been messing around and have stuff there, but there is no substitute for seeing someone who knows what they are doing, actually doing it.