Central NJ Meetup, Thursday, October 10, 2013

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pwolanin's picture
Start: 
2013-10-10 19:00 - 21:00 America/New_York
Organizers: 
Event type: 
User group meeting

Come share your curiosity about, love of, or musings about Drupal at our monthly meetup in Princeton!

Note possible room change - come to 005 - we'll either meet there or have signs to the room we are using.

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) 10 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

- Sean (crowdcg) - demo of Omega 4.
- John (itmaybejj) - project management information system built on Drupal


2) 5 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.

- Greg Wilson - 
- [slot 2 TBD]

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.

- Henry (HumanSky)  - the process of localizing a Drupal site
- David (davidhernandez) - load testing with jmeter

WHERE

Join us in Room 005, 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/142309322/

Comments

Localizing a Drupal site

humansky's picture

In one of my freelance jobs, I recently had to localize a Drupal site. If there is enough interest, I'd be happy to share my experiences in using the content translation module (as well as a handful of other translations modules) in localizing a Drupal 7 site.

Yes, please.

cilefen's picture

Yes, please.

If we're lacking content,

davidhernandez's picture

If we're lacking content, I've been playing with using Jmeter for performance testing and can do some demonstrations.

Yes, please.

cilefen's picture

Yes, please.

Omega4 Demo

seantwalsh's picture

Started playing with Omega4 and would be happy to show off a simple demo for creating a subtheme, etc.

If you need more folks up

itmaybejj's picture

If you need more folks up front, we just launched a project management information system; lots of entity references, calendars, prepopulations, timers and the like. I could do a little show&tell and Q&A about the process. Not much time to prepare anything fancy, though.

Yes, a quick run through of

pwolanin's picture

Yes, a quick run through of that at the start would be great