UMass Drupal User's Group meeting - Thu, December 5

Posted by druderman on November 8, 2013 at 8:41pm

Start:

2013-12-05 14:00 America/New_York

Organizers:

limako

druderman

Event type:

User group meeting

This Users Group meeting is Thursday, December 5 at 2pm in ISB 145.

Meetings are open to anyone interested in Drupal and not limited to the UMass community. Bring problems, questions and ideas. Offers to make presentations are welcome.

The meeting is at the UMass Integrated Sciences Building (ISB) (See map here.
Room 145 is a meeting room near the elevators on the first floor.

Regular meetings for the UMass Amherst Drupal Users Group are the first Thursday of the month and usually run 90 minutes.

Agenda:
- Introductions
- Open topics: discussion, problems, show and tell, best practices, etc.

Please post here if you wish to make a brief presentation at the meeting so we can add it to the agenda.

Please use the 'Signup' feature on this events page for a reminder.

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Minutes

Posted by limako on December 5, 2013 at 8:07pm

UMass Drupal Users 
Dec 5, 2013

Attendance
Steven D. Brewer
Aaron Fischer
Beth Armour
Erik Moore
Dave Ruderman
Gail Parslow
Bill Leahy
Kelly Albrecht
Nate Develder
Gary Parker
Nick Wojcik
Brian Devore

Announcements:
  drush now available on webadmin
    restricted: available upon request

Topics

monster menus
  inheritence of privileges like unix file permission

Drupal 8
  strategic ambiguity
  by next drupalcon
  simplytest.me: test drupal modules and configurations
  
responsive design
  media queries -> stylesheets
  mobile first
  http://isthissiteresponsive.com/
  use ems. really.

theming systems:
  adaptive themes 
    good
  bootstrap framework
    responsive theming with cool glyphs and icons
  singularity
    ratio-based grids
  mothership theme
    hampshire is using
  omega
    not using 4 yet
  zen
    do more work, but more control
  fusion
    used to be a thing

security update
  highly critical, but not implicated in compromises
  openbasedir
  
protected pages module:
  protectednode
  shibboleth, workflow, workflow-access
  content-access