Howdy folks,
I'd like to cordially invite you all to an exciting meetup next week that will cover two basic points, one dedicated to coders and the other for the rest of us.
If you are a module maintainer and want your module(s) to get attention in the D7 space, you'll want to take the #D7CX (Drupal 7 Contrib Experience) pledge to have a fully functional release on the day that Drupal 7 is released. To help guide you towards this goal, Angela Byron (webchick) will be on hand (as of 18:00 or so) as well as Antoine Beaupré (anarcat) to walk you through the steps involved in porting modules from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7.
However, if you are like me and are not a programmer, you can come join us for an exciting discussion aimed at hosting DrupalCon 2012 in Montreal. Some initial steps have already been taken, but we are just at the very beginning of a long process and we need to start the conversation now.
Of course, if you come you are sure to benefit from the usual updates (and gossip) on all the amazing stuff taking place in the community.
Sorry for the last minute notice, but Angie's schedule is tight... and anyway, we're heading into the holiday season and it'll be increasingly difficult to find a good time for a December meetup.
So come one, come all to what promises to be an exciting meetup.
Omar
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Hey Omar, the 4th is a bit
Hey Omar, the 4th is a bit tricky for a few of us here.. Christmas parties and such. I realize there are many schedules to work around, but there's no way we could make this a weekday night, is there?
This was the only time...
... that Angie was available and I felt that it was important for her to be there. I mean, I'd be open to other ideas but, as you suggest, being in December and all means that it will be particularly difficult to find a time that appeals to everybody.
Omar
I could also meet Thursday if that's easier...
Dec. 1 is Drupal 7 UI freeze, so I imagine I'll be up until 6am that day, and need another day to recover, but if Thursday Dec. 3 works out better with various xmas party schedules and whatnot I could do then too.
Then again, if it's just going to be a presentation on iCal you don't need really me anyway. :)
Quick question - where is
Quick question - where is this wonderful meetup??
Sorry for the oversight...
The meetup will be at Koumbit's office.
Ah, thanks! I don't mind the
Ah, thanks!
I don't mind the date...I actually prefer it. Fridays are easier.
Where in the world is this meetup?
Où est-ce? Peut-on s’assurer que cela soit près du centre-ville?
By the way, I'm more interested in ical feed integration into Drupal than module porting. Any other presentation suggestions?
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Other topics...
I missed the last meetup so I might have missed if it had already been suggested. That being said, iCal integration is indeed another interesting topic. As to whether or not we could include this topic or if we should consider replacing the module porting completely, your guess is as good as mine.
In any case, to me this is yet another example of how we are going to have to improve our collective decision making tools and processes for the local community. For example, it would be nice to have a list of potential topics that we allow people to vote on. Part of the "DrupalCon prelims" discussion will also touch on this as one of the selection criteria for choosing the location of DrupalCons is the "strength and structure of the local user's group". So, "to be continued".
Omar
I'll be a bit late, but
I'll be a bit late, but should be there by 7pm the latest.
Funny story, true story!
So although we tried to upgrade D7 modules with Coder Upgrade module today, it turns out the module was.... a bit buggy. ;) But! As a result of our filing bug reports against the module, we raised the Coder Upgrade maintainer, solotandem, and over the course of the evening he committed a whole bunch of fixes so that the next time we try and do D7 upgrades it should work more-or-less flawlessly. :D
Booya!!
That's awesome, and thank you guys again for inviting us all out to share in the fun. Looking forward to the next one!!
Did the ical stuff happen?
I wasn't able to make it to this meetup, but I was just wondering if the ical stuff actually happened. If not, maybe it can happen next time, and we may be able to contribute as we've been doing a lot of work importing ical feeds from various sources.
I'd love to see an iCal présentation
@lambic: The iCal thing was just a suggestion as I am struggling with two-way iCal integration, which often requested.
If you feel that you can give a presentation about iCal feeds, i'd love to see this.
Maybe we should plan for a January meetup! Would McGill offer us a meeting place for this meetup?
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ical
@xmacinfo: have you tried http://drupal.org/project/FeedAPI and/or http://drupal.org/project/Feeds to import iCal?
FeedAPI/Feeds
We use FeedAPI but hope to switch to Feeds as soon as parser_ical has been ported to it (it doesn't support ical currently). I was going to port it myself but apparently someone is already on it.
To get ical feed imports working we also need date, calendar, parser_ical and feedapi_mapper. We've had to patch Date and Mapper.
We've avoided two-way integration so far, I'm hoping we don't have to do it because I can imagine the horrors it could cause.
Great iCal Screencast
I recently did a project where i needed to import iCal feeds from Google Agenda into a Drupal calendar. Mustardseed Media offers a very useful screencast just for that. It helped me quite a lot. Modules required : Feed API, iCal Parser, Feed API Mapper. Cheers!
http://mustardseedmedia.com/podcast/episode34
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I forgot to mention...
I forgot to mention that FeedApi Mapper needs to be patched because it doesn't (or at least didn't) handle UTC zone properly. Took me a while to find that one. Follow the link below.
http://drupal.org/node/451888
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patch
yep, that's the same patch we applied.
The FeedAPI folk were also nice enough to release a new version to fix another problem we were having.
The date patch I did myself, it's this one: http://drupal.org/node/657360, if anyone wants to review that I'd appreciate it :)
iCal feeds discussions are interesting
All these informations about iCal feeds are interesting, but unfortunately I did not have time to play with iCal feeds yet.
This is why I suggested a demo. If any of you guys would like to demo me your solutions, I'd be very happy.
However, I am looking for a two-way solution as well between a Drupal installation and iCal-compliant calendars. Do you know about any Drupal installation that does this?
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