Western Colorado Drupal Meet-up

Posted by sethlbrown on December 3, 2009 at 10:46pm

Start:

2009-12-10 05:30 - 07:00 America/Denver

Organizers:

sethlbrown

onelittleant

Event type:

User group meeting

Hey team,

Let's get together next Thursday if possible. At this time, the location is still up in the air. Since Jared is leaving GJ, I've asked if Randy would be willing to come up here since it's a lot closer for the rest of us, but I'm still open to the GJ idea. Let me know if everyone thinks this will work with their schedules. If not, we can easily reschedule.

Regards,

Seth

Comments

I've updated the list of

Posted by onelittleant on December 3, 2009 at 10:54pm

I've updated the list of potential meeting spots in Grand Junction:

http://groups.drupal.org/node/32710

If we're going to meet in Carbondale, we can certainly use the Lucks Digital conference room. We have space for up to around 10 a projector (don't have a projector).

That date & time seems good

Posted by nadavoid on December 4, 2009 at 12:41am

That date & time seems good to me. I'm in!

map/address

Posted by nadavoid on December 7, 2009 at 4:52pm

@onelittleant, could you post an address or map of Lucks Digital?

Ill be there!

Posted by kirikintha on December 7, 2009 at 5:03pm

Looking forward to talking D7!

Directions to Lucks Digital

Posted by onelittleant on December 8, 2009 at 8:36pm

Hi all. Lucks Digital, Inc. is located at 1101 Village Rd. #LL4D in Carbondale. We are in the Village Road Office Condos, and are on the outside, lower level of the building closest to Highway 82.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=1132677868164059...

Discussion Topics

Posted by onelittleant on December 10, 2009 at 3:47pm

Any other feedback on this post?

http://groups.drupal.org/node/35120#comment-109752

It looks like our regions D7 expert Randy won't be making it. I was thinking that we could take turns reviewing recent/interesting project work and talking about design decisions, methodologies, modules, etc. employed in the projects. Pitfalls and lessons learned, etc.

I'm definitely no expert on

Posted by nadavoid on December 10, 2009 at 10:13pm

I'm definitely no expert on D7, but I have played with it a little and know of some of the new changes. I do have a couple copies of it installed on my laptop, so we can sure poke at it if there's interest and time.

Notes from meetup

Posted by nadavoid on December 11, 2009 at 10:53pm

Nice size meetup; seven in attendance.

Thanks to Lucks Digital, for hosting the meetup, Solstice Software for providing beer and popcorn, and Blue Tent Marketing for providing a projector.

Ned presented on Making Site Management Easy for Site Managers. Here are some rough notes I took:

Making Management easy for site managers

Budget for Training
- 2 hours one session, to several sessions throughout the project
- client add content during dev
! Create Content Management Views
- pretty easy to spec out, based on content type, and user types
- consider table format first (node title filter)
- expose filters
- create separate views for each content type
- add destination query page
- add view/edit/delete
- limit access
create role-specific menus
- links to userguides
- links to cm views
- links to existing documentation
create user guides and documentation
- let them edit these pages (wiki-like)
do not give total admin access to client
disable development modules on production sites
put legit thorough help text on fields, and on content types

I showed a current installation of Drupal 7. Highlights included:
- overlays
- fields in core (like CCK in Drupal 6)
- fields (including images) on taxonomy terms
- minimal install (enables only 3 core modules, creates no default content types
- peeked at some implementations of the new object oriented database layer
- reorganized admin menus
- toolbar, customizable shortcuts bar
- InnoDB storage engine is default now
- default content list has sortable columns

A possible topic for next time:
- approaches to content publishing workflow
- rules
- triggers & actions & workflow/workflow_ng