Oxford Drupal User Group Meetup - Notes from meeting 04/12/2013

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Who’s here?

Finn Lewis (Agile Collective)
Aaron (Agile Collective) want to learn something new and make a new friend
Raz (OeRC) - no longer has to use Drupal - but has lots of requests for Drupal sites!
Iain (OeRC)
Nick (Versantas) - primarily Drupal sites.
Tanc (Agile Collective )
Roger (Versantus)
Dave (Freelance Drupal Developer)
Matt (Open Imagination) Drupal Commerce
Carlos (Said Business School) Project manager / some development
Richard (some Drupal)
JP (Freelance / ex-Torchbox)
Grant Valance (NHS) Drupal hobbyist, interested in great

Drupal Camp NW

Interesting talks

Katherine Cory - the forgotten user. (How to help people who are less computer literate be a good client).
Keynote: Shop Direct (nothing to do with Drupal) but interesting in that a very small incremental change in the login form increased conversion rate by 14%. Something
Mark Taylor - The Future of Open Source.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_9F1k_nnCU

Screencasting & documentation for clients

Screencasts: great for repeatable ‘how to’ for clients, especially remote.
Screencast software for linux?
How do people provide documentation and help to clients?
Various approaches depending on size of project.
Site specific inline help in forms and admin pages
Tour module coming for Drupal 8 https://drupal.org/developing/api/tour
Advanced help module in Drupal 7 https://drupal.org/project/advanced_help

Questions:

Application that is PHP based, opportunity to move the whole product into Drupal. If we package up a product with Drupal (GPL) and give it to the client, do we need to GPL all our code?
The hive mind thinks that this is not an issue!
Advice to talk to http://www.moorcrofts.com/

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