Posted by jhodgdon on March 20, 2014 at 11:53pm
Start:
2014-04-24 10:00 - 12:00 America/Los_Angeles Organizers:
Event type:
User group meeting
We hope you can join us for the next meeting of the Spokane Day-Time Drupal Learning and Co-Working Group!
- When
- Thursday, April 24, 2014, 10 AM to noon
Note the date! Normally we try to meet on the 3rd Thursday of the month, but the room was not available.
- Where
- Spokane County Library - Argonne branch, 4322 N. Argonne Road, Millwood. We meet in the large meeting room - enter from the door out in the hallway before you go into the area with the books
- What
- Learning and "co-working" time - bring your laptop! Come with a project you're working on, a desire to volunteer to improve Drupal in some way (documentation, programming, design, marketing etc.), a question about Drupal you would like to get an answer to, or a desire to help others with their projects and questions. Or just come and listen and observe.
- Who
- Everyone is welcome -- the only prerequisite is having some interest in Drupal. This group is small and friendly, and consists mostly of people using Drupal in their work who prefer to meet during the workday to share knowledge about Drupal, and you're welcome to join us! Experience levels of attendees typically covers everything from novice to expert, so you'll fit right in.
Note: If you'd like to have a meeting at another time that is more convenient for you, please feel free to organize it! See http://groups.drupal.org/node/161584 for a Wiki where people have listed when would be convenient for them to have meetings.
Comments
Low attendance...
There were only two of us at the meeting yesterday, which is a big drop from our usual lately! So, we looked at an existing Drupal site for a while to see how it could be improved, and then adjourned.
Drupal programmer - http://poplarware.com
Drupal author - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920034612.do
Drupal contributor - https://www.drupal.org/u/jhodgdon
I was there in spirit
Hi Jennifer! Recently, I've been thinking of attending again, and Thursday was no exception. I was there bolstering numbers in spirit. :)
Anyway, we've been having tons of fun with 'brochureware' type sites (i.e. limited data requirements) using Foundation [4] for UI awesomeness! Here are a few examples, set to be released 'in to the wild' in the next couple of weeks:
I hope to attend next month's meeting, and perhaps share more of the excitement and enthusiasm we've been having, working with Foundation on Drupal. Since we started using Foundation for theming:
Historically, those (et al) were all points of constant frustration. I love Drupal (and have since day one) but I still remember theming nightmares... months of agonizing... hundreds upon hundreds of lines of CSS, JS, etc. in the end feeling like a cobbled mess that is... not Drupal. Now I feel like the UI matches Drupal: properly (perfectly?) abstracted, extensible, nimble, lightweight, flexible - fun! If I can save anyone the headaches of UI frustration, and help restore the joy of Drupal development, then it's a good day. :)
PS: Foundation is so easy and awesome to work with, as a 'homework assigment' we ripped the Harvest App theme and homepage - in just a couple of hours! Check it out: Harvest App site theme clone (not a perfect replica since it was just a homework assignment).