Spokane Day-time Learn/Co-Work Group June 12

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Posted by jhodgdon on May 15, 2014 at 11:22pm
Start: 
2014-06-12 10:00 - 12:00 America/Los_Angeles
Organizers: 
jhodgdon
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, June 12, 2014, 10 AM to noon
Important: SIGN UP if you are coming! (Log in and click the "Sign up" button. You will be reminded 2 days before. The meeting will be canceled if not enough people sign up, so please do sign up!)
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, or watch on the projector screen. Come with a project you're working on, a desire 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 usually 5-10 friendly people, with experience levels ranging from novice to expert, so you'll fit right in. Because of the size of the group, you will have time to share something you've learned, or get your questions answered, or both!

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.

Sign up now! (Click the "Sign up" button if you plan to come, to ensure the meeting actually takes place.)

Comments

Meeting today

Posted by dmsid on June 12, 2014 at 3:04pm
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See you all at 10am!

Sorry for the late sign up... I will see all of you soon!

Posted by cprofessionals on June 12, 2014 at 4:23pm
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Thanks for the nudge Jon

Sorry for the late sign up... I will see all of you soon!

Posted by cprofessionals on June 12, 2014 at 4:23pm
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Thanks for the nudge Jon

Meeting notes

Posted by jhodgdon on June 12, 2014 at 7:01pm
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Here's a summary of what we discussed today (with links):

Jose - Report from DrupalCon Austin https://austin2014.drupal.org/

  • Great community - lots of knowledgeable volunteers
  • Next North American Con: Los Angeles (in about a year)
  • Lots of different people
  • Twitter is really important for the Drupal community
  • Training from Chris Shattuck of http://buildamodule.com and lots of volunteers was really good (others in the group have used his videos and gotten a lot out of them too). Got mentoring on Panels module (https://drupal.org/project/panels)
  • Can watch videos of all the sessions (check the website)
  • Job offerings
  • Sprint day on the last day: a big everyone-in-a-room work day, with mentors
  • Lots of fun!

Drupal 8:

  • Integrates 3rd-party Symfony framework (behind the scenes: routing, plugins, etc.)
  • Integrates 3rd-party Twig framework (industry-standard theme template engine)
  • Upgrading will be a "migration" process, not an "upgrade" process. But, you will be able to go directly from 6 to 8, skipping Drupal 7! In theory anyway.
  • No release date yet. Getting closer to "Beta".

Financially contributing to Drupal:

Always make a backup!

  • Example: Even updating a small module can trash your site.
  • Test.
  • Be prepared to revert any change. You might need to revert the database, or files, or both.
  • Use a staging/development site for testing, especially for major changes.
  • Keep a log of what you've updated when, so when a problem is reported, you will have a clue about what might have caused it (might consider putting in screen shots of the update.php page, and the Modules page before/after a module update).
  • How to back it up: Database - Backup and Migrate module (https://drupal.org/project/backup_migrate). Backup and Migrate may also do files (probably sites/default/files) in the 7.x-3.x version -- but this probably does not include the Drupal core and module code files. For files, use FTP to download the current file state. (Smart FTP will do auto-backups.) Shawn promises a full report next time!

Google Analytics and Webmaster Tools

  • Can get info on how many visitors, what pages they went to, how long they stayed
  • Work best with an "XML Sitemap": Takes all of your URLs on the site, and outputs them into an organized file for Google. Also tells how long to wait before indexing them again, etc. https://drupal.org/project/xmlsitemap should generate this at (example.com)/sitemap.xml (standard URL)

Responsive menus

Diane and I recently worked on http://borealbirds.org and it has a responsive main menu. We did this using the module: https://drupal.org/project/responsive_menus

Drupal programmer - http://poplarware.com
Drupal author - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920034612.do
Drupal contributor - https://www.drupal.org/u/jhodgdon

Initial Details on Backup and Migrate

Posted by cprofessionals on June 13, 2014 at 11:41pm
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I verified from one of my actual backups that with the new version of Backup and Migrate it grabs everything not just the sites folder. Everything is contained in a docroot folder with the following sub-directories:
-files
-includes
-misc
-modules
-profiles
-scripts
-sites

How did the event go? Did it

Posted by christefano on June 14, 2014 at 11:05pm
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How did the event go? Did it turn out to be a casual coworking day or a more structured teach-and-learn?

Please consider cross-posting this to the Coworking group:

   https://groups.drupal.org/coworking

It turned out to be both.

Posted by Momseekingbalance on June 14, 2014 at 11:34pm
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It turned out to be both. We started off with Jose filling us in about DrupalCon Austin. We followed that by going from topic to topic, some of which were brought up by individuals needing info for projects they are currently working on.

As always, it was great!

That's great! I really like

Posted by christefano on June 15, 2014 at 7:02am
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That's great! I really like the structure of your meetup. Please feel free to join the next Drupal Coworking conference call.

Good idea!

Posted by jhodgdon on June 16, 2014 at 3:23am
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I'm going to go edit our next event and cross-post it to the Coworking group. I'll try to remember to do that going forward.

https://groups.drupal.org/node/427603

Drupal programmer - http://poplarware.com
Drupal author - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920034612.do
Drupal contributor - https://www.drupal.org/u/jhodgdon

Spokane, WA

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