(NOTE DATE!) Boston Drupal Meetup - June 10 2014 @ 6:30 pm

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Start: 
2014-06-10 18:30 - 20:30 America/New_York
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Event type: 
User group meeting

Because of DrupalCon Austin, we'll be moving our regular 1st Tuesday slot to the following Tuesday. If you attend Con, come back and share some of your highlights or notable session recordings to watch.

Held on MIT Campus

We will be hosted by the MIT Drupal Group in Cambridge in Building E51 - Tang Center in E51-145.

Lightning Talk Format

We'll do lightening talks for both hours of the meeting. Each volunteer will get up to 5-10 minutes to ask questions of the group, present your recent Drupal work, or other lead Drupal discussion. This is an open floor, and no preparation is required.

Parking and Transportation:

After 5pm, there is an unattended MIT lot called Hayward: http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=P5

Dinner and Drinks

During the meetup, we'll take an order for a group dinner and after lightening talks, head over to the MIT's on campus pub Muddy Charles for drinks and food.

Sponsors/Feature Guests Wanted

If you would like to sponsor dinner, please reach out to organizers. You will be recognized at the meeting, given the chance to do a featured talk for 15 min., and promoted to our Boston list of over 1400 subscribers.

Pencil in 1st Tuesdays!

Except for this one on June 10th
The first Tuesdays are designated Boston Drupal Meetup nights unless noted. Look for future announcements and reminders!

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DrupalCon Austin videos to watch

mlncn's picture

That i actually went to:

OpenSaaS: Why Drupal is the perfect platform for open-source + SaaS businesses
https://austin2014.drupal.org/session/opensaas-why-drupal-perfect-platfo...

That i want to see:

Left of The (Digital) Dial: Reflections on Building a Platform for 150+ Radio Stations
https://austin2014.drupal.org/session/left-digital-dial-reflections-buil...

Modernizr in Core. This is the start of something beautiful.
https://austin2014.drupal.org/session/modernizr-core-start-something-bea...

From proposal to thank-you note; a documentation discussion
https://austin2014.drupal.org/session/proposal-thank-you-note-documentat...
(for a session on documentation, it had... none)

Thinking Inside the Box Inside the Box Inside the Box
https://austin2014.drupal.org/session/thinking-inside-box-inside-box-ins...

MailChimp + Mandrill + Drupal = #awesomeemail
https://austin2014.drupal.org/bof/mailchimp-mandrill-drupal-awesomeemail

Successful Requirements Gathering
https://austin2014.drupal.org/session/successful-requirements-gathering

Large scale JS applications with MarionetteJS + Drupal
https://austin2014.drupal.org/bof/large-scale-js-applications-marionette...

ok actually i want to see pretty much all the sessions and these are chosen basically at random.

benjamin, agaric

Presentation: ApacheSOLR Reference

mlncn's picture

Michael Miles presented his recently officially released apachesolr_reference. As entity reference allows you to reference content across your site, this allows you to reference content across multiple sites which have their content indexed by SOLR. Has formatters which allow output of referenced content using HTML and its available tokens.

benjamin, agaric

DrupalCon ReportBack: Michele Metts

mlncn's picture

Micky:

Not so good part, i missed the diversity keynote. And during the day, four different white men came up to me and apologized that the community was not as diverse as it should be.

High point for me was giving back to the community. BoFs are an organic thing that should be able to spring up, have it there in the corner, or three days from now. We put together powertoconnect.org: Post a BoF session, people can provide their mobile phone number if they're interested, and you can send text updates to them if things change. Not just as a service, but to offer as a platform, for other people to build services on. Useful not just for Drupal, useful for other communities. The differentiating thing from GroupMe and Twitter is you can have your BoF preserved. In my mind it's a miniature traveling classroom, it has a phone number with an extension, you can call and hear about BoF and sign up, or sign up on the web site to get updates.

And make room for organic BoFs anywhere, outside venues too.

Some people from the Drupal Association found it really interesting. Not going to be able to do it in Amsterdam, but maybe for DrupalCons after that.

benjamin, agaric

Favorite DrupalCon sessions, BoFs, or other parts

mlncn's picture

Stefan Freudenberg: Watched a lot of Symfony tracks. One reiterated the amazement that i have heard from others in the broader PHP community, at the enthusiasm of the Drupal community.

Leslie: Moshe's Drush 7 session was very good.

Michael Miles: Scor's session on securing a Drupal site.

favorite: Successful Requirements Gathering, by Jordan Hirsch of Phase 2.

Mike: When someone says, "This page is broken", you say "Help me understand how this page is broken."

I've already used it on my developers. When they say this module is broken, i say help me understand how this module is broken.

Benji: The Go system for continuous integration. Like Jenkins, but not. By Thoughtworks, just released by Great if had a huge team of developers. Ansible looks more human.

[more to come]

benjamin, agaric

More favorite sessions from DrupalCon attendees

mlncn's picture

Benji: Larry Garfield on functional programming techniques. Treat function as a variable. Gave a lot of examples of what can be done quickly with functional techniques that would take much more code in OO.

One takeaway on the keynote on diversity. One point she made, when people are looking at a discussion board, women are more affected by men by negative remarks, so i realize I just have to be more friendly to everyone.

Jeannie: The Amitai Show Unplugged. He's amazing. And Pantheon recorded it for him.

And they recorded the great multisite debate too! Via eporama: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dJxEUM2YOY and https://austin2014.drupal.org/bof/great-multisite-debate

Michelle Lauer's talk on Behat

EzraG on XHProf

Monday Community Summit: Organize camps, need to treat like minicon, have documents for how to ask for money professionally.
On building sites over and over again, trying to use COD. Could we have a distro, plug-and-play, have a big company host it, what's the minimal we have. Liability, what account should be used to pay.

Nic: I'd be interested in putting that together. We're blogging the process of putting our camp together. Using COD in alpha was hard, Beta is much better.

benjamin, agaric

Reference video start?

krlucas's picture

Thanks for the recap work @mlncn!

It's awesome that MIT provides this service. Nonetheless, I have an annoying question for Ed: is there a way to format the video URL so that it starts at a particular point. I learn a lot at these meet-ups and it would be cool to be able to reference specific talks if I'm writing a blog post or documentation or whatever.

playFrom=[millseconds]

krlucas's picture

Nevermind, through a bit of trial and error I answered my own question. If you add the playFrom query parameter to these video URLs you can control the start time in milliseconds. For instance ?playFrom=300000 would start a video at 300,000 milliseconds or 5 minutes.

I'm math stupid so I google something like "7 minutes 37 seconds to milliseconds" to get my playFrom attribute.

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