LA Drupal User Group Meeting - Organic Groups case study & more about Drupal 7

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Chris Charlton's picture
Start: 
2010-01-26 19:30 - 21:00 America/Los_Angeles
Event type: 
User group meeting

LA Drupal is one of the world's largest Drupal user groups and meets monthly. Top talent and great community members share their Drupal knowledge. Perfect for all levels - newbies to elites.

When? Tuesday, Jan. 26th, 2010 (from 7:30pm - 9:30pm)
Where? Causecast.org offices - 1558 10th St. (Unit D), Santa Monica, CA 90401 (entrance is on Colorado; park on the street).

Free Beer & Pizza provided by our host: www.causecast.org

Book Raffles, every attendee has a chance to win!

TOPICS

  • Nicole Bluto, an LA Drupal member, will be covering how the popular Drupal module known as "Organic Groups" worked for a recent client site to bring group features to an online community.

  • More about Drupal 7. With the (near) upcoming release of Drupal 7, there is a lot of info to know what is coming down river.

  • The San Diego Drupal User Group would have just finished their annual DrupalCamp (SandCamp.org) and we'll talk about what was discussed or presented.

  • D4D (Design 4 Drupal) event also would have just finished up north. We'll try to talk about what was discussed or presented.

Main Presentation Area
Main presentation area holds up to 80 people and is geared towards general interest topics, especially geared towards people who are new to Drupal or the Topic(s) being presented. It is also a forum for sharing, asking questions.

Lightning Talks - come prepared to talk for 5 min. about something you'd like to share with the Drupal group. Finished a new Drupal site? Find a cool new module? Keep it succinct - you get stopped at five minutes - but we'll be nice about it.

Q & A followed by Job Announcements.

And...
In addition to our presentation(s) of the night we have open-mic opportunities for those who have general Drupal questions or need help during our wonderful meeting segment, "Ask the LA Drupal Community." Need to just ask another human a Drupal question? Then this is that chance.

We have raffle prizes for attendees, and as always, the end of the meeting is our networking session with the fun and knowledgeable LA Drupal crowd.

Those wishing to make announcements for Drupal jobs/work, please come early and speak to the organizers and we can provide time for you to speak to the audience.

Tags for the night:
Post photos on Flickr.com with the tag "ladrupal" and "drupal".

More upcoming L.A. Drupal events & training: http://groups.drupal.org/node/3002/events

Get a Drupal job or post your own: http://groups.drupal.org/node/3002/jobs

Members can vote on our polls: http://groups.drupal.org/node/3002/polls

Chat with other LA Drupal members online now: http://ladrupal.org/chat

Join in on LA Drupal discussions: http://groups.drupal.org/node/3002/recent

Whats an LA Drupal meetup like? Fun & Interesting!

LA Drupal meetups are free and open to anyone interested in Drupal from beginner to guru, but you have to bring a fun attitude and be willing to share or learn.

We have areas for networking, general topics, and more advanced learning and sharing. Presentations and a big breakout session at the end to chat and network.

We like to highlight and encourage folks with cool local projects to present at upcoming meetings. In the past year we've had presenters from Warner Brothers Records; hosting over a hundred artist sites on Drupal, StandUp2Cancer.org - over a million hits in one day during the airing of the show, and local shops such as www.ThisByThem.com, www.ActiveLamp.com, www.openChimp.com, www.chillco.com, www.exaltations.net, www.WorkHabit.com, www.AchieveInternet.com, and others. Topics have included How to build your first Drupal Module, Using Views 1 & Views 2, Panels module, Drush module, Theming, and Scaling Drupal & Cloud computing just to name a handful.

Have a topic you'd like to see? Add it here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/9220

Comments

Organic Groups Presentation

nbluto's picture

Here is what I plan to present at the January meeting:

Organic Groups and Views

Basic overview of Organic Groups : I will provide a list of resources for further review

What it does and basic configuration

Basic overview of Views

What it does

Let's play nice!

How can you use Organic Groups and Views to display information just about the particular group you are looking at!

Included in this section will be a information about how Date, Calendar and CCK "play nicely" with Organic Groups.

Obviously this is an ambitious presentation. I will do my best to accumulate further resources that go beyond what will be able to be disucssed at the meeting.

I would like to also present this via go to meeting.com if there is interest in remote viewing and also possibly recording this session via go to meeting for use by the group.

Thanks!

Nicole Bluto

It sounds like it's going to

mwm's picture

It sounds like it's going to be a great presentation. Have you decided if you will record it yet? I for one would appreciate it since I don't know whether I'll be able to attend in person. Thanks!

Yes, Chris has a new

mike stewart's picture

Yes, Chris has a new camera... planning on testing it tonight. should cut out the conversion step.

--
mike stewart { twitter: @MediaDoneRight | IRC nick: mike stewart }

Lightning Talks

snorkers's picture

I've just come a little unstuck trying to apply inline styles with HTML filters to WYSIWYG (with IMCE/TinyMCE) and, after a lot of research, the simplest approach I found is a recent module called wysiwyg_filter. I'm really not an expert on the Drupal input filters system, but am willing to do a quick demo of the wysiwyg_filter module... maybe anyone else with a detailed knowledge of the filter system could chip in. Or it could spark off a community discussion

May not be there tonight

snorkers's picture

Currently off work with a grim cold... so may not be there tonight

May not be there tonight

snorkers's picture

Currently off work with a grim cold... so may not be there tonight

Go to Meeting invitation

nbluto's picture

Here is the Go To Meeting . com information.

I will try to screen cast my presentation tonight via go to meeting.com and also I am hoping to record the screencast. This will only include the main OG presentation. Mike is going to record the whole meeting tonight.

I will tweet with the #drupal hash on twitter from @nbluto when I am about to start the meeting. I have never done this before so I don't know what the quality will be like, or if it will even work, but lets try it out!

I'm up for it if you are ;-)

  1. Please join my meeting, Tuesday, January 26 at 07:30 PM PST.
    https://www1.gotomeeting.com/join/989292632

  2. Use your microphone and speakers (VoIP) - a headset is recommended. Or, call in using your telephone.

Dial 217-287-4116
Access Code: 989-292-632
Audio PIN: Shown after joining the meeting

Meeting ID: 989-292-632

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Screencasting the meeting

yin's picture

Hi:
This sounds great as I'm out of town for a few months and am missing coming to the meeting/s. Thanks, Nicole! Great idea! :-) I'll try it, and report back.

Ursula

Awesome. I will look for you.

nbluto's picture

Awesome. I will look for you. The screencast will probably start about 7:45 or so, whenever Chris is done with Introductions.

screencast

LaMomma's picture

I think I'll join the screencast as well - thanks for doing it. After driving to SandCamp and back this weekend, I wasn't looking forward to driving from Thousand Oaks to Santa Monica during rush hour tonight. But I am looking forward to your presentation!

Has the screencast started

viewattselevel's picture

Has the screencast started yet? i've been waiting a while for the organizer to arrive

Very good screencast

yin's picture

Very good screencast. Thanks Nicole. :-)
Re: gotomeeting screencast sound quality, etc -- was uneven--sometimes couldn't hear well, but still worked.

Ursula

Thank You!

nbluto's picture

I would like to thank the community especially the Go To meeting folks for being patient with our technical difficulties last night. I think that using Go To meeting will be something that we might try to integrate into the meetups more often.

Here is a link to my blog with my slides and notes:

http://www.nicolebluto.com

Thanks again!