Central NJ Meetup, Thursday, September 11, 2014

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Posted by seantwalsh on September 2, 2014 at 8:47pm
Start: 
2014-09-11 19:00 - 21:00 America/New_York
Organizers: 
pwolanin
davidhernandez
seantwalsh
Event type: 
User group meeting

http://www.meetup.com/Central-NJ-Drupal-Group/events/194900502/

Come share your curiosity about, love of, or musings about Drupal at our monthly meetup in Princeton!

Room 004 - one of the bowls in Friend center lower level.

Continued format - 3 sections, with 2-3 people for each section. We need you to participate! Please contact the organizers or comment below to claim one of these slots. All of these are open and appropriate for you regardless of your experience level with Drupal - beginner and intermediate topics are especially helpful to others.

All community members interested in using Drupal as well as strengthening the Drupal community are invited. We'll discuss recent and exciting Drupal-related news, present interesting topics, and share knowledge.

Meeting in the Princeton Friend Center, lower level.

AGENDA

1) 10 minutes/per person Site showcase and feedback
Show off your work-in-progress or recently completed project in < 10 minutes, and get feedback and suggestions

- Sean - How to Avoid a Drupal Project Rescue
- [Slot 2]

2) 5 minutes/person- Get a question answered! Leverage the knowledge of the crowd.
If you have a Drupal configuration  theming, or development problem that you are banging your head on, or a new piece of functionality that would benefit from group brainstorming on how to implement claim one of these slots and bring a concise description or demo of the problem so we can help.

- Levi - Core Search Issue
- Chris - Annual Conference Site, Custom vs. Contrib

3) ~20 minutes/person - Present something new (or new to you)
If you have been trying out a module and want to demo it, want to teach others about a technique, outline best practices, or preview a talk for a upcoming camp or conference, this is for you.  Make sure to describe your intended audience.

- Matt - Drupal Services Module
- [Slot 2]

WHERE

Join us in the Friend Center on the Princeton University Campus located on the corner of Olden and William streets.

After 5 pm, visitors may park in the University lot on William Street behind 185 Nassau Street.

Visitor wifi details:

http://helpdesk.princeton.edu/kb/display.plx?ID=9713
http://helpdesk.princeton.edu/files/9713/OITVisitorWireless.pdf

Cross-listed on meetup.com:
http://www.meetup.com/Central-NJ-Drupal-Group/events/194900502/

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Comments

Question for slot 2

Posted by wheatpenny on September 7, 2014 at 12:29pm
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I have an issue with core search that I'd like to present to the group for feedback.

Case question for Slot 2

Posted by cilefen on September 10, 2014 at 3:59pm
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I've got an annual small conference that is managed on a Drupal 7 site with 100% custom code. We are fine with the code however I will ask the group if this could be done with more off-the-shelf modules to reduce the code maintenance burden. The parameters for you to think about in the meantime are:

  • Applicants (currently after creating a site account) fill out a form to apply. There is one application only per applicant.
  • An email acknowledgement goes to the applicant.
  • An email goes to an advisor whose email was specified by the applicant. The advisor is being asked to upload a letter of recommendation. The email includes a link to a form on the site and includes a long random string as a token. The token was generated when the application was submitted and uniquely identifies the application.
  • The advisor visits the upload form as anonymous and can upload a PDF or a few other select file types. The advisor may submit this form multiple times, replacing the given letter. Letters are stored in the Drupal private filesystem.
  • A conference administrator can view a sortable table of applications that contains some important columns from the applications. From there the administrator can click to view each application.
  • Similarly, lecturers can view the applications and uploaded letters, and can comment on, each application.
  • The conference administrator may edit any application and re-upload new letters of recommendation.
  • The conference administrator later marks certain applications as accepted/wait-listed/etc. Currently, we automatically add the applicant to a "participant" site role if "accepted".
  • The participants are later sent emails asking them to fill out forms about travel needs, accommodations, etc. The administrator must be able to see and edit these submissions.
  • The administrator can download all data from all applicants in these forms as a CSV.

Wow, that sounds like a lot now that I've written it out. And I'm sure I have forgotten a few things.

I'd like to give a session on

Posted by MKorostoff on September 10, 2014 at 8:33pm
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I'd like to give a session on the Drupal Service module https://www.drupal.org/project/services

Thanks, Matt, Levi, Chris,

Posted by pwolanin on September 11, 2014 at 7:45pm
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Thanks, Matt, Levi, Chris, and Sean - looking forward to tonight.

breaking news...

Posted by pwolanin on September 11, 2014 at 8:00pm
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jetbrains is sponsoring us for a trail period to see if we can increase regular attendance to 30+

For the 6 month trial (starting tonight) we will give away 1 license for phpstorm every meetup.

So, come, enjoy the meetup, and enter the give-away.