January 2015 Western Mass Drupal Users Group Meeting

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Rick Hood's picture
Start: 
2015-01-15 18:00 - 20:00 America/New_York
Event type: 
User group meeting

Our next meeting is this Thursday, 6pm at Amherst Media.
http://amherstmedia.org/
246 College St. Amherst, MA 01002 | 413-259-3300

Agenda Items:
- Future meeting schedule and topics (check conflicts with other group meetings) *
- How to do responsive slideshows
- Best practices for WYSIWYG and using Media with WYSIWYG
- Newbie questions and answers (there are no dumb questions)
- hosting
- thinking in Drupal
other ideas:
- IRC
- hangout
- watch video
- lightening talks

Add agenda suggestions on the comments and will add to above.

here are some other meetings:
WMass Drupal Group
- 3rd Thursday of the month
Drupal Nights (Boston)
- 3rd Thursday of the month
Boston Drupal Meetup
- 1st Tuesday of the month
Northampton Webdive – After Work
- 1st Tuesday of the month
Drupal PVD (Providence, RI)
- 2nd Wednesday of the month
CT Drupal Meetup
- 2nd Wednesday of the month
Project Management Meetup
- 2nd Wednesday of the month
Valley WordPress Meetup
- 3rd Tuesday of the month

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Responsive Slideshow Notes

Rick Hood's picture

Notes for this agenda item...
Showing Method A tonight, but also threw in Method B as an alternative.

Method A
As described in this video (with some modifications): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MboDby9-PCE

Need these modules:
Views: https://www.drupal.org/project/views
Flexislider: https://www.drupal.org/project/flexslider
Video Embed: https://www.drupal.org/project/video_embed_field
Fit Vids: https://www.drupal.org/project/fitvids (for responsve video)

One cool thing about the above is it includes responsive videos and images in the same slideshow (if you think video in slideshows is cool - not).

Notes:
- If mixing images and video, need to make the images the same aspect ratio as the video so that height of images is same as for video.

Method B

This method is mentioned by Jason Pamental on this podcast: http://talkingdrupal.com/072 (51:30 - 57:15)
This is more of a “rip it apart and do it yourself” method. Not sure if it is necessary as Method A seems to work well.

Need these modules:
Same as above plus:
Semantic Views: https://www.drupal.org/project/semanticviews

The idea on this one is you just create a bare bones list for the view, then do the rest (flexslider classes, etc.) kind of manually.

Western Massachusetts

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