Spokane Day-time Learn/Co-Work Group March 19

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2015-03-19 10:00 - 12:00 America/Los_Angeles
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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, March 19, 2015, 10 AM to noon
Sign up!
Log in and click the "Sign up" button, if you think you will be coming. You will be reminded the day before. The meeting will be canceled if not enough people sign up by the end of the day the Monday before the meeting. You can always click "Cancel signup" at a later time if your schedule changes and you can no longer come.
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! Log in and click the "Sign up" button if you plan to come, or probably will come, to ensure the meeting actually takes place. The meeting will be canceled if not enough people sign up by the end of the day the Monday before the meeting.

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Agenda items...

jhodgdon's picture

As our regular attendees know, our meetings are usually pretty informal: bring your questions and topics, and hopefully get them answered/discussed.

I have a couple of announcements that I'm putting here so I don't forget:

a) I will not be able to host a meeting in April. So unless someone else wants to host, be sure to come to the March meeting (this page) and/or May (not scheduled yet).

b) LinuxFest on May 9, 9-4, at SFCC - http://atclub.sfcc.spokane.edu/linuxfest/

c) DrupalCon LA on May 11-15 (4000 diverse people from around the world, and loads of information) - https://events.drupal.org/losangeles2015

d) Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit in Seattle in October (200 friendly Northwest folks and lots of information) - http://2015.pnwdrupalsummit.org/

Anyone else, feel free to post agenda items, topics you'd like to discuss, etc. or bring them to the meeting!

Meeting notes

jhodgdon's picture

First off: We'll have an April meeting -- I'll set it up shortly. I won't be there, but Jon said he'd bring a projector, and Shawn said he'd bring coffee.

Notes from this month's meeting (which was rather lively and well-attended):

  • Shawn asked about contributing to the project:
    - https://www.drupal.org/core-office-hours - Core Office Hours - for new contribtors
    - https://www.drupal.org/novice - Novice contributor guide
    - https://assoc.drupal.org/ - Drupal Association - donate $$
  • Built a custom content admin page using Views, for Jose to use on his site.
  • Looked into a problem on Jose's site in the footer, and partially fixed it (Views).
  • Tweaked the design of Lisa's site -- search-result.tpl.php and some CSS. One person told us again to use EM not PX, and to use padding and not margin where possible.
  • Jose showed us that in Chrome browser, if you right click on something and choose Inspect Element, and then click on the 2nd icon from the left (hover and it says "Toggle Device Mode"; looks like a little phone kind of), you can see what your page will look like on a lot of different devices. Another member mentioned this is better than Firefox/Firebug functionality, because it not only changes the "viewport" (size of the browser), but also it spoofs the "user agent".
  • Scott mentioned he needs to make a block that outputs a URL customized based on the user account. Jennifer suggested he should have a small custom module generate the block, NOT use the PHP filter and store the PHP code in the Drupal Block system.
  • Shawn suggests to get started in Drupal Commerce, try the "Kickstart" distribution. Has had good success with that.
  • Jon told a story about fixing up a completely hacked Drupal site that had been used to send spam and effectively shut down the server. It had been hacked several months ago when there was a major Drupal security problem. INSTALL YOUR UPDATES!

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