March 2015 Western Mass Drupal Users Group Meeting

Posted by rick hood on February 21, 2015 at 2:05pm

Start:

2015-03-19 18:00 - 20:00 America/New_York

Organizers:

rick hood

Event type:

User group meeting

Our next meeting is Thursday, 3/19, 6pm-8pm
Location:
inRESONANCE
32 Industrial Drive East, Northampton
https://www.inresonance.com/
"The "East" is the important part because it is a dead end off of the main Industrial Drive. The inRESONANCE building is at the end of it."

Agenda:
Main Topic: setting up Drupal backend for usability. What modules, themes, tricks, etc. do you use?
Other topics:
- newbie questions and answers (there are no dumb questions)
- continued work on "commonly used modules and themes"
- base distributions - do you use one? if so what does it have in it (modules/themes)?
- watch one or two Lullabot "module monday" videos

Add any agenda suggestions in the comments.

Comments

Backdrop

Posted by skowyra on February 23, 2015 at 12:12pm

I'd like to see if/how people are using Backdrop. What's similar and what's different.

Reminder - see ya at the meetup tomorrow

Posted by rick hood on March 18, 2015 at 12:37pm

Also adding a quick one to the agenda: one way to put a map on a node: addressfield + geofield + geocoder + leaflet + openlayers

More info on presentation last night about adding a map to a nod

Posted by rick hood on March 20, 2015 at 1:07pm

There are a bunch of links to how to do this at the bottom of this page: https://www.drupal.org/node/1645460
Also, noticed this Talking Drupal just came out on mapping - have not watched it yet, but might be good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXRoiuQyMNo

I used this:
Address Field 7.x-1.0-beta4+11-dev
- the above collecte the address of the node
Geocoder 7.x-1.2+9-dev
- the above turns the address into coordiates
Geofield 7.x-2.1
- the above stores the coordinates
Leaflet 7.x-1.0-beta3+25-dev
-the above creates the map from the coordinates. It provides a Leaflet display format for geofield.

Optional (but kind of necessary):
Open Layers 7.x-2.0-beta11+19-dev
- installing the above gives you the option to have an widget type of Openlayers map so you can optional input coordinates via a map in case Geodcoder cannot find the coordinates from the address.
Some notes on an issue here:
https://www.drupal.org/node/1824708#comment-9729671