Central NJ Meetup, Thursday, March 12, 2015

Posted by pwolanin on March 3, 2015 at 11:34pm

Start:

2015-03-12 19:00 - 21:00 America/New_York

Organizers:

pwolanin

seantwalsh

bkosborne

Event type:

User group meeting

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

Meet in the Computer Science building room 105. Note that this is in the building connected to Friend Engineering Center, on the ground floor.

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 corner of Olden and William streets.

AGENDA

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

- David Hernandez: Drupal Association board election  https://assoc.drupal.org/election/8/candidates
- Sean - Backdrop 1.0 (https://backdropcms.org/) was recently released. Demo & discussion as to whether this is a good or bad thing for the Drupal community.

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.

- MySQL vs Posgres - hands on experience?
- [Slot 2]

3) ~10 min per person - secure coding demonstration

- Peter Wolanin: interactive code review and ID of vulns in SA-CONTRIB-2015-068 and SA-CONTRIB-2015-069

4) ~5 minutes/person - Lightning talk/demo - Views tips & tricks.  Get up and show us your best tip or trick 
- Sean (crowdcg)
- Brian (bkosborne)
- Levi (wheatpenny)
- [Slot 4]

WHERE

Join us in Computer Science room 105 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.

Cross-listed on meeup.com: http://www.meetup.com/Central-NJ-Drupal-Group/events/219706126/
You may RSVP there, though it's not required.

Visitor wifi details:

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

Comments

Change of scenery?

Posted by rgs on March 4, 2015 at 1:15pm

We'd be very happy to host the meetup this month if folks would enjoy a slightly off campus field trip to our new office in Forrestal Village.
We're good for the food and refreshments too. :-)

Ray

Sounds Good

Posted by elegantsolutions on March 4, 2015 at 2:01pm

I would look forward to seeing the new office and its easy to get to close to Rt 1 at College road.

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay

Alternatively...

Posted by rgs on March 4, 2015 at 9:25pm

I think we can have people over Tuesday evening 3/17 too....
http://www.meetup.com/Central-NJ-Drupal-Group/events/220217591/

Ray

We did get Computer Science

Posted by pwolanin on March 5, 2015 at 12:44am

We did get Computer Science room 105 - which we had a meetup in last fall.

it's in the connected building to Friend on the ground floor.

Views Tips and Tricks

Posted by seantwalsh on March 9, 2015 at 3:22pm

bkosborne and I would like to suggest doing a "Views Tips and Tricks" set of lightning talks. I'm sure others have something they would like to contribute too. These can be things you can acommplish with Views out of the box or by using some of the contributed modules that build on Views.

Another Idea for a Demo/Discussion

Posted by seantwalsh on March 10, 2015 at 1:26am

So recently, 1/15/15, Backdrop (https://backdropcms.org/) was released. I think it might be interesting to have a demo/discussion as to whether this is a good or bad thing for the Drupal community and more importantly the Drupal developer. A really interesting post and discussion (http://markahrens.co/2015/03/04/backdrop-does-a-disservice-to-developers) sparked me to think about it and might make for a lively and interactive evening.

We should make sure to spend

Posted by davidhernandez on March 12, 2015 at 5:47pm

We should make sure to spend a few minutes discussing the board election.

Per discussion with Matt -

Posted by pwolanin on March 12, 2015 at 9:37pm

Per discussion with Matt - I'll add to the agenda an interactive code review of 2 recent abandoned module to identify the security vuln and possible fix

https://www.drupal.org/node/2445973
https://www.drupal.org/node/2445971