March Seattle Drupal User Group Meeting

Posted by rlhawk on March 7, 2015 at 12:51am

Start:

2015-03-19 18:00 - 19:30 America/Los_Angeles

Organizers:

rlhawk

RockSoup

Event type:

User group meeting

We will meet at 6 pm on Thursday, March 19.

Learn about Drupal and meet local Drupal enthusiasts.

Agenda

Introductions
Drupal news
Headless Drupal Case Study, by Alex Schmoe: An overview of the experience of redesigning albatrossdigital.com as an Angular app powered by a Drupal 8 RESTful API (a Headless Drupal implementation)
Using Headless Drupal for Static Site Generation, by the Tableau Software marketing development team: A discussion of the challenges faced, lessons learned, and benefits realized in switching all several-hundred of the company’s paid search campaign pages from dynamic generation in Drupal, to static site generation outside of Drupal.

Post a comment if you have a proposal or request for another presentation related to Headless Drupal, Angular, or Drupal 8’s RESTful API.

Event Details:

Thursday March 19th 6:00pm - 7:30pm.

Northwest Worklofts, 3131 Western Ave (at Denny), Seattle

Sponsored by Fuse IQ

Coworking is available from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Drip City (2929 1st Avenue (between Broad and Eagle); Map)

Comments

To mix things up, we (Tableau

Posted by iamEAP on March 7, 2015 at 1:35am

To mix things up, we (Tableau Devs) would love to present on a slightly different headless Drupal strategy: static site generation.

We recently migrated all of our paid search landing pages to a static host (S3 + CloudFront) that's built on Travis CI using a Views JSON feed.

More details on a proposed talk for DrupalCon NA here: https://events.drupal.org/losangeles2015/sessions/headless-drupal-irl-le...

Sounds great

Posted by rlhawk on March 8, 2015 at 8:35pm

That sounds great, Eric. Is March a good month to do it? If so, we'd love to add it to the agenda.

Yep! March works for us.

Posted by iamEAP on March 9, 2015 at 4:39pm

Yep! March works for us. Looking forward to it.

Reminder to sign up

Posted by jcost on March 17, 2015 at 7:35pm

Hi Everyone,

Reminder that the meeting is this Thursday. It's helpful for us to know how many are coming when we set up the room. So please use the signup button!

Thanks,
Jeanne

Meeting tonight

Posted by rlhawk on March 19, 2015 at 6:14pm

Join us tonight for two presentations about real-life implementations of Headless Drupal. We've got a full agenda, so we'll keep the intros and news discussion to a minimum. If you plan to attend and haven't signed up, please do so now.