Northern NJ meetup - 02/17/10 7:30PM

Hey folks what would you like to discuss? Talk amongst yourselves http://groups.drupal.org/node/46282 :)

Robbie

Nothing personal. I was interested but did not realize this is in NJ. Too far.

I would love to show you guys a new project I am working on... maybe 10-15 mins at most.

ds

This sounds great.

As a Drupal newbie who develop more Web Applications more than Web Sites, I would be interested in hearing anything about methodology as I am having trouble mapping a data processing approach (where one designs a comprehensive database first and then designs the interfaces for admining the data and the uses of the data later) and CCK/Views.

Thanks.

Sorry folks, can't make this one. I'll see ya in March!
-=Ed.

...next time. In any case, this group is shaping up well. Lots of interest, good variety of experience levels.

Hi Folks,
Thanks for the opportunity to present my work. Here is a list of contrib modules I am using besides the standards (CCK, Views, Rules, Tokens, Date)

Conditional Fields
Multistep forms for CCK
Maxlength
Printer, e-mail and PDF versions
Role Delegation
Password Strength Disabler
Content Access
Automatic Nodetitles
Markup
Better Formats

I want to thank everyone for your comments and suggestions. I learned a lot last night. I also want to apologize for taking up so much time. As I catch up in my knowledge I hope the basic questions will become fewer and be more interesting for the group in general. In the meantime, I will try to write up what I learn as guidance for others that might be having the same challenges getting started.

Bill

I just posted a question in the Drupal forum (http://drupal.org/node/719620) but it appears that several of you have experience with Drupal Groups so I thought I would ask it here also.

I have been trying to find others who have similar interests to mine and I have been going through the Drupal Groups. Since I am looking for people with specific interests, I was looking through Working Groups.

Unfortunatly,

1. I have found that the great majority of Groups seem totally dead (no postings for many months or even years).
2. Most groups seem to be simply a group of relatively unrelated postings (e.g. job postings) or totally fragmented small issues.

I did nto see anything that would lead me to believe working groups tend to collectively build a body of knowledge about their area of interest. If they do, how does one find out where it is?

If Drupal groups is not the place to discuss and build knowledge on a relatively specific subject area, where might one find others who might share common interest and want to discuss/share infiormation on that topic?

I have organized user communities in other areas in the past, and I guess I would have expected that each group would get it's own community web site with blogging, a wiki, chatting, who in the group is currently on line, discussion forums, FAQs, newsletters, etc. where one could have discussions and jointly build up a body of knowledge about the subject area (of course also answering how-to and support questions from others at the same time). This could also include scheduled virtual meet-ups with webinar capability built in to each group site. Resource libraries with links to all kinds of information sites about the narrow field of interest, etc. I am not thinking to make something where the group participants would have to do great amount of work on their own. It should be possible to have a multi-site (or sub-site) architecture where whenever a group is created, a startup site would be cloned as a new site with all of the above functionality already built in.

Am I looking in the wrong place and that type of collaboration is elsewhere (I am not thinking just about documentation, but about deep discussions of pros and cons about various topics within a focused subject space).

Is three someone or some group in charge of Drupal Groups where one could discuss such things?

Thanks for any input.