Posted by druderman on June 2, 2015 at 12:41pm
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2015-06-04 14:00 - 15:30 America/New_York Organizers:
Event type:
User group meeting
This Users Group meeting is Thursday, June 4 at 2pm in ISB 145.
Meetings are open to anyone interested in Drupal and not limited to the UMass Amherst community. Bring problems, questions and ideas. Offers to make presentations are welcome.
Meet at the UMass Integrated Sciences Building (ISB) (See map here.
Room 145 is a meeting room near the elevators on the first floor.
Regular meetings for the UMass Amherst Drupal Users Group are the first Thursday of the month.
Agenda:
- Introductions
- Open topics: discussion, problems, show and tell, best practices, etc.
Please post here if you have questions or wish to address a topic at the meeting.
Please use the 'Signup' feature on this events page for a reminder.
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Agenda Add: Western Mass Hackathon in Springfield
I reckon Steven Brewer will be there as well to add this to the agenda, but there it is.
http://gamefacewebdesign.com
Notes from 6/5/15 UMass Amherst Drupal Users Group
Who was there:
Terrie Kellogg, UM Computer Science, Bram Moreinis, gamefacewebdesign.com, Matthew Mattingly, CESD/IT, Gail Parsloe, CESD/IT, Joanne Patalano, UM AFS, Nicolas Scarrci, UM CESD/IT, Samm Zachs, CESD/IT
What We Talked About:
Hack for Western MA http://hackforwesternmass.org/challenges:
This event is happening Sat. 6/6/15 in Springfield. They need a handful more coders, creatives or project managers to attend. Use your app dev, or Drupal, Wordpress or other skills to help organizations like:
SuitUp Springfield: a new community organization focused on guiding the Young Men of Springfield, MA on professional attire and becoming professionally minded. They need an app to help them match inventory and connect with mentors.
the Girls Inc Teen Center: They would like to a place to share the things they do at all their great programs with their families and friends.
Or help the Permaculture Institute of the Northeast (PINE) with their website
Read about more challenges and get details at http://hackforwesternmass.org/challenges. Contact Bram, bram@gamefacewebdesign.com, with questions.
UMass Auth Module:
- The umass auth module connects the shibboleth module to shibboleth at UMass. UMass Drupal sites may elect to use both drupal users and shibboleth users. UMass employees may log into the UMass IT wiki https://wiki.oit.umass.edu/display/drupal/Umass+Auth+Module to see a chart detailing the effects of the umass_auth module on both of types of account.
Other Discussions:
- The group agreed we would continue to post the meeting notes as a comment to the meeting announcement posted at https://groups.drupal.org/university-massachusetts-amherst.
- We briefly talked about the drupal culture re: drupal can be intimidating and inviting. We looked at the opinions expressed at https://www.lullabot.com/blog/article/cultural-construction-drupal. The group would like to continue this discussion at our next meeting.
- Other future topics suggested: Using IRC groups, Rules and Taxonomy