UMass Drupal User's Group meeting - Thursday July 2

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Posted by druderman on June 18, 2015 at 3:33pm
Start: 
2015-07-02 14:00 - 15:30 America/New_York
Organizers: 
druderman
patalano
Event type: 
User group meeting

This Users Group meeting is Thursday, July 2 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.

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Comments

UMass Drupal site workflow

Posted by rick hood on July 1, 2015 at 12:40pm
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Hi,
I may be starting work on a UMass website soon, and so would like to learn about how to work with UMass sites - things like how to access repos, access servers, is VPN required, and if so how, what deploy method is used, etc.
Thanks,
Rick

UMass Drupal meeting tomorrow

Posted by bagelche on July 1, 2015 at 3:01pm
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If you're able to make it, I imagine the UMass Drupal User's Group meeting would be very helpful. It's tomorrow at 2pm. Details: https://groups.drupal.org/node/471998

-nick

Thanks. Yeah that is where I

Posted by rick hood on July 1, 2015 at 3:08pm
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Thanks. Yeah that is where I posted my comment, but somehow it ended up here too.

Minutes

Posted by limako on July 2, 2015 at 7:24pm
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Attendance

Steven D. Brewer
Sam Zachs
Geoff St. Pierre
Peter Thorson
Janelle Thorson
Rick Hood
Matt Mattingly
Nick Scarrci

Topics
  How to work with UMass:   
  glitch: file ownerships
  NERD Summit
  Themes

Working with UMass:
  start by emailing webmaster to start site
  2 main environments:
    umwebdev, umwebstaging, umass.edu -- most sites, umass branding
    "other sites" -- subdomains, not umass branding
    others:
      app server -- other random sites
      commerce sites (PCI compliant environment)
  request environment
    sysadmin runs make script
    implements umass drupal package
  request URL
  is shell access needed
  do development on dev
  sysadmins move to staging/development
  
file ownerships
  settings.php
  files

Themes
  Are there good, attractive themes that aren't generic? No.
  bootstrap? Good, but generic.
  administrative theme: adminimal

drush aliases

Posted by serundeputy on July 2, 2015 at 10:45pm
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Here is an article that can get you going with drush aliases:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-migrate-and-sync...

In particular at the meeting we were talking about using them to synchronize DBs across local, dev, and production environments.

Here is the link to the fix-permissions script:
https://www.drupal.org/node/244924

this doc also has some pretty good detail about the file permissions we were discussing at the meeting.

~Geoff

Thanks, Geoff!

Posted by mdmattin on July 3, 2015 at 9:23pm
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Thanks for the links - they look very interesting. I'm glad you could make it to the meeting - I hope you got some useful info from it.
Matthew

Western Massachusetts

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