Meetup: Capital District Nosh & Connect - October

Posted by goldieashe on September 30, 2015 at 9:00pm

Start:

2015-10-27 17:30 - 20:00 America/New_York

Organizers:

goldieashe

patrickavella

Event type:

User group meeting

Where: Upside Collective, Downtown Albany (See their website for directions & information http://upsidecollective.com)
When: Tuesday, October 27th, 5:30-8pm
What: Paragraphs module; Living Style Guides

Agenda:
5:30 - 6 pm: chat, munch on pizza
6 - 6:30 pm: news and announcements (incl. D8 neatness, Gregg at BadCamp & Acquia certifications)
6:30 - 6:50 pm: Paragraphs module (the who, what, why and when) by Patrick
6:50 - 7:10 pm: Living style guides in Drupal, my initial foray by Meredith
7 - 8 pm: More presentations (5-20 minutes, propose below in comments) and/or share your Drupal challenges with the group.

Important Notes

You must use the sign-up button below because Upside Collective is in a secure building. We need to have people's names at security so that you can be let into the building to attend the meeting. (Plus it also helps me plan the yummy pizza.)

I will try to alternate between the last Monday and the last Tuesday of the month for our future meetings.

Please note this meeting notice may evolve as more information comes along.

Thanks everyone - looking forward to seeing people!

Comments

Wish I could make it

Posted by esteinborn on October 20, 2015 at 11:42pm

Really wish I could make it. I am really interested in paragraphs and style guides. We need to figure out a way to record these meetings for those of us who can't make them...

Recording, taking minutes, or

Posted by patrickavella on October 22, 2015 at 5:02pm

Recording, taking minutes, or doing summaries would be excellent.

I think in the very list I think we should all opt to post any materials we use to the group after hand (power points, etc).

Paragraphs is super cool :)

Looking forward to the Paragraph Module

Posted by drupalevangelist on October 22, 2015 at 6:35pm

Hey Patrick,

Eagerly waiting for your presentation on the Paragraph Module. We are thinking about incorporating this module into our project going forward.

See you all tomorrow.

Names for Security

Posted by museumboy on October 22, 2015 at 7:09pm

Please add the name Nicholas Lue on the security list.

I've been using the paragraphs module for a little bit and it's great. I can't wait to learn more about it.

Thanks

Meetup still happening Tuesday, October 27th, 5:30-8pm right?

Posted by joemcl on October 22, 2015 at 7:58pm

The Meetup is still Tuesday, October 27th, 5:30-8pm - not tomorrow, right?

You are correct. Next

Posted by patrickavella on October 22, 2015 at 8:03pm

You are correct. Next Tuesday.

YouTube?

Posted by greggmarshall on October 22, 2015 at 8:38pm

Based on what I've seen at camps, it should be possible to use YouTube to record a screen share using the laptop's microphone.

Yeti Blue

Posted by richardhutnik on October 27, 2015 at 6:23pm

In the future, if there is recording to be done, I do have a decent mic I can use (Yeti Blue) for as future meeting. I am likely a few meetings away, but it is something I can bring for the future.

Recording help

Posted by mikewren on October 22, 2015 at 8:48pm

This is stuff I do for the dayjob, super simple. Happy help by recording and producing our presentations for online distro if needed.

great!

Posted by drupalevangelist on October 22, 2015 at 8:49pm

That's sound great.

About meeting

Posted by jcatalfa on October 24, 2015 at 12:06am

Sorry can't make the meeting have a new job with NYBE a grade 18 for ITS.

thanks

John Catalfamo

JohnCat

Congratulations!

Posted by goldieashe on October 26, 2015 at 6:51pm

Congrats on the position John - feel free to join us in the future.

Agenda update

Posted by goldieashe on October 27, 2015 at 2:58am

Good evening,

I've updated the agenda to allow for more time during the News and Announcements phase - we have more tidbits to go over. My presentation on Living Style Guides might even be shorter than the given 20 minutes, it's more an overview of my research and notes (a document will be shared in the comments after the meeting).

If you're going to be joining us and haven't already signed up - contact Patrick (co-organizer of tomorrow's meet up) so you can be on the security list.

Parking - By around 5pm the downtown streets and meters start clearing out. I believe the meters are in service until 6pm. There are also a couple of garages nearby, including the one at the Times Union center on S. Pearl (less than 1/2 a block away).

See you all tomorrow!
Cheers,
Meredth

found out I can go last minute

Posted by tomatkins on October 27, 2015 at 6:30pm

Left a twitter message with Pat.... :-) Sorry for the late sign up on my part.

Living Style Guide Notes

Posted by goldieashe on October 30, 2015 at 7:21pm

My notes, resources from tonight - feel free to add to it
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HCJ-wPi8xyuAKzsdrBTPCPqp4oSp9HcTxn0Z...

Here's a shortened URL https://goo.gl/gesBK5

Here's a link to the

Posted by patrickavella on October 28, 2015 at 12:21am

Here's a link to the slides.

Thank you for making it out everyone!

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1H2hnWHtFXo-b8pSo3KzI03Mxtnx8INTj...

Video of Patrick's Paragraphs Primer

Posted by mikewren on October 29, 2015 at 6:26pm

Link to the video of Patrick's very informative primer on Paragraphs module:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miWpHbqJiLc

Thank you Mike

Posted by drupalevangelist on October 29, 2015 at 6:47pm

Thanks a lot Mike.

That's really awesome, thank

Posted by patrickavella on October 29, 2015 at 6:56pm

That's really awesome, thank you Mike!

If we do this again I'll include screenshots in the slides

happy to help

Posted by mikewren on October 29, 2015 at 7:25pm

This is something I've been meaning to figure out for a long time - a video capture box that record at 30/60 fps and pass the signal through to a projector. It would automagically capture on-screen demos, and eliminate the CPU/GPU overhead of software-based vid capture.

Like This?

Posted by greggmarshall on October 29, 2015 at 10:47pm

You mean something like this?

http://bluedropshop.com/blog/drupal-camp-av-kit-reboot

I have seen this set up used at a couple of camps (Colorado and BADCamp)

Google Docs/Drive long links don't work in Groups e-mails

Posted by joemcl on October 30, 2015 at 6:37pm

Meredith and Patrick thanks again for presenting and sharing the presentations and notes via Google Drive. And Mike thanks for the video!

FYI the long Google Drive document links don't come through in e-mails from the Drupal Group, at least not for me. Might be useful to add a shortlink (via bit.ly or goo.gl) for Google Drive links on here.