UMass Drupal User's Group meeting - Thursday Nov 5

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Posted by druderman on October 2, 2015 at 6:16pm
Start: 
2015-11-05 14:00 - 15:30 America/New_York
Organizers: 
patalano
druderman
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User group meeting

This Users Group meeting is Thursday, November 5 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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We will be hearing more about

Posted by druderman on October 2, 2015 at 6:17pm
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We will be hearing more about the superlative SASS http://sass-lang.com/

Update: we had a cancellation

Posted by druderman on October 28, 2015 at 12:49pm
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Update, we had a cancellation and are looking for a presenter for next week's user group.

We will hear about SASS in December.

Drupal 8

Posted by limako on November 2, 2015 at 6:17pm
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Now the the Drupal 8 Release Date has been announced, do we want to talk about Drupal 8? Do we want to think about organizing a Drupal 8 release party? https://groups.drupal.org/drupal-8-release-parties Maybe with NERDS?

This is like Y2K, the Apple

Posted by druderman on November 2, 2015 at 6:44pm
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This is like Y2K, the Apple Watch and XMas all rolled up in one.

Minutes

Posted by limako on November 5, 2015 at 8:59pm
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UMass Drupal Users 
Nov 5, 2015

Attendance

Matt Mattingly; Keymaster
Steven Brewer; Convener
Nick Scarrci
Brian Devore
Bill Leahy
Sam Delorey
Gail Parsloe
Hilary Caws-Elwitt

Topics

Drupal 8

Nov 19 release date
three months to the end of D6 support
three months after until UMIT ends support for D6? What is that date?
backdrop
headless drupal
phone gap

shib_auth

???

PHP version

5.5.9 (but drupal 6 has problems with >5.3)

HTML5 Drupal 7

accessibility
depends on which theme you use

Drupal 6 upgrades

migrate module?
flatten and archive?

JQuery & Drupal Behaviors

use function wrapper for $
append to custom template file

File Upload: plupload?

Use Media module?

Access Control Modules

content_access module
taxonomy_access module

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