Spokane Day-time Learn/Co-Work Group Jan 14

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2016-01-14 10:00 - 12:00 America/Los_Angeles
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User group meeting

We hope you can join us for the next meeting of the Spokane Day-Time Drupal Learning and Co-Working Group!

When
Thursday, January 14, 2016, 10 AM to noon
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Where
Spokane County Library - Argonne branch, 4322 N. Argonne Road, Millwood. We are currently meeting in the small conference room at the library. From the hallway, go into the library proper, past the checkout/information desk, take a right and you'll see the room on the right.
What
Learning and "co-working" time - bring your laptop, or watch on the projector screen. Come with a project you're working on, a desire to improve Drupal in some way (documentation, programming, design, marketing etc.), a question about Drupal you would like to get an answer to, or a desire to help others with their projects and questions. Or just come and listen and observe.
Who
Everyone is welcome -- the only prerequisite is having some interest in Drupal. This group is usually 5-10 friendly people, with experience levels ranging from novice to expert, so you'll fit right in. Because of the size of the group, you will have time to share something you've learned, or get your questions answered, or both!

Note: If you'd like to have a meeting at another time that is more convenient for you, please feel free to organize it! See http://groups.drupal.org/node/161584 for a Wiki where people have listed when would be convenient for them to have meetings.

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Meeting notes

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What we discussed at the meeting:

  • New member Adam from Rathrdrum joined us -- we hope he'll keep coming back!
  • How to notify users of new content of a particular type on a site, with opt-out? Unfortunately, the Mass Contact module (https://www.drupal.org/project/mass_contact) doesn't have Rules integration (to automatically send out the messages). But you can set up categories, allow users to opt out, and sent out the messages manually.
  • hook_menu() - don't use this to set up navigation menu items, only use it for routing (defining URLs)
  • Looked at JSON format and talked about what Ajax is (how sites react to user actions to load more data from the site).
  • Twilio - can use this service (http://www.twilio.com) to send and receive SMS messages in Drupal, with the Twilio module (https://www.drupal.org/project/twilio). Or you can use the SMS Framework module (https://www.drupal.org/project/smsframework) and its Twilio sub-module. Shawn likes the Twilio module for incoming messages, but we noticed that the SMS framework module has more hooks on the outgoing side. Also check the SMS Framework module -- it lists other gateways besides Twilio that might work for you. Or not.
  • You can use the Domain Access module (https://www.drupal.org/project/domain) to set up a Drupal site that serves slightly different content/theme/etc. if accessed from different base URLs. Useful if there is a lot of commonality.
  • Shawn mentioned DrupalGap https://www.drupal.org/project/drupalgap, which is a platform for developing mobile apps on top of Drupal. Why would you want to do that and not just do a browser version of the site that is mobile-friendly? Hardware! Such as talking to the Bluetooth or GPS or whatever on the phone. DrupalGap doesn't actually talk to the hardware, but it sets up a framework in Drupal for exchanging data with the app at least.