Posted by jhodgdon on February 11, 2016 at 10:03pm
Start:
2016-03-17 10:00 - 12:00 America/Los_Angeles Organizers:
Event type:
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, March 17, 2016, 10 AM to noon
- Sign up!
- Log in and click the "Sign up" button, to receive a reminder the day before. You can always click "Cancel signup" at a later time if your schedule changes and you can no longer come.
- 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.
Comments
Meeting notes
What we discussed at the meeting today:
Decided that we want to do this, on Saturday, April 9, 10-4. This will take the place of our regular meeting in April. Jennifer will set up an EventBrite registration, and a web site explaining what the training is, with a PDF to download for the user guide. And reserve a library room.
Suggestions:
* On registration, ask what type of laptop they will bring (Windows, Mac, etc.)
* Have you built a web site before?
* Bring your own lunch/snacks/coffee or go out nearby
* Indicate your level of experience with Drupal (will put very experienced people to work as "mentors")
Publicity:
* Post on our Drupal User Group
* Craigslist
* Inlander
* Nickel's Worth
* Diane to post on Build Guild
* Linux user group
* Diane to ask if she can put it on the Community Library Network site, NIC
* Jennifer to ask if the library where it is held will post it as an event
* Jon will check for other groups that might be interested, such as community colleges, universities, etc.
* Jose will make a poster. Jon to email this to groups/stores, and post on the groups.drupal.org page.
* Anyone who does publicity, post to the groups.drupal.org page so we do not duplicate efforts.
Jon also looked at using the core Drupal "multi-site" feature, but this didn't provide the flexibility they needed.
* Made a database backup of the existing site using the Backup and Migrate module.
* Downloaded all the files (Drupal, modules, and uploaded files) to local computer.
* Uploaded all the files to the new hosting.
* Updated the files for Drupal Core and several modules with security updates, on the new hosting.
* In the new hosting control panel, imported the database backup.
* On the new hosting, edited sites/default/settings.php file to point to the new database.
* The new hosting gave us a temporary URL for the site. Went to (that URL)/update.php to run database updates for the updated Drupal Core and modules.
* After that was done, the site was up at the new URL. We clicked around and made sure it was OK.
* Later, Lisa changed the DNS record so it was pointing to the new hosting.
Note: This is basically the same thing you would do to set up a development copy of an existing site.
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Drupal author - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920034612.do
Drupal contributor - https://www.drupal.org/u/jhodgdon
Event is up for April!
We're ready to go with the training event! Information is at https://groups.drupal.org/node/509913 ... Comment there if you have sent out any additional publicity, and if you make a poster, send it to me and I can post it on the page (it looks like you can attach files to pages but not to comments). THANKS!
One note relevant to the above meeting notes: It seems that Eventbrite no longer allows you to ask questions when people register. So... I set up 3 types of free "tickets" for the event (no experience, some experience, and "mentor").
Drupal programmer - http://poplarware.com
Drupal author - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920034612.do
Drupal contributor - https://www.drupal.org/u/jhodgdon