Join the Boston Drupal Group on April 5th 2016 for a night of Drupal focused conversations, presentations and talks.
Call for Lightning Talks
This month we are again putting out a call for themed lightning talks. Volunteers get between 5 to 10 minutes to present a talk. We are looking for talks on the following topics:
Maintaining Drupal Projects
We all enjoy the excitement and creativity involved with designing, uxing and developing a Drupal project. After the initial build however, we must answer the question of what to do about maintenance. Maintenance is vital to the health of every project. How can we best approach maintaining our Drupal projects. We are looking for lightning talks centered around the topic of Drupal project maintenance. Possible questions to answer:
- How do you approach the topic of maintenance with clients?
- What processes do you follow to keep your Drupal projects maintained?
- How can drupalist stay informed about important updates?
- How do you keep maintenance in mind when developing and designing Drupal projects?
- How has maintenance changed in Drupal 8?
If you have an idea for a lightning talk on one of these topics, sign up by leaving a comment below.
General Lightning Talks
Along with our themed presentations we will have a call for general lightning talks. This is an open floor to ask questions, present recent work or lead other Drupal discussions. No preparation is required.
Location
The April 2016 meetup will be hosted at Genuine, located at 500 Harrison Ave. 5R, Boston, MA 02118.
Parking and Transportation
The Genuine office is accessible by many means of public transportation.
- A 10 minute walk from the Broadway T stop on the Red Line.
- A 10 minute walk from Tufts Medical on the Orange Line.
- A 5 minute walk from the Silver Line (SL4 or SL5) Bus stop East Berkley st @ Washington st.
On-street parking (free & metered) may be available on many surrounding streets including Harrison Ave, Randolph Street and Washington Street. Parking lots are also available for $7 per car.
Dinner and Drinks
During the meetup, pizza, salad, and drinks will be generously sponsored by Genuine. ** Please RSVP via this posting's Sign up button below so we have a proper headcount for dinner order. **
Sponsors/Feature Guests Wanted
If you would like to sponsor future dinners or meet-up locations, please reach out to organizers. You will be recognized at the meeting, given the chance to do a featured talk for 15 min., and promoted to our Boston list of over 1500 subscribers.
Pencil in 1st Tuesdays!
The first Tuesdays are designated Boston Drupal Meetup nights unless noted. Look for future announcements and reminders!
Comments
Updating core and contrib
Updating Drupal core and contrib modules is easy: just
drush upand you are done! But how do you fit this into a dev/stage/prod workflow with QA? I have written a little shell script that helps, but I wonder if anyone knows of more robust solutions.
Update:
I will not be able to attend the meetup after all. I will be in Worcester to watch my son get inducted into the WPI honor society. If you would like to see the shell script that I was planning to demo, then check out this gist.
Signups closed for this Event
I just got an e-mail reminder asking me to RSVP for the event, but I see the notice "Signups closed for this Event" on this page.
whoops, that was my mistake.
whoops, that was my mistake. I put in the wrong dates. Thanks for addressing this Benji, should be fixed.
@mikemiles86
Still closed
Mike:
No, signups are still closed.
BTW, your e-mail invited people to send info on upcoming events to you by e-mail. The e-mail came from a no-reply address, so that is not the easiest thing to do. Maybe a link to your d.o contact page would help.
I am just full of FAILs
I am just full of FAILs today. Ok, now sign-ups should be open.
I'm not going to re-spam members with my email address, perhaps I'll just make a new comment on the event listing.
Thanks again Benji!
@mikemiles86
NM - Bring a Site In From The Cold
Unfortunately some family things came up this week and I won't be able to make it down for the meetup.
Next time!
I can put together a few thoughts on getting sites back on the right path if they've been ignored or improperly updated / patched in the past.Behat, Fixtures, and You
Hey folks, here's a couple of the resources I've used to get setup and running with Behat and fixture data.
#ENDALZ Hackathon 6/4/16
If you're interested in the Alzheimer's Hackathon I mentioned tonight, check it out at alztld.org and click hackathon, or visit: http://act.alz.org/site/TR?company_id=139184&fr_id=8480&pg=company
Feel free to join the "General/Individual Admission" team and we'll place you with other Drupal devs!
If you want to take a look at the automatic AWS snapshot script I showed, it's here: https://github.com/jimafisk/ec2_controller/blob/master/.auto_snapshot