Join the Boston Drupal Group on September 6th 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:
Images, Video and Sound. Media in Drupal
These days users expect web applications to be a visually stimulating experience. They expect a seamless integration of copy and images, background videos and embedded media. Designs that look visually stunning on any device and are mindful of the amount of data they require to render.
This month we are focusing on combining Drupal with media. From integrating it into your theme, to making it easy for content editors to embed images in the middle of a WYSIWYG and everything in between.
Some questions we'd like to see answered:
- How do you balance the use of imagery and content?
- What are some best practices with media and accessibility?
- How have you implemented embedded media in Drupal 7/8?
- What are methods for adding contextual (background) videos in a design/theme?
- What media modules do you use and what are their benefits?
- Background media with a text overlay, the good and the bad?
- What are some great examples of incorporating media into a Drupal site.
- Your Tips and tricks for making media easier to deal with?
- What are some caveats to using hosted video platforms (youtube, vimeo)?
If you have an idea for a lightning talk on the topic of search, sign up by leaving a comment below. Perhaps your idea will inspire others.
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 September 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. **
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Comments
Scald
I'll talk about how we've implemented Scald for media management on the ICA and other sites.
Meetup notes: media discussion
From Micky, best services for video hosting or self-hosting for videos?
...: Brightcove is doing some good things, see Brightcove media connect.
Dani: YouTube will allow a private list, which can be useful.
...: Making it public on YouTube helps your SEO.
Dani: Vimeo has better video quality, though YouTube is catching up. Vimeo is more restrictive in what they let you post, something that's too self-promotional, like a regular webcast.
...: Been using Vimeo for nonprofits for a while. They haven't had a problem with content. Problem is schools are now blocking Vimeo as well as YouTube.
Video playing for places on a map? Smithsonian has a good example.
Benjamin: For general, and simple, video embedding: Video Embed Field which supports Vimeo, YouTube, and many others (with additional contrib modules listed on their page), including our client's need to embed a TED talk video.
Mike on responsive images in Drupal 8: Using core Responsive images module, you get the option to define different image styles for different breakpoints (which are defined in the theme in a configuration file the module can read). Typically, use the smallest size as the fallback image. Takes five minutes to set up.
It's possible in Drupal 7 also, the module is in D7 contrib as well as D8 core.
Kelley: Focal point tries to pick the focus of the picture correctly so aspect rations are fixed.
benjamin, agaric
Continuing the meetup notes
Continuing the meetup notes (Thanks to mincn for starting them):
Salem Ghoweri - spoke about using pattern lab as a single point of truth for hooking up front-end and back-end in Drupal for serving up responsive background images.
Ben Di Maggo - Using SCALD module in Drupal 7 for images, instead of the media module. Allows for editing and managing media assets (images) from a WYSIWYG. with a right click can manage crops for each of the contexts that an image is used in. SCALD makes use of contexts hooked up to image styles.
@mikemiles86
Thanks for the notes
Not being at the meetup, it's great to see notes with links etc. Thanks.
Gahh, "context"
Hey, I just wanted to clear up that the sense in which Scald uses "context" is unrelated to context module. It's the module's own term, which in this, uh, milieu, means "entity view mode." There's a full explanation here.
Ben, Thank you for the
Ben,
Thank you for the clarification and the great presentation. I'm still working on my note taking abilities.
@mikemiles86
Meeting Recap
Hello Boston Drupalists,
Thank you to every who made it out for our September meetup. It was a night filled with some excellent discussions around Media in Drupal.
A recap of the meeting is now available. It contains notes from our speakers, as well as, information about upcoming Drupal events.
http://bit.ly/BDM20160906
Stay tuned for information about our next meetup in October!
@mikemiles86
Thank you to everyone who
Thank you to everyone who made it to the Meetup the other night.