Posted by afreeman on February 24, 2010 at 3:13pm
For those of you who couldn't make the meeting last night Julia gave a fantastic presentation on some of the special considerations surrounding building user forums in Drupal. Thanks, Julia, for giving a great presentation that covered 100% of the allotted meeting time!
I would like to give special thanks to Greg for the generous donation of meeting space, and wow, what a space. If it hadn't been for him there would have been no February meeting. Thanks again Greg! Also a big thank you to everyone who made it out.
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I'll second the kudos!
To sum up:
GREAT meeting space! Thanks Greg.
R and I vented about our lousy contractors
AF was delayed by his house inspector
Julia gave a very helpful presentation about how to cope with core forms' shortcomings with additional modules-- Thanks Julia!
Everyone gushed about the Features module
Drupal 7 is out in Alpha, and Drupal Gardens looks very slick
Jay has a nifty module out to hide contact form email addys http://bit.ly/aBTeQp
Alternative future venues were discussed
I'm sure I'm forgetting stuff-- anyone?
Resources from the Presentation
Thanks for the kind words Allen and Nik.
You can find my presentation slides here:
http://www.slideshare.net/JuliaKM/building-a-drupal-forum
And, you can find a blog post detailing the process of creating a forum here:
http://www.juliakm.com/building-drupal-forums-aashe
Also, many of you were curious to learn more about the Features module. Here's an excellent overview:
http://developmentseed.org/blog/2009/may/29/making-and-using-features-dr...
Cheers,
Julia
Thanks
I was not able to be at the meeting. Thanks so much for the write up.
Hi Julia, Thanks for sharing
Hi Julia,
Thanks for sharing these resources! It's very helpful. I was wondering if you could be more specific about what Features was unable to store in the Feature you created for the forum.
Kosta