Posted by jhodgdon on August 30, 2018 at 9:20pm
Start:
2018-09-20 10:00 - 12:00 America/Los_Angeles Organizers:
Event type:
User group meeting
We hope you can join us for the next daytime meeting of the Spokane Drupal User Group!
- When
- Thursday, September 20, 2018, 10 AM to noon
We usually meet on a Thursday morning at a library out in the Spokane Valley area. Log in and join the Spokane Drupal User Group (see sidebar on https://groups.drupal.org/spokane-wa ) to be notified of future meetings, events, and discussions (typically just a few email messages per month). - Where
- Spokane County Library - Spokane Valley branch, 12004 E Main Ave, Spokane Valley. We are currently meeting in the small conference room at the library, which is on the lower level (take the elevator down, and it's right across from where you step out of the elevator).
- To be reminded, sign up!
- To receive an email reminder closer to the date of the meeting, log in and click the "Sign up" button; log in and click "Cancel signup" at a later time if your schedule changes and you can no longer come. There's no obligation to come if you sign up (but we hope you will!). There's also no obligation to sign up in order to come (it's up to you if you want a reminder or not). However, the meeting could be canceled if the organizer isn't sure anyone is coming.
- What
- We spend two hours in a question and answer format, with the participants around a table, and a laptop with a projector. Come with questions about a project you're working on, something you've learned that you'd like to share with others, a desire to improve Drupal in some way (documentation, programming, design, marketing etc.), 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!
- Need a ride?
- If transportation is keeping you from attending, please post a comment here. Our usual attendees come from all around the area: downtown Spokane, Mead, Hayden, Spokane Valley, Post Falls, etc. So, we can probably find someone to give you a ride without going too much out of their way.
Comments
See you tomorrow @ Spokane Valley library
I'm back from my bike trip, and will be at the meeting tomorrow.
As a reminder... we're at the Spokane Valley library again this time. See you then!
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I'll be there!
I'll be there!
Meeting notes
What we talked about today:
- BADCamp - Berkeley CA - Oct 24-17 - https://2018.badcamp.org/
- Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit - Seattle - sometime in February?
- DrupalCon - Seattle - April 2019 - https://events.drupal.org/seattle2019 -- really expensive now, but you can attend the Friday "sprint" (work) day for free
https://www.drupal.org/blog/drupal-7-8-and-9
Bottom line: Drupal 7 is end of life on November 2021
https://www.drupal.org/blog/a-note-from-dries-on-drupal-860s-release
(links to other posts with more information about the API-first or "headless" approach)
https://www.drupal.org/project/schema_metatag
which requires
https://www.drupal.org/project/metatag
Then you select one or more "schemas" for your web site (such as "Recipes" or "Books" or "Jobs" or whatever), and match your content type fields to the schema. This module then meta-tag your pages. Then Google and other search engines will recognize your structured data.
For better search results!
https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/sel_before.asp
- Create a component that defines a variable and that can carry through the checkout process
https://www.drupal.org/project/commerce_stripe
- Jennifer and Lisa use pair.com (basic shared hosting).
- Shawn uses Cloudways -- lets you set up virtual servers, can expand as needed. Uses Amazon or other cloud environments behind the scenes. Includes SSL.
- Pantheon -- a slick dev-staging-production environment. Much more expensive.
- Acquia -- includes a dev desktop. Even more slick and more expensive.
Drupal programmer - http://poplarware.com
Drupal author - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920034612.do
Drupal contributor - https://www.drupal.org/u/jhodgdon
Info for Lisa
https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool?hl=en
Cool!
There is a link from that web page to
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/prototype
which has documentation on how to set up structured data, and links to their standards, etc. That should help Lisa use that Drupal module to set up the meta-tags for the recipes on her site. Maybe we can get a report on how that went, at next month's meeting?
Drupal programmer - http://poplarware.com
Drupal author - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920034612.do
Drupal contributor - https://www.drupal.org/u/jhodgdon
I am registered and setup for
I am registered and setup for Badcamp!