Posted by jhodgdon on March 8, 2019 at 7:54pm
Start:
2019-03-21 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, March 21, 2019, 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). Sorry, the Argonne library meeting room, which some people prefer, was not available for this date.
- 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
Valley library today!
Reminder: We are at the Spokane Valley library today, not Argonne!
12004 E Main Ave, Spokane Valley
Drupal programmer - http://poplarware.com
Drupal author - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920034612.do
Drupal contributor - https://www.drupal.org/u/jhodgdon
Meeting notes
What we talked about today:
- DrupalCon - Seattle - April 8-12, 2019 - https://events.drupal.org/seattle2019 -- Tickets are about $500 and up -- early bird discount ends Oct 31. You can attend the Friday "sprint" (work) day for free. Also, after DrupalCon you can watch the sessions on YouTube for free (at least, that's been true in the past).
- Pacific Northwest Drupal Summit - Seattle - not until 2020!
- There is a calendar for other Drupal events:
https://groups.drupal.org/events
https://events.drupal.org/seattle2019/contribution
You can actually go to DrupalCon just for the contribution events and it's free! People also participate remotely. You can register as an in-person or remote attendee on:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IHXUgom_HYdLDKvbdCgUEqmbK1fJmYWx...
Jennifer has some work that can be done that is fairly straightforward:
https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/3041924
It's not quite available to work on today, but should be in a week or two. (We're waiting for the parent issue to be "committed" to Drupal Core. See heading of that page for more information.)
https://www.drupal.org/project/paragraphs -- for building pages out of building blocks called "paragraphs", but they might be images, videos, text, etc.
https://www.drupal.org/project/colorbox -- for making lightboxes that show images or text or whatever
Another approach would be to create editor plugins for the CKEditor that would insert your image+caption things into the body of pages.
- Currently an experimental module in Drupal 8 core ("Beta" quality)
- Replacement for the Drupal 7 and before Panels module
- Allows you to define flexible layouts for your site pages
- Shawn suggests watching this video to learn about it:
BADCamp presentation: https://2018.badcamp.org/session/site-building-20-how-layout-builder-wil...
- Status update:
Blog: https://www.drupal.org/blog/an-update-on-the-layout-initiative-for-drupa...
https://www.drupal.org/slack
There are #general and #support channels to ask questions in
- Consider automating some of the workflows:
-- Submit files
-- Price print jobs
-- etc.
- Building the web site could be expensive up front, but would save the company money in the long run
- Modules: Drupal Commerce, Workflow (in Core in Drupal 8)
If they just want a brochure, consider wordpress.com or Wix -- easy maintenance and updates
https://www.drupal.org/project/business_rules
Alternative to the venerable Rules module, with flowcharts etc.
- Can use it as a starting point for data modeling
- Once you have a site, you can output the information via schema so that Google can search for things in a structured way
Drupal module: https://www.drupal.org/project/schema_metatag
Drupal programmer - http://poplarware.com
Drupal author - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920034612.do
Drupal contributor - https://www.drupal.org/u/jhodgdon