Posted by jhodgdon on August 20, 2020 at 11:00pm
Start:
2020-09-03 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 Web Technology Group [formerly: Spokane Daytime Drupal Group]! We are currently meeting every two weeks online.
- When
- Thursday, September 3, 2020, 10 AM to noon
- Where
- Due to the pandemic, this meeting will be held online in a Google Hangout (link will be posted 10-15 minutes before the meeting -- check back).
- To be reminded, sign up!
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- What
- We spend up to two hours in a question and answer format, with the participants in Google Hangouts, where they can share their screens, talk, etc. Most participants do not turn on video on for the meeting. 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 or other web technology. 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!
Comments
Hope we can meet!
Hey all, just moved to Spokane after being on the west side the past few years for school. Excited to be back on the east side! I've been learning Drupal over the past year while working on the farmOS project. Would love to meet more of the Drupal community!
Welcome back!
This group has been meeting on Thursday mornings for several years now, and is small but active -- I hope you can make it to our next meeting on Sept 3rd so we can all meet you!
Drupal programmer - http://poplarware.com
Drupal author - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920034612.do
Drupal contributor - https://www.drupal.org/u/jhodgdon
Interested in FarmOS
I used to be an organic farmer. Now I do regenerative ag organizing and occasional consulting. I'd love to hear more about FarmOS. Welcome back to Spokane. Chrys
Google Hangouts link
Hi All,
Here is the link to our Google Hangouts meeting: https://hangouts.google.com/call/eEwwxQxt4h60e6f8WRxSACEA
See y'all soon!
Meeting notes
Here is what we talked about at today's meeting:
https://www.google.com/webmasters/
https://www.bing.com/toolbox/webmaster/
- Events may be happening online, so you could meet people from all over the world -- check https://groups.drupal.org/events?type%5B%5D=regional for events
- One example: Rules in D7 https://www.drupal.org/project/rules
There is Business Rules in D8/9 https://www.drupal.org/project/business_rules
but it doesn't have all the functionality.
- D8 seems unfinished (there is not much difference between Drupal 8 and 9, but there is a lot of difference between D7 and 8, so many contributed modules did not get ported)
- Backdrop is an alternative https://backdropcms.org/ -- it is a fork of Drupal 7 and is trying to maintain backwards compatibility
https://www.drupal.org/community/contributor-guide/reference-information...
Open-source web application for farm management and record keeping, based currently on Drupal 7, migrating to Drupal 9. You can contribute to the project on GitHub:
https://github.com/farmos
There's a forum:
https://farmos.discourse.group/
and a monthly meeting for developers.
You can also get a hosted solution at farmier.com -- $75/year -- with about 200 users; also about 20 self-hosted active users.
Was funded by a number of universities and farming consortiums.
Affiliated with https://openteam.community/ -- Open Technology Ecosystem for Agricultural Management.
https://www.drupal.org/case-studies
https://drupalize.me/
(affordable monthly subscription)
https://www.drupal.org/project/gutenberg
There is a library of "blocks" at
https://gutenbergcloud.org/blocks
and each one should have source code available, to look at for examples.
Documentation on the Gutenberg editor:
https://gutenbergcloud.org/blocks
Documentation on how to create a new block type:
https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/tutorials/create-block/
(should be a combination of PHP, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS code)
- Shawn has done this type of upgrading, but hasn't had success with the built-in migration tools
- Jennifer had little success early on in the Drupal 8 cycle with migrating from Drupal 6 to 8
- Jon says the best migration tools probably take care of 85% of the migration, then you spend hours and hours fixing the problems
- An approach where you export data using the Views module to a spreadsheet, and then import using Feeds, to migrate the data, may be better. That also allows you to change your site and data structure, and then you end up with a better site.
- Drupal docs on add-on modules for migration:
https://www.drupal.org/docs/upgrading-drupal/drupal-8-migrate-modules
https://www.drupal.org/project/entity_print
Docs:
https://www.drupal.org/docs/contributed-modules/entity-print/usage
He needed to define a new "library" in his custom theme for the CSS needed in printing. Documentation:
https://www.drupal.org/docs/theming-drupal/adding-stylesheets-css-and-ja...
- Jon: It's OK if it's working, but consider writing up a document about what you did. (Jennifer suggests a diagram could be helpful) -- start simple but next time you will end up adding to the docs, and eventually you'll have a complete record
- Jon: Is the response time OK? Is it actually working?
==> We all thought it seems like probably the best approach
Drupal programmer - http://poplarware.com
Drupal author - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920034612.do
Drupal contributor - https://www.drupal.org/u/jhodgdon