Posted by katherined on March 19, 2010 at 10:47pm
Start:
2010-03-30 19:00 - 21:00 America/Chicago Organizers:
Event type:
User group meeting
Join us to talk Drupal and build our local community. I'll bring the beer!
Agenda
John St. Germain and Daniel Lochrie from Chron.com will talk to us about how they use Drupal at the Houston Chronicle and their multi-site installations.
Location
7pm at Caroline Collective
4820 Caroline Street
Houston, TX 77004
PLEASE RSVP if you plan to attend.
UPDATE: Please note that I changed the date to March 30.
Comments
Multisite
Really looking forward to the multisite discussion.
Sounds Great!
Multisite is an excellent topic.
I will be there...finally
Regards,
Daniel
Please confirm the time
Hi, I'm coming up from College Station again (this time with back-up). Would you please confirm the time? This event page says 7:00p, but http://carolinecollective.cc/ says 6:30p.
It starts at 7, but I will
It starts at 7, but I will probably be there a little early.
drat...something came up
Sorry, all, but something has come up and I won't be able to make it after all. I really wanted to hear this topic. Any chance someone my record it?
We didn't record last night,
We didn't record last night, but that's a good idea in the future.
Thank you to everyone who
Thank you to everyone who came to Caroline last night. Thanks especially to Steve, John and Daniel for sharing your expertise. I had a great time! I am taking suggestions for next week's topic. Frankly, if the guys are willing, there's still much to discuss with multi-site installation. We could also put that topic on hold and talk about something else like taxonomy, form API, etc. All suggestions and volunteers are welcome. :) I'd like to hold it on the 4th Tues.(4/27) again because of DrupalCon (4/19-21), and since it would happen right after, perhaps those of us attending could just present an overview/round table about what we saw and learned.
Glad to hear things went well
It seems that having a session to look forward to really draws in the crowds. Why not put up a poll on the fields of interest? We at emunications are happy to lead another session on several of those topics, or to go into more detail on the module development if there's interest. Ryan here is working on a session for theming.
I think that sort of thing
I think that sort of thing lends itself more to a discussion than a poll.
Next Month
At least part of the chron.com team would be willing to talk about our experiences with multisite. I will need to talk to the rest of the team before I can promise their availability.
As for next "months" topic, I think having those who go to Drupal Con talk about highlights from the event is a fantastic idea. It would be very interesting to hear about the current thoughts being shared at Drupal Con.
A couple of thoughts:
Length. While I believe most people were engaged in the conversation being facilitated by the chron.com team, it would be best if we have a time keeper remind the speaker to start wrapping things up after an hour.
Q/A. I loved the format of keeping the flow dynamic with a constant stream of Q/A being mostly kept on track by the outline on the handout.