During the September SeaDUG meeting, Jared suggested a great opportunity for a local barnraising project. We set the implementation date for November 10, 2007 - 11AM to 4PM, location to be decided.
A barn raising is a one or two-day event during which a community comes together to assemble a barn for one of its households. A certain amount of preparation is done beforehand. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barn_raising
Let's work on creating an install profile for brochureware websites that would bring small organizations into the Drupal community. This will provide them the tools to grow with their website and implement new features as needed.
Current install profiles
http://drupal.org/project/Installation+profiles
Install profile developer's guide
http://drupal.org/node/159730
Install Profile API and Profile Wizard
http://drupal.org/project/install_profile_api
More resources from Bryght:
https://svn.bryght.com/dev/wiki/AnatomyOfADrupalInstallProfile
Comments
Distribution profiles group
Distribution profiles group
http://groups.drupal.org/distributions
Suggest adding Brochure profile here:
Call for install profile ideas
http://groups.drupal.org/node/5653
Seattle Book Arts Website Barnraising
Here is a little update on where things stand.
I have spoken with my friend and we are working on setting up a hosting provider that supports ssh, probably dreamhost and working on a location to hold the event.
There has been some discussion about doing a recording of the barn raising (video and screencast) and that will need some planning as well as a little prep session prior to the actual event. I would like to find out if there are any things that will need to be prepped that will take me some time, like writing a style sheet for the site, so that I can get on those soon.
I am excited to see how this could be used to develop a brochure-site install profile as I have just taken on a site in that style and would like to use the install profile to get it started.
-Jared
-jared
Barn Raising Video
I'm in for shooting video and helping people grab screencasts (if relevant) -- I can also provide a bunch of video equipment.
Couple of things I'm thinking --
1) I'd like to get a list of folks who are interested in a) dedicated shooting/editing on day of and/or b) editing after the fact. Who's interested?
2) We need some time to brainstorm what sort of end video we want to produce and how we can structure it to deliver in a short amount of time. Most of the Mindcamp/Ignite stuff I usually do involves no editing. I want to brainstorm with interested parties to see how we can produce this with as little after the fact editing as possible.
Cheers --
Bryan
video
I am interested in shooting on day of, and editing after the fact. I agree that minimal editing is best to have a quick turn-around. Let's look at maybe having a meeting to set up all the stuff you talked about.
How about Wed 11/7 from 5-6pm @ Vivace, same as the SeaDUG mtg space? Just a suggestion to get the ball rolling, I can meet most times.
-Jared
-jared
From the September DUG Meeting
Some highlights of what we discussed during the September DUG meeting. I thought it might be good to have this list here:
SCBA Seattle Center for Book Arts
* extreme makeover web edition
* time, date, location, hosting environment, graphics, documentarians, editors
* pair up experienced with less experienced folks
* theming
* cck & views
* configuration
* installation of modules
* google analytics
* brochureware profile
Robin
Robin
I think a little
I think a little tongue-in-cheek reality tv style video would be awesome!
In terms of prep, we probably want to get folks who will be actually doing stuff on their computers set up with proper screen recording applications so that we can cut in good video of configuring actually happening.
http://www.CivicActions.com
http://www.GregoryHeller.com
http://GregoryHeller.com
Documenting
One template for documenting this sort of thing that I am kicking around is having 3 or 4 short updates per deliverable area paced throughout the day (e.g. theming, setup, installation profile, etc). Folks could take 30 seconds to update the status/successes/roadblocks throughout the day.
We could then timelapse the stuff in between -- so that you'd have a fast moving summary of the event from beginning to end -- if we had some sort of visual cue (ala cue card or full screen display timer widget to signify the edit points), this would be pretty easy to edit once things were digitized.
-- bz
thoughts we had (rough)
Here are some of the barnraising topics we discussed at the last DUG:
We are going to have a pre-barn raising meeting on Thursday the 8th to discuss the preparations we need to finalize before the event.
We are going to have the event at the new Office Nomads space on Capitol Hill.
We are thinking of having 3 different groups going simultaneously during the day, they are:
Themers- php, templates, css
Configureers- gui
Installers- cmd line
Each of these groups would have a person who would act as the lead, a person acting as the assistant and a person acting as a runner.
Agenda -
11-11:30
Start with a little talk about what we are going to do, intorduce the project and client. Discuss goals of the project, reasons why Drupal is a good
choice.
11:30-1 (12:15 check-in)
Break out into the 3 different groups and start to it.
1-2
Lunch
2-3:30
Back to it.
3:30-4
Closing remarks and showing off of new site.
Post Mortem:
Get beer and talk about what we did right/wrong - when and how to do it again.
What modules do you need?
Views
CCK
Calendar (date, )
Google Analytics
-jared
Modules
http://www.CivicActions.com
http://www.GregoryHeller.com
http://GregoryHeller.com
Other Modules
I have been doing some comparisons of tinymce and FCKeditor and so far have found that the code output by FCKeditor is MUCH cleaner. Tinymce kept putting span tags everywhere to achieve its formatting. One thing I have noticed with FCKEditor is that you have to add
<p>tags to your allowed list for "filtered HTML" input types.I would also like to recommend the follow modules
Site Documentation -then you have the beginning information one would need to formulate a run book for support purposes.
Update Status - so you can see when there are new versions of modules
Captcha - love it or hate it, it does help with spam control for certain things.
I want to add that at our
I want to add that at our last DUG, we discussed having a PR video about 3minutes long as well as Chapters. Chapters would entail longer, in depth coverage of particular subjects.
Robin
Promo
I wanted to see if you all think we should launch the barn raising buzz machine. Since we are a week away from our event I thought it is about time to get the word out. Where are the best places to post about our event and what should be posted? If some people might help make an "official" press release I can post it to the appropriate sites...
Here's a starting place:
This Saturday come check out a website Barn Raising by the Seattle Drupal Users Group. Drupal, winner of the Overall 2007 Open Source CMS Award for Best Open Source CMS, supports a variety of websites ranging from personal weblogs to large community-driven websites. We will be spending the day turning a static website for a local non-profit into a dynamic Drupal website. There will be multiple teams working on different aspects of the build simultaneously- installation, configuration and themeing. We will use this project not only to help a local non-profit with a new website, but to show people how to build a Drupal site, soup to nuts.
Vitals:
Saturday November 10th from 11 am to 4pm
Office Nomads - 1617 Boylston Ave Seattle, WA 98122 map
Dan put together a little logo for our event:
Thanks,
Jared
-jared
Promotion
Thanks, great logo and promo text.
I have added the event to Upcoming.org and will also do a front page post to the g.d.o site.
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/311489