June 2010 Meeting: Content Deployment Your Client Can Use/Project Management with Open Atrium

Join us at 6:30pm on Thursday June 24, 2010 at Appnovation Technologies for the Vancouver Drupal User Group June meeting. This month we have two presentations: A Content Deployment Workflow Your Client Can Use presented by Owen Loy and Katherine Bailey of Work [at] Play; and Project Management With Open Atrium with Steve Krueger of The Jibe Multimedia.

Date: Thursday June 24, 6:30pm
Location: Appnovation Technologies, L200-560 Beatty Street, Vancouver, BC [Map]
Cost: There is no charge and all are welcome

This month we have a door prize! One lucky attendee will win a Drupal Pet, donated by Dee-Ann LeBlanc, a local freelance writer, editor, course developer, and trainer specializing in Linux/OS X, CMS, open standards, and open source.

For those who don't need to leave right away there's typically a more social discussion at a local pub afterward.

Agenda

Deployment Workflow So Simple Your Client Can Use It!

In this presentation Owen Loy and Katherine Bailey of Work [at] Play will demo a deployment solution that they've built for a large client that wanted to have complete control over pushing content (and the code it's dependent on) from a QA environment to a staging environment and thence to their production environment. The content deployment side of things is built on top of heyrocker's Deploy module, extending its functionality to provide an admin screen that shows producers a list of what they've changed in their current environment since the last deploy, allowing them to postpone items if necessary from their current deploy, which they perform with the click of a button. Changed content includes nodes, users, taxonomy, configuration settings, blocks, languages, translations, nodequeues and nodewords (meta tags). The system also ensures that the code running in the target environment is up to date: this ensures that the structures that we prefer to add programmatically, e.g. content types and nodequeues, will be available for the content we're deploying. The presentation will briefly explain how the Deploy + Services paradigm works, what the challenges were in extending it to deploy different types of content items, and what this crazy-sounding code-deployment-at-the-click-of-a-button is all about.

Project Management With Open Atrium

Steve Krueger of The Jibe Multimedia will be walking through a day in the life of managing daily internal and external client workflows using Open Atrium. He will look at utilizing the latest Open Atrium build (beta6) by using the Notebook, Case Tracker, Calendar, and Blog features that are built inside a default installation. He will also encourage an open discussion surrounding additional "nice to have" features that can be built on-top of the Open Atrium platform.

Steve Krueger is a web developer and partner at The Jibe Multimedia. He has worked with clients ranging from Sony BMG, Department of Defence, and Mac's Convenience Stores. He is a world traveler, avid enthusiast of electronic music, and enjoys cats.

Drupal Q&A

Bring your questions on anything related to Drupal from how to do something technical in PHP to what modules are needed to implement a feature you want.

Our Thanks

We wish to thank Appnovation Technologies for hosting this month's meeting.

Updated: June 14, 2010 to include door prize.