June Brevard Meetting Wrap up

Last Thursday we met at the offices of GMRS in Melbourne for a 2 hour meetup. There were 6 people in attendance.

We reviewed the OpenPublish packaged distribution (http://openpublishapp.com/). We ran through the modules and features they had installed right of the box. The features can be downloaded here http://drupal.org/project/openpublish_features including their multimedia, article, blog, and event node types they have setup that you can use on your projects (without having to install the entire OpenPublish package). Ed had recently set up his site http://climatetimes.com/ using OpenPublish and ran through some of the features he implemented.

Gil went on to discuss some basic Facebook integration with Drupal sites, mainly the like button and comment box features. He used this tutorial to get him going http://hitech-tips.blogspot.com/2010/05/facebook-like-button-xfbml-tutor... and used the XFBML method which tied itself to an application to monitor stats (unlike the simpler JS method).

We then had a round-table discussion on hosting services and what people have used/are using.