Get ready for a doozy of a DUG. The Seattle Times is going to give us some insight into their conversion of NW Source to Drupal! This is really an exciting event, and I hope all of you can attend. It's going to be a good time of course. The presentation, sponsored by The Seattle Times, will give a general overview of converting to Drupal, then we will breakout into groups on theming, code/development, and admin/cck/etc.
Details
Date and Time: January 16th, 6pm
Location:
Seattle Times
1120 John St. (corner of Fairview and John)
Fairview Auditorium
It's not far from our usual meeting spot at Espresso Vivace.
Really this DUG is for more than Drupal enthusiasts. Anyone in the Puget Sound area might be interested in a large organization like The Seattle Times and how they managed this type of conversion for a large site like nwsource.com. Recommend this one to friends!
Comments
Wednesday?
Just to confirm, the date for our January meeting is a Wednesday evening? Normally we meet on Thursdays...
-Jennifer
Drupal programmer - http://poplarware.com
Drupal author - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920034612.do
Drupal contributor - https://www.drupal.org/u/jhodgdon
Yes Wednesday
The regular meeting was moved a day early to accommodate the NWSource presentation.
DUG - pre-mtg cowork
anyone interested in going to vivace before the mtg to work a bit on the SCBA site? NY Resolution = get this site finished...
-jared
-jared
Yep
I'd be down for that. Prolly get there around 4pm.
Probably be there too
I'm going to be downtown for another meeting Wednesday, so I'll probably head over to Vivace around 1:30 or 2 PM to work and/or hang out, rather than heading back to Shoreline and coming down there again for the DUG meeting. I'd be glad to offer any assistance I can on the SCBA site.
-Jennifer H.
Drupal programmer - http://poplarware.com
Drupal author - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920034612.do
Drupal contributor - https://www.drupal.org/u/jhodgdon
great
seeya there, I am looking forward to it.
-jared
-jared
Promotion
Any other groups we should contact to promote this to a wider audience?
I've posted at Upcoming and SaturdayHouse:
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/175305/
http://groups.google.com/group/saturdayhouse/browse_thread/thread/b7e09f...
John posted the PHP group:
http://php.meetup.com/49/boards/view/viewthread?thread=3984344
Any other folks that should know about this presentation?
Tacoma?
Has anyone posted to Tacoma's group? I know they come up sometimes.
I'm coming up
Don't know about anyone else from the south sound, but I'm coming up.
-Dave
From Oly
I'm coming up from Olympia; looking at converting a work site to Drupal, and would like to be a volunteer with OlyBlog, so it seemed useful. I'm always interested in seeing Drupal work that doesn't immediately scream "Drupal site!"
DE-Seattle Group Contacted
There's a women's tech list "Digital Eve Seattle" that I used to subscribe to. I forwarded it to an existing list member to post. It was a busy list* so lots of ppl should see it.
~mahalie
*too much static
~mahalie
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Tonight
FYI we should have wifi available in the auditorium so feel free to bring your laptops. Power outlet availability may be limited, I'm not sure what that room has.
Is anyone planning on videotaping?
Looking forward to seeing everyone tonight!
Brought my minicam
I will attempt to record on my Canon. Guess I'm sitting in front...
dang wednesday
i'm available no wednesdays -- enjoy!
Coworking has commenced.
Coworking has commenced. Jennifer and I are here in the Vivace room. There aren't any schedule meetings in here, so it looks like we can use the room this whole afternoon.
Robin
Robin
If this can be videotaped, that would be awesome
I so want to go, but I have critical classes on Weds nights, so if this can be videotaped somehow, I would be so grateful!
I'll be down
in about an hour
-jared
-jared
Thanks!
I just wanted to say thanks to everyone for coming, I really enjoyed meeting and talking to you all. If anyone has any more followups or questions let me know and I'll do my best to answer. Pass on the theming questions too! I can try and get our designer to follow up on them.
Greg
Wow, thanks guys!
Excellent presentation and really excited to see how you pulled the site together from all of those backend systems. Enjoyed hearing about the struggles and concerns you worked through in choosing Drupal and the caveats for running such a large integrated site.
I captured most of it on my camera in 10 minute sections and will do my best to stitch together into a sensible video of the event. Hope I wasn't too distracting in the front row, switching out cameras and dumping footage all through your talk...
Many thanks for the thorough details and answers to our questions plus the enjoyable background stories. It was a great evening.
Looking forward to see the
Looking forward to see the video.
Many thanks,
Chester
Pushing published content back to QA servers
Greg and Gary, thank you for sharing your experiences--it's great to hear directly about a large site built with Drupal, and you had lots of interesting bits to share.
I stumbled across this thread on drupal.org that seems interesting. It doesn't fully solve your production site update challenge, but may contribute a handy building block to distinguish "live" content from "testing" content:
http://drupal.org/node/181128
Maarten.
Thanks for taking the time to share
That was great to hear about the work you guys have done. Thanks for taking the time and making the effort to let us in on it.
-jared
-jared
We definately enjoyed it
I think I speak for the rest of SeaDug and TacDug (groups.drupal.org/tacoma) when I second Jared, Great talk, and I learned alot. Now if only you had found the "majic bullet" to deployment.......
-Dave
yes yes yes
great presentation, thank you so much for sharing with us!
Some links
So I realized that during my talk, at several points I said something along the lines of "If you look on drupal.org you'll find x and y" and I figured it would be handy to provide some of those links.
The infamous lower() sql issue, which actually spans quite a few threads
http://drupal.org/node/83738
http://drupal.org/node/174025
http://drupal.org/node/188734
http://drupal.org/node/191504
Migrating from Movable Type, node creation from code
http://drupal.org/node/860
Boostrapping Drupal from an outside script
http://drupal.org/node/70006#comment-168446
The following were crucial to my understanding of CCK
http://drupal.org/node/101742
http://www.lullabot.com/articles/an_introduction_to_the_content_construc...
Presentation notes
I am editing together the footage that I shot on Wednesday, but would greatly appreciate people posting their notes from the presentation. We can then combine the video, slides and notes into one post for those who couldn't attend.
Thanks
My notes -- and thanks!
I had to duck out before it was over, but I really appreciated hearing about your Drupal project. I wrote up quite a few notes: here's the summary, which links to my liveblogging notes.