Posted by winston on August 10, 2010 at 1:28am
Start:
2010-09-01 18:30 - 21:00 America/New_York Event type:
User group meeting
Where?: 7 World Trade Center, 29th Floor (Mansueto Ventures)
When?: September 1st, 6:30 - 9:00 PM
Directions?
http://tinyurl.com/mansuetoventuresdirections
Plans?
- What I learned from Open Publish (and what you can too) - winston
- Panels Overwrite, and Service Based Architecture - skyred
- HTML5 Tools & HTML5 Base - jensimmons (Eric Duran subbing)
- BOF - For Beginners and newcomers to Drupal - johnvsc
- BOF - DrupalCampNYC8 Recap/Lessons Learned - ezra-g
- BOF - Group Leadership Discussion - winston
- Drupal Drinks and Drupal Fun at Dakota Roadhouse
Signup closes midnight of the day before the event. We don't have the luxury to add "last minute" attendees.
Remember: You must have your REAL NAME on your groups.drupal.org profile otherwise you will not be able to get in to 7 World Trade Center!
Comments
Let's have a debrief of
Let's have a debrief of DrupalCampNYC8 before it's too late. I volunteer to discuss the survey responses (with Robbie if he's up for it), and also have some personal notes about aspects of the camp I think we can improve.
Panels Overwrite
I have been using Panels Overwrite since Panels2, which was officially broken, lol.
My reasons for using Panels (w/ Overwrite) are:
1.) I didn't have a dedicated Drupal Themer, Panels Overwrite let me completely forget *.tpl.php, so I can do all the theming with only one base theme such as Zen without out modification, then deal with the rest with Panels. (Low cost on Creation and Update of themes)
2.) Small scripting support for conditional display (see my case study 3 lines of code with Panels3 and Profile modules to create user configurable privacy settings) (But, please don't abuse this or Rules module, this may be another talk)
3.) Glue Web Applications. A web application is more interactive and responsive than normal Drupal resources such as a node or a comment. With web services oriented applications (if a web app doesn't connect, then it's probably not that fun), the developer of the applications at least don't need to worry about the layout or part of the design; furthermore sometimes, the developers of the web app don't need to know Drupal menu system, or other Drupal specific API. In other words, you can outsource the development to PHP guys, and glue the work up with Panels. I have a few case studies.
We had two Panels related sessions at DrupalCampNYC8, Panels: Build Smart Landing Pages without Writing Code and Building Pages - Blocks vs. Context vs. Panels, but if people want more Panels? because it is awesome! let me know, and I will be happy to share my experience.
Group Leadership Discussion
Let's get this done at the September meetup.
Let's keep this group strong by making sure we have clear group leadership and an understanding of what group organizer responsibilities are.
With now three regular meetups per month (NYC meetup, NYC Happy Hour, and NYC Play Days!), and two Camps per year we're rolling - let's keep the momentum.
HTML5
I'd like to talk about HTML5 Tools & HTML5 Base. We got a lot of momentum behind the projects at DrupalCamp NYC (where they were born). And a lot has been done since. I'm presenting on HTML5 at the Core Developers Summit at DrupalCon Copenhangen — and I'd love to 1) update everyone / tell everyone about these projects; and 2) organize next steps!
Jen Simmons
http://jensimmons.com
Added to agenda
Thanks...
Hey Jen, Are you attending?
Hey Jen,
Are you attending? I'm ok to cover html5_tools but I'm a little behind in the html5_base theme.
DrupalCampNYC Wrapup
To clarify, while I'm happy to help guide the discussion and have a few things to share, my intention is for the DrupalCamp wrapup to be a discussion, rather than all presentation.
In other words, "Your constructive feedback welcome!"
n00bie BoF Tables will be there too
even if you don't know what a BoF is :)