September's meeting will pick up where we left off in August, with a presentation on Drush by Mark Ewers. (If you didn't make it in August, this presentation was postponed until September.)
Installing and Using Drush: For intermediate users ready to take Drupal site management to the next level, Mark Ewers will give us an overview and demonstration of Drush, the command line utility for Drupal. He'll show us how Drush can boost your productivity, how to install and configure Drush, and he'll demonstrate the basics of managing your sites using this powerful and versatile Drupal management tool.
This should be a great meeting, we hope everyone interested in Drupal or Drush will be able to attend. This is an intermediate level topic, but users of all levels are welcome. Our discussions usually encompass beginners issues as well.
The meeting will be held at the St. Louis Artists' Guild, Two Oak Knoll Drive in Clayton. A map is available here: http://tinyurl.com/ycff7vq
Please use the signup form so we will have an idea how many to expect. See you September 23!
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Meeting a reminder
Hey everybody, just a reminder of the St. Louis Drupal Meetup tomorrow evening, September 23, at 7 PM at the St. Louis Artists' Guild in Clayton.
We'll have a presentation on Drush from Mark Ewers, plus general discussion of Drupal topics.
Hope everyone can make it. All levels of experience with Drupal are welcome.
Full house at the Guild
Hey everybody. I'm at the Guild early, and the parking lots are full. I'm not quite sure what to say. There is another event going on, and they did not expect the parking lots to fill up. I'm going to be hanging out in the parking lot and see what we can figure out.
I think the valets will park our cars for us.
Jean
Follow up to the meeting & next month's meeting
Hi all,
I enjoyed the meeting last night. I was surprised at how long my presentation went on, but the discussion was terrific and I hope everyone found something useful in it.
A couple of things...
I find I get much more from these meetings when there is something on the agenda to generate a healthy discussion. Anyone can present. Any Drupal topic ideas are welcome. Here are a few thoughts.
Anything Drupal is good. Let's get a discussion going now so next month's presenter has plenty of time to prepare.
Mark
Good Presentation
Thanks for the presentation, Mark. It inspired me to examine how I could work smarter.
Potential future topic?
I would be interested in learning more about module development. Specifically contributing patches and modules to Drupal.org. What's the workflow, the tools, etc.
Hi All, I regret being out of
Hi All,
I regret being out of the loop on STL Drupal meetup group for so many months. I'm thrilled to see these meetings happen regularly now!
What is the approximate period now for these meetings? Every 4th Thursday?
Every 4th Thursday
Yes, that is correct, unless we can't get the conference room at the Guild for a specific 4th Thursday.
The October meeting will likely be the fourth Thursday, but I need to confirm the room reservation.
Since the fourth Thursday of November falls on Thanksgiving, and the fourth Thursday of December is very close to Christmas, we had discussed having an early December meeting instead of the Fourth Thursdays in November and December.
Then in January we will hopefully be back to fourth Thursdays.
This is all a little tentative, but that's the plan. Hope you can make it back soon.
Thanks for the response! I
Thanks for the response!
I will make a note for note for the next meeting tentatively at St. Louis Artist's Guild, Thursday 10/28 7pm (?), and check back again for confirmation.
Drush, installing on windows, details
Installing Drush on Windows
http://drupal.org/node/594744
changed drush.bat
c:\wamp\bin\php\php5.3.0\php.exe "%~dp0drush.php" %*
had to edit path:
(Instruction on changing the path setting on windows: http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000549.htm)
;c:\wamp\bin\php\php5.3.0\;C:\drush;C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin
and on my laptop, with more bits:
;c:\wamp\bin\php\php5.3.0\;C:\drush;C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32\bin
Also had to download some binaries, per the readme:
"You have to install gzip, libarchive, tar and wget executables. Go to
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages.html and install the packages."
wget, had to copy the exe over to the bin folder as appropriate:
C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32\bin
C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin
Then from cmd (command line), simply: drush help
will verify it runs.
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