Southern Colorado (SCUG)

With DrupalCon going down in Denver this year, there seems to be (understandably) little interest in organizing DrupalCamp Colorado for 2012. The idea was tossed around for actual camping, which IMO would be a nice change after all the DrupalCon action. Note: If someone still wants to organize a Drupal Camp, don't let this stop you.

The Goal: To get some nature, relax and hang out with fellow Drupalers in a low stress, unplugged environment.

In April's meeting, we tried something new; we worked in small groups to find and fix bugs in Drupal core and contributed modules. We found that we should have had a) devel versions of Drupal 6, 7 and perhaps 8 on our laptops and b) we should have pre-selected novice issues that offer good learning experiences for all. See:

Both of agenda items for our April meeting are inspired by DrupalCon Denver. Something for everyone: folks new to Drupal all the way to Drupal developers (and developer wannabees).

The best of DrupalCon Denver. Although all of the videos for the sessions are online at the DrupalCon Denver website, who has time - or discipline - to view them? We will share our best DrupalCon sessions to give each other a thumbnail overview on what we learned. Also, none of the BoF's were recorded, so bring your favorite BoF's and what you learned.

February's meeting: Rick Nashleanas, Bryan Jones and James Swainston will show how they implemented LDAP and GIS calls from the Acquia server to provide customized employee and citizen dashboards for the County of Pueblo. They will highlight the technical challenges and demo how citizens and employees are identified and how each group can retrieve customized information on their dashboards.

Last month. Bryan Jones demonstrated how he has developed a Drupal 7 views timeline feature that he has implemented on several websites. The basics of his presentation are here. Caleb Thorne then explained and demonstrated the new queue processing in Drupal 7. His slides are available here.

November's meeting.  Watch this space for our upcoming agenda.

OK, school is back in session (next week), and so are the local Drupal meetings!

I'm mostly just looking to gauge interest at this point - location and topics of discussion are TBD. So please leave a comment - even a yes/no/maybe would be great - and of course, chime in with topic suggestions!

Hope you all enjoyed the summer - it sure went fast!

-Benj

Last month. Besides informal information sharing:

• Matt Kleve talked about Drupal performance, including Apache Benchmark, APC, php.ini settings, memcache, my.cnf, Varnish, slow query log and more.
• Bryan Jones demonstrated how to configure a mobile theme for a Drupal site, specifically www.monarchdigital.com and m.monarchdigital.com. John Ferris demoed a fluid theme site, www.upadowna.com.
• Mike Potter talked about setting up an easy local development environment using Drupal Quickstart: http://drupal.org/project/quickstart.

In the wake of Drupalcamp Colorado, we can now think about our next SCUG meeting.

Mark your calendars. The meeting will be July 5th at the East Library - http://library.ppld.org/east-library - in Colorado Springs: http://bit.ly/iq44ij from 6:30 pm to 9 pm.

At our last meeting, several folks had some great projects and features that they had been working on. If you'd like to share those, that would be great. We have developed a mobile version of our web site, www.monarchdigital.com, and we could demo that if there is interest.