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April DUG wrap-up

Quick recap of the April 19 Drupal User Group in Seattle. Next meeting is scheduled for May 24th.

For the developers among us and those looking to learn, a new book is now available that looks to be a comprehensive guide to developing in Drupal 5. Pro Drupal Development (Paperback) by John VanDyk & Matt Westgate, now shipping from Amazon.

Coders can find excellent articles and screencasts at Drupal Dojo http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-dojo and Lullabot. Also, some recommended modules to help with dev issues: Coder, Devel and Trace.

Discussed importing data into CCK nodes. No one seems to have achieved this yet and we're still searching for a clean solution.
John had pointed to this Drupal HOWTO http://drupal.org/node/133705, and there is also a recent article from Lullabot
http://www.lullabot.com/articles/quick_and_dirty_cck_imports. Still holding out hope for the Import/Export API.

We covered some aspects of MultiSite installations sharing the main Drupal codebase with site specific modules and themes. This generated much interest and would make a good demo at our next DrupalCamp. What other ideas does anyone have for presentations or demos?

Several upcoming events and meetings in Seattle that Drupal users might be interested in attending:
DrupalCon - September 19-22 @Barcelona, Spain http://groups.drupal.org/drupalcon-barcelona-2007
Digital Eve Seattle - Third Wednesday @Fare Start http://www.digitaleveseattle.org/
Dorkbot Seattle - first Wednesday @911 Media Arts http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotsea/
Gnomedex - August 9-11 @Bell Harbor http://www.gnomedex.com/
Ignite Seattle - @Capitol Hill Arts Center (CHAC) http://igniteseattle.com/
PHP Seattle - first Thursday @Espresso Vivace http://php.meetup.com/49/
MySQL Seattle - @Elysian Brewery http://mysql.meetup.com/31/
MindCamp Seattle - July 1st @Tukwila Community Center http://mindcamp.gearlive.com/

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