DrupalCamp Twin Cities 2012 - Media Sprint
There's a great event called DrupalCamp Twin Cities going on May 18-19, 2012 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Since the event is fairly close to me, I've signed up to present and also will be organizing a Media sprint on Sunday, May 20th (as well as during the camp of course!).
Agenda
We'll be focused on sprinting for three main goals:
- Accessibility improvements to the Media module
- Cleaning up and polishing file_entity for core (and SimpleTests)
- Drupal core issues (converting file entity to an classed object, file usage system)
- 1.0 release documentation
Sprint progress wiki
We will be using http://lullapad.com/pWGqMEzRKY to track the current issues we're working on and who is working on them.
Time & Location:
We'll start sprinting from 9:30 AM until 4 PM (what time is this in my time zone?). Food and snacks will be provided by our awesome hosts, The Nerdery!
The Nerdery
9555 James Ave S
Suite #245
Bloomington MN 55431
Map: http://g.co/maps/cuf8m
Please note that The Nerdery is NOT within walking distance of the University of Minnesota where the camp itself is being held. It's considerably off-campus. Ask around at the camp to hitch a ride – organizers will try to facilitate transportation. The Nerdery has not yet perfected teleporting but stay tuned.
Want to attend?
If you are interested in attending in person, please comment below! Please try to note how you think you want to contribute during the sprint (coding? documentation? patch testing? writing simpletests?).
Read moreDrupal media IRC meeting and office hours #8
Please join us for our bi-weekly, open meeting to discuss issues and progress related to the Drupal Media module and unofficial initiative. The meeting will be held in #drupal-media in IRC at 8 PM UTC on Thursday, April 26th. When is this in my time zone?
Agenda
- Issues needed for a 1.1 release
- Progress on 2.x and core issues?
- Usability update
- Accessibility update
- Upcoming Media sprints
- Status update of drupalmedia.org and demo site
- Whatever topics YOU would like to discuss!
Personal note from Dave: I'll be offline doing a client on-site this Thursday so I won't be able to attend my own initiative meeting. I'd still like the meeting to continue as expected so that new contributors and those with questions can still have an official time to come and participate.
Office hours
Immediately following the IRC meeting, we will be holding weekly office hours in IRC for one hour! The main goal of office hours is to help mentor and empower new contributors to become regular Media contributors.
Read moreDrupal media IRC meeting and office hours #7
Please join us for our bi-weekly, open meeting to discuss issues and progress related to the Drupal Media module and unofficial initiative. The meeting will be held in #drupal-media in IRC at 8 PM UTC on Thursday, April 12th. When is this in my time zone?
Agenda
- Issues needed for a 1.1 release
- Progress on 2.x and core issues?
- Usability update
- Accessibility update
- Upcoming Media sprints
- Status update of drupalmedia.org and demo site
- Whatever topics YOU would like to discuss!
Personal note from Dave: I'll be offline doing a client on-site this Thursday so I won't be able to attend my own initiative meeting. I'd still like the meeting to continue as expected so that new contributors and those with questions can still have an official time to come and participate.
Office hours
Immediately following the IRC meeting, we will be holding weekly office hours in IRC for one hour! The main goal of office hours is to help mentor and empower new contributors to become regular Media contributors.
Read moreAny interested in sprint at DrupalCamp Twin Cities on May 20th?
There's a great event called DrupalCamp Twin Cities going on May 18-19, 2012 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Since the event is fairly close to me, I've been thinking about organizing a Media sprint on Sunday, May 20th (as well as during the camp of course!). I'd like to gauge how many people would be seriously interested in attending a full-day sprint. Interested? Comment here!
Read moreDrupal media IRC meeting and office hours #6
Please join us for our bi-weekly, open meeting to discuss issues and progress related to the Drupal Media module and unofficial initiative. The meeting will be held in #drupal-media in IRC at 8 PM UTC on Thursday, March 29th. When is this in my time zone?
Agenda
- DrupalCon post-mortem:
- We released 1.0! HOORAY!
- 2.x progress
- Drupal core issue progress
- Accessibility
- Upcoming Media sprints
- Status update of drupalmedia.org and demo site
- Status update for usability testing
- Issue rundown
- Whatever topics YOU would like to discuss!
Office hours
Immediately following the IRC meeting, we will be holding weekly office hours in IRC for two hours! The main goal of office hours is to help mentor and empower new contributors to become regular Media contributors.
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Need for global fields (alt & title for example) for files
We now have editable file types for the File Entity 2.x. Soon also it will be possible to add new file types in a similar manner as how we work with content types in Drupal.
This will make it possible to create tailored file types such as "Logo Types" and "Cars" which can contain different fields as well as both images and videos for example.
However, we also need a mechanism to out-of-the-box handle HTML attributes such as alt and title as explained in the http://groups.drupal.org/node/219619 wiki page.
Read moreMedia Accessibility - Media Sprint 2012
Attributes (alt and title)
At this point in time, we are focusing on the alt and title attributes, with the mindset that we will be creating a framework that will work for other attributes.
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- Reasoning: WCAG 2.0 Guideline 1.1 Text Alternatives and ATAG 2.0 Guideline B.2.3: Assist authors with managing alternative content for non-text content.
Media sprint 2012 sprint plan
Issues to focus on
- embedding non-image content with wysiwyg
- proposal to change how we embed things in the view mode
- file entity: file access api (tests)
- file entity: file type table patch
- "d7 media initiative" core patches: issue queue
- develop a testing plan for file_entity
Other interesting tasks
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DrupalCon Denver 2012 - Media BOF (Sprint planning)
http://denver2012.drupal.org/bof/media-initiative-sprint-planning-and-of...
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