Boston Drupal Meetup - October 4th, 2016 @ 6:30pm

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Start: 
2016-10-04 18:30 - 21:00 America/New_York
Event type: 
User group meeting

Join the Boston Drupal Group on October 4th 2016 for a night of Drupal focused conversations, presentations and talks.

Call for Lightning Talks

This month we are again putting out a call for themed lightning talks. Volunteers get between 5 to 10 minutes to present a talk. We are looking for talks on the following topics:

Accessibility with Drupal

Accessibility is the practice of making websites more inclusive, allowing for people with disabilities to interact more easily with online content. The Drupal community has been on the forefront of implementing accessibility best practices; these initiatives have only increased with development of Drupal 8. An increasing number of new projects are requiring ADA Compliance, which is a set of standards for website accessibility. Not only do these improvements help users such as those with screenreaders, but they also correlate positively with better Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

This month we are focusing understanding and leveraging Drupal's accessibility features. This will include a follow up discussion from the previous weekend's NEDCamp which is focusing on accessibility.

Some presentation ideas might include:

  • What semantic HTML5 look like and why is it used
  • WAI-ARIA landmarks and how do you use them
  • Implementing accessible inline form errors
  • What aural alerts do
  • Accessibility modules to use on your Drupal site
  • Tools/checklists to use for accessibility testing
  • How to plan accessibility into your Drupal site

If you have an idea for a lightning talk on the topic of search, sign up by leaving a comment below. Perhaps your idea will inspire others.

General Lightning Talks

Along with our themed presentations we will have a call for general lightning talks. This is an open floor to ask questions, present recent work or lead other Drupal discussions. No preparation is required.

Location

The October 2016 meetup will be hosted at Genuine, located at 500 Harrison Ave. 5R, Boston, MA 02118.

Parking and Transportation

The Genuine office is accessible by many means of public transportation.

  • A 10 minute walk from the Broadway T stop on the Red Line.
  • A 10 minute walk from Tufts Medical on the Orange Line.
  • A 5 minute walk from the Silver Line (SL4 or SL5) Bus stop East Berkley st @ Washington st.

On-street parking (free & metered) may be available on many surrounding streets including Harrison Ave, Randolph Street and Washington Street. Parking lots are also available for $7 per car.

Dinner and Drinks

During the meetup, pizza, salad, and drinks will be generously sponsored by Genuine. ** Please RSVP via this posting's Sign up button below so we have a proper headcount for dinner order. **

Sponsors/Feature Guests Wanted

If you would like to sponsor future dinners or meet-up locations, please reach out to organizers. You will be recognized at the meeting, given the chance to do a featured talk for 15 min., and promoted to our Boston list of over 1500 subscribers.

Pencil in 1st Tuesdays!

The first Tuesdays are designated Boston Drupal Meetup nights unless noted. Look for future announcements and reminders!

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Meeting Notes

mikemiles86's picture

That you to everyone who made it to the October meetup. Here are a few notes that recap what was discussed. (A big thank you to Stephanie Luz for taking notes).

Drupal Conferences Recap

NED Camp

  • The keynote speaker was great! He covered website accessibility and demonstrated the different between an accessible website (Bank of America) and a website with very limited accessibility (British Beer Company)
  • The conference was welcoming to developers of all levels

DrupalCon Dublin, Ireland

  • Approximately 1,700 attendees
  • Best internet Moshe has every had at a conference!
  • Announcement: Drupal revision to be released every six months
  • Very inspirational speeches of how Drupal changed lives

Announcements

Community Grant

    Request made to fund Meetup.com - Grant denied because Boston group was considered to be established
    Looking for ideas on how to fund

    Drupal Social Media

    Need to setup new Twitter account or reclaim old one
    (http://www.twitter.com/Drupal_Boston has been setup!)

    Lightning Talks!

    YAML Forms by Rob Howl

    • Multi-step forms are not an easy feature to find even in D7. With YAML Forms, you can edit the form the the UI - your clients will be able to edit and select elements.
    • Rob Howl said that if you’re looking to implement Views off YAML, it’s not suggested. Module developers are still working on it.

    The Door for New Contributors to Drupal is Still Locked by Ben Melancon

    • With the number of modules, there’s no way the security team can keep up. New users cannot add code or contribute to projects easily. The only way to really contribute is by becoming a Veteran user.
    • Kelly asks - The idea behind the view is that anyone can claim mainspace. Does the security team review every module?
    • Moshe answers - The security team has to review it in order for it be to stable. Security will not want to review that personally, they will want to use the system as suggested. Other users will have more permissions.
    • Jim - I recently went through this process not too long ago - you can go through a bonus program - it took 7 months to get through the process
    • Jim - When releasing a module, is there a process to review security; should we reach out to someone in particular?
    • Ben - reach out to the Peer Review Group regarding security
    • Micky - How would I ever know about something like this? Should there be a networking push?

    Internal Page Caching Issue - Carolyn

  • When you turn off internal page cache, will anonymous users see the same performance hit as logged in users? Carolyn was using standard views blocks and no other modules. When Carolyn edits and saves anything on the site, the updates are pushed to anonymous users.
  • Jim - Suggested using Cache Exclude or Uncache module to exclude certain paths from page caching.
  • Carolyn - If I disable your internal caching, how much do I reduce my performance? Even when I set everything to no caching, it doesn’t seem to be too slow for my users

Tech Advisory Committee

  • Moshe sits on the Tech Advisory Committee for the Drupal Association Committee and they are working on modernizing the Drupal.org issue queue. We have been looking at Github and Gitlab.
  • Githosting / issues / taskbot all in Github or Gitlab
  • Gitlab has been welcoming of Drupal - they offered to pitch in money to hire a firm to transfer data and issues.
  • Many integrations between projects and other things - what component is this issues in - what version does it belong to. List of statuses - Gitlab has open and closed - Gitlab and github both have issues and pull requests.
  • If we move our issues, the products will probably become labels - anyone can add labels. Small vocabulary of components that people can choose from in a structured way
  • Things like project review - we will have to think about how this works
  • Security team - how that works
  • If people have thoughts on this topic, we would love to hear them
  • Meagan from the drupal association is going to let everyone know about this
  • JIm - recently switched from github to gitlab - have the opensource version - github is not open source
  • Issue queue is very simple - not sure if drupal could handle the complexities in the issue queue
  • Jim - you can do labels to a project level but I think you could be do it at a group level, still it’s not a lot of structure
  • Moshe - Gitlab is working on labels at group level now. Have the first 50 organizations set up on Gitlab with no migration help and just see how it goes.
  • Micky - We are trying to get Drupal into Boston schools. They don’t have to be coders; we want to give kids a pathway into Drupal - Possibly talk to Megan about making this a part of their curriculum
  • Moshe - Anyone can upload a patch to the same issue, you have a branch that belongs to the same person - if other people want to work on it, they don’t have permission to work on the original person’s pull request - they would have to fork
  • Moshe - solution to that problem - There’s going to be an issue for every single proposed change - anyone that wants to change code makes a merge request - the maintainers can deny merge requests

Drutopia - grassroots groups

make sure it’s a viable business model for small websites - suggestions of time and place - Possibly in Cambridge

@mikemiles86

Is Nov 1st the next meetup

anoopjohn's picture

I am trying to plan a trip to Boston. Wanted to see if I can align it with the Boston Meetup date. Is Nov 1st the next meetup date?

"Be the change you wish to see in the world", M. K. Gandhi.

Hello Anoopjohn! November 1st

mikemiles86's picture

Hello Anoopjohn!

November 1st is indeed the date of the next Boston Drupal meetup. We look forward to seeing you there.

@mikemiles86

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