Reminder- Meeting Tonight (Tuesday) at Level 10 at 7:30
Submitted by Obi-Wan on Tue, 08/05/2008 - 2:19am.Address and directions here...
Please submit topics for Tuesday night meeting- "Barcamp" style
Submitted by Obi-Wan on Sun, 08/03/2008 - 1:38pm.I've never been to a "Barcamp" (yet), but I think I get the concept. Barcamps are an "un-conference" where people post topics at the conf on a board for discussion, or prior to the conference in a wiki. So in the spirit of a Barcamp, in next couple of days if everyone could edit the wiki here...
August Jedi Council
Location(s)
Last month's meeting was awesome, and Tom McCracken at McLevel 10 Design has offered to host this month again at Level 10 Design in Dallas.
What are the topics? You decide! Edit the wiki here:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/13680
See you there!
July Meeting - Hosted by Level 10 Design
Location(s)
We are excited to have our first ever meeting hosted at a company location! Tom McCracken at McLevel 10 Design has offered to host the July meeting at Level 10 Design in Dallas. Level 10 is a web design and development company with a growing use of drupal for client projects. Tom and Josh McCormack (Interactive QA) will be presenting some of their recent work using drupal for ecommerce and social networking sites.
This should be a VERY GOOD meeting so if you haven't been in awhile, or have never been but thinking of coming to a meeting, please join us!
Tuesday, July 1st, 7:30 p.m.
Activity Stream
Submitted by Jabba on Thu, 05/22/2008 - 7:43pm.Last meeting Chris showed us how he's displaying Tweets (Twitter posts) on his site. Good to know how to do this, with nothing better than the 4 only MyBlogLog module to offer a packaged solution.
Building powerful and robust websites with Drupal 6
Submitted by Xevious on Wed, 04/30/2008 - 1:36pm.From Amazon: This book updates the bestselling Drupal: Creating Blogs, Forums, Portals, and Community Websites for Drupal 6, the latest, much improved version of this popular open-source Content Management System. Targeting readers with little experience in website design, unfamiliar with PHP, MySQL or HTML, and with little to no experience of Drupal, it looks pragmatically at the steps needed from knowing you want a website right through to designing and building it like a pro, and then successfully managing and maintaining it.
Hosting
Submitted by Jabba on Thu, 02/28/2008 - 12:21pm.This is an interesting topic to me currently, and thought it might be for some of you, as well.
I currently use a managed hosting plan on a shared server, and I'm using more than my allocated space regularly, so it's time to move on. I need to be able to rapidly make new databases, domains, email addresses, etc and have it all be pretty reliable. Aside from my own site it's not a public facing thing, and despite my enthusiasm for the SEO Checklist I'm not drowning in traffic, so bandwidth isn't a big concern. What are some options?
Shared server, managed
Drupalcon!
Submitted by Obi-Wan on Fri, 02/01/2008 - 7:44pm.Anyone going to Drupalcon in Boston? It is the twice-a-year (once a year in U.S.) Drupal conference!
Profiles
Submitted by Jabba on Fri, 02/01/2008 - 4:56pm.Interesting stuff we could perhaps discuss sometime....
Drupal focuses on content, not on users. So a social networking site where people are the center, rather than an interest, require some adjustment to Drupal if it's to be used to run it.
The adjustment really boils down to profiles. Dries has made it clear that users should not be nodes, but there is a group interested in making profiles nodes (a slight difference from users). Also, some interesting things have been done to extend Drupals profiles in interesting ways. Here are some fun links to check out:
Interests & location
Submitted by Jabba on Wed, 01/23/2008 - 12:28pm.Following up to what we talked about briefly last night about an alternative for Meetup, I found this module:
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http://drupal.org/project/interests
Interests
Taxonomy · Modules
Agileware - May 2, 2007 - 02:11
Allows users to select taxonomy terms from vocabularies as 'interests'. Each time they visit a node with that taxonomy term applied to it the interest level bumps up one, or creates a new interest for them. Interests can be added/removed manually on an administration/user level or by the user itself.
