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In February… As we had a number of folks new to Drupal in our February meeting, everyone who had Drupal experience contributed to giving an overview of Drupal. Is it a CMS or a development platform? How is Drupal organized between core, modules, the theme layer, custom modules, etc? An overview of national, regional and local Drupal sites and projects.
As always, this discussion served to introduce one another, our specialties and ways we could promote everyone’s businesses!
Mike Potter then gave a great presentation on building a theme from scratch and then using Zen to develop a new theme. Mike’s presentation was great for non-coding developers and coders who have no design skills.
Bryan Jones won a free copy of the O’Reilly book, Using Drupal. Attendees of our March meeting will be eligible to win our last complimentary copy of Using Drupal! Thanks O’Reilly!
March Meeting. Updated as of February 22. Matt Kleve has volunteered to give an overview and practical examples of using the Drupal Forms API. The Forms API provides unlimited possibilities for custom theming, validation and execution of forms. (Quoted from Forms API Quickstart Guide.)
If we have time, we’ll share demonstrations and discussions of all of our favorite modules. One of the many advantages of Drupal is the huge variety of modules you can use to add functionality to your web site. However, not all modules are created equal. Learn about real life experiences in which modules are absolutely the “must have’s”.
Matt Kleve (vordude on drupal.org) kindly created a wiki of our favorite modules at http://groups.drupal.org/node/48948. Jump up there and contribute your favorite modules and we will demo, discuss, compare and contrast modules and their capabilities.
Upcoming Events. Be sure to consider attending upcoming national and regional Drupal events. DrupalCon 2010 in San Francisco promises to be an amazingly exhilarating event. DrupalCamp Colorado has been an amazing regional event in Denver for the last number of summers. Not everyone can get to San Francisco, so we might brainstorm on how to best share this information among the entire group.
As always, be sure to bring your Drupal questions and problems to the group.
Many thanks to our host, the East Library in Colorado Springs. We are normally in the large conference room; take a hard left when you enter the building. Our regular meetings are on the first Thursday of the month. We’ll start socializing at 6:30, and the actual event will begin at 7:00. Our host locks up at 9, so we’ll have to be out by then.
Sign up. To sign up, go to our Drupal Groups page or to our meetup.com page.
Promote our meeting. We are continuing our ongoing effort to invite local college students and their instructors to our next meeting. As I have a number of Colorado Tech students and recent alums working with me, we have posted anm 8-1/2 x 11 flyer that you can download, print and distribute to any organization or person who could benefit.
