Summary of Joburg Meetup - 26 October
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This is an informal summary of the Drupal Joburg meeting held on 26 October from from the notes that I jotted down.
If anyone knows of anything that I missed, or would like to make a comment, you're welcome to post here.
George
- The next Joburg meetup is provisionally set for Wednesday November 18. Guy to confirm the date and venue and send notifications which will be posted on facebook, drupal.co.za and groups.drupal.org.
- Points from the September meeting were discussed. Of particular interest was the plans to organise the Drupal Safari (a Drupal event including international developers and guests). Guy mentioned that he has the kind offer of help on the events management side. Anton mentioned the possibility of getting involved with other social groups that have similar interests. This should be a recurring topic on the meeting agenda to keep the momentum going.
- Willem proposed that as part of the next meeting we can all contribute to improving drupal.co.za, including making some changes on the spot. Input from the Cape Town group on the drupal.co.za website is welcome.
- The relationship with the group in Cape Town was discussed further. The point was raised that we should look at how we can be be involved together, especially for organising a bigger event. There was a proposal to post our meeting notes to drupal.co.za to keep everyone informed of each other (any guys from Cape Town or elsewhere want to comment on this?)
- iDrupal for the iPhone was highlighted, it's a module that along with an iPhone application makes your Drupal site much easier to administer.
- Flip did a hands on demonstration on how to add autocomplete functionality to a drupal form element using the Forms API. It is surprisingly easy to add this feature if you know Forms Api (I believe the line of keyword here is autocomplete_path . Learning the rest of Form API is the tricky part I think.
- George did a demonstration of a watchdog related module he is developing (Sentinel). The consensus was that he should stop being lazy and post it already (anyone that would like a copy in the meantime can mail him).
Thanks to all those that attended and to Willem for the drinks - we look forward to seeing everyone at the next one.
Re: Summary of Joburg Meetup - 26 October
Um, yeah, sorry Skip. I owe you a beer at the next meeting (Willem, please bring an extra beer for Flip).
Anton, I've posted the Sentinel module here:
http://www.springfisher.com/sentinel/sentinel-6.x-1.0-beta4.tar.gz
It's permanent home, once approved, should be http://drupal.org/project/sentinel .
Excuse the self-promotion, but the one-liner from the module is:
The Sentinel module makes it easier to navigate and manage watchdog entries. It also provides alerting and archiving features.
George
Summary of Joburg Meetup - 26 October
Haha! Schweeet man.
Thanks!
On 08 Nov 2009, at 6:29 PM, george [at] springfisher [dot] com wrote:
Summary of Joburg Meetup - 26 October
Very nice set of notes George! Thanx a mil.
On 07 Nov 2009, at 11:54, george [at] springfisher [dot] com wrote:
alreadyHahahaha
> (anyone that would like a copy in the meantime can mail him).
:)
Anton
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Re: Summary of Joburg Meetup - 26 October
Thank you George, great summary.
I really like willem's suggestion of doing a drupal.co.za scrum. I'll start organising later this week.
P.s. It's Skip not Flip. He's done a technical overview available at http://telamenta.com I'll post to this site when on somethibg more functional than my blackberry ;)