August Meeting (8/9) of PSU-DUG (Drupal User Group)

August 5, 2011

The next meeting for the Penn State Drupal Users Group will be held on Tuesday, August 9th, 2011 @ 11:30 AM in 121 Borland Building (at Penn State’s University Park campus in State College, PA). To date, there have been just a few PSU Drupal Users Group Meetings. We hope that this meeting is the first of many that will help grow our community. Our format will be a mix of lightning talks leading up to a main topic.

PARTICIPATE!

LIGHTNING TALKS
These fast presentations are intended to showcase something that you have been working with in your sites. This could be a problem for which you are searching for an answer, or it could be the solution that you finally found. Presentations are limited to five minutes in length. The intention is to have about five or six of these presentations at each meeting. When deciding on your content for a lightning presentation, aiming for a shorter presentation with time for questions later is better.
MAIN PRESENTATION
This is a 30-45 minute presentation with Q&A time available that will detail a particular project, idea, or problem. We are currently gathering people to present in each of these formats so we have a queue of topics and interested presenters.

UNABLE TO ATTEND?

If you are unable to join us in person, the meetings will be available through Adobe Connect: https://meeting. psu.edu/drupalusersgroup/

AGENDA

  • Introduction
  • Room Introductions Introduce yourself and tell us a little about how you are using Drupal and what you want to do next with it.
  • Lightning Talks:
    • Generating Stakeholder Buy-in for Drupal The first obstacle with Drupal isn’t technology or code.- Andrew Gearhart @AndrewGearhart
    • Taxonomy + Views Bonus Pack to create a quick mobile site- Adam Bergstein @n3rdstein
    • Testing Theme Modifications w/ CSS Injector- Eric Aitala @aitala
    • TBD
    • TBD
  • The Main Presentation: This month, Bryan Ollendyke will be digging into the ELMS Instructional CMS. Much like he does in his ELMS Botany series on elearning. psu.edu, Bryan will step through some of how ELMS works both at a module and code level.
  • Group Business: 5-10 minutes to discuss business related to group organization, our website, meeting times, activities, etc.

PSU-DUG COMMUNICATION

To be able to foster this community, we need to maintain open, clear, and consistent information that ensures information gets to the far reaches of our very large community (Penn State). As such, we will be using several forms of communication to make sure that we are heard. These are the ones that we are planning to use:

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