Notes from first Vancouver Drupal Users Group Meeting

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This post was originally published on March 20, 2006 on The Standard, the Raincity Studios blog, credited to “Boris Mann”. This post reflects the context and tools of its time; some links and services mentioned no longer exist.

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Now that Roland has posted some videos (intro, me jumping up and down about CCK), I better get these notes up!

From my point of view, it was a great first meetup, and thanks to the Vancouver PHP Users Group for co-presenting. There are actually two Drupal forums on vancouver.php.net, so a good place to keep notes -- I'll cross post the relevant bits there. That is, before the mega-site of groups.drupal.org gets set up.

We did an intro around the room where everyone talked a little bit about what they're working on. It was a good mix of users and developers. Doug Gough had before the meetup talked about maybe collaborating on some tutorials or screencasts -- this is a great goal for user groups, I think, to actually work together on something. Actually, I think Doug needed a module coded for his school, so that might be something else that the group works on together.

After doing the intro, I did a demo of Drupal's Content Construction Kit, aka CCK. The project page is here and works on the 4.7 beta, but reading the background info is better to get an idea of what it does/where it's headed. In a nutshell, to make it easier to define custom data types directly through the browser without programming. I also ranted about the Views module, which lets you slice and dice all the content in your site and show it in different ways.

Lastly, since I used it while driving the sample website I was showing, we had a little side discussion about the TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor.

The funnest part of the meeting? Well, other than drinking beer and some nice snacks at Take 5, was deciding what we want to call ourselves, or Do we have to be an UG? :P See you all next time!

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