Drupal Working Group Meeting

Abstract/Agenda: 

This will be the official meeting for the Drupal Working Group, with chair elections and discussions for the next year.

We will be soliciting demos and other Drupal content for this meeting (stay tuned to this site)!

Notes: 

Drupal

Introductions

 

Need to craft a statement of purpose

 

DrupalCon(who is going).  There is funding to send 2 people

 

Summer meeting is bigger for this group

 

Need to identify "expert" to bring in for summer meeting

 

Intro to Drupal working group Wiki

 

Monthly telecons have experts from leading Drupal companies (host videos on YouTube)

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Last summer's Funding Friday's idea

 

System for tracking issues for scientific use of drupal

 

Discussion:

 

User Stories:

-fixing a bug, in the prototype

-asking for a new feature

-looking for help

 

Technical:

-pulling from drupal.org or github

 

Hosting:

-Where? esipfed.org or scienceondrupal.org

-use a distribution? eg. Open Atrium

 

Other ideas or suggestions

 

How to move this forward?

-need to identify users/needs

-do survey to identify

 

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NASA internal code sharing (can give presentation at summer meeting)

-register for URS gets access

 

Other thoughts for summer meeting

-prototype of tracker presented

-success stories from within ESIP group

 

questions on plone to drupal migration at NASA group

-having more difficulty with getting scientist to tell what they need than problems with drupal

 

various discussions

 

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Telecon

 

Any requests for Telecon presenters

-thematic requests

-experts requests

-have had some good sematic web talks

-talk about when NOT to use drupal

 

-volunteer to give presentation on work based on LTER

-volunteer to give presentation on "DAC in a box" work

 

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Nominations

David and Adam at co-chairs (by Bruce)

No other nominations

David and Adam are elected co-chairs.

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Discussion on the scope of the group, should it be widened to include other content management systems?

Citation:
Caron, B.; Drupal Working Group Meeting; Winter Meeting 2014. ESIP Commons , October 2013

Comments

ashepherd's picture

I'd be happy to present or run a tutorial for this session. Something along the lines of using semantics on Drupal. I'd prefer a tutorial if there's enough interest as I'd rather help folks get some experience with these techniques. But, either way is cool. I'm happy to help in any way. Also, we just released the BCO-DMO website in Drupal (migration from Coldfusion). I could share lessons learned, performance techniques, etc and get feedback form the rest of the group about how they deploy production sites. Anyway, let me know how I can help. Looking forward to the winter meeting and making progress on the DWG!!