Meetup: Capital District Nosh & Connect - Distributions: Learning from Others
Meredith Case
I hope you can join us for our next Albany area Drupal user group gathering.
Where: Zone 5, Downtown Albany (See their website for directions & information http://www.zone5.com/contact-us)
When: Monday, June 29th, 5:30-8pm
What: Distributions: Learning from Others (Gregg Marshall)
Agenda:
5:30 - 6 pm: chat, munch on pizza
6 - 6:10 pm: news and announcements
6:10 - 7:15 pm:
Gregg Marshall will share his analysis and expertise through his "Distributions: Learning from Others" presentation. He is presenting it this month at DrupalCamp Coloradohttp://2015.drupalcampcolorado.org/session/distributions-learning-others.
Drupal comes with some assembly required. Drupal core itself is pretty bare bones. Thanks to several thousand contributed modules, virtually any functionality is possible. Distributions take those modules, combine them with configuration to serve a specific use case. There are almost 500 distributions on drupal.org, so it is possible there’s one that might meet your needs, or a lot of them.
Distributions are also often big, enabling over 100 modules, and notoriously hard to update.
Even if you don’t use a distribution, distributions have another, useful, purpose—you can learn from them.
Join Gregg as he performs autopsies of three distributions with similar goals—enabling rapid development of governmental websites:
• aGov
• OpenPublic
• WetKit
Like a medical examiner, we’ll dissect the distributions and try to understand how and why they were constructed. We’ll also look at how these distributions have evolved their approach as they have gained experience using the distribution.
Among the things we’ll cover are:
• Modules used
• Content types
• Views
• Features (how components are being modularized)
• Initialization code
7:15 - 8 pm: share your Drupal challenges with the group.
Please RSVP through the sign-up button on the page. I need to let Zone 5 know how many people to expect - and for pizza planning, yum!
Give away JetBrains http://www.jetbrains.com/ has generously donated a license to PhpStorm. We will have a drawing to see who wins it.
Feel free to bring your laptop; there is wireless