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Topics Paragraphs feedback What is Organic Groups? Use Cases Key concepts to understand Module of the Week Facebook Post - https://www.drupal.org/project/fb_post This module allows registered users to add posts to their Facebook feeds when they create new content or make a comment on your site. Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross Jason Pamental - www.hwdesignco.com @jpamental John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan  

Topics Drupal 8 -  Full release 2016 Getting involved and getting started Does this change anything in your mind?How to move forward with Drupal 8 Tips on building a volunteer hour tracking website Module of the Week  Paragraphs - https://www.drupal.org/project/paragraphs Paragraphs is the new way of content creation! It allows you — Site Builders — to make things cleaner so that you can give more editing power to your end-users. Instead of putting all their content in one WYSIWYG body field including images and videos, end-users can now choose on-the-fly between pre-defined Paragraph Types independent from one another. Paragraph Types can be anything you want from a simple text block or image to a complex and configurable slideshow. Paragraphs module comes with a new "paragraphs" field type that works like Entity Reference's. Simply add a new paragraphs field on any Content Type you want and choose which Paragraph Types should be available to end-users. They can then add as many Paragraph items as you allo

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The Night Before DrupalCon   Twas the night before DrupalCon When all through the hotel, Not a developer was coding, not even Crell The Coffee Mugs were placed by the laptops with care, In hopes that our Dries, soon would be there The speakers were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of Drupal 8 RC danced in their heads and my boss in his t-shirt and I in mine too just sat down to the bar to throw back a brew When out in the hall there arose such a clatter I  sprang from my stool to see what was the matter, out to the hall I stumbled and fell, tore up my new DrupalCon t-shirt and and exclaimed “oh hell” When, what to my wondering eyes should appear, but a bright yellow taxi driven by a man with a beard, with a spiky haired passenger wearing glasses and jeans I knew in a moment it must be Dries  More rapid than Varnish his contributors they came. and he commented, and messaged and called them by name: Now JJeff! now Quicksketch now Webchick and Nicxvan On MerlinofChaos On Stella On KarenS and Eaton!

Topics Doing it yourself vs accepting a third parties content model
 Determining content types
 Fields
 References/content relationships
 Defining authoring experience
 Tools
 Module of the Week Christmas Snow: https://www.drupal.org/project/christmas_snow This is a very small module that adds a Christmas Snoweffect to your site. Modules Entity References - https://www.drupal.org/project/entityreference Resources Build Spec Spreadsheet - https://t.co/pMk5IBATrl Gather Content - https://gathercontent.com/ Good Typographic on the Web by Jason  - http://www.printmag.com/featured/good-typographic-design-for-the-web/ Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross Jason Pamental - www.hwdesignco.com @jpamental John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan  

Topics Latest Drupal News Blogs Curators  Google Alerts Podcasts Attending camps/cons/conferences Meetups Social Media  Company Reading Lists or Newsletters Writing! Industry Trends  Blogs Podcasts Attending camps/cons/conferences Publications   Module of the Week ImageAPI Optimize https://www.drupal.org/project/imageapi_optimize This is a toolkit for ImageAPI. It requires imageapi_gd or imageapi_imagemagick or any ImageAPI toolkit to work. ImageAPI Optimize allows you to use your preferred toolkit and optimize (losslessly) the image when it is saved. Practice for web performance suggests that images should be optimized for better loading time. With this module enabled, Google's Page Speed will always give you an A in image optimize. Resources Aquia Blog 0 https://www.acquia.com/blog Lullabot - https://www.lullabot.com/contact/mailinglist Drupalize.me - https://drupalize.me/ (newsletter signup at the bottom) Weekly Drop - http://www.theweeklydrop.com/ Drupal Planet - https://www.drupal.org/planet Lullabot

Topics Managed vs Non-Managed
 Website characteristics
 Backups
 Hosting Companies
 Drupal Specialized Hosting
 Module of the Week Role Export - https://www.drupal.org/project/role_export The Role Export module allows roles to have machine_names and generates a unique role id (rid) based off of the machine_name. Roles can be exported with Features and get the exact same rid if imported on other sites. Because of this unique rid there is no need to create plugins per contrib module that use the rid in their export code, such as Views, Ctools, Rules, etc. References to this role id will not break on other sites. Resources Hosting Companies Dreamhost
 A Small orange
 Linode
 Media temple
 Digital Ocean
 Ramnode
 Black Mesh
 Site Ground
 Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross Jason Pamental - www.hwdesignco.com @jpamental John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

Topics Guest Marc Isaacson “Teach Yourself Drupal” Drupal Kickstarter Project Project goals Objective How does it work Ridiculously Open source   Kickstarter campaign Module of the Week Computed Field - https://www.drupal.org/project/computed_field Computed Field is a very powerful field module that lets you add a custom "computed fields" to your content types. These computed fields are populated with values that you define via PHP code. You may draw on anything available to Drupal, including other fields, the current user, database tables, you name it. (Feeling the power yet? :) ) You can also choose whether to store your computed field values in the database with other content fields, or have them "calculated" on the fly during node views. (Although you should note that Views use requires database stored values.) This field is literally the Swiss Army knife of fields. So start cooking up your PHP based values! Resources Teach Yourself Drupal Kickstarter - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vegantriat

Topics NewdCamp overall results
 Team
 Handling the money
 Selecting a Venue
 Sponsors
 Marketing
 Website
 Things we forgot 
 Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross Jason Pamental - www.hwdesignco.com @jpamental John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan Guests Ellen Diamond - www.hwdesignco.com @ellendiamond Susan Krushinsky www.HomesBySusanK.com @HomesBySusanK

Topics Net neutrality
 What is MailChimp
 What is Mandrill
 Modules to use with them
 Implementation uses
 Module of the Week Mailredirect - https://www.drupal.org/project/mail_redirect The Mail Redirect module redirects ALL system generated email to a test mail domain or address. This is especially useful when doing site testing which uses a production database which is populated with real email addresses. Modules Mailchimp - https://www.drupal.org/project/mailchimp Mandrill - https://www.drupal.org/project/mandrill Resources Mailchimp patch for contextual links - https://www.drupal.org/node/2356065 Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross Jason Pamental - www.hwdesignco.com @jpamental John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan  

Topics Episode #71 - Jeff Robbins What do we mean by Mobile Friendly Drupal? What makes a site friendly Modules to help 10-15-14 Module of the Week Front End Developer - https://www.drupal.org/project/dfed Front End Developer provides an easy to use toolkit for theme developers that assists in the building of themes. Features include: * Displays current viewport resolution * Displays common media query resolutions ( ie. Mobile, Tablet, Desktop ) * Highlights defined sidebar regions * Highlights links that do not have a destination set * Highlights images without alt tags set   Modules Navbar Module - https://www.drupal.org/project/navbar Adaptive Images - https://www.drupal.org/project/adaptive_image Picture - https://www.drupal.org/project/picture Flexslider - https://www.drupal.org/project/flexslider Context - https://www.drupal.org/project/context Context Breakpoint - https://www.drupal.org/project/context_breakpoint Context Mobile Detect - https://www.drupal.org/project/context_mobile_detect Fences -

On November 1, 2014 at Brown University in Providence, Jeff Robbins, gave the keynote speech at the first New England Drupal Camp.    The Drupal community knowns Jeff as a pioneer in web development and Drupal, but did you know the CEO of Lullabot was also the front man for a successful alternative rock band in the 90s?  Jeff shared the lessons he learned in music and how they shaped his success building a world renowned Drupal agency You can hear Jeff's speech, "What I learned from Rock and Roll" here.  

Topics What is meant by collaboration? Is it different than teamwork? Collaborationist!  Benefits of collaborating Internal and external  Participation vs collaboration Steps to get collaboration kick started Personal and business impact Finding people to collaborate with Module of the Week Metatag http://drupal.org/project/metatag The Metatag module allows you to automatically provide structured metadata, aka "meta tags", about a website. In the context of search engine optimization, when people refer to meta tags they are usually referring to the meta description tag and the meta keywords tag that may help improve the rankings and display of a site in search engine results. In addition, the module provides support for meta tags (Open Graph Protocol from Facebook, Twitter Cards from Twitter) that allow control of how content appears when shared on social networks. Resources Workshops - http://www.Webcoffee.co Design is a Job - http://www.abookapart.com/products/design-is-a-job Linchpin - http://www.amaz

Topics Scenario 1 - “I have a Drupal 6 website and I need to get to Drupal 7” Scenario 2 - “I cannot get support from my current Drupal developer” Modules Checklist  https://www.drupal.org/project/checklist Allow administrators on sites to create checklists that must be completed by users of the site. Each user can see their checklists on the "Checklists" tab of their account. Multiple checklists can be created and assigned to users to complete depending on their role (or other groups in 2.x). Additional checklist options: Specify to only make new users complete a checklist. Assign a role on completion of checklist. Limit navigation until checklist is complete (it will not allow the users to go anywhere except to items on the checklist). Force checklist items to be completed in order. Multiple checklist item types that can be expanded via hooks/API. Implemented by default in both versions: User check - the user simply clicks/checks the item. Admin check - a user with the correct permission must check the

Topics Security Patch Released today Approaches to address the issue.  Update or patch. Handling customers Open source - security Oomph Ally Services Managing the update process with a customer Charge for updates or included in monthly service fee Writing secure code: Importance of using the API   Modules Conditional Fields https://www.drupal.org/project/conditional_fields Define dependencies between fields based on their states and values. Conditional Fields for Drupal 7 is an user interface to the new States API, plus the ability to modify fields appearance and behavior on certain conditions when viewing content   Resources Security Release - https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2014-005 Security FAQ - https://www.drupal.org/node/2357241 Drupal Secutiry Page - https://security.drupal.org/about Oomph Ally Servcies - http://oomphinc.com/ally Drupal Security - https://twitter.com/drupalsecurity Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross Jason Pamental - www.hwdesignco.com @jpamental John Picoz

Topics Meet Jerry from Drupal PVD How to approach Drupal from the outside Drupal baggage Having a Drupal State of Mind and how to get there Module of the week  Bundle Copy https://www.drupal.org/project/bundle_copy Bundle copy is a replacement for the Content copy module which lives in the CCK project for Drupal 6. Has export/import support for: Node types Taxonomy User Field API fields Field groups Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross Jason Pamental - www.hwdesignco.com @jpamental John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

Topics Dave McKinley - CTO Ooomph  Drupal 8 Beta Release What does it mean to be multidisciplinary agency WordPress and Drupal under the same roof When a client doesn’t have a preference, how do you choose WordPress vs Drupal Resources Drupal 8 Beta Release - https://www.drupal.org/drupal-8.0.0-beta1 Meet Our New CTO, Daid McKinleyI - http://www.oomphinc.com/blog/2013-08/meet-our-new-cto-david-mckinley/ Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan Dave McKinley - oomhinc.com, @DavidBMcKinley  

Topics Responsive Typography by Jason Pamental Getting a book deal The writing process Pricing Marketing What Jason learned from writing a book Resources http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920034063.do Module of the week Commerce Coupon https://www.drupal.org/project/commerce_coupon Full rules integration. The validation and the redemption can be controlled by Rules. Multiple coupon types can be added. Each type can has his own fields. Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross Jason Pamental - www.hwdesignco.com @jpamental John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan

Topics General Options Free Theme Roll your own Hire a Themer General Strategy Public Theme vs Admin Theme Modules Module of the week Menu HTML https://www.drupal.org/project/menu_html This very simple module adds a checkbox to the menu item edit form and allows the admin to add html to the menu item title. The idea is to use this for external links for which you want to display a logo of the visited site or simply to add strong on some words. Guest Tim Dickens - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com@tregonian Hosts Stephen Cross - www.ParallaxInfoTech.com @stephencross John Picozzi - www.oomphinc.com @johnpicozzi Nic Laflin - www.nLightened.net @nicxvan  

Topics What do we mean by Intranet Examples of Intranet implementations Why Drupal is a good solution (sounds like to usual reasons) Challenges with Intranet Distributions Modules LDAP - https://www.drupal.org/project/ldap CAS - https://www.drupal.org/project/cas Workbench - https://www.drupal.org/project/workbench Webforms - https://www.drupal.org/project/webform   Module of the week Block title link https://www.drupal.org/project/block_titlelink Have you ever needed to make a block title a link? This module makes it easy. Block Title Link creates a link field on the Block Admin page. It works by overriding the $block->subject variable and changes it to a link. Features Support: Block Title Link is compatible with the Features module by using the Strongarm module. Simply select any block_titlelink prefixed variables and they will be exported in your feature. Resources   Drupal Commons - https://www.drupal.org/project/commons/ Open Atrium - https://www.drupal.org/project/openatrium Google Interactionht