A group of about 30 Drupalphillic library types met today at Denver Open Media at 7th and Kalamath. Great representation from all kinds of libraries (public, state, academic) and roles of people in libraries (IT geeks to HR). Very tasty lunch was enjoyed by a smaller contingent at El Noa Noa prior to the meeting.
Felt a bit out of my league early on when the talk centered more around developer issues, but after a break--during which I nearly killed myself and five others turning the minivan into the Starbucks on 6th Ave--topics turned more to themes, which is the learning curve in front of me right now. Great opportunity to meet local Drupal types, and great pointers/lessons learned shared. Very helpful!
Issues of interest:
Multi-site Drupal installations: Many attendees were curious about this. Markus recommended against it; they have 15 sites, could have twice that many in the future, and there was concern that one bad one would bring them all down. Using Debian package management for upgrades/changes, which is the main reason for folks wanting to use a multi-site setup. Markus: "I am the non-multisite advocate."
Greg countered with pros: it's not sustainable to have to manage an upgrade of 40 sites.
Strategies for sharing content: Feed API for video content; integrated feed API into the video module, and each video has an RSS feed (hope I got that right...)
Organic groups: creates a new content type on your site; allows node association with groups; Amy: "It's easier than you think!" :)
Modules that I want to check out: single sign on; services; feed API; Drush (Drupal shell; used for updating); CVS (not the pharmacy-we're not on the east coast after all); Install Profile API; ezproxy module; Calendar; MERCI-for booking equipment, people, etc.
And there's a list of modules of interest to Libraries: NEED LINK :)
Books:
Leveraging Drupal Victor Kane
Cracking Drupal: A Drop in the Bucket, Greg Knaddison (one of our moderators)
Front End Drupal: Designing, Theming, Scripting, Kafer and Hogbin
Stuff I need to think about:
Dev, staging, production servers/hosts. Hmmm.
Denver Drupal Camp: Sat-Sun 27-28th of June
Douglas County's databases page: CCK module. They had problems with caching; users were being prompted on each screen for a login
Theme issues:
"If you haven't started, look at the Zen theme and name your regions accordingly."
Palantir's Zen Reference Card: http://groups.drupal.org/node/20870
Recommendation: start with a base theme and customize it. Here's a review of themes for Drupal 6:
http://www.chapterthree.com/blog/squiggy_rubio/review_drupal_6_starter_themes
RoopleTheme: http://www.roopletheme.com/ White Jazz is straightforward/customizable; on all, documentation solid, code good
Deco theme: attractive, multi-column theme that doesn't get much press
Permalinks: Drupal uses node numbers, which is generally nice, with the exception of search engine optimization
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