February 2008 Chat Log

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(jacobroufa) no one is in chat!
(jacobroufa) we should create a freenode chatroom if necessary
(tourguide) Introductions started talking Drupal
(matt) http://xspot.com/
(matt) http://www.vocalo.org/node/13224
(matt) http://www.vocalo.org/node/13224
(matt) http://resourcecenterchicago.org/
(matt) http://www.cpsalumni.org/
(matt) http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections
(tourguide) add links, notes and discussion topics - participate
(tourguide) http://irc.freenode.net
(tourguide) http://star-fleet.com/webb
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(tourguide) star-fleet uses OG for each ship
(tourguide) views themes module
(tourguide) import content - how
(tourguide) import routine written
(tourguide) 10,000 post ported over -
(tourguide) cr8 a node object
(tourguide) jough quit (timeout)
(tourguide) Organic Groups (OG) Talk
(tourguide) its a best.worst case
(tourguide) no alternative
(tourguide) http://www.tejasa.com/node/149
(tourguide) form_alter is a must to take out functionality
(tourguide) reduce roles
(tourguide) taxonomy access - dont mix and match modules - pick the closest and message
(tourguide) views restrictions is a problem with Drupal
(tourguide) simple stuff node access module
(tourguide) depends on use case
(tourguide) tax access is role based- kinda a pain
(tourguide) who can access - defined by role
(tourguide) product is node
(tourguide) make node a OG type
(tourguide) post stories into this group
(tourguide) Developer ACL module
(tourguide) http://nowpublic.com
(tourguide) has 140,000 users
(tourguide) half a million nodes
(tourguide) User Interface is a challange with this much content
(tourguide) node access tab - search users - add them to list
(tourguide) after 50 this dies
(tourguide) or 100
(tourguide) pair groups
(tourguide) can you do this
(tourguide) comment module handles anoynomous
(tourguide) would be nice 4 a alternitive
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(Dalka) http://www.daviddalka.com/createvalue/ search marketing, startup and vc blog
(tourguide) Welcome -
(tourguide) one more introduction
(tourguide) http://altastaff.com
(tourguide) htp://www.tie-midwest.org
(caden) http://www.mitefchicago.org
(caden) ^^^ chicago local networking events
(tourguide) Talking Drupalcon boston
(tourguide) Mixer Tuesday night - sponsor'd by Lullabot
(tourguide) Code Sprint on Friday - test patches - will help - we need you
(tourguide) just show up and test
(tourguide) no need to develop
(tourguide) chx is trying his best to recruit
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(tourguide) rumors - crazy talk about a Documentation sprint at Drupalcon
(tourguide) ChicagoTech.org - sponsor
(tourguide) at Drupalcon
(tourguide) GIS - Drupalcon
(Crell) Help sponsor the Project* team to get together at DrupalCon so that they can make drupal.org even better! http://www.amacrine.com/taxonomy/term/1
(caden) become a Drupal supporter!
(caden) there's a link from association.drupal.org
(Crell) http://association.drupal.org
(caden) join immediately before the dollar drops again!
(tourguide) http://cdmug.org/user/4 - is a member
(caden) is DrupalCon Boston for everyone?
(caden) YES!
(tourguide) http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/
(caden) Multiple tracks are available: Marketing and buisness, design and user epxerience, site building, case studies, etc.
(caden) go to boston2008.drupalcon.org for more info
(tourguide) deadline for presentations has expired
(tourguide) ascii mode quake
(caden) yes... best played at a high resolution
(caden) (wah wah)
(caden) @boston2008, it has been suggested that birds of a feather sessions may be a good choice for developers (BOF sessions)
(tourguide) http://www.acquia.com
(tourguide) sponsers get tickets
(Crell) http://association.drupal.org/ - Sign up now as a member! Only 22 EUR. Price in dollars goes up as the dollar goes down, so sign up now. :-)
(caden) we're looking at some GIS applications
(caden) with placemarks and associated stuff
(caden) also a discussion of ampache going on at this end of the table
(caden) http://www.ampache.org/
(caden) GIS application is on toursheet.com-- but it's protected!
(caden) it shows Chicago and points of interest like ATMs, bookstores, civic/community cencters
(caden) it can overlay layers of drawings in some areas on the map of chicago
(caden) flex/actionscript has open source tools now
(caden) looks like you can develop it with a module(?) for eclipse (http://flexwiki.adobe.com/confluence/display/ADOBE/Flex+Builder+3+Planning)
(caden) You too can build your own free geocoder-- see http://geocoder.us/
(caden) looking at RFP service
(caden) http://drupal.org/project/location
(caden) apparently location 3 module is awesome
(caden) http://supergenpass.com
(caden) recommendation from chx ^^^
(caden) some discussion over here about PHP IDEs-- Zend @ $300 is the best, but for free you can get KomodoEdit (soon to be open source)
(caden) not to be confused with the Kodomo IDE which is also $300
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(tourguide) Deep Linking - Flash SEO
(tourguide) http://www.asual.com/swfaddress/samples/flash/#/portfolio/3/