Georgia Tech Drupal News

The next Drop-In Help Session is in Marcus Nanotechnology Building Room 1116 on Wednesday, April 19th from 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM.

When you arrive at the building, enter the atrium via the south doors (directly across Ferst Drive from the Howey Physics Building.  Make an immediate right and go past the elevator.  Turn right on the other side of the elevator, then left at the front windows.  You should now be on a long hallway that runs along the front of the building, windows on your right and conference rooms on your left.  Room 1116 is the first conference room on your left.

Topics covered: Announcements; DrupalCon updates; Acquia and vendor updates; Friday Help Desk changes.

Discussions & Announcements

Upcoming DrupalCamps:

• June 23 - Twin Cities;
• August 12, Asheville);
• Summer 2016 (OIT & Drupal 8 training);
• DrupalCon North America 2017 (April 24-28, Baltimore).

DrupalCon New Orleans: lots of neat sessions, attendees will highlight which of free online sessions videos they most recommend from YouTube playlist.

GT (OIT, Communications, especially) in talks with Acquia to learn more about Acquia Cloud (small test project may happen soon) and Content Hub (news and events syndication, no profiles or media, only shares within the Cloud, but neat ability to handle emergency notifications). For GT drupal geeks, is a good idea to test local environment with (free) Acquia Dev Desktop.

Web vendors need technically-knowledgable project managers/intermediaries for GT projects, but there's currently no process or funding for this. Will be late 2017/early 2018 before Web RFP is opened to additional vendors.

Decided to switch Friday morning help desks to afternoon of fourth Thursdays of the month. This will start in June 2016.

Please contribute if you have any code snippets or other notes from this meeting.