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December 5th, 2013 Build Day Recap

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Video and notes from our "Build Day" on December 5th 2013, from 1pm - 4pm in the Gordy Room at the Wardlaw Center. This hands-on session focused on migrating from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7, and offered other opportunities to get familiar with the new GT theme and building/maintaining Drupal sites.

The plan is to spend the first half of the session sharing presentations on D6 to D7 migration best practices and "gotchas". We'll then take a break and discuss what advanced topics we'd like to dive into for the second half. We'll either cover these topics as a group, or break out into smaller groups depending on interests and the availability of resources.

Agenda & Presentation links

  • Upgrading from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7: a multisite on non-OIT servers & the headaches involved (Mike Alberghini, Architecture) [Minute 13:50 to Minute 50]
  • Feeds is my Friend: a non-coding story of migrating content with the Feeds module (Adelle Frank, OIT) [Minute 56 to 1 hour and 30 minutes]
  • Local Dev Environments (Eric Sembrat, Sciences) [1 hour and 38 minutes to end]

Meeting Notes: November 15, 2013

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This meeting was caputured via the GT WebEx service. You can view a playback here:
https://gatech.webex.com/gatech/ldr.php?RCID=d84e5e32ff2f299e24ed8aa40a7ae22e

Announcements

A few announcements about the GT Drupal Users Group (GTDUG):

'Leadership' Committee announcement
  • Members
    • Adelle Frank
    • Eric Huffman
    • Fletcher Moore
    • Eric Sembrat
    • Rachel Ponder
    • Mike Alberghini
    • Aimee Rydarowski
    • Alfred Bacon
  • Any other users interested in joining can contact Adelle Frank directly.
  • Goal is to distribute group work across all members and help guide discussions, future topics, meetings, build days, etc.
  • Build Day in December 5th
    • Hosted by Mike Alberghini
    • Focused on website migrations from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7
      • More important now as Drupal 8's release will result in Drupal 6 reaching end-of-life (EoF, meaning that no more security updates will be issued). 
  • Meeting Changes for December/January 2014
    • December and January meetings will be relocated to the College of Architecture due to OIT work in the Bradley Building

Presentations

Eric Huffman
  • Slideshow Feature/Module for Implementation
    • Using FlexSlider module
    • Concern
      • Exporting CSS exporting or feature
      • Possible solution to incorporate CSS into the base theme
Aimee Rydarowski
  • .htaccess rule to redirect resources to development server.