Submitted by Dale on July 11, 2008 - 10:58am
Last night at the Surrey Drupal Users Group Rick Vugteveen from ImageX Media gave a great presentation on creating a blog site in Drupal 6 using CCK, Views and a number of support modules. He lugged his 20 odd inch monitor for the presentation and it worked rather well at the restaurant table. Not sure if he's going to post his slides. I haven't asked him yet, but hoping we can get a repeat performance for the Vancouver group.
In an interesting experiment the Surrey group has decided to go with a presence on Meetup: http://drupal.meetup.com/18/ in addition to hanging out with GDO Vancouver. I'm curious to see if and how this influences the community development.
Props to ImageX Media for their community support. They were one of our star sponsors for Drupal Camp Vancouver by being one of the first to sign up, first to get their cheque in, and additionally making office support staff available. If they keep this up they'll do for Drupal in Surrey what Bryght did for Drupal in Vancouver. It was, of course, fated that I misremembered and horribly mangled company president Glenn Hilton's name no less than three times before my miserable lump of a brain found a neuron cluster capable of simple long term retention. Sorry about that, Glenn!
And thanks to Katy at Seascape Web Design for taking on the group organization.
Submitted by Dale on March 15, 2007 - 12:54pm
I've been hearing a lot about OpenID the last six months, probably because Sxip and Bryght have a local presence. It's a cool technology solving a problem I certainly deal with day-to-day. But will it rise from the primordial idea soup into mainstream acceptance? According to Simon Willison, yes:
When Bill Gates stands up at a security conference in America and spends seven minutes on stage talking about a technology, it's not really a niche proposition anymore.
Wilson recently gave a talk that was converted into a "slidecast": http://simonwillison.net/2007/Mar/12/slidecast/. It does an excellent job, the best I've seen to date, of explaining OpenID and the problems it's meant to solve. I appreciated his inclusion of a "What's wrong with it?" section. And it's not without humour, we're introduced to the evil alter egos of Ben and Mena Trott!
