Drupal

It's been the usual state of affairs on the Palante website for a while (the cobbler's children have no shoes and all), but don't let the inactivity fool you – we've been plenty busy! One awesome example of what we've been up to is the recently launched Drupal 7 website for Social Justice Leadership, an amazing organization that works with other grassroots organizations across the country to develop and implement a transformative organizing framework for social change.

The site was built by us at Palante Tech along with Michelle Murrain on development and Claudina Sarahe on theming. The design is by the talented folks at Hazan + Company. We also created an integrated and highly-customized CiviCRM implementation for SJL so that they can seamlessly manage their communication and relationships with their contacts in one place. We worked closely with SJL throughout the project and developed a great relationship with them in the process, so we were thrilled to see the site launch and look forward to continuing to work with them.

Soon to come: an actual portfolio so that we can show the world more of what keeps us so busy!Read more »

I'm currently en route from Minnesota, where I helped the Progressive Technology Project train community organizations on using PowerBase, to Detroit for the 2011 Allied Media Conference. This will be my second time in Detroit (I was here for last year's US Social Forum) but my first time at the AMC, and I'm thoroughly excited, not only because the entire event is sure to be amazing, but also because I'm presenting! Josue Guillen of the Progressive Technology Project and I will be presenting "From Open Source to Community Source: Collaboratively Created Tech for Movements."Read more »

Angie "webchick" Byron and Greg "heyrocker" Dunlap engage in conversation about the Drupal community, often acting as devil's advocate to each other's arguments and presenting opinions held by Drupal community members other than themselves.Read more »

Drush for Teams

• Workflow:

Session by Dmitri Gaskin, awesome as always. dmitri01 [at] gmail [dot] comRead more »

Session info on Drupalcon siteRead more »

Presented by Eric GoldhagenRead more »

• Actions and Triggers - ways of creating automated functions (actions) when a certain condition is met (trigger)
• Without writing code to refine what the trigger was, couldn't get specific enough
• Rules module gives more fine-grained control through the web interface (e.g.
  

Presented by Frank Carey (frankcarey)Read more »

• In the beginning, Drupal was very code centric
• if you wanted to make something you coded a module, relied in hooks API, etc
• Content ruled the land (the database), but modules still stored many settings in the database
• Content in Drupal - nodes, friends, comments, votes, users, messages
• Then came the GUI-la Monsters - Flexinode, Views, CCK, Contemplate, Rules, Context - things you'd normally do with code, but now could do through the UI
• Config settings include variables, CCK, permissions, vi
  

Random/Framing NotesRead more »

• Introduction to HTML 5 book is a primary reference during this conversation
• Is it a good ideal to add a bunch more options, fields, and decisions for what to HTML5ize or not throughout Drupal?
  

Presented by Robert Holmes (robbiethegeek)

(Got here a bit late, but caught the very beginning of drush command overview)

Handy drush commandsRead more »

• drush - listing of all the drush commands available to you
• drush status - basic info on your site
• drush sqlc (drush sql-cli) - takes you into MySQL console using the credentials of the site you're accessing with drush right now
• drush dl <projectname> - downloads code for module (project) into sites/all/<project