August 2007

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(tourguide) ----- Rain Chat v.09, August 24th, 2007 -----
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(tourguide) What up
(matthew) hey Snod
(Snod) Hi Guys.... weather made for difficult train
schedules tonight
(Snod) sorry I couldn't be there in person
(tourguide) np
(matthew) i heard metra was shutdown
(Snod) how goes it ??
(tourguide) we got one here settin up the room
(Snod) Good signup tonight hopefully everyone doesn't
have the same problem I did
(matthew) meet up has just begun. only 1 new member.
other than. just kyle and I.
(Snod) I'll just chill with a beer and some good music...
just throw up a comment or cool link every now and then for me!
(Snod) I'm there in spirit anyway
(tourguide) stick around we might do a Drupal Test Drive
(Snod) sure
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(JimCraner) hey guys
(JimCraner) I'm in ohio but i've heard some crazy stuff
about the weather out there
(tourguide) oh man trees r fallin
(matthew) drupalcon in ohio ?
(Snod) Crazy it right Jim, good to see I'm not the only
remote attendee tonight
(JimCraner) nah no drupalcon just hanging
with my girlfriend
(JimCraner) heard tornado touched down in lincoln park
(Snod) maybe rumor... maybe not
(tourguide) http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=chicagoancestors.com
(JimCraner) aha. typo. that content should be
http://www.chicagoancestors.ORG
(JimCraner) apparently the librarian and genealogy folks are REALLY
excited by this app
(tourguide) Room: Talking Flash - also 2 New Arrived
(JimCraner) the Newberry staff that manage it have gotten TONS of
great feedback so we're pretty happy
(tourguide) I setup a freetagger w/ Drupal in Flash
(tourguide) with some help :)
(Snod) Good job Jim
(Snod) What's that Kyle?
(tourguide) the freetag service we created has the Services & AMFPHP
freetag.load method, that will pull out terms in a nice hierarchy structure
for Flex ie: all the vocabs / term_data for the taxonomy types
(tourguide) We'd like to make it a drupal module for a flex freetag service
(JimCraner) hey bob drink a beer for me while you're sitting there
(JimCraner) i am gonna take a shower
(Snod) You got it...
(JimCraner) hope you guys have a great meetup - someone post notes
and a list of links you checked out on cdmug later, please!
(Snod) if I start slurring my typing let me know
(tourguide) this chat will b posted
(tourguide) forums
(tourguide) Snod can u hit a refresh
(Snod) note... I'm logged into 2 machines
(Snod) whos online isn't right
(tourguide) should see a new hearder
(Snod) new hearder??
(Snod) oh header... nice
(tourguide) ha
(tourguide) yahh
(Snod) how many pictures did you need to glue together for that
(Snod) oh I forgot, you young guys don't know what rubber cement is
(Snod) Did Peter B. make it in tonight?
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(tourguide) where's pedro
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(tourguide) great turn out for such terrible weather
(Snod) cool how many so far?
(tourguide) 9 people
(Snod) Wow
(Snod) So whats on the agenda tonight?
(tourguide) right now we are doing a TourSheet services, AMFPHP demo. lots of new
members tonight, 6 total.4 return members
(tourguide) taxonomy is a big room topic now
(Snod) Very good... I will offer to be the infogopher tonight if
anyone needs anything simple
(tourguide) user generated content that is related. helping users
find each another based on off interest.
(Snod) I've been playing with it a bit lately...
core taxonomy that is.
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(tourguide) once again, flicker is a topic of discussion
(tourguide) such a great web site.... we should spam cdmug there.
(Snod) flicker modules for Drupal I hope
(tourguide) tourguide changes his nickname to Matt
(Matt) thats a great idea!
(Matt) is there such a module yet ?
(Snod) are you serious?? there are some you know
(matthew) its hard to get people to login here - i have a count
(matthew) 10
(matthew) 6o%
(Snod) Thanks
(Snod) wifi difficulties
(matthew) nope
(Spence) Free Tagging: http://drupal.org/node/42680
(matthew) a server can load diff. versions of a drupal site install
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(matthew) jingproject
(Snod) related to the free tagging item.. what about styling
different taxonomy vocabularies as well
(matthew) Music / Books / Tags
(Spence) tutorials for drupal can be found on http://www.drupaldojo.com,
http://www.dudertown.com. also, search http://www.drupal.org for screencasts.
(Matt) http://drupal.meetup.com/1/messages/boards/view/viewthread?thread=262142...
(Spence) check out http://www.splendora.com
(Matt) we are now talking about drupal tutorials and the best way to learn
(Snod) just doing it works best for me
(Snod) the idea is to pick your spots
(Matt) what type of spots ?
(tourguide) http://shellmultimedia.com/tutorials/user-profiles
(matthew) user profiles
(Snod) what you want to focus on doing with it... you can get off
track easily there are so many possibilities
(Snod) O get it ... Matt is is the gutter
(Matt) special areas of drupal? themes? php?
(Spence) Drupal video repositories: http://drupal.org/node/124318
(Snod) matthew, looks good --> user profiles
(Snod) ?? Spence check out splendora.com ???
(Snod) no drupal there
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(Snod) Greetings Tim
(Snod) Hey folks... at some point can we see about interest in what
matthew suggested here http://cdmug.org/node/39
(Snod) brb
(matthew) drupal meetup is going great
(matthew) many people survived the terrible weather
(matthew) chicago drupalers are hardcore ;/
(matthew) here are some links we have been going to ...
(matthew) phpfreechat blocks out swear words
(matthew) http://www.lullabot.com/podcast?page=1
(matthew) http://gawker.com/
(matthew) remote users can appreciate this......we may have a new location for meetups
(matthew) here are some pictures...
(matthew) http://cdmug.org/eastroom.jpg
(matthew) that room might be available for us
(matthew) if it happens, we are planning on January 2008 for the first meetup
(Snod) cool
(matthew) location is on michigan ave downtown
(Snod) and thanks for all the links
(Snod) easy to get to.
(matthew) joomla comes up !
(matthew) http://www.joomla.org/
(Snod) I've used it
(Snod) to create some demos
(Snod) user community and political divisions seem to be a downside
(Snod) there are some nice themes
(matthew) have links (Snod) ?
(Snod) of the demos?
(Snod) no that was about 18 months ago and I took it them down
(matthew) we found a joomla site
(matthew) http://www.feuilleblanche.com/
(Snod) at N-Ten there was a session on open source CMS... a popularity vote was taken
(matthew) we used http://www.joomlaawards.com/ to find it
(matthew) is there such thing as drupal awards ?
(Snod) Drupal 27, Joomla 12, Plone 3, and then various others
(Snod) I thought there was
(matthew) link to a cool joomla module for playing music
(matthew) http://www.feuilleblanche.com/ - click radio
(matthew) i wish drupal had that ;/
(matthew) another member website ...
(matthew) http://ccm.com/
(Snod) Bob Simpson has used Joomla a lot... he was at the last meetup
(matthew) wrong site !
(matthew) http://ccim.com/
(Snod) I was wondering
(Snod) why ccim.com?
(Snod) hey re: Drupal awards... why couldn't we do a Chicago area one?
(Snod) search Drupal.org for awards
(Snod) lots of drupal sites winning various awards
(Snod) http://drupal.org/search/node/Awards
(Snod) Boy discussions at the meetup must be getting good... is everyone
eating too much pizza?
(matthew) we ran out of pizza
(Snod) and now everyone is bloated
(Matt) http://drupal.org/project/calendar
(Matt) Matt quit
(Snod) Is that what we are using on CDMUG?
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(kyle) yup
(kyle) thats why we have no RSVP
(Snod) IC
(Snod) followup on the digital identity stuff... I am going to the bay area
Sept 7-8 for http://datasharingsummit.com/
(kyle) cool
(kyle) we had 12 tonight
(kyle) winding it down going for a drink da rain is lettin up
(Snod) great! Looks like we will need that larger space by January
(kyle) SOLID~!
(Snod) quiet out here for now
(Snod) have a great one
(kyle) l8
(Snod) I'll let you guys know about the doings at the data sharing conference
and the suburban php meetup
(matthew) o yea
(matthew) i wanted to talk to you about that
(matthew) i would be interested in attending a php meeting
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(matthew) maybe we could do a drupal presenation for them ?
(Snod) I think we should
(Snod) see my comment to your comment...
(Snod) I will talk to Dave Ross about it.
(Snod) feel free also to join us at the one Sept 6th
(matthew) cool
(matthew) where is the meeutp ?
(Snod) http://php.meetup.com/381/ not too sure about the location this time...
looking at the Lombard Library for the next one... both are right off the line toward Geneva
(Snod) I think we could pull off similar ones at both meetups and get a good number
of different people
(Snod) I'll be in touch... or give me a call before you get embedded in classes again
(Snod) ***-***-****
(matthew) doesn't have a car
(Snod) that's why the train is important
(matthew) i finished summer school this weekend. i get 1 week off. then i start school again.
(matthew) i can take the train.
(Snod) I hope you didn't burn yourself out!
(Snod) keep the energy
(Snod) take care guys... have one for me
(Snod) gotta run
(matthew) you got it
(matthew) thanx for joining us
(Snod) u bet
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(tourguide) http://www.drupalvideos.com/
(JimCraner) gnight dudes
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(Crell) So we were just discussing typing gloves.
(Crell) Here's the link to the
ones I recommend: http://www.joann.com/joann/catalog.jsp?CATID=cat3339&PRODID=prd3042
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(matthew) http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/22/how-grey-is-your-valley-making-mone...
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