Drupal CMS Academy Community Session #6

Drupal CMS Academy Community Session #6

October 24th, 2006

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Talking about our last week of Drupaling.  Modules discussed include Station, Backup, BookImport, BlockBar, Voting API, Digg This, & Captcha.


20:38:42 JL: Howdy

  20:42:05 JL: rebooting and then ready to go

  20:47:13 Brad_Hicks: Hi guys is there a Skypecast for this, or does audio come thru webhuddle?

  20:47:30 JL: I think I can host us all in skype

  20:50:14 Brad_Hicks: Have signed up for webhuddle, but haven't used it b4

  20:51:35 JenM: ID: jennifermaddrell-nyc@yahoo.com

  20:51:44 JenM: Password for meeting: drupal

  20:52:23 JenM: https://www.webhuddle.com/

  20:53:59 DougS: getting a "no such meeting" error at webhuddle--does that mean it hasn't started yet?

  20:54:15 JL: http://www.cmsacademy.net/drupal/node/120

  20:54:30 DougS: my bad, I'm in

  20:54:51 JL: cool

  20:55:06 DougS: using webhuddle for audio?

  20:56:57 JL: skype 'worldbridges' to join in

  21:07:05 JL: http://www.x1.com/

  21:08:07 SusanEttenheim: hi everyone - is there a skypecast?

  21:11:47 Brad_Hicks: what about negative ratings? ;-)

  21:12:41 JenM: http://drupal.org/project/Modules

  21:12:42 Brad_Hicks: just in case we find a theme we really hate?

  21:13:24 Brad_Hicks: sorry guys I'll stop being silly now

  21:13:42 JenM: we are also in web huddle at https://www.webhuddle.com/

  21:13:57 JenM: ID: jennifermaddrell-nyc@yahoo.com

  21:14:11 JenM: meeting password: drupal

  21:14:42 Cathy_Evanoff: Please tell me again what the addin/plugin that I need so I can edit in Firefox? (I don't even know enough to ask the questions)

  21:15:54 Cathy_Evanoff: So do you think we should stick with pre-5.0

  21:16:25 dave: no skypecast?

  21:16:29 JL: nope

  21:16:31 JL: skype worldbridges

  21:16:55 dave: yes. stay pre5.0 for now if you can

  21:17:02 SusanEttenheim: I listened to the lullabot podcast and they were talking about 5

  21:17:13 JL: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1449/

  21:17:24 JL: xinha

  21:17:38 JL: yes - 5 will be very cool

  21:17:54 Cathy_Evanoff: thanks

  21:18:39 SusanEttenheim: so sad.. dave has no job...

  21:18:51 Brad_Hicks: has anyone seen this book?

  21:18:54 Brad_Hicks: http://www.amazon.com/Building-Online-Communities-Drupal-WordPress/

  21:18:56 SusanEttenheim: web huddle... ohh I want to do it- how?

  21:19:20 SusanEttenheim: is it good brad?

  21:19:36 JL: jennifermaddrell-nyc@yahoo.com

  21:19:41 JL: password: drupal

  21:20:11 Brad_Hicks: don't know - just came across it in an email I recieved from a list I'm on

  21:20:24 SusanEttenheim: jl - password for ?

  21:20:32 SusanEttenheim: url pls

  21:20:52 DougS: https://webhuddle.com

  21:20:58 SusanEttenheim: tnx doug

  21:21:11 AR: Wow --- Look at that group...

  21:21:40 AR: I'm logged in twice...

  21:21:51 AR: Read the readme file?

  21:23:08 dave: i know... weird

  21:23:29 SusanEttenheim: in the web huddle - tnx

  21:24:59 SusanEttenheim: jl- how long did you stay online with andrew?

  21:26:27 Brad_Hicks: are there any issues for this if people kick the stream when taking over broadcsting ?

  21:27:45 dave: http://virtualresearch.ca/

  21:27:58 dave: http://virtualresearch.ca/drupal47

  21:28:02 dave: these are my two.

  21:28:14 DougS: duty calls -- be right back

  21:28:28 Brad_Hicks: listening but away from keyboard for 10 mins

  21:29:36 DougS: back

  21:31:58 SusanEttenheim: is your moodle connected yet to the drupal or elgg?

  21:32:02 JL: http://drupal.org/node/82257

  21:33:09 SusanEttenheim: in the lullabot podcast... did you all hear it? -they were talking about the list and when it would come out

  21:35:25 AR: That was me.

  21:35:42 AR: Jen, don't you have all the spam protection working?

  21:36:13 AR: Jeff -- I'll give you my wordpress my key for akismet (sp?)

  21:36:43 AR: continue the conversation, right?

  21:37:51 AR: Maybe we can poll them on why they don't comment?

  21:38:32 dave: lol

  21:38:49 dave: ah... baby calls... nice dropping in for a while

  21:38:52 dave: cheerio folks

  21:44:46 AR: Hey --- have you used the views module?

  21:44:59 AR: Jeff --- how do you register the people for the newsletters?

  21:46:41 AR: I can't wait to read your blog, Jeff.

  21:46:43 AR: It's Alex

  21:47:11 Brad_Hicks: has anyone tried doing screen capture of these webhuddle sessions?

  21:50:54 Cathy_Evanoff: I have another non-related question

  21:51:12 Brad_Hicks: any chance of a weekend sessiuon sometime?

  21:52:02 Cathy_Evanoff: I am getting some $$ to purchase mp3 players so my teachers can listen to podcast to expand their learning

  21:52:31 Cathy_Evanoff: Should we get read ipods or other mp3 players

  21:57:03 Brad_Hicks: yep very quick updatin g

  21:57:37 Brad_Hicks: Cathy we use iRiver T20 recorder

  21:58:10 Brad_Hicks: which is fairly good, but you might want something with easy buttons/menus frkids

  21:58:21 Brad_Hicks: for kids *

  21:58:50 Cathy_Evanoff: should I get the video ipod?

  21:59:52 AR: You guys missed a good one...

  22:01:43 Cathy_Evanoff: Do you guys know Big Medium? http://www.bigmedium.com/

  22:01:48 Cathy_Evanoff: Is that a drupal?

  22:03:35 AR: love my video ipod.

  22:03:39 AR: I highly recommend it.

  22:04:14 Cathy_Evanoff: The times are toooo cool :)

  22:04:27 AR: iTunes is so much easier than iRiver.

  22:04:42 Cathy_Evanoff: good info AR

  22:06:42 AR: No problem

  22:14:59 AR: Alex: There is a book function in moodle Alex: http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=319

  22:15:31 Cathy_Evanoff: I'm getting the same error for my elgg blog