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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>Facilitated by Neil Drumm, Senior Drupal Developer<br />
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Neil will provide an overview of what's up and coming in Drupal, including the new dashboard at drupal.org <http://infrastructure.drupal.org/drupal.org-style-guide/prototype/dashboard.html> and the new Annotation module (http://drupal.org/project/annotation)<br />
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== Session Notes ==<br />
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Session notes will be entered here.<br />
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- Drupal 7 is coming out in a bit<br />
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- wish it would decide if it was for developers or end users<br />
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- your first drupal site never work <br />
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- talk about #smallcore and the debate over whether druapl should be a framework or deployable product<br />
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- going forwrad there is going to be a framework maintainer and a product maintainer<br />
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- cck is going to be in core for drupal 7<br />
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- how do you host multiple drupal sites and keep them all maintained<br />
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- taxonomy has been abused alot, and there is an effort to reduce the dependency on it<br />
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- they've moved cck into core, so you can use Fields API in things like profile modules <br />
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- there is talk about moving away from CVS, but it is a lot of work, and perhpas not much to gain<br />
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- Open Atrium was released. the first major packaged drupal product<br />
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- talking about Features and how it is allowing you to export things on dev and make it live<br />
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- drush lets you operate drupal with the command line with easy downloading<br />
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- you really want to use version control. Not new but improtant<br />
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- write update functions in .install files to update custom modules and site configurations<br />
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- Capistrano provides a simple language to do tasks on server(s), used in ruby to deploy different code and such<br />
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- Neils office mates are working on Pantheon, which quickly spins up Amazon cloud instances for drupal servers<br />
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- varnish sits in front of a web server and does caching<br />
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- drupal 7 development use continuous testing <br />
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- DrupalCon is coming to SF! Tickets on sale soon (tomorrow?)<br />
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- DrupalCon organizing meetings are ongoing and you should come! (usually every wednetsday)</div>Vivian