Drupal Camp Los Angeles 2009

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2009-08-08 08:00 - 2009-08-09 16:00 America/Los_Angeles

DrupalCampLA is the annual FREE conference organized by the LA Drupal user group, and hosted by UC Irvine this year, to unite and improve the Drupal Development Community on the West Coast. The event will be taking place August 8-9th 2009, from 8am-7pm each day, and will feature three large tracks and two community rooms for BoFs (birds of a feather). RSVP is required and the event is free to attend.

Drupal Camp Los Angeles 2009 - August 8-9th

Sponsored by PingVision + Microsoft + This by Them

Additional Sponsors

Gravitek Labs + The Revere Group + AF83 Inc. + WorkHabit + Acquia + Exaltation of Larks

Sessions

What sessions will be at the event? All Drupal, all day! If you are a beginner you will get to learn the basics. For free. Learn more modules. Learn how to theme. For free. If you are a Drupal master, come learn and share new code and your latest uber-tips with fellow Drupal contributors. In real life. For free.  Community networking and job hunting. For free. We set the stage, but all of you make this happen!

Give-a-ways

Win daily prizes including Drupal books, DVDs, training tickets, hosting coupons, and more. Last year we gave away over $600 in prizes!

Install-fest

At the camp we will be holding a Drupal Install Fest. If you need help getting Drupal installed on your laptop then visit our official Drupal Install Fest with your laptop in hand. Volunteers will help get Drupal working on Windows, Mac OS X, and/or Linux. Drupalchix members will host a Drupal Install Fest, sponsored by our very own drupalchix track leaders! Getting Drupal installed on your laptop early makes sure can follow along on your laptop all day!

Read the details below for more info. If you can't wait, then visit our awesome new camp site* thanks to This by Them - http://drupalcampla.com

* The camp site code is released under GPL, so you can download it for your own local camps (or other community event)!

Before reading all the cool details, we'd like to say we could not have done this event without our sponsors and supporters! Support provided by Cherry Hill Co., TransparaTech, Exaltation of Larks, Active Lamp, TxT (This by Them), XTND.US, & MediaDoneRight. Additional community support provided by the following user groups: San Diego Drupal (SDDUG), High-Desert Drupal (HDDUG), San Francisco Drupal (SFDUG), Las Vegas Drupal (LVDUG), and Santa Barbara Drupal (SBDUG).

Updates and Upgrades

What is the current state of affairs for upgrading or updating core and modules?

I really can't take this anymore. I like the fact that Drupal keeps up and reacts to the security problems, but after going through the upgrade process (on 5 sites) maybe 30 or 40 times, I've had enough. People that say it takes 2 minutes are being utterly ridiculous or reckless. The first site usually takes me about 2 hours, then the next ones take me about 10 or 15 extra minutes each -- so around 3 hours total. Fun fun.

Wordpress has an automatic updater -- both core and plug-ins. Why can't Drupal? I keep reading about security holes for auto-updaters. Does Wordpress have a security hole? I have to point out that it's a security hole to leave a site un-upgraded, too, since upgrading is a PITA, and one tends to procrastinate over doing it.

Assuming that's true that an auto-updater has inherent security holes, could some process on the local PC be built to log in with FTP or SFTP and do the upgrade? I use SyncBack Pro, anyway, to do all the file moving. Maybe someone who knew all the pitfalls of upgrading could develop something like that on top of SyncBack Pro or on WinSCP, if there really is some reason the server software can't be trusted to do it.

Proposal to change default user profile page

What if we changed this (in user.module @ line 914):

  $account->content['summary'] += array(
    '#type' => 'user_profile_category',
    '#attributes' => array('class' => 'user-member'),
    '#weight' => 5,
    '#title' => t('History'),
  );
  $account->content['summary']['member_for'] =  array(
    '#type' => 'user_profile_item',
    '#title' => t('Member for'),
    '#markup' => format_interval(REQUEST_TIME - $account->created),
  );

to (something like) this:

  $account->content['summary'] += array(
    '#type' => 'user_profile_category',
    '#attributes' => array('class' => 'user-member'),
    '#weight' => 5,
    '#title' => t('Summary'),
  );
  $account->content['summary']['member_for'] =  array(
    '#type' => 'user_profile_item',
    '#title' => t('Member since'),
    '#markup' => check_plain(strftime('%B %Y', $account->created)),
  );

?

Or maybe the word "Overview" instead of "Summary"?

I uploaded an image with "before-and-after" screenshots (http://drupal.org/files/issues/summary.jpg)... I just think the "changed" version seems a little more aesthetically pleasing, especially for D7UX.

I also wrote a small & simple module that will do this (for 6.x -- http://drupal.org/project/alterprofilepage) but I personally (IMHO) would like to see it incorporated into the drupal core.

Thoughts?

Registration and Log in question help please

Hi.

Can a new, completed site registration automatically log the user in after success? Right now, the user has to register, gets the success text and then has to log in.

It seems that a successful registration should also act as a log in.

Would anyone be kind enough to help or point me in the right direction?

Thank you!

Pre-Freeze Code Testing Sprint - Los Angeles - August 15-16, 2009

Code freeze begins September 1st. During this period, we fix bugs and when Drupal 7 is stable, we release. In the past, we have done manual testing. This time we have an automated testing framework and already a large number of tests. In an ideal world, we would only release when all code is touched by tests. While this won't guarantee that Drupal will be bug free, every test contributes to the overall quality of Drupal.

Two weeks before the code freeze, we will gather in Los Angeles to write tests. This will take us into the darker corners of core, so we also get the chance to fix bugs and, because this precedes the code freeze, we have greater freedom in how to fix them.

Since this sprint is so close to the code freeze, it's an excellent time to raise the test coverage ratio as there will be little new development in the final two weeks.

Please join us! Go to the sprint sign-up page at http://groups.drupal.org/node/22652

Food, beverages, power, IP and chocolate will be provided by our sponsors, Causecast and the The Cherry Hill Company.

How to search and get a list of posts created by an user when profile access is kept turned off ?

I am using the core search module. When I enter an user name I expect a list of items that has the user name in it even if those are not necessarily posts created by that user name.
However this does not happen.

I have profile access turned off so ideally search/user should list the contents by the user
but instead it throws up an Access denied page.

Any lightweight module or core-hack to achieve this ?

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