Drupal NYC Meetup @ 30 Rock - October 4th
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Welcome to the Drupal NYC monthly meetup!
Please join us on Wednesday, October 4th for our monthly Meetup at 30 Rock for an evening of food/drinks, knowledge and friendship!
You must enter your real name on the RSVP question or your RSVP will be removed. Check-in opens at 6pm sharp, see you on October 4th!
Agenda
• 6:00 - Check-in opens, socializing + pizza sponsored by NBCUniversal
• 6:30 - Announcements
• 6:45 - Who's hiring, who's looking?
• 6:50 - Presentations
• 8:20 - Closing Remarks, socializing + leftover pizza
• 8:45 - After party sponsored by Fastly @ Bill’s Bar & Burger (1 block north, 16 W. 51st St., accessible via Rockefeller Concourse) https://goo.gl/maps/Eghs2 (https://goo.gl/maps/Eghs2)
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Working Through the Drupal Issue Queue: A Beginner's Primer to Reviewing Patches by Gergely Csonka
Contributing to Drupal is a great way to give back to the community and to raise your profile and value professionally. In this talk Gergely will introduce the drupal.org issue queue, the place where contributors collaborate on the development of Drupal, and he will demonstrate how you can join in the fun by reviewing patches.
Bio
Gergely started his career as a full-time PHP developer in 2002. Four years - and far too many lines of custom code - later he finally realized that using a CMS isn’t only for losers after all, and evaluated a few solutions. He chose the new and shiny Drupal 4.7 purely for technical reasons, but after getting involved with the community he knew he had truly made the best possible choice. In 2012 Gergely co-founded Cheppers, the company that has become one of the leading Drupal shops in Central Europe, and he recently moved to New York City to build a branch in the USA.
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Drupalcon Vienna Summary by Ho-Ling Poon
In this session, Ho-Ling will talk about her journey to Vienna, review the State of Drupal according to Dries, and give us a recap of different sessions she attended while at Drupalcon. At the end of the meetup, Ho-Ling will give out Viennese chocolates to the first 20 people that retweeted her Drupalcon Live tweets (Note: She uses the @DrupalNYC account).
Bio
Ho-Ling is an Applications Developer for the New York Public Library. She is currently and actively using PHP, with recent computer-related adventures including AWS's Elastic Beanstalk, CloudWatch, VPC, and Lambdas. Follow her on Twitter on @holingpoon for updates!
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Key Characteristics of Digital Asset Management technology by Joe Bachana
In this talk Joe will present the standard features that organizations need to manage digital assets beyond just presentation for digital channels. Joe will also offer suggestions on open source DAM projects that can be used to integrate with Drupal.
Bio
Joe Bachana is the Founder and President of DPCI, an implementation consulting firm founded in 1999 that focuses on the content technology needs of a variety of organizations. DPCI - and Joe - have been implementing Drupal solutions integrated with DAM technologies since 2007, and before that DPCI has implemented DAM platforms since the company's inception.
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How to Use the Salesforce Suite with Drupal 8: A Quick Start Guide by Aaron Bauman
This session will provide an overview and practical instruction about the ways in which developers can use the Suite to integrate Drupal and Salesforce. Aaron will review the following topics:
• Directions (push/pull) available for integration
• Options for synchronous and asynchronous data exchange
• Overview of object mapping options and review of the mapping interface
• Error handling and recovery
In his presentation, Aaron will also provide tips and tricks for avoiding schema mismatches and touch on the planned roadmap of more advanced features.
Bio
Aaron Bauman (https://drupal.org/u/aaronbauman) is a Senior Software Engineer at Message Agency, a Drupal-focused agency and B Corporation in Philadelphia. In the fall of 2013, Aaron who is the original architect of the Salesforce Suite, started to work on the first iteration of a port of the Suite from D7 to D8. Dozens of meta-comments, half a dozen refactors, and hundreds of hours later working with his colleague Alex Rhodes (https://www.drupal.org/u/ironsizide) at Message Agency, Salesforce-8.x-3.0-rc6 (https://drupal.org/project/salesforce) is available and picking up steam.