Drupal for NGOs - April 2009

Robert Castelo's picture
Date: 
Thu, 16/04/2009 - 17:30 - 21:30
Drupal For NGOs is a bi-monthly series of events aimed at empowering NGOs to implement and manage their websites by knowing which modules to use and how to configure them. Each month will cover a topic in detail, showcase recent projects, and feature a Drupal question and answer session.

Which topic is covered each month will be decided by a poll, so if there's something you'd like to know more about please cast your vote or make a suggestion.

This month we will be talking about Sub Sites (Organic Groups).

Sun Microsystems is hosting this month's Drupal For NGOs, and will also be providing presentations on Scaling And Optimising MySQL and Backing Up MySQL Data.

We will also be giving away two Drupal books that Packt Publishing have generously contributed:

Get A Ticket

The event is free, but you will need to RSVP if you would like to attend.

Future Events

Drupal For NGOs has been away for a few months but will now restart as a regular event hosted at a different venue each month. Thanks to Rob Purdie who did an excellent job of starting Drupal For NGOs, and has now moved to New York. Hopefully he can take part via a live connection. Rob has passed on responsibility for organising the event to Robert Castelo, and if you'd like to host Drupal For NGOs or have any other suggestions please contact Robert.

Note

The event will be limited to 100 attendees. If it fills up before you get a ticket, please get in contact to let us know we need to get a bigger venue for the next event. Also note that there is a pub below the venue, where the meeting will likely move afterwards.

The tag for this event is drupal4ngos200904, and all presentations will be available after the event.

Where
Location: 
Sun Microsystems, Regis House, 45 King William Street, London EC4R 9AN

Comments

stewsnooze's picture

....Looking forward....

I am excited to meet more Drupalersl. Seek me out on the night.

Where - Please ?

The link to the Sun building says EC4 but the pin in the map, shows it as near the Houses of Parliment. I guess the google pin in somehow showing incorrectly. -- RogerPf
Robert Castelo's picture

Strange

I'm seeing the pin near Monument station, where it should be.
eff_shaped's picture

Eventbrite map is funky

Check google maps. Paste in: King William St Regis House London, Greater London EC4R 9AN Regis House is on the approach to London Bridge. See you there.
Robert Castelo's picture

Weird

The map shown on the Eventbrite page is wrong, but if you click through to Google or Michellin they both shows the right map.

Fixed by not dislaying the misleading map on the page.

Thanks Robert, Mark, Peter, Thomas...

Very glad I came since I've been messing with OG recently ... helpful to have one's feelings about it confirmed i.e. what it's good at and what you need to do to make it really work. Thanks guys!

Giles Kennedy --> www.alexoria.co.uk

hunthunthunt's picture

Second that!

Last nights event was well worth attending, despite me not feeling 100% :) Big thanks to those who organised and presented.

OG and access control (clarification..)

Oh yes, a quick clarification/query about "who can do what" in a group. Having checked our own 6.x Organic Groups setup which is pretty standard I think, a group "admin" seems to be able to administer both the users in a group and all the content. In other words OG gives admins of a group permission to edit/delete any content in the group, and also edit (but not delete) the group home page. Also a group admin can't modify the membership of the group "manager"/owner (the person who created it). Which makes sense. You need administer nodes permission to do that. Go to "Authoring information" at the bottom of the node edit page; the box that usually says "Authored by" says "Group manager" if the node you are editing is a group node (which I think of as the group home page). Final note/suggestion: if you need to do node access control on a site that uses groups (i.e. for content that is not in a group) then you may be able to do it with OG... after all, OG *is* a node access module. So rather than trying to use book access or taxonomy access modules and getting into multi-node-access-nightmares, create a hidden group and use that as a container for the relevant nodes. It actually looks very flexible ... think of a group as a taxonomy term ... and no messing with zillions of roles to assign permissions to different users for different sections/areas on the site ... just add them to the relevant group and make them admins :-) You then just need to do a bit of jiggery-pokery to hide stuff you don't want, e.g. the group block and the breadcrumb, which may not be to your liking, as Peter was saying. Some of the links can probably be recreated to your taste by hand without too much hassle, or via Views, or with a dash of PHP.

Giles Kennedy --> www.alexoria.co.uk