{"id":68,"date":"2009-11-03T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/2009\/11\/grpug-meeting-summary-2112009\/"},"modified":"2009-11-03T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T14:30:00","slug":"grpug-meeting-summary-2112009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/2009\/11\/03\/grpug-meeting-summary-2112009\/","title":{"rendered":"GRPUG Meeting Summary 2\/11\/2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had six people in attendance.<br \/>Since I neglected to line up a presentation or presenter, we continued hacking on the web site that we started at the last meeting. We&#8217;ve settled on using the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.djangoproject.com\/\">Django framework<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/appengine\/\">Google App Engine<\/a> to host the site. We&#8217;ve also started using the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueprintcss.org\/\">Blueprint CSS Framework<\/a>.<br \/>I hunted around for <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.python.org\/moin\/LocalUserGroups\">web sites from other Python groups<\/a> for some inspiration, but didn&#8217;t come across anything impressive. Most of them seem to be using vanilla <a href=\"http:\/\/moinmo.in\/\">MoinMoin<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/plone.org\/\">Plone<\/a> and did not have much more than meeting information.<br \/>Ryan took the reins and very quickly created a basic site and a Django base for us to build on. We came up with the following features for the web site, broken out into Django apps:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <b>home<\/b> page listing the next meeting, an introduction to the group, and a group activity feed pulled from various parts of the site and external feeds<\/li>\n<li><b>RSVP<\/b> for meetings so we know when we can start<\/li>\n<li>Information about current <b>members<\/b> and how to become one<\/li>\n<li>A form for <b>topic<\/b> requests<\/li>\n<li>A link or embedded version of <a href=\"http:\/\/planet.grpug.org\/\">the GRPUG <b>planet<\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<li>A <b>book<\/b> section including our dead-tree library, books available to review, and book reviews we&#8217;ve written<\/li>\n<li>A page with more detailed information <b>about<\/b> GRPUG<\/li>\n<li>A <b>meetings<\/b> section showing past presentations and topics as well as what is coming up<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can follow our progress as we pretty it up and add features to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grpug.org\/\">GRPUG Web Site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had six people in attendance.Since I neglected to line up a presentation or presenter, we continued hacking on the web site that we started at the last meeting. We&#8217;ve settled on using the Django framework and Google App Engine &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/2009\/11\/03\/grpug-meeting-summary-2112009\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grpug","category-python","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/clusterbleep.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}