3. Drupal
Social solution to a
technical problem
No schisms
The Drupal
community
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4. JOE: “Hey Cindy, how do I set an automatic
URL for a node?”
CINDY: “Use the pathauto module. Hey,
how do I change my home page?”
JOE: “Hit up the Site Information page”
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6. 1. IRC
Live chat
2. The Forums
Questions and answers
3. The Issue Queues
Problems and solutions
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7. IRC is a big deal in Drupal
Members at one time Channels
500 40
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250 20
125 10
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#joomla #wordpress #drupal #joomla #wordpress #drupal
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8. Client Server
Channels
My nick is #drupal-support
chrisshattuck
#drupal-themes
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9. What’s happening on IRC?
1. Support exchange
2. Collaboration on ideas, code, or events
3. Local Drupal User Groups
4. General banter and time wasting
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11. QWantTUM
• So, you have a Question...
• What do you Want?
• What have you Tried?
• What do you Use?
• What reference Material might help?
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12. Super Quickstart
http://drupalchat.net/
1. Select a nick (your Drupal
username)
2. Click connect
3. Chat it up
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13. Firefox Chatzilla Plugin
http://is.gd/15tJF
1. Download and install
2. Restart firefox
3. Go to Tools > Chatzilla
4. Select a nick if prompted
5. Click the freenode link in
the chat window
6. Go to IRC > Join Channel
7. Type ‘drupal’ in search
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14. Members
Topic
Discussion
Channels
Nick Message box
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15. IRC Clients
Colloquy xChat
colloquy.info www.xchat.org
Wikipedia comparison
is.gd/15vNY
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18. The Forums
http://drupal.org/forum
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19. Why forums instead of IRC?
1. A great place to flesh out complex issues
2. A good place to learn by helping
3. Forums get indexed, so a question is
answered forever(ish)
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29. Do it!
• Save time, reduce stress, impress your boss.
• Develop relationships in the community
(think jobs, support, employees, friends)
• Contribute. It feels good, and if everyone
does it, magical things can happen.
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30. This is me:
Chris Shattuck
chrisshattuck.com
twitter.com/chris_shattuck
These are the links used in this presentation:
api.drupal.org - Drupal API documentation
drupal.org/handbooks - Drupal handbooks
drupalchat.net/- Quickly connect to IRC
is.gd/15tJF - Chatzilla Firefox plugin
is.gd/15vNY - Wikipedia IRC client comparison
drupal.org/forum - Drupal forums
drupal.org/user/[id]/track - Your subscribed posts
drupal.org/project/issues - Drupal issue queues
Sunday, June 28, 2009