Fareham — Jun 25th 2011

The meeting started with a business session in which we discussed the potential move to Portchester Community College following our interesting visit to the school in April. We decided that subject to no issues being raised that we will move the meeting to the school starting in January 2012. We will be keeping everyone informed as to what is happening.

We then discussed the types of pointing devices that people used and did not use. Strong feelings and preferences were discussed.

The elephant in the room turned out to be a Lion and the proposed distribution method and the killing of MobileMe - this will have quite an impact on several members who are using some of the features that are going to be transferred to the iCloud. On the bright side the new Airdrop feature should be a useful tool for sharing code at meetings.

Andy Banks then gave a talk and demo of the use of Drupal.
Drupal is a structure and methodology for the creation and maintenance of web sites that is used by many commercial organisations as well as The White House at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Drupal is an open source product and so free for use. It provides a way for the users to maintain information on the web site without having to get support from web designers.

The installation of the “Macintosh Apache My SQL and PHP” (MAMP) web server was described along with the installation of Drupal

Useful places of reference and availability of the key components are:

Mamp web site

Drupal web site

In addition there are also some YouTube videos on the use and installation of Drupal.

Andy demoed a web site that he had set up using Drupal.


Next month Alan Lewer will be talking on Geocaching and the Mac.

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Andrew Banks said…

I have placed on my own apple wiki site, a WAMUG page, and on this is a link to the presentation I made to this meeting. The address is

http://liss-mug.org.uk

I have further plans to create a testing drupal installation under my main domain, for any WAMUG member that wishes to play and practice with Drupal. This site will require login, but I plan to allow people to register.

Any one that also want to be a member of liss-mug.org.uk can also be, just email me their details to [undisclosed email]

Regards
Andrew Banks
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