May ACUG Meeting
The Atlanta Clarion Users Group will be hosting a number of meetings
over the next few months on the subject of "mashing" Clarion development
with the open source GPL licensed Content Management System called
Drupal. ( http://drupal.org )
We believe this to be an excellent opportunity to web enable data from
Clarion applications into a secure web site system. Order systems,
customer inquiries, and outside sales support are a few of the
applications that could be the result of this workshop effort.
The meetings will be to familiarize Clarion Developers with the workings
of Drupal, but will be producing actual work shop results that can be
packaged into profiles which can then be easily applied to other Drupal
installations using "profiles".
Profiles are a powerful function of Drupal. They allow a developer to
provide a base line installation of modules settings and data structures
that can be added to the basic Drupal installation.
We will provide Linux servers with Apache server and PostgreSQL
installed. If there is enough requests we would also provide MySQL as a
database option. It should not matter which of the two is used the
backend is transparent to the Drupal system user.
We are limiting the numbers of attendees to under ten. This should
facilitate a more cohesive set of needs within the group. The first
meeting will be used to establish a base line for the needs and
interests of the group.
A willingness to develop "on the fly" and try new things is must quality
to bring. Some knowledge of PHP may be helpful. A desire to work with
others to come to a better understanding is also necessary. As always
we welcome others who are new to Clarion as well.
You can view the information concerning the ACUG (Atlanta Clarion Users
Group) http://acug.us/ .
