Bay Area

July's SF DUG is on Bastille Day - so it's perfect that we'll be at PariSoma!

Advomatic's Neil Drumm will present "How to Scale your Drupal Site"
* How to plan your server architecture
* Client-side optimization- HTML, CSS & JavaScript
* Server-side optimization- Drupal, PHP, Apache, MySQL
* What diagnostic tools to use

I'm working on getting another presentation, but always feel free to email me if you want to a) present something, b) bring up a topic or conversation!

A screen cast of Matt Cheney's presentation on Swish-E Indexer module, from the June SF Drupal User's Group, is now online. Please provide feedback on what could be better (about the screencast; feedback on Matt's presentation can go to him... ;-)). I know the sound is low when audience members are asking questions, which is a challenge....

I got this up and edited in slightly less time than last month. Most importantly I got it done before the next SF Drupal User's Group (July 14th - look out for a post on this).

Drupal/PHP Developer

We are combining Web 2.0 technologies with mass customization to create a new industry structure where the consumer calls the shots in their winemaking experience. We are building out this social production platform and need a forward-looking technical developer. We are looking for someone with experience with:

• Experience developing commercial deployments with Drupal

• Experience with a PHP and other web programming languages
• Experience with MYSQL or other SQL based DB, including schema/index design
• Experience with Linux OS & Windows

Are you interested in helping to spread the word about Drupal? LinuxWorld Expo is coming to Moscone Center Aug 4-7. Come share, learn, and have fun with other Drupal and open source fans. LinuxWorld Expo is geared more towards enterprise solutions. If you're interested in open source (beyond Drupal), this is a great opportunity to learn from others and to share what you know about Drupal.

The discussion for BADCamp 08 got underway at yesterday's BDUG meeting. I followed up with one of our administrators to get the dates of weekends in late September - early November when space is available, and there is no Cal football happening on campus (so parking is less of an issue than it was last year). It seems like there are two prime dates: Sept 20th & 21st, and October 11th & 12th. Of these two I am leaning towards October, so we are not too close to DrupalCon Szeged (which is the last week of August).

Hi there,
Good to see representatives from the BAy Area!
I am wondering if someone on this group has experience with the Video module. I need to do some tweaking and alignments to the module on my website (www.altglobe.com).
Payment upon experience and productivity.
Cheers,
Aviad
aviad@altglobe.com

Hi there,
Good to see representatives from the BAy Area!
I am wondering if someone on this group has experience with the Video module. I need to do some tweaking and alignments to the module on my website (www.altglobe.com).
Payment upon experience and productivity.
Cheers,
Aviad
aviad@altglobe.com

The Berkeley Drupal Users Group now has it's own g.d.o: http://groups.drupal.org/berkeley-users-group-bdug.
This group replaces the old BDUG site at http://drupal.citris-uc.org. Thanks to the sexy new og_panels features, I don't need to maintain a separate site just to support our user group. And now I can't just cross post to the Bay Area group with the click of a checkbox, rather than copy-and-pasting each month.

Greetings Bay Area Drupallers,

Join us this Thursday to hear a talk by Chris Bryan, of Gravitek Lab. Chris is a long time BDUG member and on of the BADCamp organizers. Here is his description of his talk:

"We'll walk through a new networking and collaboration platform (http://dreamfish.com) that Gravitek Labs is about to launch. We'll look at the major components that make up the site such as cck types, views, panels 2, and theming as well as custom work extending panels 2 that was done for the project.

About Us

The Office of Letters and Light is an Oakland-based nonprofit that puts on the world's largest creative writing events. All our events are free, and we're best known for organizing National Novel Writing Month (www.NaNoWriMo.org), a hands-on novel writing escapade for which 100,000 kids and adults bash out books every November. Participants chart their progress on our websites, attend local write-ins, and receive encouragement from staff and email pep talks from such authors as Neil Gaiman, Garth Nix, and Tom Robbins.

About the Job

Drupal Developers - Come Grow with Us!

Interested in architecture and coding, user interface/experience, and/or mentoring fantastic teams? We are seeking Senior Web Developers with Drupal experience to be responsible for development efforts on VMware’s Virtual Appliance Marketplace (VAM). You will deliver the best technology solutions in a highly scalable, multi-tier environment.

The popularity and use of DRUPAL has grown by leaps and bounds; thanks to the vibrant community it has developed around it.

The South Bay DRUPAL meetup is another effort in building and strengthening the local Drupal Community.
Please join to discuss new and exciting Drupal-related stuff or just socialize with like-minded people!

We seek an experienced Drupal Developer Consultant to help us refine our award-winning Drupal-based web site (National Association of Real Estate Editors award for 2007 best web site Real Estate online news). We anticipate four to six months of various Drupal projects (Drupal 5). This is a newly created opportunity to work closely with our IT/WEB, Marketing and Sales teams.

Required skill set & experience:

* 4+ years of software development experience.
* Should have an extensive knowledge of Drupal, Drupal customization and the implementation of Drupal modules.

Us: A leading Drupal development firm, working with some of the biggest sites in the Drupal Community

You: A motivated, talented individual with CSS and Drupal theming skills

The offer: Long term employment with one of the most exciting and progressive web development shops in the world, with health benefits. On our team are some of the coolest Drupal developers in the world.

UPDATE: Now contains link to Matt's screencast.
[I'm posting this as a new topic, since the contents may be of interest for people who did not or could not make it.]

Thanks to the folks who showed up last Monday for the June SF Drupal User's Group meeting at PariSoMa. Twelve in all, dealing with the heat to attend ever-informative and entertaining Matt Cheney talk about Swish-E (link to screencast below) Some of the topics we covered:

Acquia and AF83 are pleased to announce that we are have purchased a booth to represent Drupal at LinuxWorld. The booth with equipment value is worth almost $6000. If you'd like to work the booth at LinuxWorld or are interested in contributing to the booth costs please let me know.

Tue., August 5, 2008 10:00am – 5:00pm
Wed., August 6, 2008 10:00am – 5:00pm
Thu., August 7, 2008 10:00am – 4:00pm

If you are available to be a volunteer at the booth please contact me.

The South Bay DRUPAL meetup is an effort to build and strengthen the Bay Area Drupal Community.
Please join to discuss new and exciting Drupal-related stuff or just socialize with like-minded people!

http://drupal.meetup.com/16/

Avi

Be part of an exciting, growing company. Bay area company leading the competition in the social media area. Backed by top venture capitalists and solid management team. They are looking for someone bright and energetic that wants to be part of a team that will make an impact.

Requirements

• Experience with ActionScript

• Important to have object-oriented programming background, modular design

• BA/BS in Computer Science or related technical field

• Solid understanding of web architecture (DHTML, CSS, Javascript)

• Experience building Flash-based games a plus

Work for an exciting company that's beating out its competition in the social networking media space!

Great environment, ability to make an impact, sense of ownership and backed by the top VC's.

Experience:
Web Application development
PHP, JavaScript, CSS, My SQL, Ajax
Object-oriented
BS or MS in CS or related
Experience developing social networking application a bonus

An East Bay startup is looking for an awesome developer to come join them in their growing family.

Responsibilities:

*Build features to specification using combination of contributed and custom module code
*Support experienced designers in theming using Drupal's PHP Template engine
*Work with Director and teammates establishing best practices and procedures to maximize efficiency and minimize risk

Requirements:

*Senior-level PHP (4/5) skill with strong knowledge of SQL relational database
*Excellent attitude and personal skills, be committed and focused

GoingOn Networks (http://goingon.com) is a dynamic startup with a big vision to bring professional publishing and social networking to companies and organization around the world. You'll be working with an excellent team that has a wealth of experience in building companies, who are intense but easy-going, focused on generating revenue AND changing the world. We're rapidly moving out of beta and have already built a solid pipeline of customers and sales prospects.

PHP - Drupal Developer

Fully funded by investors including Craig Newmark of craigslist.org, our exciting Web 2.0 community for bestselling authors, aspiring writers, and book enthusiasts is seeking top notch experienced developers. If you are hard-working, self-managing, and think creatively, then this San Francisco-based startup is for you.

Here's a screencast of Neil's presentation at last month's SFDUG (33 mins). I've posted it on a blip.tv channel, but I will link that with Archive.net so it gets posted there too for future use.

http://sfdrupalusersgroup.blip.tv

[UPDATE - Note the time and comments about topics below.]

The San Francisco Drupal User's Group meeting happens every second Monday of the month.

We're coming up on June's SF Drupal User's Group meeting (June 9th, 5:30-7pm). As usual, check this space (and the comments) for location details and presenters.

And as always, I'm open for presenters. Celine - do you want to present some of your CSS tricks? :-)

In short, LinuxWorldExpo is coming! Drupal needs a booth. Oh, and some volunteers to help make it happen. You in? (I'll help).

Join Future US and build websites for some of the hottest media properties in the world! Our Drupal strategy is very aggressive and you'll have the opportunity to play a critical role.

Key Skills/Experience Required
• Strong PHP & MySQL
• Drupal & CakePHP
• JavaScript, CSS, XML & HTML coding ability (hand-coding, no WYSIWYG)
• Linux & Apache Configuration experience
• Ability to solve complex problems through application on technology
• Experience working on very cool consumer websites.

On May 27 and 28th, the third NetSquared will take place in San Jose California. The idea behind NetSquared is to explore the use of the Web and emerging technologies to foster social change.

Our mission is to spur responsible adoption of social web tools by social benefit organizations. There's a whole new generation of online tools available – tools that make it easier than ever before to collaborate, share information and mobilize support. These tools include blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, podcasting, and more. Some people describe them as "Web 2.0"; we call them the social web, because their power comes from the relationships they enable.

I have been asked to present on Drupal as it relates to social change and the non-profit community. My background is heavily rooted in the non-profit world, having worked for various arts based non-profit companies. I also studied arts, technology, theatre, and non-profit management at Virginia Tech. My presentation will occur on the 27th between 4:45 and 5:45 pm.

We need Drupal developers for a new consumer Web 2.0 site.
Expertise needed is:
• Site installation and configuration
• Drupal theme creation/customization
• Potentially modifications to existing modules as well as new modules written.

The functionality of the site will be:
• Standard public profiles for each member (Pic, contact info, likes/dislikes, etc)
• Standard functionality for Message Board, polls, reviews, and wikis; includes integrated WYSIWYG for all
• Custom generated search results that show results from message boards, poll results, reviews, & wikis

Hi everyone.

I wanted to know people's experience with Panel module and Panel 2 module.

I see you can use Panel 2 to theme input pages.

I am developing a site just using good ol' fashioned tpl.php files, views, and css.

What are the advantages to using Panels?
How much flexibility do you have to customize the panel?
What are the performance implications? It looks like a large module or set of modules.
Has anyone migrated their site to use panels?

Thanks to Tom, Julie, Alan and Jason for coming by; Neil and Yas for presenting, and Mark for recording audio and doing a last-minute presentation.

We're working on linking the sound recording of Neil's presentation with his screen capture video. In the meantime, we spotlighted a number of Drupal modules Yas used in his companies Intranet site:

LDAP intergration module (http://drupal.org/project/ldap_integration)- works with Active Directory (Exchange) and - I'm pretty sure - Open Directory (Apple).

Request for Proposal Site Migration Jot to Drupal Scope Move existing Service Catalog Community www.servicecatalogs.com currently built on Jot platform (purchased by Google and called Google Sites) and move to new open source platform – Drupal, keeping as many of the current feature and functionality of the community intact.
Functional priorities of new platform
1. Ability to migrate existing community members seamlessly (without notification or creating new logins) to new platform.

"Experienced Drupal developer needed for several projects, including site re-theming, custom module upgrades and feature enhancements. You must have experience with custom themes and modules and be able to commit at least 20 hours per week. Telecommute. Please respond with links to examples of work and hourly rate."

Come hear Derek Wright (dww) discuss the building of a Drupal-based newspaper site he just launched -- http://SocialistWorker.org -- which involves Panels2, Views, NodeQueue2, CCK, ImageCache, Drupal Markup Engine (DME), send/mimemail, and a whole bunch of custom code.

BDUG is the Berkeley Drupal Users Group. This group is open to everyone in the area who is interested in learning, teaching or networking about Drupal. We meet monthly on the UC Berkeley campus.

When: Once a month, over lunchtime, on the 4th Thursday of the month.

Responsibilities: The Web Manager will be responsible for developing and maintaining our web sites. Ideal candidate will have PHP and some graphics design capabilities.

The Web Manager will be responsible for maintaining and expanding the sites, overseeing the development of applications, and ensuring design standards are met. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on production skills and management experience.

Desired qualifications:
Three years of web management experience
Drupal CMS
PHP
CSS / HTML
RSS / Syndication
Photoshop/Illustrator
SEO

Online Organizer - Energy Action Coalition (San Francisco, CA)
POSITION TYPE: Full Time Permanent
LOCATION: San Francisco,CA or Washington, DC
APPLICATION DEADLINE: May 15th, 2007
COMPENSATION RANGE: $28-35,000 + Benefits

To apply send a cover-letter and resume to arthur@energyaction.net

SUMMARY DESCRIPTION

The San Francisco Drupal User's Group meeting happens every second Monday of the month.

This coming Monday, May 12th, 5:30-7, we'll be meeting at PariSoMa.

We are always looking for presenters, so if you're interested in demonstrating something - or presenting a problem to troubleshoot - please email me or add a note in the comments. Anyone who went to Newstools want to come by to talk about what the rest of us missed?

The Institute for the Future is an independent nonprofit research group in Palo Alto, CA.

http://www.iftf.org

IFTF is looking for a developer or researcher with an interest in experimenting, designing, developing, and implementing collaborative technology tools—such as open-source online platforms and social software to support research processes.

Telecommuting is allowed for some work, but the job requires coming to Palo Alto for face-to-face meetings as well.

email: iftf.media.designer (at) gmail.com

http://events.gigaom.com/structure/08/schedule/

Structure 08 is a conference developed by award winning technology writer Om Malik. Structure 08 is created to inform businesses so they can plan their future computing infrastructure needs. With a uniquely privileged vantage brought by our industry-leading speakers and their deep insight, Structure 08 will allow our audience to filter the new technology explosion and determine the right choices. We will highlight the best implementations, case studies, ideas and startups.

Cloud Computing: Infrastructure for Entrepreneurs

The Public Press www.public-press.org is a concept for the next-generation daily newspaper. We're organizing a group of journalists, technologist and nonprofit managers to organize a new newsroom for the San Francisco Bay Area that would produce a Web site, daily print newspaper and collaborations with nonprofit news-gathering organizations locally and nationally. We've built a simple Drupal 6 site that we will be growing in the coming weeks and months, and we plan to start publishing on the Web using this platform.

Monday May 5, 2008
Moscone Center SF

This is a barcamp/unconference style Drupal meetup for us at CommunityOne! So bring the topic you want to discuss!

Space available in Hall A - section of tables, white boards, wifi (opportunity for it to be very noisy)
- space is available 5/5 from 11a - 8p (reception is held in that hall from 6-8p)

I can see about a projector if it is needed. I will have a camera guy there too documenting.

Please Register so they have enough space, food and such! I believe currently we have room for 40.

Greetings Bay Area Druplers,

The secret ingredient in this month's Drupal kitchen arena is ... ImageCache (present and future)! This is an extremely useful module for Just-In-Time image manipulation, that is must-have in the pro's tool belt, but not as well known as it deserves to be. I am really excited that Darrel O'Pry (dopry), the creator of ImageCache, will be joining us to talk about ImageCache 2.x and the new ImageAPI. So we will start out with an overview of the present, and then get a view of the future.

See you there,
-tao

[Update: I fixed the ISL link...] Thanks to Jeff (and Omar, Bob and Amy) from ISL for hosting this last Monday's Drupal User's Group!

We had a great demo of Jeff (SprSquish)'s User Relationships module - in Drupal 6, even! (With requisite live demo code barf "Oops, gotta fix that"! :-) ).

NewsTools2008 -- a conceptual mashup for journalists, technologists and entrepreneurs

Register to attend one day of NewsTools2008 -- "Drupal Day at NewsTools2008," on Friday, May 2 from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. The registration fee of $50 includes lunch and end-of-day reception. If the fee is a hardship, email densmore@mediagiraffe.org to request a fee waiver. Otherwise, REGISTER HERE, choosing the "Drupal Day FRIDAY ONLY" button.

Join Amazon (Kieran Lal) and other Drupal community members and leaders at the Drupal Birds of a Feather session at the MySQL Conference & Expo on Wednesday, April 16th at 7:30pm. The BoF takes place in Ballroom “E” at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Afterwards, Sun will be giving away a Playstation 3 and Sun Fire X2100 M2 Server ($2,495) at their party next door. Wear your Drupal shirt!

More info about the conference:
http://en.oreilly.com/mysql2008

More info about the Sun party:

Selena Deckelmann , and Andy de la Lucha, daytime Linux system administrator, nighttime design geek, will be doing a fun and theatrical event pitting Wordpress easy entry and their huge user community versus Drupal's you can do anything and it's huge "join the community now!" developer focus.

Should be a really fun event!

PLEASE NOTE: I am truly sorry for the late notice, but due to a broken leg, this month's Initial Tri-Valley Drupalers Gathering is canceled.
The next meeting has been scheduled for 5/14/08. Sorry all.

ISL will host the next SF user group meeting at their office.

ISL is located at 944 Market street at the corner of Market and Mason.
near Powel BART/MUNI station
415.981.5000
http://www.islco.com/

I'm new to Drupal and am very interested in participating in a Drupal Users Group in Santa Clara. Are there other users who would be interested in meeting at the Mission City Roasting Company (or other location)?

Thanks,
Rebecca

Hi All!

I just wanted to post a note for the rest of the Bay Area Drupalers, that we're having a Drupal gathering over here in the Tri Valley (East Bay). It'll be our first meeting.

It'll be on Wednesday, April 9th at 5:30pm in Danville

Located at:

Dagaz Solutions
103 Town & Country Drive, Suite J
Danville, CA 94526
Directions: http://www.dagazsolutions.com/contact-us/driving-directions

For more info, you'll be able to read about it on the discussions in the "Tri-Valley Drupalers" group:
http://groups.drupal.org/trivalley-drupalers

Hope to see you there,
Kirk

[We've changed our requirement, and are now not just looking to hire - we are willing to contract too....]

We are looking for a Drupal developer to join our AF83 web development team in San Francisco. AF83 is a French-American web development company that has offices in Paris and San Francisco; we are expanding our US-based operations, and have several Drupal projects developing in the music and lifestyle markets. Our SF office is located in a gorgeous SoMa loft (PariSoMa) and will anchor a new coworking community, as well as host tech (and wine) events.