Central Connecticut Drupal Meetup - Tuesday, February 15, 2011

The Central Connecticut Drupal Meetup Group will be holding its next educational and interactive, face-to-face meeting on Tuesday, February 15, 2011 from 7pm to 9pm at the University of Connecticut School of Law, Knight Hall, Room 215, 55 Elizabeth Street, Hartford, CT 06105, as it continues to build and strengthen the community of Drupal developers, designers, administrators, content creators and other stakeholders in Connecticut. Come meet fellow Drupalists. Come learn what Drupal can do for you and the best practices to apply when using Drupal. Come help steer our group to become an invaluable source of information and networking opportunities. We are a passionate and fun group, enthusiastic to grow and help all those interested in Drupal - beginners, journeymen and experts - by sharing our collective knowledge, expertise, experiences and ideas.

Logistics

When: Tuesday, February 15, 2011, 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Where: University of Connecticut School of Law, Knight Hall, Room 215, 55 Elizabeth Street, Hartford, CT 06105

Here is a google map centered on the University of Connecticut School of Law and a campus map showing the locations of the building in which we will be meeting. Parking is available in the lower lot behind Knight Hall.

Please use the sign up button on this page so that we have a rough idea of how many people will be attending.

Thanks go to Bob Mariotti and the University of Connecticut School of Law for arranging our meeting space.

Agenda

• Introductions
  • Who are you? What brings you to this Drupal Meetup? What do you do? How do you use Drupal? What are your websites? For what companies do you work?
• Welcome to Drupal Newcomers
  • A Quick Introduction to Drupal (when those new to Drupal are present)
• Group Business
  • Selection of Presentations and Activities for Future Meetups
• Presentations, Discussions, Hands-On Exercises and other Activities
  • Drupal Deployment, Matthew Wetmore, Senior Software Developer, ING
    Matthew Wetmore, Senior Software Developer at ING will present on how their team migrates sites between multiple environments and utilizes the Deploy module to migrate content between a staging environment and their production environment.
  • Drupal Site Migration
    Moving a Drupal site from one server to another server is an important activity both during development (from development platform to staging platform to production platform) and during production (from one production system to another). Meetup attendees will share their strategies and experience with migrating Drupal sites from one server to another. Modules to be discussed include features, Backup and Migrate, drush.
• Informal Group Discussion
  • What have you been doing with Drupal? What help do you need with Drupal? What assistance or resources can you provide with Drupal to other Meetup attendees?

Additional Information

Please visit the wiki page entitled Central Connecticut Drupal Meetup Group for additional information about our Meetup Group.