Northern VA Users Group

The New America Foundation (www.newamerica.net) is seeking a new media professional with 4-8 years experience to help improve and expand our online presence.

This is not a Drupal developer job, or a webmaster position with a different title -- what we need is a smart power user who's comfortable with Drupal, and wouldn't mind learning more.

We'll start with a brief presentation (link below) about implementing Google Analytics, including a discussion about some of the gotchas associated with using Google Analytics with Drupal, and then see where the meeting takes us. If you have experience using any analytics package with Drupal, please attend this meeting and share your experience!!!

http://www.slideshare.net/AndyForbes/implementing-google-analytics-on-a-...

Event location:

Teqcorner, LLC. - 3rd Floor Conference Room
1616 Anderson Road
McLean, Virginia 22102

We have the TeqCorner space reserved for a meeting on July 8 6PM EDT - 8PM EDT.

Does anybody have any preferences for topic? Format? Agenda?

If we decide to stick with "the first hour is one presenter going deep on a topic" format, the presenter does not have to be local. I thought the presentation by Jeff Whatcott was quite interesting, and we can undoubtedly find other non-local folks to WebEx into the meeting.

Your thoughts?

Phase2 Technology, a leading provider of adaptable web software solutions, application development, consulting, and management services is seeking a fast-learning web developer. Developer must have experience developing innovative web applications including websites, CMS, CRM, e-commerce, and performing custom web development. Candidates must be proficient in current and emerging web-based technologies to include, but not limited to; Java, PHP, XML, AJAX, etc.

WorthPoint is planning for significent traffic growth in the second half of the year, and we're working on issues on multiple fronts. We have a high level presentation of what we're doing posted to slideshare.net:

http://www.worthpoint.com/blog-entry/draft-presentation-about-scaling-wo...

Your thoughts on what we're doing, esp. anything we missed, would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

Event location:

Teqcorner, LLC.
1616 Anderson Road
McLean, Virginia 22102

Event topic:

Scaling Drupal to 1,000,000+ page views a day

MC:

Scott Hockett, Director of Business Operations at Phase2 Technology in Alexandria.

Speaker:

Arman Anwar, CTO, NewHelix

Description:

I found a Drupal users group on Linkedin:

http://www.linkedin.com/groupInvitation?groupID=56733&sharedKey=49CE482E...

Three months into planning, overcoming all kinds of odds and challenges (including the latest challenge of the Chinese firewall!) -- we are pressing ahead with ChinaOpen.

And on the eve of returning to China to iron out the logistic details, I would like to point you to http://www.china-osl.com and watch the Flash-video, which captures in essence, our message, spirit and goal of our ChinaOpen initiative.

In short, this summer, for 2-months, we will round up 50-200 Chinese students to work on Open-Source projects from worldwide. Currently in two tracks:
1. Drupal, and

One of the topics being discussed in a side group last night involved the hope for a site that performed ratings of existing modules which could guide Drupalers to getting what they need in a shorter period of time.

I remembered running across the below site a short time ago, which is described as being a community-powered rating and review service dedicated to helping people to find the best Drupal modules for their projects.

John Forsythe made the announcement earlier this year.

Enterprise content managers are always under pressure to increase functionality and decrease costs when implementing a content management sytem (CMS). Several open source alternative are available to replace or enhance the current selection of commercial CMS packages. One of the leading open source CMS options today is Drupal.

Come hear Jeff Whatcott, Vice President of Marketing at Acquia, Inc, discuss his views on overall trends in the content management market, specifically in Drupal as a social publishing system.

Vivakos, Inc., a leading integrator of open source and open standards based Web applications, is seeking talented and motivated PHP / Drupal developers with 3+ years experience.

We're looking for a contractor for about 10-25 (estimated) hours of Drupal work.

The site in question is already deployed, but we have a growing list of tweaks and fixes (some CSS/HTML, some that might require Drupal hacking) and haven’t had the resources to satisfactorily address them.

If you're interested in helping out, please send me your contact details, rate, and any supporting information you'd like to provide (resume, work sample, personal site, etc). rkarchner@stratacomm.net

-Ross

We have been pondering about how to best evangelize China into the Drupal community -- and in droves.

After operating in China for two years, and despite of our best trying such as holding the Drupal BootCamp event in Beijing http://www.drupalchina.org/node/3638, our biggest challenge is the practicality of getting Chinese acquainted with Drupal -- BEFORE we can even talk about having them participate into the DROP program, let alone directly contribute into module or theme writing.

This position is located in New York City. We will pay relocation expenses for the right candidate.

Inc.com and FastCompany.com, two of the fastest-growing and most prominent business web sites in the U.S., have a position open on their technology staff. We are looking for a senior candidate who has extensive experience with the Drupal content management platform.

We currently have full/part time openings for a Web Developers to work in our Alexandria Office. Also have some possible contract work.

Responsibilities:

This is a great opportunity to join our technical team. As a web developer, you will be responsible for working with project managers and senior developers in estimating, coding, and maintenance support of web-based applications, as well as customizing solutions for our customers.