Chicago's local community of various user groups focused on Drupal. Groups have meetings each month in/around Chicago. Please be sure to join our group if interested in posting or hearing about Drupal-related job opportunities in the Chicagoland area.
The Drupal Chicago Meetup Group holds meetups on various topics and networking opportunities. Presentations and speakers are aimed at a general audience, with site show-and-tells, module demonstrations, news and announcements, and question and answer sessions.
If you live or work in the suburbs, check out the Fox Valley Drupal Meetup group with topics for all users.
Volunteers in the Chicago Drupal Group also organize MidCamp - Midwest Drupal Camp. Drupal camps are multi-day events that can include training days, session days, code and documentation sprints, and social events. Held annually in March, MidCamp is quickly becoming one of the larger and prestigious Drupal camps due to its high level of speakers, content, accessibility, and attention to detail.
Did we mention, the Chicago Drupal community has active and ongoing community discussions going on can be found at https://midcamp.slack.com.
Help going from single site to BOA.
I've made a few Drupal websites which are hosted in several different shared servers. Due to the size and resources some of them require, the company where I work has agreed to buy a VPS (Linode).
As a newbie to Aegir/BOA/Unix (in general), I was wondering what's the best way to understand the system?
I had previously installed BOA but was confused by the file structure in my Unix box. Furthermore, I do not understand the development workflow that everyone boasts about with Aegir/git.
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Fox Valley Drupal Meetup: Seed, a mobile first content management experience
Join us at Old Towne Pub and Grill in Geneva IL. (a short walk from the train station)
6pm: Social Hour - Please support Old Towne, buying dinner and drinks and enjoy - (They let us use this place for free, so be generous!)
7pm: Lightning Talks - Stand up and show off a new trick, new tech, new module… anything that you've discovered in the past month and want to share with the group in 5 minutes or less. This is a great way for new presenters to get comfortable in front of a group!
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Build Hybrid Apps with Drupal
Learn how to use web technology to build apps with one codebase. Configure Drupal Services to interface with the app. Bring your app concept to class and leave with a working prototype. Focus on learning – we provide the equipment and materials.
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CADUG - Advanced Drupal Meet Up - Nov 27th 2012
CADUG November 27th, 2012 will be at Palantir.net Offices
2211 North Elston Avenue, Chicago, IL (Suite 202)
Lightning Talks
Attendees are encourage to present for 10 minutes on a topic of their choosing. Show off a recent project, get audience feedback for your next big idea, demo a cool new module, give a marketing case study or just talk about anything else Drupal related. No slides or presentation skills are required. Short yet informative talks are the goal.
Advanced Drupal Discussions
Read moreCADUG location for November? Locations going forward...
First, a quick update on CADUG. We met at the Palantir.net offices on Tuesday the 30th of October. There were approx: 20 attendees and we covered a variety of topics. Here is a listing from memory:
- pizza metro's potoato/rosemary pizza is somewhat mindblowing
- becw had a useful and fun presentation/rant on GIT best practices
- wamilton talked about deploying Drupal environments using Chef
- we talked about ubercart in d6, the history of drupal commerce, and small budget ecommerce solutions that are NOT ubercart in D6
Calendar View of a Field Collections and Contextual Filters
I want to make calendar view on a field collection with three fields (performance: location, date, type). I want to filter this calendar view on the Host Entity ID which is not exposed as a contextual filter. Any ideas or work-arounds?
Read moreRegistration is open for DrupalCamp Ohio 2012
Drupal Camp Ohio 2012 is back this year for a two-day event from Friday, November 30th to Saturday, December 1st hosted by the Ohio State University at the 4-H Center. If you haven't already heard, registration is open and we're still accepting session submissions and sponsorships.
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Drupal Ladder sprints?
Hey there!
I've probably met a few of you, but for the rest, I'm Brock Boland. I live over in DC, and I'm involved in the Drupal Ladder initiative: http://drupalladder.org
The gist of it is that we're working to get more people involved in contributing to core, with a goal of 1% of drupal.org users contributing to Drupal core by summer 2014.
There are two main ways that we're working to achieve that goal:
- Learn sprints, where we work through lessons on DrupalLadder.org
- Issue sprints, where we work on issues from the Drupal core issue queue
Drupal Content Modeling Meetup - Fox Valley Drupal Users Group
Drupal is all about managing content... putting it into a structure on the backend that is usable, flexible, easy to manage and update while presenting to effectively on a website or web application. This is the theme of the evening.
6pm Social Hour, 7pm Meetup Starts
Lightning Talks and Site Showcases
Kevin Thull will share a lightening talk and Bob Snodgrass will do a site/project showcase, among others...
Introductions
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CDMUG October 2012 Meet Up Wed 17th @ 7:00pm "Show and Tell Night"
RSVP @ http://drupal.meetup.com/1
Wednesday October 17th 2012
Our first "Show and Tell Night" since 2008! Have you worked on an awesome project that you can't wait to show off? Step up to the stage to tell us why your projects rocks. Plus we're giving away two tickets to DrupalCamp Chicago on November 10th at start of meetup!
Read moreDrupalCamp Chicago 2012 - Nov 10th @UChicago
Register @ http://DrupalCampChicago.org
Date: Saturday November 10th 2012
Cost: $20
Location:
University of Chicago at the International House
1414 E. 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Map: http://goo.gl/maps/X2PEI
Directions: http://drupalcampchicago.org/about/directions
CADUG - Advanced Drupal Meet Up - October 30th 2012
Please RSVP! http://www.meetup.com/Chicago-Advanced-Drupal-User-Group/events/80130922/
CADUG October 30th, 2012 will be at Palantir.net Offices - 2211 North Elston Avenue, Chicago, IL
Lightning Talks
Attendees are encourage to present for 10 minutes on a topic of their choosing. Show off a recent project, get audience feedback for your next big idea, demo a cool new module, give a marketing case study or just talk about anything else Drupal related. No slides or presentation skills are required. Short yet informative talks are the goal.
Advanced Drupal Discussions
Read moreFox Valley Drupal Users Group - Drupal Development Workflow
If you are a developer or site admin having to work on sites with multiple developers you won't want to miss this one!!
6pm Social Hour - 7pm Meetup Starts
Lightning Talks and Site Showcases
Introductions
Drupal Presentations
- Drupal Development Workflow with Git - William C. Long
- Drupal Continuous Integration Development - Chris Calip and Michelle Krejci from Promet Source
9pm Official ending time
??pm/am unofficial ending time
Old Towne Pub
211 West State Street
Geneva, IL 50134
CDMUG September 2012 Meet Up Thur 20th @ 7:00pm "Newbie Night"
RSVP @ http://drupal.meetup.com/1
New to Drupal? Not sure where to start? Tried Drupal but feel lost? Work with Drupal, but haven't figured out what all the hype is about?? In honor of all the "Global Drupal Training Days" happening across the world, join us for an entire night dedicated to getting started with Drupal. Experts are encouraged to attend to help share knowledge too.
Want to try a free Drupal website? If so, request a "Drupal Test Drive" when filling out RSVP.
Read moreCADUG - Advanced Drupal Meet Up!
Lightning Talks
Attendees are encourage to present for 10 minutes on a topic of their choosing. Show off a recent project, get audience feedback for your next big idea, demo a cool new module, give a marketing case study or just talk about anything else Drupal related. No slides or presentation skills are required. Short yet informative talks are the goal.
Please propose your lighting talks in this thread. Thanks!
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introduction
hi all,
drupal newb on the northside (within earshot of Wrigley). looking to meet pros and see more of what Drupal can do. completed a great screenshare training with Doug Vann as well as CDMUG meeting at Duo. installed one drupal site and (full disclosure) bailed to Wordpress (sorry - couldn't get the Nivo Slider to budge!)!
would be glad to exchange writing / theming for learning opportunities with user accounts, payments, and other cool drupal stuff. or, just to meet up and make connections!
thanks!
ken d
creative director
grateful creative
g.d.o/chicago landing page info is all about CDMUG
CDMUG is awesome - but why is g.d.o/chicago homepage landing only about CDMUG and upcoming CDMUGs?
Should it not include information about Chicago's entire Drupal community?
Also, CDMUG is never listed under 'Group Events' but the other meetups often are.
I like having the meetups under group events because I can easily add them to my iCal and its more organized.
I've talked to some people who are confused why there isn't information about the other meetups on g.d.o/chicago and I've directed them to look at the sidebar.
Read moreMigrate a site from D5 to D7
I may have an opportunity to migrate a site from D5 to D7.
This is one of those " If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well. It were done quickly" situations, so speed and accuracy would be of the essence.
The site is http://amaaonline.com. If you're interested, please take a look and email me with an estimated cost and timeline, plus some info about other migrations you've done. My preference is to use someone in Chicago; I want to talk to you face to face and probably introduce you to the client.
Read moreASL interpreter at Chicago/CDMUG
The Chicago Meet-up Drupal Users Group (CDMUG) now has an ASL/Sign Language Interpreter for the main presentations between 7-8:45pm for the remainder of 2012 monthly meetups.
So if you know of a Deaf/HoH Drupaler in Chicago, please pass this along.
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