Welcome to the Florida Drupal Users Group! We have members from all over Florida and most meetups around the state are coordinated through this group. Whether you're from the panhandle, northeast Florida, the Gulf coast, central Florida, the Space Coast, or south Florida, you'll find other Drupal developers and themers here.
Currently, we have perodic meetups in the following areas:
- Brevard County (Cocoa Village)
- Broward County (Ft. Lauderdale): 2nd Wednesday of each month, 7pm - Meetup.com listing
- Orlando
- Gainesville
- Jacksonvill
- Miami Beach
- West Palm Beach (Jupiter-Boca Raton)
- Sarasota / SW Florida
- Tallahassee
- Tampa Bay: 1st Thursday of each month - Meetup.com listing
Keep an eye on this page for location and topic announcements for each meetup, as meeting days and times might change month-to-month.
Funds are available for local Florida meetup groups!
Keep connected with the Florida Drupal Users' Group:
- NEW! Slack: #florida Get your invite
- IRC: #drupal-florida on freenode
- @fldrupalcamp for updates about Florida Drupal camps, meetups, and other events.
- Florida DrupalCamp on Facebook
- Florida Drupal on Facebook
- Florida Drupal on LinkedIn
- We're looking for someone to create and maintain a Google+ home for Florida Drupal...
Brevard Co-Working Meetup
Come one - Come all!! This is a great time to get our IRC and go face to face with your local Drupal Web Designers and developers.
Bring your Drupal Challenges and see if anyone might have the solution to get you over the hurdle.
We will be meeting this week at the Lazy Bean Deli and Coffee on 520 in Cocoa Village as we have for the last few weeks. Our hosts have been gracious and accommodating and we look to support their business.
Monday 16 December at from 12:00 to 4 pm.
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Omega 4 tutorials - Follow up from 12/10/13 Brevard Meetup
Set up your machine
Drupalpro is a prebuilt linux environment for drupal and is updated on a regular basis. If you are a windows user, you will first need to set up a virtual box with linux. While linux is the preferred choice to theme with Omega 4, you can also use mac but will need homebrew, etc.
Mac user:
You will need to set up RVM to properly use O4. Follow these directions:
http://misheska.com/blog/2013/06/16/using-rvm-to-manage-multiple-version...
Windows user:
- Download and install Virtualbox https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
December Orlando Drupal
Join us for the December meeting! Mike Anello will join us and recap his DrupalCamp Atlanta presentation on 7 little Drupal 7 modules you should be using. We'll also be reviewing what Kony, Inc. uses to build its three sites - we have three distinct sites that serve three purposes, yet we run them as a multi-site install. That requires some gymnastics which we will discuss.
We now also have an Orlando Drupal group on Meetup.com. You can join us at http://www.meetup.com/Orlando-Drupal
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Broward Drupal meetup - December 11th, 2013
Broward Meetup (second Wednesday of the month)
Wednesday, December 11th, 2013 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Dunkin' Donuts - 9170 State Road 84 (south side of I-595 between Nob Hill and Pine Island) Davie, FL 33324 USA
http://browarddrupal.org/gmaplocation
The topic this month will be "Using multiple user profiles." If you want to build a site with different types of user types, this presentation show you how to create multiple profile types in Drupal.
If you want to participate virtually, send me a Skype connect request to hectoriribarne. I will initiate the Skype call shortly after 7pm.
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I hope that someone besides me is gaining from these meetings!! I find them very helpful in my project.
Bring your problems (hopefully Drupal related) your challenges and your successes!! Now open to all, we will be hosting a weekly session where we can team up and resolve the hurdles you might run into while working on a Drupal Project.
Now being held at the Lazy Bean Coffee & Deli at 226 King ST (east bound side), Cocoa, Fl. 32922. This is a newly opened small shop so please support them during your visit. The food is good and the coffee is fresh!
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Join us upstairs at Ryans Pub for great food, drinks, and networking this Tuesday 6:30pm.
If you are interested in making your sites beautiful on any device or screen size, this meeting is for you! I will be giving a presentation on the theme Omega 4. We will discuss the difference between adaptive and responsive theming. Then touching on tools that Omega 4 provides such as sass, compass, and singularitygs.
Read moreBrevard Co-Working Meetup
Bring your problems (hopefully Drupal related) your challenges and your successes!! Now open to all, we will be hosting a weekly session where we can team up and resolve the hurdles you might run into while working on a Drupal Project.
Now being held at the Lazy Bean Coffee & Deli at 226 King ST (east bound side), Cocoa, Fl. 32922. This is a newly opened small shop so please support them during your visit. The food is good and the coffee is fresh!
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Brevard Meetup - Tuesday, November 26th, 2013 Cocoa Village
Join us on Tuesday, November 26th, 2013, 6:30pm at Ryan's Village Pizza in Cocoa Village for another one of our bi-monthly meetups.
Read moreBroward Drupal Meeting Minutes - November 13, 2013
We held our Broward Drupal monthly meetup on Wednesday, November 13th from 7:00pm to 9:00pm.
Remote participant(via Skype and Join.me):
Orlando - Debra Wilson, Patricia Mathews
In Person (Greater Fort Lauderdale, Broward County Florida):
Jay Epstein @jeppy64, Ricardo Reyes, Carlos Kosloff and me @hectoriribarne
This month Jay Epstein (@jeppy64) continued to share the entity-based approach he uses to build Drupal sites. He started off by showing how to theme a view using a global field to use html without having to edit any tpl.php files.
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Drupal Training - Intro to Drupal (in St. Petersburg)
Our local Tampa group is participating in the Drupal Global Training Days this month (tomorrow). There will be a full day of training offered. The training will take place in two parts:
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Drupal of Miami Virtual Meeting November 16, 2013
Event Date:
Saturday, November 16, 2013 - 12:00
Drupal of Miami Virtual Meeting Saturday, November 16, 2013 at 12:00 Noon
Come and join us from home. We will be using Google Hangout which is a lot of fun.
Read moreBrevard Co-Working Meetup
Bring your problems (hopefully Drupal related) your challenges and your successes!! Now open to all, we will be hosting a weekly session where we can team up and resolve the hurdles you might run into while working on a Drupal Project.
Now being held at the Lazy Bean Coffee & Deli at 226 King ST (east bound side), Cocoa, Fl. 32922. This is a newly opened small shop so please support them during your visit. The food is good and the coffee is fresh!
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Brevard County meetup - November 12, 2013 at Ryan's Pub (upstairs) in Cocoa Village.
Join us on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013, 6:30pm at Ryans Pub upstairs in Cocoa Village. We will be discussing the Migrate module.
Need to get data into Drupal, but don't know how. Well, we will tell you how to write a Drupal module to do that. The Migrate module is written using object oriented php. This discussion will explain the basic OO concepts you will need to know so that you too can write OO migration code. For the full details, please check out the "A Pain Free approach to the Migrate Module" event in groups.drupal.org/florida.
Read moreBroward Drupal meetup - November 13th, 2013
Broward Meetup (second Wednesday of the month)
Wednesday, November 13th, 2013 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Dunkin' Donuts - 9170 State Road 84 (south side of I-595 between Nob Hill and Pine Island) Davie, FL 33324 USA
http://browarddrupal.org/gmaplocation
The topic this month will be "Views Theming: Hate altering template files? ".
If you want to participate virtually, send me a Skype connect request to hectoriribarne. I will initiate the Skype call shortly after 7pm.
Broward Drupal site: http://BrowardDrupal.org
Broward Drupal twitter: @BrowardDrupal
--Hector
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Gainesville Drupal Users Group: Wed, Nov 13th at 7pm
This month's meeting has been moved to Wednesday due to scheduling conflicts!
Join the Gainesville Drupal Users Group this Wednesday, November 13th at the Alachua County Downtown Library in Gainesville!
Reminder! Updated Meeting Room!!! We're in "Meeting Rm. B" now! Its a room set up with a nice new projector, tables, etc. Its all the way in the back right. Click here for a map of the library
1. Presentation: Drupal 7 View Modes though Display Suite and Entity View Modes
Local Drupaler Brandon Ratzloff will cover View Modes in Drupal 7 (hint, this doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the Views module). He'll cover creating view modes via Display Suite and Entity View Modes modules.
2. Roundtable Discussion
Various topics. If you have something bring it!
In addition, we'll have
- A [free] 20 minute Drupal beginner session/training for any newbies that attend
- A rundown of the top X Drupal modules - this is always one of our favorites
- Roundtable discussion - What have you done or learned in the last month that's worth showing off?
- A happy-hour / social event afterwards - probably at Harry's or The Top (both are within walking distance)! This'll give us a chance to nerd-talk over a beer or three :)
Details:
- When: Wed Nov 13th, 2013 7pm-9pm EDT
- Where: the Alachua County Downtown Libary (401 East University Ave) Click for Map.
- Room: We'll be in Meeting Rm B, which is all the way in the back right. Follow the right wall all the way back. Click here for a map of the library
- Afterwards: We'll be going out for food/beer/socializing at a restaurant/bar within walking distance.
- What to bring: Bring your laptop if you have one, if not, don't worry!
Global Drupal Training Day
tbdugtraining.eventbrite.com
As part of the Drupal Association's Global Drupal Training Day, the Tampa Bay Drupal User Group will be hosting a free day of Drupal Training.
When: 9:00am-5:00pm Nov 15th
Where: The Poynter Institute - 801 3rd St South, St Petersburg, FL
You can get the full details and sign up at:
http://tbdugtraining.eventbrite.com
Read moreDrupal of Miami Virtual Meeting November 9, 2013
Event Date:
Saturday, November 9, 2013 - 12:00
Drupal of Miami Organizer Ronald Norman
Drupal of Miami Virtual Meeting Saturday, November 9, 2013 at 12:00 Noon
Come and join us from home. We will be using Google Hangout which is a lot of fun.
Read moreBrevard County meetup - Nov. 12, 2013 - A pain free (sort of) approach to the Migraine (aka Migrate) module.
Join us on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013, 6:30pm at Ryans Pub upstairs in Cocoa Village. We will be discussing the Migrate module.
The Migrate module is written using object oriented php. And if you want to to migrate data using this module, you must write OO php. That was a problem for me as my background is in procedural php. Yet another learning cliff to climb! This discussion will explain the basic OO concepts you will need to know so that you too can write OO migration code.
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Orlando Florida - Drupal Coworking Friday, November 22nd (DATE MOVED DUE TO HOLIDAY)
Due to our normal date being the day after Thanksgiving we've moved this month to be the week before
If you are a Drupal Professional and would like to work with other Drupal Professionals come out and cowork with us. We'll be at Downtown Credo on November 22nd, 2013 in the back room all day long (The Credo back room cost will be covered by Mediacurrent.)
Read moreDrupal of Miami Virtual Meeting November 2, 2013
This Saturday, November 2, 2013 at 12:00 Noon Drupal of Miami Virtual Meeting on Google Hangout
Last Saturday we had a terrific meeting going over moving Content Types from one Website to another. Sorry if you missed that. This week we will be working Taxonomy Terms and how to use them correctly. Taxonomy is hard to really understand at first and learning how they work is very important to Drupal.
Sign Up - E-mail Me at: rnorman489@gmail.com if you want to join us. It will be fun.
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