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...
Miami Meetup 9/17 at Books and Books
this month's meetup will be happening (surprise, surprise) at Books and Books in Coral Gables. We will be covering Drupal and social/community sites, with an eye towards handling membership and permissions.
If you have a presentation or case study related to this topic, please feel free to post a comment on this thread.
I look forward to seeing you there!
Claudio
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Introduction
Hi everyone,
Just wanted to introduce myself as a new Drupal developer in the area. New to Drupal, not to the area that is. I live in Gainesville, Florida and have done so since I was born. I've been involved in web design in one form or another for the last 6 or 7 years. I've been focusing more heavily on PHP and a little Javascript in the last year and then discovered Drupal about a month ago.
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Drupal Florida Health?
Hey there ... I'm heading down to central florida for a bit of time and am curious about the general health and vibrancy of the Drupal community in that part of the world. What are the things that are working for this community and where are the areas that need some additional help? Who's using Drupal down there and what kind of cool stuff are you doing with it?
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Import/Export
Hi Group,
After Saturday's meeting, I've been playing with the Import/Export API for Drupal 5 (5.x-1.1). It's working somewhat; I understand the basics on how to export, add a record to the CSV file, and import back in.
But when I export, I only get the main content type record, and not it's fields. I have a type called "dispatch" and 2 fields "street_name" and "street_no" My resulting CSV file does NOT have the fields (columns) for "street_name" nor "street_no".
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All Florida Drupal Meeting in Orlando - 16 August
Our next meet-up will be on Saturday, August 16th, 2008 from 1 to 5 PM at MindComent's offices (directions) in Altamonte Springs, Florida (Orlando area). This will be a 2-topic meeting with Mike Anello covering panels and Andrew Riley covering Taxonomy w/ Pathauto.
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All Florida Drupal Meeting in Orlando - 19 July
Our next meet-up will be on Saturday, July 19, 2008 from 1 to 3 PM at MindComent's offices
in Altamonte Springs, Florida (Orlando area). This will be a 1-topic meeting with Ryan Price covering Themeing in Drupal 6 - taking an HTML/CSS theme and Drupalizing with Zen as the base theme.
For those of you who are new to Drupal, Themeing is customizing the look and feel of a Drupal website to a more individual style or personality than the basic themes that come with the core Drupal package.
Read moreLearn Haitian creole
There's now an official Haitian Creole translation effort at http://localize.drupal.org/translate/languages/ht
Defence and illustration of haitian creole, haitian pride, pillar and melting-pot of all haitian communities
Take a look at :
*Haitian creole wikipedia : http://ht.wikipedia.org
*MasterChes projects for Haiti : http://www.masterches.net
*Forum : http://forum.masterches.net
*Vocabulary : english-kreyol http://forum.masterches.net/dictionary/eng-ht.html
*An essay of the linguist Paul Dejean about Haitian creole : http://www.tanbou.com/2002/fall/CreoleEcoleRationalite.htm
Selling online with Drupal e-Commerce
Selling Online with Drupal e-Commerce
by Michael Peacock
Pack Publishing, 2008, $39.99
Technology books are generally expected to be on the shelves shortly after major releases of a particular software and therefore do not receive the most thorough editing possible. They're also quite expensive considering they have a relatively short shelf life because they're only really in demand until the new version of the software is released. Given that this book delivers on both counts and exhaustively details the cheesy example of Doug's Dino store, it's still a worthy read.
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Florida Drupal Domains
I have purchased three domains for use as the Florida Drupal group sees fit.
DrupalFL.org
DrupalFlorida.org
DrupalGators.org
Currently they just redirect to groups.drupal.org/florida to give us slightly easier access to the content here. They also work well when advertising (hint .. hint :) ).
If the group would like to use these domains for any reason just let me know. Please discuss the use with the group in public. Use will not be granted for those that just contact me directly.
Go Drupalgators!
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June Meeting Wrap-Up
The Florida Drupal User's Group met this past Saturday - about 17 people were in attendance. The group broke down as follows:
- new to Drupal: 6
- less than 1 year: 7
- more than one year: 4
Thanks to Jay and MindComet for letting us use their facilities! If you have a need for Interactive Marketing, please check them out.
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Jacksonville
JaxPHP will be having a Drupal meeting again July 1, 2008. We will be building a Drupal site during the meeting the will be used by one of our local groups. If you have always wanted to see Drupal in real action, this is your chance.
For more information: http://JaxPHP.org
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Just thought I'd start a new event string for the Jun 21 meeting so people could sign up.
Our next meet-up will be on Saturday, June 21, 2008 from 1 to 5 PM at MindComent's offices
in Altamonte Springs, Florida (Orlando area). This will be a 2-topic meeting with Ryan Price covering CCK and Mike Anello covering Views. We'll be covering these two topics using Drupal 6. Orginially, we were going to cover theming and Views, but we decided it made more sense to go with CCK and Views in the same day. The theming topic will be covered in July.
Saturday, June 21 Florida Drupal User Group Meeting - special news
In addition to our scheduled CCK / Views demos we have some books from Packt Publishing for review. They support "user groups"!!!
We would like the person that gets Building powerful and robust websites with Drupal 6 to write a review to thank our friends at Packt Publishing.
Joe Moraca
http://moraca.org
Getting Started with Drupal Class Notes
Presented by Joe Moraca Saturday, May 17, 2008
Florida Drupal Users Group -- Orlando
at the very nice offices of MindComet
385 Pearl Lake Causeway
Altamonte Springs, FL 32714
What do you need to install Drupal
Drupal runs on the L/W/M AMP stack I run on my local windows laptop and have my sites hosted on a Linux server.
How do you get this setup on your local computer?
Windows: I use ApacheFriends http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html there is also
Mac OS X MAMP http://www.mamp.info/en/mamp.html
18 People Attend May Meetup in Altamonte Springs
The second monthly meeting of the Florida Drupal group met on Saturday, May 17 at MindComent's offices in Altamonte Springs, Florida. Attendance was great, with 8 new people in addition to 10 who also attended the April meeting.
Joe Moraca gave a "getting started with Drupal" talk that covered everything from downloading the code from Drupal.org to transitioning from a development server to a production server. Some of the many topics touched on were:
- Downloading Drupal
- Resources on Drupal.org
The new Sig Panel
hey guys here is the signature panel that i made
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Tampa Panera Meetup Saturday May 10
What we will discuss:
Open discussion; may include details about the Orlando beginner's class; how and why we use drupal, etc.
Time & Date:
Saturday May 10, 2008 @ 3:00 PM
Location:
Panera Bread
18011 Highwoods Preserve Pkwy
Tampa, FL 33647
Getting Started with Drupal
May 17th at 1pm we will be having a "Getting Started with Drupal" class !!!
Please come and bring your web developer / designer friends ... drupal needs designers
If you can do cross browser CSS you can setup a drupal site!!!
Tools to run drupal:
Apache, MySQL, PHP
database admin, gzip & ftp
Navigate the drupal.org website
Download and install drupal / modules / themes
Basic Configuration of a site
http://drupal.org/getting-started/6
May, 2008 Meetup
Join us at MindComet's Headquarters in Altamonte Springs for our monthly meetup on Saturday, May 17, 2008 from 1 to 3 PM.
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