The Santa Cruz Drupal User's Group is looking to connect Drupal users in and around Santa Cruz, California.
We have a budding tech community in Santa Cruz. One factor in our tech growth is the use of Drupal at several local web shops, start-ups, and organizations. Drupal use at UC Santa Cruz is also growing and it's time we all got together to share knowledge and learn from each other.
We (almost always) meet on the first Tuesday of each month, at 7pm. Meetings are free and held at NextSpace at 101 Cooper Street in downtown Santa Cruz. All are welcome. Ring the buzzer to get let into the building.
Note - If the meeting day falls on a holiday or during the winter holidays (e.g. January), then we might reschedule or cancel the meeting but there will be a discussion or event here for it.
Nextspace address
101 Cooper St.
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Thanks! And... last call for feedback on Drupal 7 Multilingual Sites book
Many thanks to Craig, Julia, Mary Edith, Paul, and Rob for testing my Drupal 7 Multilingual Sites book last night (http://groups.drupal.org/node/209228) and to Darryl and Linda for testing on their own!
Some people said they might be able to finish up the chapters... so here's a timeline in case you still want to give me more feedback. Please send me your comments by email (or arrange for me to pick up your notes) by:
1) Chapter 3 - by EOD Friday March 2nd
2) Chapter 4 - by EOD Sunday March 4th
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CityCamp this Saturday @ NextSpace
Greetings Santa Cruz Drupalers,
I am passing along an invitation from Peter Koht at the city for an event happening this Saturday. It includes a code for free admission. As you all know Drupal can often be a great platform for initiatives such as this and I know at least one of the Code for America fellows is a Drupal geek. Would love to see some of you there if you can make it!
Cheers, Margaret
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March Santa Cruz Drupal User Group Meeting - Nextspace 7pm to 9pm (Tuesday Mar 6th, 2012)
We'll move back to our regular schedule (first Tuesday of the month) in March. I did notice a bigger turn out on last Wednesday night though so maybe we should take a poll on the best night to have our meeting. Or we can add a poll online.
We will likely just do a "round robin" of what everyone is working on and any questions/issues you want to talk about. So... think about some things you'd like to bring up with the group and we'll put our heads together to find a solution!
Read more**Special** Late February Santa Cruz Drupal User Group Meeting (i18n book part 2) - Nextspace 5pm to 9pm (Wednesday Feb 29th, 2012)
I'm writing a Multilingual Drupal 7 book. More than 10 Drupal folks came out on Feb 8th to help with beta testing the book! http://groups.drupal.org/node/196568
Since most people only made it through chapter 2 (if that) last time and chapters 3 and 4 will be restructured based on new reviewer feedback, we'll have another beta testing late in February to go over chapters 3 and 4 (and 5, if time). If you didn't make the first beta testing and want to come, I can get you set up so you can go through chapters 1 and 2 and continue on.
Read moreThanks to the Santa Cruz Drupal group for D7 i18n book beta testing! And, we'll meet again later this month!
Thanks a bunch to the beta testers for testing my Drupal 7 i18n book: http://groups.drupal.org/node/196568
Lots of great feedback!!
There is enough interest that we will be meeting some night during the week of February 27th to beta test chapters 3 and 4 (and 5 if we have time). If you are interested in joining in, then please leave a comment with the nights that week that you are available. We'll probably start around 5pm again and I'll provide dinner. Or, an alternative would be to meet on that weekend during the daytime and I can provide lunch.
Read moreWho's going to DrupalCon Denver?
Anyone going to DrupalCon Denver? I'm researching flights, hotels, etc. The flight is pretty cheap (Southwest from San Jose to Denver is ~$265 if flying out on weekday and back on weekend). Hotels vary widely: cheapie with shuttle to downtown is ~$70 or expensive one across the street from venue is $179!
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Drupal Scalability and Performance training at SANDCamp 2012 on January 26, 2012
Join us at SANDcamp, the San Diego Drupal Camp, on Thursday, January 26, 2012 for a full day of scalability and performance training! This class is being offered at a 50% discount off our normal prices. Sign up today or contact us with any questions.
| Sign up today at http://www.larks.la/training |
In this all-day workshop, top experts with years of front-line experience building large-scale Drupal deployments show you the best known practices for running fast sites for a large volume of users. Starting with a blank Linux virtual server, we will work through the setup, configuration and tuning of Drupal using Varnish, Pressflow, Apache, MySQL, Memcache and Apache Solr.
Through this process, we will explain common pitfalls and how to avoid them. By the end of this course you should feel comfortable with the basics of how to setup, configure and tune your Drupal site. You’ll learn the most robust solutions the community has discovered.
Read morePossible Book Cover Images for Multilingual Book
If you have an opinion, let me know if any of the images at:
http://www.kristen.org/content/possible-book-cover-images
Read moreFebruary Santa Cruz Drupal User Group Meeting - Nextspace 5pm to 9pm (Wednesday Feb 8th, 2012)
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NOTE THE DAY & TIME CHANGE FOR THE FEBRUARY SANTA CRUZ DRUPAL USER GROUP MEETING. It is due to the room already being booked up on Tuesday the 7th. We will be meeting WEDNESDAY THE 8TH from 5pm to 9pm. The earlier time is for those who want to take part in a training session. Details below.
Read moreJanuary Santa Cruz Drupal User Group Meeting - Nextspace 7pm (Tuesday Jan 3rd, 2012)
January's user group meeting will be a bit different from our "norml" (sic) meetings. We will take a look at the California chapter of the NORML organization and how they can upgrade their Drupal 5 website to Drupal 7.
This will be a HANDS ON meeting so bring your laptops if possible. For those who are able, we will meet an hour early (at 6pm) to get a headstart on the migration analysis and setup. NORML's advocate will be bringing pizza for those who want to do Drupal+dinner.
Give a shout out if you think you'll be coming at 6pm so we can coordinate.
Read moreDecember Santa Cruz Drupal User Group Meeting - Nextspace 7pm (Tuesday Dec 6th)
For the December 6th Santa Cruz Drupal User Group, Scott Patterson will be showing us his Drupal 7 (and parallel Drupal 6) project as he hopes it will be live by then.
Also, I should know by then if I'm writing a Drupal book... stay tuned.
Let me know if anyone else has a topic they'd like to discuss.
Read moreNovember Santa Cruz Drupal User Group Meeting - Nextspace 7pm (Tuesday Nov 1st)
For our November Santa Cruz Drupal user group meeting (Nov 1st), we will go around the room and discuss some of our favorite BADCamp sessions. Come armed with slides and notes. In addition, I can go over the responsive web design training slides/steps.
Kristen
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Future Meeting Idea - Deploying data between staging environments
Is there a best practice for deploying between Dev, Staging, and Production? Who has worked with deploy. Are there other tools that people use to do the heavy lifting?
Read moreIs there a NextSpace member
Is there a NextSpace member in the group that is hosting the SC DUG? This entails being present, opening the door, etc while the meeting is going on. If not please let me know so I can try and make sure I make myself available for the meeting on a regular basis. I will schedule the room under my membership so that it is a held space.
Read moreOctober Santa Cruz Drupal User Group Meeting - Nextspace 7pm (Tuesday Oct 4th)
Darryl Richman has graciously offered to do a presentation on data migration in Drupal including Migrate module in Drupal 7.
Here's what he wrote about it:
I can probably show some of the things I've learned about the Migrate module for Drupal 7. Migrate is one of two or three ways (Feeds and ad hoc SQL hacking, are the others I'm thinking of) to get data from other systems, including previous versions of Drupal, into D7.Here's Darryl's website: http://darryl.crafty-fox.com
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Drupal Fundamentals training in Los Angeles on October 31, 2011
This introductory one-day workshop touches on nearly every aspect of the core Drupal framework and covers many must-have modules. You'll learn best practices from the experts at Exaltation of Larks how to create a sustainable framework for managing your content. By the end of the day, you'll have created a Drupal site that looks and functions much like any you’ll see on the web today.
| Sign up today at http://www.larks.la/training |
Drupal Scalability and Performance training in Los Angeles on October 31, 2011
In this all-day workshop, top experts with years of front-line experience building large-scale Drupal deployments show you the best known practices for running fast sites for a large volume of users. Starting with a blank Linux virtual server, we will work through the setup, configuration and tuning of Drupal using Varnish, Pressflow, Apache, MySQL, Memcache and Apache Solr.
Read moreDeveloping RESTful Web Services and APIs training in Los Angeles on November 3, 4 & 5, 2011
Developing RESTful Web Services and APIs is a 2-day training on November 3 & 4, 2011, with an optional third day of additional hands-on support for those developers seeking accelerated understanding of exploiting Services 3.0 to its fullest.
During this training, the experts at Exaltation of Larks cover the fundamentals of using the Drupal Services module to create, test and support use of your own web API. This training covers Services 3.0 for both Drupal 6 and Drupal 7.
This is the training you need if you're using Drupal to create a backend for iPad, iPhone or Android applications. Developing your own web API is essential to entering the SaaS (Software as a Service) business model and this training gets you there.
| Sign up today at http://www.larks.la/training |
Drupal Architecture (Custom Content, Fields and Lists) training in Los Angeles on November 1 & 2, 2011
Drupal Architecture (Custom Content, Fields and Lists) is a two-day workshop that explores modules and configurations you can combine to build more customized systems using Drupal. You’ll create many examples of more advanced configurations and content displays using the popular Content Construction Kit (CCK) and Views modules.
We’ll guide you through the complex User Interfaces that Drupal provides for controlling and customizing the many different ways to present lists and tables of your site’s content.
| Sign up today at http://www.larks.la/training |
What you will learn
- Creating custom content types
- Building RSS feeds
- Allowing viewers to filter results
- Building interactive tables
- Displaying content in a grid
- Adding a date field to your content, and sorting by date
- Creating iCAL feeds and other date displays
- Using views arguments to dynamically filter your results based on the URL
- How other modules integrate with Views
Site you will build: http://dsb.training.chapterthree.com
Read moreNext SC Drupal Group meeting
Is the next Drupal Group Meeting set for Oct. 4th?
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