The mission of this group is to bring together people with a shared interest in Drupal living in the vicinity of Albany, NY.
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Capital District Nosh & Connect: Coffee chat
Greetings!
This month we'll be having a low-key coffee get together at the Western Avenue Starbucks near the UAlbany entrance.
Come and meet with other Drupalers in the area. Share your triumphs, challenges and questions.
Location: Starbucks, 1244 Western Ave, Albany, NY 12203
Date: Tomorrow, Tuesday, March 29th, 2016
Time: Meet around 5:30 pm
Cheers!
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Beginning Drupal 8 or Buildamodule.com Mentored Training
Everyone is talking about Drupal 8, the latest version of Drupal released in November. For this Global Training Day, we’re going to do a Beginning Drupal 8 Workshop. We’ll be using OSTraining’s excellent new video series, watching as a group (to keep our bandwidth manageable), then working individually to do the exercises. We’ll have experienced WebNY developers available to help answer questions.
Read moreUpcoming Connect and Nosh - share your thoughts!
Good afternoon,
I don't know about the rest of you, but time goes by terribly quickly sometimes. So here's an attempt to plan out some future local gatherings. I'm writing this in the hopes of soliciting your thoughts, suggestions, etc. in the comments.
This coming Tuesday is our next meetup, as you can see below I was thinking of meeting for a coffee - perhaps at the Western Ave Starbucks near UAlbany? (it has parking and more tables) Other venue recommendations for Tuesday or future coffee meetings welcome.
March, Tuesday March 29th - a coffee shop meeting, chat and share
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Drupaldelphia 2016
drupaldelphia.org
Drupaldelphia 2016, the annual Philadelphia Drupal conference, will take place on Friday, April 8th, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center! The day begins with registration at 8am, a keynote at 9am and some solid Drupal talks all day. There will be sessions for Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced levels, covering Front End Development, Business Strategy, Site Building, Development and anything else you can imagine.
Tickets cost $30 for the day, including an afterparty. More information and tickets available on the website: http://drupaldelphia.org
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[Live Webinar] Meet Commerce 2.x
Drupal Commerce was developed from the ground up on Drupal 7, and redefined what Drupal can do in the eCommerce space. It empowered businesses to sell physical products, event registrations, reservations, and digital products. Its ecosystem of contributed modules supports recurring billing with all of its complexities in addition to complex tax, multilingual, multi-currency, and omni-channel configurations.
Read moreMeetup: Capital District Nosh & Connect - Evolution of a Module
Where: Upside Collective, Downtown Albany (See their website for directions & information http://upsidecollective.com)
When: Monday, February 29th, 5:30-8pm
What: Evolution of a Module
Agenda:
5:30 - 6 pm: chat, munch on pizza
6 - 6:25 pm: news and announcements; notes from the NYCCamp (http://www.drupalcamp.nyc/)
6:25 pm: Hear about the collaboration and evolution of a Drupal 7 module - more details to come.
Other topics? Please feel free to suggest items in the comments.
Important Notes
Read more[Webinar] Developing Layouts in Backdrop CMS, The Drupal Fork
Backdrop is very similar to Drupal 7 in terms of code while providing many of the features of Drupal 8. However, Backdrop has a different project philosophy from Drupal, in that it values backwards-compatibility. It is the belief of the project that maintaining a greater level of compatibility will lower the overall cost of learning, building, and maintenance of software; making Backdrop better suited to lower-budget sites than Drupal 8. Join the webinar to find out why Backdrop was created and learn about it's unique Layout module.
Who Should Attend This Webinar?
- Site builders
What Drupal 8 Means for Your Organization's Future - Global Training
This class is offered in collaboration with New York State Information Technology Services WebNY and FFW Center of Excellence.
With the new release of the planet’s most powerful, flexible and easy to scale web experience platform, how can you prepare to benefit from all it has to offer? Join FFW Center of Excellence Director Ray Saltini and colleagues as they walk you through what Drupal 8 means for your organization.
In this class you’ll learn how Drupal 8 can:
scale your web properties faster and with less risk
make responsive web design and implementation easier and faster
Meetup: Capital District Nosh & Connect - Lean, Collaborative User Research With Dani Nordin (joint event with Albany UX Group)
Where: Upside Collective, Downtown Albany (See their website for directions & information http://upsidecollective.com)
When: Thursday, January 28th, 5:30-8pm
What: Lean, Collaborative User Research With Dani Nordin (joint event with Albany UX Group)
Agenda:
5:30 - 6 pm: chat, munchies (thanks to Albany UX!)
6 - 7:15 pm: Lean, Collaborative User Research:
Dani Nordin, a Massachusetts native, will be joining us via Google Hangouts.
Meetup: Capital District Nosh & Connect - Holiday Hangout
Since the December gathering is scheduled to fall between Christmas and New Year's we will have a relaxed get together on Tuesday, December 29th.
We are planning on meeting at the Starbucks on Western Ave in Albany, the one close to the Western Avenue entrance of the University at Albany campus. That location is central, larger and has good parking.
Read moreMeetup: Capital District Nosh & Connect - All Things D8
Where: Upside Collective, Downtown Albany (See their website for directions & information http://upsidecollective.com)
When: Monday, November 30th, 5:30-8pm
What: Drupal 8 goodness
Agenda:
5:30 - 6 pm: chat, munch on pizza
6 - 6:15 pm: news and announcements
6:15 pm: D8: Contributing, Drupal Ladders and more to come!
Please bring your laptop in order to fully participate in exploring Drupal 8
Important Notes
Read moreDrupal Global Training Days - November 2015
Attend presentations by local developers and strategists on topics such as: The Author Experience in Drupal, Drupal Layout and Display Options, Drupal Distributions – what are they? and What is Drupal 8?
Alternatively attend BuildaModule.com mentored training (attendance extremely limited due to WiFi limitations)
Read moreMeetup: Capital District Nosh & Connect - October
Where: Upside Collective, Downtown Albany (See their website for directions & information http://upsidecollective.com)
When: Tuesday, October 27th, 5:30-8pm
What: Paragraphs module; Living Style Guides
Agenda:
5:30 - 6 pm: chat, munch on pizza
6 - 6:30 pm: news and announcements (incl. D8 neatness, Gregg at BadCamp & Acquia certifications)
6:30 - 6:50 pm: Paragraphs module (the who, what, why and when) by Patrick
6:50 - 7:10 pm: Living style guides in Drupal, my initial foray by Meredith
I am looking to move up to Albany for a state job involving Drupal.
I am looking to be working with Drupal for a job with NY State, and I wanted to try to find out where meetings are and get ahold of resources, and network. Is there anything worth knowing?
Read moreMeetup: Capital District Nosh & Connect - Social
Greetings,
This will be a chance for people to come together and chat about all good things Drupal - from beginner to ...
Please join us for a low-key evening of chatting at The Sports Grill. Perhaps Gregg will be back from Barcelona and we can ask him what it was like?
We'll be kicking off regular Drupal meet ups starting in October, either the last Monday or Tuesday of the month.
Looking forward to seeing everyone!
Take care,
Meredith
Singlebrook Open Source Volunteer Day - Saturday, 9/19/15
Singlebrook would like to invite local / regional Drupal developers to join us here in Ithaca for an Open Source Volunteer Day on Sat., 9/19 from 9:30am-4:30pm.
More information about the event can be found via the Eventbrite registration link:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/singlebrook-open-source-volunteer-day-ticke...
Please feel free to spread the word and/or sign up to code with us this weekend!
Thanks!
Erica
Read moreDrupal Nosh and Connect Meetings - Last Monday in month?
Hello all!
Where did the summer go? I swear it zipped by before I could blink!
Two items:
- In an effort to standardize meetings - I'm going to aim for the last Monday in each month, sound reasonable? (please keep in mind that this does depend on finding space to hold the meeting)
Drupal Camp New England Oct. 10th
Anyone else considering visiting http://nedcamp.org/ ?
It looks like talks are focusing more and more on Drupal 8.
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Drupalcamp Connecticut 2015
Who is going to make it for Drupalcamp Connecticut which is happening this Saturday? Still accepting registration.
http://2015.drupalcampct.org/
I am presenting a session on site audit process for Drupal sites
http://2015.drupalcampct.org/sessions/why-we-love-site-audit-and-you-sho...
Mahesh
Regional Director
http://www.drupalgeeks.com/
Drupal is Big, we are big on Drupal.
Drupal Global Training Day in Albany
We'll be celebrating this quarter's Drupal Global Training Days here in Albany on August 21st. New York State Office of Information Technology Services - WebNY has helped pull together this training event.
What: A day devoted to learning more (about) Drupal via mentored Build a Module Video training.
Who: Any individual within state government (with manager approval) or the general public – open to all!
How: Register (we need to set up accounts for all participants) and agree to bring:
A laptop
Headphones
