Welcome to the Austin Drupal Users Group!
As of April 2025, we are no longer posting events in this group (there are too many places to post events and groups.drupal.org is dying a slow death).
TxDUG / Texas Drupal organizers are collecting contact info for Drupalers in Texas so we can stop being reliant on other platforms (here’s looking at you Meetup.com) for communicating announcements. Please fill out this form so we can email you about Drupal events in Texas (you can choose which regions).
Please join us in the #austin-texas channel on Drupal Slack. If you aren't already on Drupal Slack, join here.
We continue to post our meetups in Drupal.org's Community Events section.
For now, RSVPs for our meetups are in our Meetup Group, but this might change in the future. Best to be in our Slack channel or on our email list.
Hope to see you at an upcoming meetup!
Game mechanics design workshop, Monday, April 26, 7pm, Austin, TX
Hi, I'm an interaction designer for a large Drupal site, and I host regular design workshops in Austin, TX. The next one is this Monday, April 26, at 7pm, and we'll be exploring designing game mechanics: http://vi.to/workshop/
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At DrupalCon?
If so, please be sure to say hi to my friend Everett Zufelt (he's the one with the dog in this photo).
Everett is a great coder and has made quite a few contributions to Drupal 7 in particular. If you were at the CoreDev Summit, you saw him give a killer of a lightning talk about how to make accessibility an integral part of Drupal's continued development.
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Going to DrupalCon: Check out the Open Media Project sessions
Going to DrupalCon: Check out the Open Media Project sessions
DrupalCon Unconference OMP Meetup
http://groups.drupal.org/node/62443
DrupalCon Unconference OMP Meetup
http://groups.drupal.org/node/62443
channelAustin, in Austin, has been engaged with the Open Media Project and Drupal developers in Denver and elsewhere since last year.
Here's an opportunity at DrupalCon to meet some of these folks and learn more about the Open Media Project: http://www.openmediaproject.org/
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Austin, Texas Now nominated for a Webby
The Austin Chamber of Commerce's Austin, Texas Now site has been nominated for a Webby. It's the only Drupal (and Austin) site in the category, and I think it's a great showcase of some Drupal capabilities. I may be biased (I'm one of the developers), but if you like the site you can vote for it here:
http://webby.aol.com/category_groups/society/categories/associations
Read moreOpen Media Project gatherings in San Francisco
Open Media Project gatherings in San Francisco
Mark your calendars and spread the word to other digital community media drupalistas.
Sunday, April 18, 3:30 PM @ Drupal UnConference
Open Media Project Summit, Session, Presentation, Etc.
http://sf2010.drupal.org/conference/unconference
Sunday, April 18, 6:00 PM @ Basil Canteen
Dinner and drinks at a great Thai restaurant 8 blocks from Moscone
http://www.basilthai.com/canteen/
RSVP to stefan/AT\iconmedia/DOT\org so I can book a space with the correct # of seats
Tuesday, April 20, 4:00 to 5:00 PM @ DrupalCon BoF in Room 206
Read moreNo Drupal Dojo this week or next.
Practically everyone is getting ready for, or has already left for,
DrupalCon. So there will be no Dojo this week or next.
The next Dojo is Thursday, April 29th.
-Lynn
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What do you use to manage projects/tasks/clients?
I am an independent Drupal consultant, and until I began sharing work and overlapping projects, I was doing ok with a personal wiki, google docs, and FreshBooks. Lately, however, I find myself sharing more workload with others (and having to ping back periodically, "How is it coming?" as well as touching base with the client with status updates on things I can't readily know), and I would like to hear what tools you have found useful and why.
I'll start it off :)
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Daily Texan uses Drupal
FYI, I just noticed that the newly revamped website for The Daily Texan is based on Drupal. This should be a dead giveaway to you:
http://dailytexanonline.com/user
Read moreAustin Drupal Dojo #8 : Thursday, April 8
This is the weekly Drupal hackfest. No presentations, just an opportunity to work on your projects and share your knowledge with your fellow Drupalistas.
Bring your laptops! Bring your questions!
Austin Drupal Dojo #8
Date: Thursday, April 8, 2010
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Triumph Cafe
Street: 3808 Spicewood Springs Road,Austin, TX 78759-8973
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=108166855884319
Who is going to DrupalCon?
Who is going to DrupalCon from Austin? I am.
Read moreAustin Drupal Dojo #7 : Thursday, April 1
This is the weekly Drupal hackfest. No presentations, just an opportunity to work on your projects and share your knowledge with your fellow Drupalistas.
Bring your laptops! Bring your questions!
Austin Drupal Dojo #7
Date: Thursday, April 1, 2010
Time: 6:30pm - 9:00pm
Location: Triumph Cafe
Street: 3808 Spicewood Springs Road,Austin, TX 78759-8973
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=106509039382001
Help with several projects
I am looking for local Austin Drupal talent to help with several web projects. We are developing tools for an international network dedicated to improving access to basic education in developing countries. We are working with an international team of volunteers, contractors and staff to make this happen.
Specific needs are: Open Atrium Feature development, site building, theming, single signon implementation, content creation and research.
If you are interested in learning more please take a look at our website ole.org and get in touch.
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Drupal and Dries - Like your feedback..
I had the pleasure of meeting the creator of Drupal, Dries Buytaert, at SXSW Interactive. In addition to creating Drupal, he’s the CTO of Acquia, and Mollom the spam fighter. The following blog post is a compilation or my notes (tweets) from the @Guidelight account. http://www.guidelightsolutions.com/blog/drupal-and-dries
Like your feedback and let me know what you think.
Elizabeth Quintanilla
Read moreAustin Drupal Dojo #6 (rescheduled) Wednesday, March 24
This is the weekly Drupal hackathon. No presentations, just an opportunity to work on your projects and share your knowledge with your fellow Drupalistas.
Bring your laptops! Bring your questions!
Austin Drupal Dojo #6 (rescheduled)
Date: Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Time: 6:30pm - 9:00pm
Location: Triumph Cafe
Street: 3808 Spicewood Springs Road,Austin, TX 78759-8973
MongoDB Day Austin: Sat, March 27
Event: http://mongodbday.eventbrite.com/
This event will be of interest to those of you looking to move beyond MySQL/PostgreSQL as the sole data store for your Drupal sites.
MongoDB (wikipedia) is an open source, high performance, schema free, scalable, document-oriented database sponsored by 10gen. MongoDB offers speed, scale and simplicity.
In Drupal 7, you will be able to store cache items, sessions, and even fields in MongoDB.
Read moreDon't fight the Taxonomy!
All my years, I've been fighting Drupal Taxonomy. It's convenient and powerful, but I just haven't got the kind of grasp of it that I can use it effectively. I use it in my own kludgey ways but usually remove the terms bit from node.tpl.php to avoid unfederated browsing. Better, however, would be to embrace taxonomy browsing and learn to theme it better to suit my needs.
Can anyone share a similar journey (on through to a successful, satisfying end) to help guide me there?
Read moreAustin Drupal Dojo #6
After discussing it with several of the regular attendees, so that everyone can get prepared for SXSW interactive, we'll be canceling the Drupal Dojo for this week and the next.
-Lynn
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Drupalcon SF Lodging (~$20/night)
Hello Texas Drupalers!
Are you going to DrupalconSF? Interested in saving some money on lodging? I've been looking into options for cheap lodging and unless I do couch surfing I'll probably get a bed at a hostel. I found some great options on Hostel World with rates around $20/night, but I wanted to see how interested people were interested in sharing a private room. Some hostels are well within walking distance of the Moscone Center, include free wifi & free breakfast.
Read moreAustin Drupal Dojo #5 Thursday at Triumph Cafe
Because the Dojo usually has less than 20 people,
we'll continue to host it at Triumph Cafe. If the
attendance gets any higher, I'll move it to Mangia.
Austin Drupal Dojo #5
Date: thurday, March 4, 2010
Time: 6:30pm - 9:00pm
Location: Triumph Cafe
Street: 3808 Spicewood Springs Road,Austin, TX 78759-8973
City/Town: Austin, TX
optional RSVP: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=334530911315
Bring your questions! Bring your laptop!
-Lynn
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Drupal monitoring modules?
So I've asked around some of the Drupal boards a bit, and I can't find anyone that has a solid handle on a easy to use drupal webserver health reporting module. Currently I switch back and forth between Nagios and Cacti depending on client needs, but what I'd love to see is a drupal module that can just check simple stuff like cpu load, ram, swap, caching, and webtraffic load. There's a nagios drupal module, but that requires setting up Nagios and that takes more setup time than a lot of my clients want to bother with. Anybody got any ideas? Or should I just get off my rump and make one?
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