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!
Need Help Setting Up Mail on Ubuntu Server
We could use some help to set up mail on our Ubuntu server. It's been recommended that we set up POSIX, although it's not clear that this is absolutely essential. The Ubuntu server has Drupal and CiviCRM. The main purposes for mail right now is for users getting password confirmations, for people to send us mail through the contact form, and eventually for sending users other types of notifications. We have CiviCRM but are using Constant Contact right now. We may switch to using CiviMail. So we may increase the way we use mail on the server in the future.
Read moreOpen Media Project Seeks Austin Drupal Volunteers
channelAustin has been working with a team of developers in Denver at Denver Open Media on our implementation of the Open Media Project tools here. The Denver developers were funded by a $380,000 grant from the Knight Foundation. We have not incurred any costs for this other than staff time. We have had excellent local volunteer support for our Ubuntu server from Rich Vasquez . He has also contributed to the project by writing open source code in Ruby for data to move between an MS access db on an XP machine to MySQL on the Ubuntu box.
Read moreOpen Media Metadata Standards Proposal
Two weeks ago I attended the Open Media Camp in Denver, organized by Denver Open Media. I was representing channelAustin. There are 7 community media centers / stations now part of a network that are collaborating to develop and implement open source tools. One thing we talked about was the need for open standards for video metadata. We want to work with the Open Web Foundation, and are asking them to help create a framework and process for developing open standards for video metadata. It's bit a complicated and is explained here: Open Media Metadata Standards Proposal. If anyone here in Austin is interested in this, or any other aspect of the Open Media Project, please contact me.
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Drupal workshop
Did any one see this?
http://geekaustin.org/2009/04/16/who-wants-to-learn-drupal/
Who wants to learn Drupal?
Posted by LinearB Thursday, April 16, 2009
Posted in: News and tidbits
Daniel and I already have a pretty full schedule for the spring GeekAustin free classes. However, following the kerfuffle surrounding the City of Austin’s website design, quite a few folks came to us asking if there were any local resources for learning Drupal. There is at least one Austin Drupal user group, but it’s members are mostly folks who already have some facility with Drupal.
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Austin Meetup on Wed, 4/29/09, 6:30-8:45 pm @ Terrazas Branch library
What
It's time for another Austin Drupal Users Group Meetup! Several people have suggested that we devote some time specifically to beginner topics. With that in mind, let's try devoting the first 45 minutes to an hour on a beginner topic. Any suggestions?
Also, let's try to have some specific intermediate to advanced presentations scheduled. If you're comfortable presenting, please reply with a topic or topics that you would be interested in covering and approximately how much time you would need for each. If we have more topics than we have time for, we can spread them out over future meetings. If there are any specific topics you'd like to see presented, please post those too.
When
Wednesday, April 29, 6:30-8:45 pm
Read moreA little structure for the drupal meetups
Hi all, I think that the last few meetings have been very good, but think a little structure might make them move a little more smoothly.
I propose the following as a starting point, if people would comment, on whether or not we should do such a thing, and if so how the structure should be.
6:30 intros
6:45- 7:45 Introduction topics (For newer members of the drupal community maybe this could be done in a series)
7:45-8:00 transitions (maybe a showcase of a site?)
8:00-8:45 Advance topic (Module work / Themeing work / advanced drupal configuration)
Newbie Training Session
Following the success of last night's Austin DUG meetup, I would like to know if there is interest in our group purchasing the Lullabot series of video tutorials (there are 2 @$75 and 1 $30) to view as a group. Please let me know if you are willing to participate. The total # of participants will simply pay proportionally for the cost of the videos.
Alternatively, if anyone knows of any good free video tutorials we could use let me know.
I'm hoping there is enough interest in having separate educational meetups outside of our DUG monthly meetups. Is that too much?
Read moreSemantic Web and Drupal
I saw this on refresh, and people were interested in Drupal Calais last night so I am reposting it here
Read moreIn addition, we will be hosting a session of where Drupal is with Semantic
Web and going with RDFa. For all you developers and designers that work with
CMS, you will defintely be interested to know that Drupal is the major CMS
that has gotten on the Semantic Web boat. Come and discover all the new
features that can be done with the new versions of Drupal. We will also have
a hands-on session of using Drupal and Open Calais to create Linked Data!
This session will take place most probably on the afternoon of Saturday
March 28.
Question about the Austin DUG meet-up
Is the DUG mainly for web developers and programmers? I'm interested in
using Drupal to build my own content sites for e-commerce. Do the members
discuss internet marketing and e-commerce? Or is it mainly the mechanics of
the Drupal platform?
Thanks,
larry
Semantic Web Austin Meetup at SXSW
I saw this on the Refreash feed, and am reposting here. Tonight Tom Tague from Reuters will be talking about Open Calais, there web services that help to tag content, as well as provide rdf, of relevant information. There is a group of modules (full disclosure: that my company phase2 developed) use this services into drupal. It should be good stuff for anybody interested in web publishing.
Semantic Web Austin Meetup at SXSW: Monday March 16
from Refresh Austin Google Group by juanfeder...@gmail.com (Juan Sequeda)
Hi Everybody
DOM Presentation at AustinBarCamp Mar 14
Denver Open Media will do a presentation on its Open Media Project today, March 14, at 5:30 PM at BarCampAustin at 311 East 5th Street in Austin. DOM staff are in town for SXSW and to do work at channelAustin .
Read moreAustin Meetup on Wed, 3/25/09, 6:30-8:45 pm @ Terrazas Branch library
What
It's time for another Austin Drupal Users Group Meetup! Several people have suggested that we devote some time specifically to beginner topics. With that in mind, let's try devoting the first 45 minutes to an hour on a beginner topic. Any suggestions?
Also, let's try to have some specific intermediate to advanced presentations scheduled. If you're comfortable presenting, please reply with a topic or topics that you would be interested in covering and approximately how much time you would need for each. If we have more topics than we have time for, we can spread them out over future meetings. If there are any specific topics you'd like to see presented, please post those too.
When
Wednesday, March 25, 6:30-8:45 pm
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Austin Meetup in March? SXSW?
Anyone attending SXSW? Any meet-ups in the month of March?
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Drupalcon Washington DC March 4-7
Is anyone from Austin going to the Drupalcon in March? I've never been and wondering if I could tag along with someone or get some thoughts about it. More info at http://dc2009.drupalcon.org/
cheers
Selwyn
Presentation on jQuery at Refresh Austin's February meeting
On Tuesday, February 10th at 7:00 p.m., Refresh Austin is having a meeting and on the agenda is a presentation on jQuery. Since jQuery is the Javascript library included with Drupal, I thought some people here might be interested. More details about the meeting are available on the Refresh Austin web site.
Read moreAustin Meetup on Wed, 02/25/09, 6:30-8:45 pm @ Terrazas Branch library
Who
Calling all Central Texas Drupalers! Meetups are very informal and Drupal users of all levels - new users to expert users - are encouraged to attend and participate.
What
It's time for another Austin Drupal Users Group Meetup!
Read moreLooking for a Drupal Trainer
Approximately 10-15 people interested in learning Drupal, by the end of February. We will provide location and computers. Is there anyone out there that can help us out?
Read moreCode sprint for Full Node Version
Hi all, For those of you at the meeting this week that were interested in the full Node Version Module that I talked about, My old boss put it up on GitHub at
http://github.com/casefoundation/drupal-full_node_version/tree/master
I was going to set up a site with it so people could see it in action. At that point if anyone is interested maybe we could get togeather and hammer out any major issues.
For those of you who do not know what I am talking about, this is the abstract of the talk we were going to give about Full Node Version
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Read moreAustin Meetup on Wed, 01/28/09, 6:30-8:45 pm @ Terrazas Branch library. Topics: various.
Who
Calling all Central Texas Drupalers! Meetups are very informal and Drupal users of all levels - new users to expert users - are encouraged to attend and participate.
What
It's time for another Austin Drupal Users Group Meetup!
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Austin meetup...
So. I'm just throwing this out there. Looking at the members on the Austin Drupal Users Group, both here and on LinkedIN, it is very apparent that we have quite the Drupal community. Just a simple glance shows that we have a wide range of experiences and skill levels. I think this could prove valuable to all of us, both technically, and as a means of networking. It's been a while since we have had a meet up, and I simply want to query the amount of interest there is in having another one. Perhaps then we can facilitate a more active A-DUG.
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