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The Boston and the greater Massachusetts area is rich with talented Drupal community members and this group helps us talk with and support each other.
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Drupal Global Contribution Weekend 2019 - Boston - January 26th, 2019
Helping to contribute to Drupal core, for the fifth year in a row the Boston Drupal Group will be participating in the Drupal Global Contribution Weekend. Join us for the whole day Saturday (8am - 6pm) as we collaborate with the global Drupal community and work on core Drupal issues.
Read moreBoston Drupal Meetup - December 2018 - Lightning Talks
Join the Boston Drupal Group on December 4th 2018 for a night of Drupal focused conversations, presentations and talks.
Call for Lightning Talks
This month we are again putting out a call for themed lightning talks. Volunteers get between 5 to 10 minutes to present a talk. We are looking for talks on the following topic:
Retrospectives
Read moreBoston Drupal Meetup - October 2018 - Drupal Nights
Join the Boston Drupal Group for a session style presentation by a featured speaker. The presentation is then followed by group questions and conversations.
Featured Speaker & Topic: Drupal Migrations by Benji fisher
We feature presentations by international and national speakers, both from the Drupal community and from related communities. We aim to connect open minds by reaching out to attendees from connected technologies.
Browse our library of videos and resources and learn more at drupalnights.org. (http://drupalnights.org)
RSVP on our meetup.com page
Read moreNew England Drupal Camp 2018
The 5th Annual New England Drupal Camp, sponsored by Oomph, will be on November 16 & 17 at Rhode Island College in Providence, RI.
Read moreBoston Drupal Meetup - September 2018 - Lightning Talks
Join the Boston Drupal Group on September 4th 2018 for a night of Drupal focused conversations, presentations and talks.
Call for Lightning Talks
This month we are again putting out a call for themed lightning talks. Volunteers get between 5 to 10 minutes to present a talk. We are looking for talks on the following topic:
Testing
Read moreBoston Drupal Meetup - August 2018 - Drupal Nights
Join the Boston Drupal Group for a session style presentation by a featured speaker. The presentation is then followed by group questions and conversations.
Featured Speaker & Topic: A Holistic Approach to Accessibility & Compliance by Donna Bungard
Read moreCalling all intermediate/expert Drupal and PHP developers to join us in fighting homelessness!
Calling all advanced and intermediate Drupal and PHP developers to join the fight against homelessness this Saturday June 23rd!
Help contribute to HopeOneSource’s (Hope with Love) nonprofit mission to increase access to local services for those in need which has helped reduce overall homelessness in DC since this Drupal based tech solution launched 2.5 years ago.
This code sprint will help ensure the platform scales beyond DC to help those who are most vulnerable in other regions gain access to the vital and often life-saving services and resource they need.
Read moreDries Buytaert Keynoting: Design 4 Drupal Boston, June 27-29 at MIT
Thursday Keynote: Dries Buytaert - "Exploring the New Drupal Front-end with JavaScript"
Dries Buytaert, founder and project lead of Drupal, will give an update on the evolving role and exciting future of JavaScript in Drupal. He’ll discuss the merits of API-first vs. API-only approaches, give behind-the-scenes insights into the JavaScript modernization initiative, and tell the story of the past, present and future of JavaScript across the stack.
Register Now
Read moreBrooks Digital is hiring a Drupal / PHP Tech Lead
Brooks Digital is a growing digital agency that helps nonprofits build and continuously improve their websites. We work with clients to determine how their website helps them achieve their mission, and then create and execute a data-driven plan to increase the impact of their website. We are looking for a Tech Lead to provide technical oversight and leadership for our one-time and ongoing projects based on Drupal 7 and 8.
As a Tech Lead, you are accountable for understanding and guiding technical architecture, making and communicating tradeoff decisions during project implementation, advocating for code quality and project sustainability, performing technical analysis and breakdown of features, managing releases (including the project release pipeline), reviewing and testing work to meet project/company standards, and mentoring other engineers on the team. Your work ensures the long-term success of our nonprofit clients, and helps them create positive change in the world.
This is an hourly contract / remote opportunity, with the potential for full-time hire (if desired) for the right candidate as the company grows.
Read moreVolunteers needed for Design4Drupal @ MIT STATA Center, June 27-29, 2018
Design 4 Drupal is a local Drupal conference in design, UX and front-end development for Drupal websites, as well as the business and process challenges facing Drupal teams.
Volunteers are key to great Drupal conferences and we appreciate those who step up each year to help run the event!
We are currently looking for volunteers to help with the following activities:
• Info/registration desk; answer questions, sign attendees in
• Set up and cleanup coffee and lunch for hungry attendees
Submit a session - Design 4 Drupal, Boston 2018
Design 4 Drupal, Boston will take place from June 27th - June 29th at the Stata Center on the MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Join us as we explore the latest in Drupal and design. We are offering the conference midweek this year to give additional business folks and students an opportunity to attend. There will be two days of sessions (Wednesday and Thursday), followed by a day of trainings and community sprints (Friday). Dries is keynoting, we anticipate a great turnout.
Session submission deadline in MAY 16th
Read moreWebsite Accessibility Presentation and Clinic
Location:
Last Call Media
136 West St. Suite 01
Northampton, MA
Have you wondered if your website is accessible but don’t know where to start? Join us for a half-day interactive workshop where we provide a quick introduction to the layers of accessibility and then jump into a clinic, which is an opportunity for you to do an evaluation of your site using tools introduced. Based on the exercise, folks will determine the most critical accessibility errors found (if any), and leave with recommendations for implementing fixes.
Read moreBoston Drupal Meetup - May 2018 - Lightning Talks & Special Guest
Join the Boston Drupal Group on May 1st 2018 for a night of Drupal focused conversations, presentations and talks.
Special Meetup Schedule
This month in addition to our themed lightning talks, we will have a special guest speaker: xjm! (Drupal 8 release manager)
Call for Lightning Talks
This month we are again putting out a call for themed lightning talks. Volunteers get between 5 to 10 minutes to present a talk. We are looking for talks on the following topic:
Decoupled Drupal
Read moreTwo tickets to DrupalCon Nashville for sale (for less than the early bird price)
Hello,
One of DebugAcademy.com 's alumni let me know she has tickets to DrupalCon which she can't use and asked if I knew anyone to sell them to. I figured posting here makes sense, especially given how much time is left until DrupalCon Nashville.
Let me know if you'd like to purchase them. Looking for $350 or best offer.
Posting this to multiple groups because it's equally relevant to most people. Please reach out ASAP if you're interested.
ashraf.abed@debugacademy.com .
Read moreBoston Drupal Meetup - April Drupal Nights
Join the Boston Drupal Group for a session style presentation by a featured speaker. The presentation is then followed by group questions and conversations.
Featured Speaker & Topic: Jacob Rockowitz: Webform: There is this for that
One of the key mantras in the Drupal is “there is a module for that,” and Webform is the module for building forms for Drupal 8.
Read moreFrontend Performance in Drupal 8 Workshop - Waltham, MA
Workshop covers:
- Performance strategies & a performance budget
- Frontend vs backend performance
- Automated tools for performance optimization
- Image optimization and font loading management techniques
- Drupal Core performance settings
- The basic PHP/Drupal execution flow
- Caching in Drupal and & popular contributed modules (and alternative caching backends like Memcache and Redis)
- Varnish and other external caching mechanisms like CDNs and how they can benefit your site
In-Person Drupal 8 Theming and Layouts Workshop - Registration still open
In-house, full-day, immersive workshop on Foundations for Drupal 8 Theming and Layout on March 15.
Take a dive into how themes work in D8: everything from how to load your own CSS and JavaScript (and how to not load/override core styles and scripts) to working with Twig (the new templating language), to what’s coming with Layout in core. Come away from the course with your own simple theme.
Not too late to register; email Maggie (mnewberg@isovera.com) ASAP if interested or to inquire about pricing.
Read moreDrupal 8 Developer Immersion Course + Acquia Certification prep (8 weeks ONLINE)
Learn professional Drupal 8 development and get certified with the Drupal experts
- Are you eager to become proficient in using Drupal 8 to power ambitious projects?
- Do you want the experience to build skills and confidence to become an Acquia Certified Developer in Drupal 8?
Register now for our April Session & save $400 with early-bird:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/drupal-8-developer-immersion-course-w-certi...
Boston Drupal Meetup - March 2018 - Lightning Talks
Join the Boston Drupal Group on March 6th 2018 for a night of Drupal focused conversations, presentations and talks.
Call for Lightning Talks
This month we are again putting out a call for themed lightning talks. Volunteers get between 5 to 10 minutes to present a talk. We are looking for talks on the following topic: