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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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Connecting Drupal & Square
Join the Boston Drupal Group as we sit down to discuss how to use Squares APIs in connection with Drupal. Joining us is Tristan Sokol developer evangelist for Square Inc.
RSVP on our meetup page
Read moreBoston Drupal Meetup - November 2017 - Lightning Talks
Join the Boston Drupal Group on November 7th 2017 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:
3rd Party Integrations
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October 2017 Western Mass Drupal Users Group Meeting
Our October Drupal Group will be at hosted at Last Call Media: https://lastcallmedia.com/
If you love Drupal, be there!
Agenda
6:00 Welcome & Introductions
6:05 Upcoming Events / Announcements
6:10 Tip of the Month
6:20 Module of the Month
6:30 Show & Tell
What have you been working on lately? What issues have you run into and what have you learned? This can about anything, from code to project management.
7:00 Discussion: BADCamp 2017 - those who attended can fill us on on cool stuff they heard about.
8:00 Adjourn
Quick Drupal development and design survey
Good afternoon! My Drupal-based company (Isovera) and I are surveying interest levels & insights from the Drupal community on varying Drupal web dev/design topics.
If you would lend 2 minutes of your time to our quick, anonymous survey so that we can improve trainings and professional development that would be great! You can see all past results when you complete the survey, and we’ll be sharing the result aggregate with the Drupal community as well.
Survey link: http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07eeji7jimj70k97uj/start
Read moreBoston Drupal Meetup - October 2017 - Drupal Nights
Boston Drupal Meetup - October 2017 - Drupal Nights
Join the Boston Drupal Group on October 3rd 2017 for a session style presentation by a featured speaker. Sponsored by BioRAFT. The presentation is then followed by group questions and conversations.
Featured speaker & Topic
Drupal Yoga: Creating a Flexible Website with Paragraphs and Bootstrap
By Andrew Brown
NERD Summit 2018
We are the New England Regional Developers!
NERD creates positive and supportive learning opportunities for people who work, or want to work in web and related technology. Too many smart, passionate people have been traditionally excluded from tech careers, and we're going to change that.
Each year we hold our annual NERD Summit. Learn with our local tech community at a free conference of talks, workshops, coding challenges, food, and fun!
Please join us! Save the Date!
March 17th - 18th 2018 @ the Integrated Sciences Building, UMass Amherst, MA
Read moreSeptember 2017 Western Mass Drupal Users Group Meeting
Our September Drupal Group will be at hosted at Last Call Media: https://lastcallmedia.com/
If you love Drupal, be there!
If you can't be there in person, this month we are going to try Google Hangouts. More on that later.
Please use the Meetup event for signup: https://www.meetup.com/wmasswebdev/events/242689711/
Agenda
6:00 Welcome & Introductions
6:10 Upcoming Events / Announcements
6:15 Tip of the Month
6:20 Module of the Month
6:30 Show & Tell
Boston Drupal Meetup - September 2017 - Lightning Talks - SPECIAL LOCATION
Join the Boston Drupal Group on September 5th 2017 for a night of Drupal focused conversations, presentations and talks.
Special Location
This months meetup with be hosted at the Acquia Boston office. RSVP is required, as well as, you will need to bring a Photo id to get into the office. See our meetup.com event page for more info and to RSVP.
Call for Lightning Talks
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Come learn about Drutopia - Drupal as a Service - A framework for an ecosystem of free software distributions
August is here, let's celebrate Drupal! Why? - do we need a reason?
While there is a regular monthly meetup there is also a mission to build a Drupal as a Service full featured distribution of Drupal for organizing and campaigns. There is NationBuilder and other proprietary tools that are available, but why not a Drupal solution?
Come learn about the Drutopia distribution and how grassroots groups will be able to easily create a Drupal 8 site with pre-configured selectable features and the SAAS hosting option. Drutopia.org
Read moreAugust 2017 Western Mass Drupal Users Group Meeting
Our August Drupal Group will be at hosted at Amherst Media: https://amherstmedia.org/
If you love Drupal, be there. Please use the Meetup event for signup: https://www.meetup.com/wmasswebdev/events/240864483/
Agenda
6:00 Welcome & Introductions
6:10 Upcoming Events / Announcements
6:15 Tip of the Month
6:20 Module of the Month
6:30 Lightning Talks (5-10 minutes talks on a brief topic).
7:15 Presentation "Using Patternlab with Drupal"
8:00 Adjourn
This meet-up normally meets on the 3rd Thursday of the month.
Find us on the Twitter: https://twitter.com/Drupal_Wmass
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Boston Drupal Meetup - August 2017 - Drupal Nights
Boston Drupal Meetup - August 2017 - Drupal Nights
Join the Boston Drupal Group on August 1st 2017 for a session style presentation by a featured speaker. Sponsored by BioRAFT. The presentation is then followed by group questions and conversations.
Featured speaker & Topic
One year retro from a Drupal Noobie
By Rob Powell
Come learn about Drutopia - Drupal as a Service - A framework for an ecosystem of open source distributions
July is a month to celebrate Drupal! Why? - do we need a reason?
While the regular monthly meetup is resuming in August, we felt that July needed a good reason to get together and talk Drupal code and config.
There is a mission to build a Drupal as a Service full featured distribution of Drupal for organizing and campaigns. There is NationBuilder and other proprietary tools that are available, but why not a Drupal solution?
RESOLVED:
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Bricks Sprint at Design 4 Drupal Boston 2017
Bricks is a new way for building pages on top of Entity Reference, Display Modes, Layout API, tabledrag.js and Flat Tables. Everything is in Drupal core that makes Bricks ultra-lightweight and developer-friendly. In terms of concept this is a new generation of Paragraphs.
On the Sprint we will perform testing of new features, think of better UX, work on documentation and do some refactoring.
List of particular topics to work on/discuss:
- Better editing UX (and especially this issue pack)
- Bricks + Pattern Lab integration
- Bricks + Fractal integration
- Bricks + Paragraphs integration
- Your current/upcoming website site building strategy
List of other tasks: https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/bricks.
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Decoupled Developer Days 2017
Decoupled Developer Days (D|DD) is a small developer-focused conference for architects, developers, and businesspeople involved in implementing decoupled Drupal architectures. The 2017 edition is scheduled for August 19–20, 2017 in New York City.
Decoupled Drupal is the use of Drupal as a content service for other non-Drupal applications, whether they are in native desktop or mobile, universal JavaScript, set-top boxes, IoT devices, conversational interfaces, or other technologies.
Mission
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Ethan Marcotte Keynoting: Design 4 Drupal Boston, June 23-25 at MIT
Saturday Keynote: Ethan Marcotte - "Responsive Design: Beyond Our Devices"
Ethan Marcotte, the creator of Responsive Web Design, will speak on the industry shift from “pages” to “patterns”—designing small, reusable little interface components—and how digital practices can adapt to that change by integrating pattern libraries into their company culture.
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Great sessions, hands-on training track, Sunday contribution sprints, student discount and more
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Become a Drupal 8 developer. Live project-based class taught by Acquia Certified Drupal Grand Master
debugacademy.com
Hello,
I am a Technical Architect working at Acquia who has attained the Drupal Grand Master certification. My team and I have taught and refined career-changing Drupal development courses at Debug Academy ( http://debugacademy.com ). I will personally be the lead teacher for the upcoming semester, where we will teach Drupal 8. The course will be offered live, fully online.
Read moreBoston Drupal Meetup - June 2017 - Drupal Nights
Boston Drupal Meetup - June 2017 - Drupal Nights
Join the Boston Drupal Group on June 6th 2017 for a session style presentation by a featured speaker. Sponsored by BioRAFT. The presentation is then followed by group questions and conversations.
Featured speaker & Topic
Drupal 8 Plugins
By Joshua Bolduc
June 2017 Western Mass Drupal Users Group Meeting
Our June Drupal Group will be at hosted at Last Call Media: https://lastcallmedia.com
If you love Drupal, be there.
Please signup at Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/wmasswebdev/events/240108511/
Agenda
6:00 Welcome & Introductions
6:10 Upcoming Events / Announcements
6:15 Tip of the Month
6:20 Module of the Month
6:30 Lightning Talks (5-10 minutes talks on a brief topic).
7:15 Presentation "What are Drupal 8 Plugins?"
8:00 Adjourn
This meet-up normally meets on the 3rd Thursday of the month.
Find us on the Twitter: https://twitter.com/Drupal_Wmass
Read moreMay 2017 Western Mass Drupal Users Group Meeting
Our May Drupal Group will be at hosted at Mount Holyoke College (see below).
Please signup here: https://www.meetup.com/wmasswebdev/events/239776948/
Those who attended Drupalcon 2017 Baltimore will talk about the event and sessions they liked (https://events.drupal.org/baltimore2017).
We will also have a discussion about how to structure our meetings in the future, using ideas from the Boston Drupal Group and others. Hope to see you there!
Mount Holyoke College
Room 302, Kendade Hall
Map: https://goo.gl/jRCUzN
Info on parking: https://www.mtholyoke.edu/parking/visitors
Drupal Introduction Workshop
Hosted by American Graphics Institute, this hands-on Drupal course teaches attendees how to operate basic functionalities in this powerful content management system in a single day. Student learn an understanding of Drupal terminology, methods used to create Drupal sites, and how to locate, select, and add modules to a website.
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