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This group is for Drupalistas in and around Fort Lauderdale and the Broward County, Florida area to connect and get to know each other. Welcome!
If you'd like to host a future meetup or event, please post a discussion in our group. If you're not already a member, you can create or log into your Drupal.org account and click the Join link.
Cities and towns in Broward County include Coconut Creek, Cooper City, Coral Springs, Dania Beach, Deerfield Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Hallandale Beach, Hollywood, Lauderdale Lakes, Lauderhill, Lighthouse Point, Margate, Miramar, North Lauderdale, Oakland Park, Parkland, Pembroke Pines, Plantation, Pompano Beach, Sunrise, Tamarac, West Park, Weston and Wilton Manors.
Recent posts
BOA (Barracuda Octopus Aegir) - powerful for self-hosted Drupal - Broward Drupal Meeting Minutes - Wed September 11th, 2019
This month, Hector talked about self-hosting Drupal on a VPS. Specifically, he discussed BOA (Barracuda Octopus Aegir), which was a follow up to discussing this topic in the past ( i.e. http://browarddrupal.org/PastMeetings/july-2012 ). The latest changes to BOA 4.0.1 were discussed.
Read moreEvent: Broward Drupal Meetup - BOA (Barracuda Octopus Aegir) - Wed September 11th, 2019
This month, we will be talking about self-hosting Drupal on a VPS. Specifically, we will be discussing BOA (Barracuda Octopus Aegir). We have discussed this topic in the past ( i.e. http://browarddrupal.org/PastMeetings/july-2012 ), and we will be discussing the latest changes in BOA 4.0.1.
Our Dunkin' Doughnuts location that we have been using since April 2010 is remodeling the next few months, so until we find a new location, we will have all remote meetups. In other words, this month will be 100% remote.
Read moreGregg Shanefelt presented: Gatsby/static Site Generators- Broward Drupal Meeting Minutes - Wed August 14th, 2019
Gregg Shanefelt ( https://www.macchiatomarketing.com/ ) talked about GatbyJS/static site generators. Static site generators can play nicely with Drupal and make it easier to take advantage of the speed, security, and scalability of static sites. This is one approach many people are considering for making their sites faster.
We also spent some time talking about other topics.
We had seven remote users and zero in person.
To keep up with the Broward Drupal meetup group, follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/browarddrupal or go to our website: http://BrowardDrupal.org
Read moreEvent: Broward Drupal Meetup - Gregg Shanefelt presents: Gatsby/static Site Generators - Wed August 14th, 2019
This month, Gregg Shanefelt ( https://www.macchiatomarketing.com/ ) will be talking about GatbyJS/static site generators. Static site generators can play nicely with Drupal and make it easier to take advantage of the speed, security, and scalability of static sites. This is one approach many people are considering for making their sites faster.
Our Dunkin' Doughnuts location that we have been using since April 2010 is remodeling the next few months, so until we find a new location, we will have all remote meetups. In other words, this month will be 100% remote.
Read moreFlorida Drupal Virtual Meetup - Relativity for DrupalCamps - Wed July 10th, 2019
This month, Jay Epstein (https://twitter.com/jeppy64 https://jay-epstein.com/) talked about "Relativity for DrupalCamps" at the Florida Drupal Virtual Meetup. This presentation is the most recent summary of Drupal Relativity. Jay discussed all of the key concepts of Relativity and gave several examples within the context of creating a website for DrupalCamps. This presentation is so good, that you will want to watch it again!
Here is the link to the presentation: https://youtu.be/uEugf-W-1lA
Read moreBring your questions - Broward Drupal Meeting Minutes - Wed June 12th, 2019
We had a Q&A session for this meetup. We spent most of the meetup answering Ron's questions on his Politics site, including best practices on Pantheon (i.e. backups anyone?).
We also spent some time answering other questions.
We had three remote users and zero in person.
To keep up with the Broward Drupal meetup group, follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/browarddrupal or go to our website: http://BrowardDrupal.org
Read moreRelativity for DrupalCamps (Part 1) - Broward Drupal Meeting Minutes - Wed May 8th, 2019
This month, Jay talked about using his Relativity (https://jay-epstein.com/relativity) methodology for building a DrupalCamp site. He started out by defining what the stakeholders want to build: "I am building a Drupal 8 website so that DrupalCamp organizers and their volunteers can promote their upcoming camp."
He went on to talk about how machine names allow you to define back-end identification and allow for label changes at any time. After that, he went on to talk about the data model, including how to make decisions about the components that make up the site:
Camp (one primary)
Read moreEvent: Broward Drupal Meetup - Relativity for DrupalCamps - Wed May 8th, 2019
This month, BDUG is excited to demo a special project that is being worked on for the whole community. Named "Relativity for DrupalCamps", this project brings a Relativity data driven solution for Drupal Camp organizers and volunteers to rapidly spin-up Drupal Camp sites with a whole new way to handle scheduling, sessions, sponsorship, featured speakers and instructors.
This back end demo will take you through camp setup, creating multi-day schedules and time slots, handling sessions and speakers, and attracting sponsors.
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Virtual meetup research from DrupalCon Seattle community summit
Hey everybody,
On Tuesday of DrupalCon Seattle week I attended the Community Summit. One of the (literal) roundtable discussions I was involved with was for virtual meetups. I was going email a braindump directly to Adam Varn (the current coordinator of Florida's upcoming virtual meetup initiative), but I figured it would be more valuable to post it here to gather (hopefully) additional feedback.
Read moreRelativity for Politics (Part 2) - Broward Drupal Meeting Minutes - Wed April 10th, 2019
This month, Jay continued talking about using his Relativity (https://jay-epstein.com/relativity) methodology for helping Ron Norman build a Politics site.
He started out discussing the Candidate content type and what fields that we need to add. Last month we added the following fields to the Candidate content type:
First Name
Last Name
Middle Initial
Party Affiliation
Home State
Issue Answer
Jay added an image content type and talked about how different properties on the image field affect if/how images are displayed.
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