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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.
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Event : Broward Drupal Meetup - Wed July 11th, 2018 - Open subject night: Bring your issues, questions, problems, thoughts & comments
Broward Meetup (second Wednesday of the month)
Date/time: Wednesday, July 11th, 2018 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Dunkin' Donuts - 9170 State Road 84 Davie, FL 33324 USA
This month, we will be answering everyone's questions. We will help our peers with their questions, system problems, need for instruction, etc. The last time we did this was May 2016, so since we have not done it in a while, we are doing it again.
Remember that we start our meetups now discussing what we will be presenting next month, so bring your ideas for a presentation.
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Read moreFrom CSV to Drupal 8 site (Part 1) - Broward Drupal Meeting Minutes - June 13, 2018
This month, I ( https://twitter.com/hectoriribarne https://www.iribarne.com/ ) presented "From CSV to Drupal 8 site - Part 1." Who needs lorem ipsum when you can build your Drupal 8 site from data in CSV files. This presentation covered how to export content and users from a Drupal 7 site to CSV files, and importing them into Drupal 8 without having to write custom code!
The presentation was divided into the following portions:
1) Exporting users from a Drupal 7 site and importing them into a Drupal 8 site:
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Brooks 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 moreEvent : Broward Drupal Meetup - Wed June 13th, 2018 - From CSV to Drupal 8 site - Part 1
Broward Meetup (second Wednesday of the month)
Date/time: Wednesday, June 13th, 2018 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Dunkin' Donuts - 9170 State Road 84 Davie, FL 33324 USA
This month, Hector ( https://www.iribarne.com/ ) will be presenting "From CSV to Drupal 8 site - Part 1." Who needs lorem ipsum when you can build your Drupal 8 site from data in CSV files. This presentation will also cover how to export content and users from a Drupal 7 site to CSV files, and begin talking about the process for importing them into Drupal 8 without having to write custom code.
Read moreRelativity in the Wild - Broward Drupal Meeting Minutes - May 9, 2018
A few months back, Jay put out the challenge to our Broward Drupal members to use Relativity for their projects and our members have responded!
This month, we started the meetup with Jay reviewing Ron's new site that he is building in Drupal 8 with Relativity. Ron has been refactoring his site and we spent the first half of the meetup reviewing his data model with Jay pointing Ron in the right direction.
Read moreEvent : Broward Drupal Meetup - Wed May 9th, 2018 -Relativity Documentation Site - Part 2
Broward Meetup (second Wednesday of the month)
Date/time: Wednesday, May 9th, 2018 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Dunkin' Donuts - 9170 State Road 84 Davie, FL 33324 USA
This month, Mr. Shaal ( https://3paces.com/ ) and Gregg Shanefelt ( https://www.macchiatomarketing.com/ ) will be presenting "Relativity Documentation Site - Part 2." Part 1 was a great intro, and this month we will be covering the site more in depth
Remember that we start our meetups now discussing what we will be presenting next month, so bring your ideas for a presentation.
Sign-up:
Read moreEvent : 8-year Anniversary - Broward Drupal Meetup - Wed April 11th, 2018 -Relativity Documentation Site
Broward Meetup (second Wednesday of the month)
Eight years and going strong! Our first Broward Drupal meetup was in April 2010. We already had a website up the following month with details of our May 2010 meetup: http://browarddrupal.org/PastMeetings/may-2010
Date/time: Wednesday, April 11th, 2018 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Dunkin' Donuts - 9170 State Road 84 Davie, FL 33324 USA
This month, Mr. Shaal ( https://3paces.com/ ) and Gregg Shanefelt ( https://www.macchiatomarketing.com/ ) will be presenting "Relativity Documentation Site." I can't wait to see it!
Read moreBroward Drupal Meeting Minutes - March 14, 2018
The focus this month was discussing the upcoming presentations for the Broward Drupal meetup in the next couple of months. We are looking to broaden our talent pool of Broward Drupal presenters from our existing and new members. If you have anything you want to present, bring your ideas to our next meetup.
We spent the rest of the meetup talking about what went on at Florida DrupalCamp 2018. Hector Iribarne (@hectoriribarne (http://iribarne.com) spent time talking about his favorite Florida DrupalCamp 2018 sessions.
We had three remote users and two in person.
Read moreRelativity Best Practices - Broward Drupal Meeting Minutes - February 14, 2018
This month, we continued discussing implementations of Jay Epstein's (https://twitter.com/jeppy64 http://jay-epstein.com/) Relativity model (http://jay-epstein.com/relativity/overview). We discussed best practices for Relativity, including how to use the Field Group and Inline Entity Form modules.
The next step is for members of Broward Drupal to create their own site using Relativity, so we can discuss these sites at future meetups as a deeper dive into Relativity and how it can be used to create all kinds of applications.
Read moreEvent - Broward Drupal Meetup - Wed February 14th, 2018 - New Year - Relativity, Views and Theming Part 2
Broward Meetup (second Wednesday of the month)
Wednesday, Frebruary 14th, 2018 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Dunkin' Donuts - 9170 State Road 84 (south side of I-595 between Nob Hill and Pine Island) Davie, FL 33324 USA
This month, Jay Epstein will be discussing "New Year - Relativity, Views and Theming Part 2"
In January 2018, Jay kicked off a slightly new direction of going back to Relativity basics and spinning up a new Drupal 8 site on Pantheon.
Here's what we accomplished in one hour:
1: Create a Pantheon account (or access if you already had one)
2: Navigate the UI
