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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 March 8th, 2017 - Bring your questions. Get answers from our members.
Broward Meetup (second Wednesday of the month)
Wednesday, March 8th, 2017 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 we will have as special meetup called "Bring your questions."
At last month's meetup we discussed some of the latest changes in Drupal land and we came up with the idea to have another session where people bring their questions and we all try to answers them as a group. We have several new active members, which adds to the brain power available to answer questions.
Read moreDavid Shaal presented The Cost Effective Toolbox for Drupal Development - Broward Drupal Meeting Minutes - February 8, 2017
This month David Shaal presented "The Cost Effective Toolbox for Drupal Development." David talked about the following topics:
- Hosting (Pantheion)
- CloudFlare - Content Delivery Network (CDN)
- SendGrid - transactional and marketing emails
- Acquia Dev Desktop and Kalabox - local development environments
- For theming: Bootstrap Barrio (D7) [Paper = Material Design], Font Awesome, ScrollMagic (JS library), PixelCog Parallax JS, shoelace.io, SCALD
- Paragraph
- Unsplash.com - free images
We had one remote user and six in person.
Read moreEvent - Broward Drupal Meetup - Wed February 8th, 2017 - The Cost Effective Toolbox for Drupal Development by David Shaal
Broward Meetup (second Wednesday of the month)
Wednesday, February 8th, 2017 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 David Shaal will be presenting The Cost Effective Toolbox for Drupal Development. As part of our recent presentations from several of our regular members, David will be discussing the tools he uses for Drupal Development.
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Read moreBeau Heath presented Drupal Project Management Workflow- Broward Drupal Meeting Minutes - January 11, 2017
This month Beau Heath presented Drupal Project Management Workflow. Beau talked about the following topics:
- Managing site builds
- Prep/info gathering, alpha meeting and beta meeting (more specific to the site itself)
- working with third party vendors
- content transfer assessments
- Site reviews (first, second and additional reviews if necessary)
- QA testing and client training build content formats per role
- Soft and Hard launches
- Material design for the fronted (bootstrap option paper)
- Client follow-up
- Pitfalls
- last minute requests
Agency Partnerships/Connections
I just relocated to the Miami area and would love to connect with other agencies and developers specializing in Drupal. My agency has been partnering with other agencies for quite a few years now and we almost prefer that model to the typical client model.
I'm still trying to get a feel for how prevalent Drupal is in the Miami/South Florida area. It seems that Wordpress is the dominating CMS around here, simply because that is normally the choice for hospitality related businesses.
Read moreEvent - Broward Drupal Meetup - Wed January 11th, 2017 - Drupal Project Management Workflow by Beau Heath
Broward Meetup (second Wednesday of the month)
Wednesday, January 11th, 2017 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 Beau Heath will be presenting Drupal Project Management Workflow. The following topics will be covered:
-Prep/Info gathering
-Alpha meeting/kick off call
-Beta meeting
-First site review
-Second site review
-Additional reviews *if necessary
-QA
-Train client on CMS
-Soft Launch
-Hard Launch
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Read moreCynde Mercer presented a Relativity Data Model Drupal 8 Demo- Broward Drupal Meeting Minutes - December 14, 2016
This month Cynde Mercer (http://mercerwebdesign.com) presented a Relativity Demo, which is based on Jay's (http://jay-epstein.com) Relativity model for Drupal.
Cynde did a demo of a site she is planning on building with Jay Epstein's (https://twitter.com/jeppy64) Drupal Relativity Data Model. The site is currently built with the D7 Open Church distribution, and now Cynde is planning on building it in Drupal 8 using the Drupal Relativity Data Model.
Read moreEvent - Broward Drupal Meetup - Wed December 14th, 2016 - Relativity Demo
Broward Meetup (second Wednesday of the month)
Wednesday, December 14th, 2016 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 Cynde Mercer (http://mercerwebdesign.com) will be presenting a Relativity Demo, which is based on Jay's (http://jay-epstein.com) Relativity model for Drupal.
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Read moreThe Learning Series Part 6 - Theming: Drupal 8 - Let's be friends - Broward Drupal Meeting Minutes - November 9, 2016
This month Jay Epstein (@jeppy64 http://jay-epstein.com/) covered the sixth part of "The Learning Series: Drupal 8 - Let's be friends." Part 6 allowed us to finish off the learning series with theming our site. We walked through theming for the Site Builder in Drupal 8 using Adaptive Theme and the AT Tools module for Drupal 8. Jay gave us a great approach to leverage the Adaptive Theme and the AT Tools that come with it. He focused on showing us how to get the theme started with site builder tools helping to create the architecture of the theme using the Site Building AT Tools.
Read moreEvent - Broward Drupal Meetup - Wed November 9th, 2016 - The Learning Series: Drupal 8 - Let's be friends Part 6
Broward Meetup (second Wednesday of the month)
Wednesday, November 9th, 2016 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
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