Major communities in our area include Tampa, St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Sarasota, Bradenton,
Tarpon Springs, and Lakeland on the West coast, though to Orlando and Daytona Beach on the East coast.
Group for mutual assistance in installing configuring Drupal sites. Especially community and newspaper sites
June Central Florida Meetup
Join us on Saturday, June 19, 2010 from 1-3PM for a 2-hour meetup at MindComet's offices in Altamonte Springs.
We'll cover views attachments, views rss and the Feed Path Publisher module. Since the year is now half over we'll talk about what topics we want to cover for the remainder of the year! If you can't make the meeting please add comments of what you would like to hear about in our future meetings.
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June Brevard County Meeting
The fourth Drupal meetup in Brevard will take place on Thursday, June 10th, 2010 at 7pm.
The meeting will take place at 1507 Aurora Road in Melbourne at the offices of GMRS.
I'm open to talking about anything the group is interested in. Leave some suggestions in the comments. See you all there.
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May Brevard Meetup Wrap-Up
Last night Brevard Drupalists met at the offices of GMRS in Melbourne for a 2.5-hour meetup.
There were 7 people in attendance including two new faces. During the meetup Gil did a nice overview of the Features module followed by my presentation of a potpourri a Drupal modules including Radioactivity, Zenophile, Views Unpublished, and Override Node Options.
Gil and Mike also sent some time sharing their knowledge about Drush and Drush Make, including showing how to get it up and running quickly.
Read moreMay Central Florida Meetup
Join us on Saturday, May 15, 2010 from 1-5PM for a 4-hour meetup at MindComet's offices in Altamonte Springs.
We'll have a general DrupalCon SF roundup from all of the folks that were there and I'll be going over the User Points Module.
Read moreMay Brevard County Meeting
The third Drupal meetup in Brevard will take place on Thursday, May 20th, 2010 at 7pm.
The meeting will take place at 1507 Aurora Road in Melbourne at the offices of GMRS.
Some topic ideas are:
*Drupalcon Review
*Drupal 7
Of course I'm open to talking about anything the group is interested in. See you all there.
Read moreApril Brevard County Meeting Notes
First I wanted to thank everyone for coming and special thanks to Mike on the theming presentation you gave. We had 9 people show to our 2nd meeting. Here are the notes I took:
Using Domain Module vs Multisite
Domain Module - http://drupal.org/project/domain
Themes Discussed
Blueprint - http://drupal.org/project/blueprint
Link to using Blueprint http://drupaleasy.com/blueprint
Ninesixty - http://drupal.org/project/ninesixty
Fusion - http://drupal.org/project/fusion
Zen - http://drupal.org/project/zen
Theme Modules
BlockTheme - http://drupal.org/project/blocktheme
BlockTheme allows an admin to define tpl files for standard block templates and provides a select box on the block configure form so the user can select a tpl file to use as opposed to having to override the templates by block ID.
Skinr - http://drupal.org/project/skinr
Skinr's main purpose is to allow the theme to define a set of reusable and modular CSS styles, and to make those styles available in Drupal's UI.
Drupal.org template naming suggestions
template.php
Where to hook into theme functions including the Dark Magic of adding variables/forms to theme settings
Subtheming/INFO file Reference
Tools for Theming
Devel Module - http://drupal.org/project/devel
Theme Developer Module - http://drupal.org/project/devel_themer
Firebug - http://getfirebug.com/
Personal Fav's
Web Developer Toolbar (similar to Firebug) - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60
View Source Chart (DOM Inspector) - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/655
Open Source Web Design
Read moreApril Central Florida Drupal Meetup
Join us on Saturday, April 17, 2010 from 1-3PM for a 2-hour meetup at MindComet's offices in Altamonte Springs.
There is no topic yet for the meetup, so if you would like to present something, please post it in the comments below.
Several people (including myself) won't be able to attend (due to DrupalCon SF), so it might be a great opportunity for some Q&A.
Read moreShare the wealth
Is anybody interested in volunteering an hour or two of their time to make the Florida DrupalCamp 2010 web site available for other Drupal user groups to clone?
Salim Lakhani from WebEnabled asked me if they could host an empty version of the site for anyone to clone for their own use. In order to do so, someone would have to do the legwork:
- checkout the site's code and obtain a current DB backup
- get the site up-and-running on their local machine
Finishing up the Junior Achievement site for Coding for a Cause
If anyone is interested in helping out finishing up the Junior Achievement site that was started during Florida DrupalCamp 2010, please either leave a comment below or contact me directly.
We only have a few tasks left, mainly involving theming.
We're hoping to finish up the site this week, with any final touches getting taken care of during next Saturday's Central Florida Drupal meetup.
Thanks,
-mike
BarCamp Orlando
Wall Street Plaza
19 North Orange Avenue
Orlando, FL, 32801
Official BarCampOrlando Website
Read moreMarch Central Florida Drupal Meetup
Join us on Saturday, March 20, 2010 from 1-5PM for a 4-hour meetup at MindComet's offices in Altamonte Springs.
The primary topic for the meetup should be a "lessons learned" discussion about Florida DrupalCamp 2010. Please post any comments on this thread and we can discuss them during the meetup.
Read moreApril Brevard County Meetup
The second Drupal meetup in Brevard will take place on Thursday, April 8, 2010 at 7pm.
All future Brevard County Drupal meetups will take place on the 2nd Thursday of each month at 7pm.
The meeting will take place at 1507 Aurora Road in Melbourne at the offices of GMRS.
Read moreBrevard Meetup
The first ever Brevard County, Florida Drupal meetup will take place on Wednesday, March 10 at 7pm in Cocoa Village!
Discussion for this meetup began at Florida DrupalCamp last month and continued online here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/53648
No topics are set, but I'm willing to present on Drupal Theming and/or Views and Panels.
If anyone has a projector, please bring it along.
Read moreFlorida DrupalCamp 2010 Lessons Learned
Hey everybody,
I'd like to get some feedback about what we learned about organizing Florida DrupalCamp 2010. Rather than scheduling a conference call (you're welcome), I'm hoping we can get some valuable feedback here.
I'll get us started by saying that we definitely learned that having CFCS as our 501(c)3 sponsor organization made a HUGE difference in how we were able to handle the finances for the event. I don't think we could have pulled off such a big event without their help.
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Dare I dream?
After the surprising turnout of Brevard-based Drupalers at Florida DrupalCamp 2010, I'd like to see if we can get a monthly Drupal meetup going in Brevard.
How about we do something during the 2nd week of each month? I'm thinking Thursday nights in Cocoa Village.
Let me know if you're interested and if that day/time/location works for you.
Thanks,
-mike
O'Reilly User Group Program
Hey everybody,
We've just been accepted into the O'Reilly User Group Program. This means that as a group, we can get free review copies of O'Reilly books as long as they are used to the benefit of the group.
As the contact for the program, I can request virtually any O'Reilly book for any member - I think that in the spirit of the program, any book we request should be shared with the rest of the group (by the recipient of the book) in the following ways:
- The recipient should post a review of the book on groups.drupal.org/florida.
March ADUG Meetup - Site Building w/Open Publish (Part 2)
For our March program, Jeff Walpole and Frank Febbraro, co-founders of Washington, DC-based Phase2 Technology, will join ADUG to continue our discussion of OpenPublish (OP).
Last month ADUG’s Kent Lester talked about his first “out of box” experience using OpenPublish to build a news site. In Part 2, Jeff and Frank will discuss the past, present and future vision for OpenPublish and the enthusiastic community that is building up around it. At this meetup you’ll:
Read moreThe Last Florida DrupalCamp Planning Conference Call!!!
Greetings everybody,
The last (and possibly most important) planning conference call from Florida DrupalCamp 2010 will be held tonight at a special time - 8:30pm.
From 8:30-9pm, Damien will be leading the discussion and the topic will be the beginner sessions. If you're presenting a beginner session, then you need to be in on this call (Joe, Marc, Ryan, Charles, Doug, Don, Gaelan, Damien, and myself).
Our "normal" rundown planning call will start at 9pm - everybody who volunteered to help should do everything they can to make this call.
Read moreFlorida DrupalCamp Photographer?
Is there anyone out there who would be willing to step up and be an "official" photographer for Florida DrupalCamp? Ideally, it would be someone (or multiple someones) who already isn't signed up to do anything during the camp. It would be great to have a bunch of photos from the camp posted somewhere that everyone has access to.
Post a comment below if you'd be willing to help out.
-mike
Read moreFlorida DrupalCamp Update
With Florida DrupalCamp less than 3 weeks away, I thought now would be a good time to give everyone a quick synopsis of what's going to be going on at the camp.
Registration has been open for over a month and so far, we have a little over 100 people signed up for the camp. The cost to register is $6.11, but if you're a student or work for a non-profit, we'll waive the fee. We have a hard-cap on attendance of 150, so be sure to register before it is too late.
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