Drupal users group for Central Illinois, the area south of Chicago and north of St. Louis, including Bloomington, Champaign, Peoria, and Springfield. (See Map of Central Illinois.)
January Drupal Meet Up: Contributing Modules to Drupal
We are excited about our first Drupal Meet Up of 2012. It will be on Thursday, January 19th at Research Park from 5:30-7pm. This month's presenter will be Karen Stevenson of Lullabot and the topic will be "Contributing Modules to Drupal". We will also have a pre-Drupal Meetup Discussion about making the meet ups more formal and organized. It starts at 5pm and anyone interested may attend.
Directions to Research Park and the Conference Room:
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Would you be interested in a Midwest Drupal Camp next year
Drupal Meet Up: Versioning (SVN & Git for Drupal)
The next Drupal Meet Up will be tomorrow Nov 18th from 5:30 to 7pm at EnterpriseWorks, Room 130. The topic for this month is Drupal Meet Up: Versioning (SVN & Git for Drupal). Light refreshments will be served. More information is below on how to get to EnterpriseWorks and the conference room.
Thanks and we look forward to seeing everyone again!
EnterpriseWorks is located in the U of I Research Park at 60 Hazelwood Drive, Champaign, IL 61820: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=60+Hazelwood+Drive,+Champaign,+IL&z=17
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Light snacks will be provided.
Below is the schedule for the remaining months in 2011 and for all of 2012. Research Park has agreed to host every other month, so that leaves six months needing a host. We are encouraging attendees to reply back and let us know if you would like to host one of the months that are marked TBD. The next Drupal Meet Up is scheduled for Friday, November 18th, please see below for more details:
Friday, November 18th, 5:30pm at EnterpriseWorks Room 130, 60 Hazelwood Dr, Champaign (Versioning: SVN & Git for Drupal by Bryan Cribbs of Pixo )
Read moreHelp us Make Drupal Camp Indy Great!
With only 10 day left before Drupal Camp Indy, we want to start hitting the pavement hard with promotion. The camp is free with lunch provided.
We have many high quality speakers and are very excited about the depth of information.http://bit.ly/rqLWSN
International Collaboration on Drupal Commerce 1.0 by Ryan Szrama. http://bit.ly/rTh9dl
You may recognize Ryan from the Commerce Guys as the maintainer of the popular Ubercart module for Drupal 6. He is now leading the Commerce for Drupal 7 revolution!
Let's Be Upfront About Performance by Steven Merrill. http://bit.ly/v39JtA
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DrupalCamp Chicago 2011 - Sat Dec 10th @ 1 N Wacker
Register @ DrupalCampChicago.org
Your invited to our 4th annual DrupalCamp Chicago Saturday Dec 10th 2011.
Why DrupalCamp:
For more than five years the Chicago Drupal Meet Up Group has highlighted the benefits of an open source initiative. We have helped build bridges from nonprofits and entrepreneurs looking to deploy Drupal to resourceful Drupal development companies, independent consultants and hobbyists in the Chicago area and across the midwest.
Read moreDrupalCamp Indy Nov. 5th 2011
Hello Drupalers!
Drupal Camp Indy 2011 is less than three weeks away - we're very excited! There is still time to register for this free conference!
A couple of reminders.
Session submission closes this Friday.
If you are interested in speaking, submit a session - we have some open slots we'd like to fill with your knowledge and experience. If you are in need of ideas, look for sessions that say "THIS SESSION DOES NOT YET HAVE A PRESENTER" here: http://bit.ly/rqLWSN
Note: We have more open slots than sessions without presenters!
Voting
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Regional Drupal Camps
So, we have a lot of Drupal Camps going on in the Midwest this year. This is a GREAT thing! It means the local communities are getting strong enough to start hosting these camps. I know this year our camp could have been a lot larger, our venue this year was big enough to handle something MUCH larger, but as I'm sure a number of others out there are experiencing some balance of sponsors, speakers, and attendees that may or may not already be committed to another Drupal Camp.
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We have scheduled the next Drupal Meet-Up for Thursday, October 27th at 5:30pm here at Pixo again (formerly OJC Technologies). The topic is Workflows in Drupal 7, with a demo by Matt Townsend. We also invite any attendee that would like to present a 5 min topic or project could reply to us to add it to the agenda. There will be light refreshments. If you missed the first event, here's a recap on what we discussed: http://pixotech.com/blog/drupal-meet-recap
Our address:
121 W. Goose Alley
Urbana, IL 61801
Chicago area User and Administrator Training
CiviCRM Training - Chicago (Nov 2nd & 3rd)
CiviCRM is the leading, free open source software for the civic sector that let’s you manage your non-profit constituents, members and donors all in one unified online system. It is used by over 5,000 organizations worldwide and has a vibrant, globalcommunity of users and developers. Non-profits of all sizes are adopting CiviCRM, from local arts groups to national membership associations, political parties and global advocacy organizations.
At the 2-day training you will learn how to configure and utilize CiviCRM for your non-profit cause and you will progress from novice to power user. Topics to be covered include: an overview of new features in CiviCRM, configuring CiviCRM for your organization and ways of using the many built-in components of CiviCRM to its full extend. The training is a great way for people interested in using CiviCRM to get started immediately. It is equally useful for current users of CiviCRM who seek an in depth understanding of the new and improved features and powerful capabilities of the leading open source eCRM.
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IndyGiveCamp 2011
We're doing it again! http://indygivecamp.org
Last year we had THREE Drupal teams rocking and showing off how awesome Drupal is.
We have Matthew Connerton making a repeat appearance all the way from Asheville NC.
I'd love to see at least three teams again. We already have a lot of .net ppl volunteering and we have a LOT of charities fighting to win a free website or a major website upgrade. A couple of them are actually needed applications built for a desktop.
We need Designers [ppl who can push pixels around, make some buttons, logos, gradients, etc]
Read moreOJC Technologies Hosts the First of Many Central Illinois Drupal Meet-Ups
Local Drupal developers and users gathered at OJC Technologies on Friday, August 19, to discuss the increasing adoption of Drupal 7 and ways to increase development efficiency. More than 16 people — including representatives from OJC, Wolfram, Surface 51, U of I College of Education, the News-Gazette, Riverbed and the Urbana Free Library — gathered for the Central Illinois Drupal Meet-Up, which will be held every month in Champaign-Urbana.
Drupal 7 vs. 6
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First Drupal Camp in Iowa: September 17th, 2011
DrupalCorn 2011 - Event Website
Who should attend?
We are encouraging experienced web developers who are looking to increase their knowledge on Drupal. We will be focusing on major concepts and best practices while acknowledging your existing skills. This is not for the newbie developer, this is a big meal we are offering.
Read moreDrupal Meet Up Scheduled for August 19th
It's been over a year since there's been a Champaign-Urbana Drupal meet-up and its well overdue! If you're a developer, designer, hobbyist or a business user engaged in Drupal, please come and join us. We will be discussing Drupal 7 and the Features Module over a light, informal dinner sponsored by OJC Technologies. Please come out and join us in this effort to build and strengthen our local Drupal community.
Friday, August 19 at 5:30pm
OJC Technologies, Inc.
121 W. Goose Alley
Urbana, IL 61801
drupal 7 sandbox project for integration with various illinois web apps
This may be useful to others who use U of Illinois integrations for their website.
Currently it includes:
- advancement forms
- webtools calendar feeds
- webtools emergency web service message
The module is just for the simple stuff, not things like ipay integration.
http://drupal.org/sandbox/johnbarclay/1224940
Feel free to subscribe to the issue que, post patches, etc.
Read moreAnyone going to drupal camp wisconsin?
Its unclear what the sessions are yet, but they have a lake and beer in Madison.
Read moreFirst DrupalCampIndy 2011 organizational meeting
I'm including some of the territories around Indiana on this post. If any one wants to be involved then feel free.
Tonights meeting was discussed in this thread http://groups.drupal.org/node/152234
But I wanted to start a new event post for this so we can make it simple to find the details.
Please register as attending on this event post if you are going to try to make it.
Also please comment below if you want to express any thoughts about volunteering, etc...
DrupalCamp Columbus 2011 at OLF CANCELLED
Cancelled
Due to a miscommunication between me and the OLF organizers this event is not taking place.
Once the OLF team turns their attentions towards 2012 we will regroup and submit a timely, well prepared proposal that meets all of their requirements.
My sincere thank you goes out to the OLF team for their efforts to try and squeeze us in at the last minute. We'll do this right next time and stand a better chance of making it in. Understandably, everyone wants to get in on the fun at OLF. I look forward to helping make this happen next year!
- DV
Chicago 2011 Overnight Website Challenge
Hey Drupal Developers, please help demonstrate the power of Drupal by building a website for a deserving non-profit in 24 hours on August 20-21 in Chicago. This is the first ever Overnight Website Challenge in Chicago but it won't be the last.
I have started a team here: http://chi2011.overnightwebsitechallenge.com/teams/37 but feel free to start and organize your own teams. The more the merrier. Find out more about the event here: http://chi2011.overnightwebsitechallenge.com/
Read moreMonthly Drupal Meetup in Bloomington/Normal
Hey Everyone,
I am hosting a Drupal Meetup once a month in Bloomington/Normal.
The first meetup is this Tuesday the 26th at 6:30pm.
I plan to have it on the 4th Tuesday of each month as long as that works for most people.
Come one come all!
http://www.meetup.com/Central-Illinois-Drupal-Meetup/
- Jason
