Welcome to the North Texas Drupal User Group. This is the place to get involved with the Drupal community in the North Texas area.
We meet monthly to network and discuss and learn about a variety of Drupal topics. Our usual meeting day and time is the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 6:30 pm.
Our regular meeting place is:
Improving
5445 Legacy Dr #100,
Plano, TX 75024
Map: https://goo.gl/maps/HSU3Fg3pdsF2
For a complete schedule of events visit our Meetup site at:
https://www.meetup.com/North-Texas-Drupal/
Join the meetup group to get automated notifications of all events.
Drupal Development on Pantheon with Integrated Composer
Presenter, Kyle Taylor, Sales Engineer and Solutions Architect at Pantheon. https://www.drupal.org/u/kyletaylored
Pantheon is testing a release of Drupal with integrated Composer and is opening the feature to users for Limited Availability testing.
Read moreUsing DDEV-Local for Local Drupal Development
Presenter: Randy Fay (Drupal.org: rfay) - Maintainer of DDEV-Local at DDEV
Once again we will be joining the Austin Drupal Users Group for this exciting virtual meetup. You might remember Randy Fay as our keynote speaker at an earlier DrupalCamp Dallas.
If you'd like to present at an upcoming virtual all-Texas Drupal Users Group meetup, please let me know.
Presentation Overview:
- Introduction to DDEV-Local
- Debugging with PHPStorm
- Team strategies with DDEV-Local
Agenda:
- 6:30pm - Zoom meeting starts
- 7pm - Presentation begins
Virtual:
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Drupal migrations for non-coders
RSVP and Zoom links at the end
Presenter: Mauricio Dinarte (Drupal.org: dinarcon), Instructor at UnderstandDrupal.com
Starting with Drupal 8, the Migrate API makes it possible to write and execute migrations without having to write PHP code. It is also possible to execute them from the Drupal administration interface if the command line is not available or you prefer not to use it.
Read moreTexasCamp 2019
TexasCamp 2019 has been scheduled!
This year it will be in San Antonio, at CodeUp, on Oct 18-19.
Schedule and training details are up! Get your tickets now.
Read moreHow to use, manage, and modify Drupal 8 configurations in your modules
(Note to Austin and San Antonio DUGs - we included you in this event as we plan to stream it - details to come later..)
Drupal 8's configuration management system promises not only a means of preserving module configurations in code, but also a means of dynamically changing Views, fields, and other configurations to met the needs of multiple clients out of a single project codebase.
Read moreIntroduction to Drupal 8 Development with Drupal Console
Learn how to get started creating custom modules quickly using Drupal Console, a command line boilerplate code generator.
In this session we'll build a custom "Meetup Field" type that accepts a meetup.com group name when editing content, and when the content is viewed, lists the meetup's upcoming events!
You'll see it built and get the code!
6:30 - Pizza and Networking
7:00 - Presentation
About Mark
Read moreApril Meetup : Make Drupal 7 Development Fun and Modern!
Join us in April as Allan Chappell from Four Kitchens lets us know that Drupal 7 development can still be fun and modern.
Yes, I know this is during DrupalCon! But lots of us aren't going, so we are going to plan this anyway - please RSVP soon if you plan to go or comment if you can't, and if enough people will be here and want to attend we will have it - otherwise, we will push it into a later month.
From Allan-
Read moreNTX Drupal Users Group meeting - Drupal Theming and UX - Two Approaches from TexasCamp
"Two different approaches to improving the User eXPerience in Drupal"
Please join us for a discussion on lessons learned from the recent Drupal Texas Camp in Austin.
Presented by Julie Hall
6:30 pm : Networking
6:50 pm : Intro, DrupalLand Updates
7:00 pm : Main presentation
Location : The Drawing Board in Richardson has generously offered us meeting space. They only ask that you checkin or mention them on social media. https://www.thedrawingboarddfw.com/
PLEASE RSVP IF YOU ARE COMING! We need people to sign up and come to this meeting if we expect to keep this group going.
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Texas Camp 2018
Yee-haw! Saddle up and get ready for the 2018 Texas Camp. We’re rounding up every member of the community from the Lone Star state and beyond to bring you a new experience in Drupal Camps. Come join the Texas Drupal community for 3 days of knowledge sharing, community-building, and all the brisket you can handle.
Learn more about the camp on texascamp.org.
TICKETS
Training tickets are $25 and get you into a training on Thursday.
Regular tickets are $50 and get you into the camp on Friday and Saturday.
Drupal for Project Managers
Thursday, September 7, 2017, 3 PM - 5 PM EDT
Drupal Development is a specialty, so is Drupal Project Management. Whether you are a seasoned PM new to Drupal or have just been volunteered to manage a project in your 'spare time'...what do you need to know about Drupal to help you manage projects more successfully?
In this class you’ll learn:
basic application concepts
open source community fundamentals
Drupal terminology
how to align your project plan with Drupal
development best practice, and more!
Meet your trainer
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Texas Camp 2017
Yee-haw! Saddle up and get ready for the second annual Texas Camp. We’re rounding up every member of the community from the Lone Star state and beyond to bring you a new experience in Drupal Camps. Come join the Texas Drupal community for 3 days of learning, community-building, and of course, fun.
Schedule:
Training is Friday, June 2 from 9AM-4PM. Register to attend a training for only $25.
Drupal 8 Certification Crash Course presented by Rackspace
What Am I getting Myself Into? A Drupal Crash Course for Non-Developers presented by Promet Source
Global Training Day Online - What Drupal 8 Means for your Organization's Future
Drupal is the CMS of choice for many organizations for a number of reasons: it comes out of the box with an incredibly powerful and flexible toolkit, it has a passionate community who is constantly contributing new functionality to the project, and best of all — it’s free!
Join us in this online training to learn how anyone can use Drupal to build sites that are interactive, integrated, and infinitely customizable… all without writing a line of code.
In this introductory class you will learn:
Best practices in Drupal project planning
Drupal's inherent tools and subsystems
NTX Drupal Users Group September Meeting - All About the Drupal 8
Summer is over and it's time to get back to Drupal meetups! And what better subject than Drupal 8. And what better speaker than Ray Saltini from FFW.
Join us and FFW Center of Excellence Director Ray Saltini as he walks you through Drupal 8's new features and what Drupal 8 can mean for your company or organization.
Pre-meetup social lunch at Fish Shack across the street.
More info and RSVP at the Meetup link. See you there.
Read moreDrupal 8 in the Enterprise :: Dallas/Fort Worth Training
What's new in Drupal 8 and how does it compare to it's other Gartner Magic Quadrant competitors?
Read moreHigher Education - Elevate Learning with Free Open Source Drupal Personalization and Channel Communications
Higher Education organizations were among the first to realize the benefits of free Open Source Drupal. How can higher ed tap take personalization and channel communications technologies to the next level with Drupal 8 to create stronger communities and improve learning outcomes?
Read moreHigher Education - Elevate Learning with Free Open Source Drupal Personalization and Channel Communications
Higher Education organizations were among the first to realize the benefits of free Open Source Drupal. How can higher ed tap take personalization and channel communications technologies to the next level with Drupal 8 to create stronger communities and improve learning outcomes?
Read moreDrupal 8 in the Enterprise :: Dallas/Fort Worth Training
What's new in Drupal 8 and how does it compare to it's other Gartner Magic Quadrant competitors?
Read moreDrupalCamp Texas 2017 Planning
DrupalCamp Texas in Dallas was a blast! We had such a good time, we figured, why not bring the event to Austin for 2017?
It's been awhile since we had a big Drupal camp in our city and this is a great opportunity to get the ATX community working on a project together.
Here's the Hangout link: https://goo.gl/BxB2cG
Agenda:
• Discuss an attendance goal and rationale
• Venue scouting (bring your lists!)
• Discuss draft of budget (attendee goal will impact this)
• Review sponsor list (bring your contact lists!)
• Discuss Fiscal Sponsorship
DrupalCamp Texas 2017 Planning
DrupalCamp Texas in Dallas was a blast! We had such a good time, we figured, why not bring the event to Austin for 2017?
It's been awhile since we had a big Drupal camp in Austin and this is a great opportunity to get the ATX community working on a project together.
Here's the Hangout link: https://goo.gl/BxB2cG
If you'd like to be an active participant in the planning, please RSVP to join our hangout! There's a limit of 25 participants, so if we get more interest than that, well, we'll cross that bridge when we get there.
Read moreNorth Texas Drupal March Meetup - Drupal Personalization
oin us for a discussion by Brent Bice on Web Personalization with Drupal
Although personalization is not a new concept, marketing savvy organizations are beginning to leverage data and apply new personalization concepts to improve user experiences and increase conversion and retention rates.
In this session, Brent will:
• provide context around personalization - what is it, who's using it in Drupal, how can it helpDiscuss the many challenges organizations face with implementing personalization
• walk you through a strategic roadmap to prepare for its implementation
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