Welcome to Drupal Colorado! You're in the right place to connect with the Colorado Drupal community. Feel free to use this space to connect with other individuals in the community, suggest opportunities to get together (impromptu contrib night anyone?) or find information about upcoming events.
Find us on Slack
You can find us in the #drupal-colorado channel of the Drupal Slack organization. For more information about the Drupal Slack organization, check out the Slack page on drupal.org.
Monthly meetings
The Central Denver meetup (DBUG) takes place on the 4th Tuesday of the month at Galvanize Denver - Platte.
Individual meetings are posted in this group, as well as on the Drupal Colorado Meetup page. For more information, or if you're interested in speaking, reach out to James Nettik (@jnettik) in the #drupal-colorado Slack Channel.
DrupalCamp Colorado
The DrupalCamp Colorado (DCCO) organizers meet every Monday at 4pm MT. Meeting details and notes are always posted in the issue queue of the DCCO project on drupal.org. Anyone is welcome to join! For more information, reach out to Nick Switzer (@switzern) in the #drupal-colorado Slack channel.
Stay in touch
Our monthly Drupal Colorado newsletter goes out the third Tuesday of every month and is a great way to keep up with what's happening in the Colorado community. Sign up here.
Discussions and wikis
CiviCon Colorado 2016 is back this summer!
No rickrolls today (unfortunately), but if you use CiviCRM you might be interested in clicking my link! ;)
https://colorado2016.civicrm.org
Whether you're new to CiviCRM or a seasoned expert there is something for you at CiviCon Ft. Collins, Colorado 2016!
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Central Denver Drupal Meetup: Tuesday, March 22, 2016
This month we'll have a panel discussing Drupal 8 First Impressions. Panelists will discuss their favorite features, things that might have tripped them up, and things they'd like to see improved going forward. This will be an interactive session, so come with questions or topics you'd like the panel to address.
The panelists:
Joel Steidl is the Director of Engineering at Aten Design Group.
Michael Lander is the Technical Director at Elevated Third.
Gabe Sullice is a backend developer at Aten Design Group.
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DrupalCamp Colorado Planning Meeting
Stubbing an event for the next DrupalCamp Colorado planning meeting to test out the new tags vocabulary.
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Online Training: "Integrating Drupal with CiviCRM"
This two-hour online training session is designed for current users of CiviCRM and Drupal that have some experience with the administration of both platforms and would like to learn how CiviCRM and Drupal work together. The benefits of the integration allow you to display CiviCRM data and pages on your website, to collect data from a form on your website, to grant your Drupal users to edit data in CiviCRM database and much more.
Read moreDrupal 8 Kickstart
Get up to speed on Drupal 8 at a free one-day conference Friday, March 11. In the morning, we'll focus on the major differences between Drupal 7 and Drupal 8. During the afternoon, we'll put into practice some of what we've learned in an instructional hands-on session.
Some experience with Drupal is helpful but not required. If you have limited Drupal experience, feel free to come just for the morning and gain knowledge about key features of Drupal 8.
Register today, space is limited.
Read moreCentral Denver January Meetup: Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Agile is about as polarizing as Donald Trump—people either love it or hate it. In this talk, Andy Walters makes the case for loving it by uncovering the fundamental reasons agile works for developers. He’ll cover the biggest reasons projects fail and how agile addresses them. Specific topics include prototyping, estimation, scrum concepts (standups, sprints, timeboxing, etc.), the much-debated concept of story points, and how your organization can become agile. A group discussion will follow.
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Boulder DBUG
Hey All,
It's that time again and this month I'm super excited that we have Alex Finnarn from CU Boulder coming in to discuss Backdrop (https://backdropcms.org/) with us. He'll give us a high level run down of Backdrop and the community around it as well as some of the benefits of moving over to Backdrop.
So head on over to AppliedTrust for some food, drinks and an interesting discussion.
If you are interested in speaking at a future Boulder DBUG meetup, please fill out this form (http://atrust.com/dbug).
Read moreSouth Denver Drupal Meetup
Continuing the "Drupal 8 for Newbies" series: this month, we'll explore how to write Drupal 8 modules. This will be a hands-on session, not a training presentation -- so bring your laptop with Drupal 8 installed, and we'll explore the topic together.
We'll examine what's changed in D8, how to organize your code, and resources for learning more. We're generally working from the process as described at https://www.drupal.org/developing/modules/8.
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Gauging interest in a Drupal 8 bootstrap boot camp
Drupal 8 has revitalized my personal interest in development and rapidly increased the speed of my deployments. But... it took a lot of learning to get there. The infamous "Drupal learning curve" may bend even steeper for some with the move to OOP in core.
Read moreCentral Denver January Meetup: Tuesday, January 26, 2016
To kick off 2016, we have Michael Lander talking about using Paragraphs module as an alternative to Panels and Display Suite for page building. He’ll cover the initial module configuration, and transition to more of a philosophical approach to page building and the flexibility this approach provides.
- How this approach gives clients more power to construct new landing pages, while restricting them to clearly defined components.
- The benefits of using Paragraphs over Inline Entity Form for page building.
