Welcome to the Florida Drupal Users Group! We have members from all over Florida and most meetups around the state are coordinated through this group. Whether you're from the panhandle, northeast Florida, the Gulf coast, central Florida, the Space Coast, or south Florida, you'll find other Drupal developers and themers here.
Currently, we have perodic meetups in the following areas:
- Brevard County (Cocoa Village)
- Broward County (Ft. Lauderdale): 2nd Wednesday of each month, 7pm - Meetup.com listing
- Orlando
- Gainesville
- Jacksonvill
- Miami Beach
- West Palm Beach (Jupiter-Boca Raton)
- Sarasota / SW Florida
- Tallahassee
- Tampa Bay: 1st Thursday of each month - Meetup.com listing
Keep an eye on this page for location and topic announcements for each meetup, as meeting days and times might change month-to-month.
Funds are available for local Florida meetup groups!
Keep connected with the Florida Drupal Users' Group:
- NEW! Slack: #florida Get your invite
- IRC: #drupal-florida on freenode
- @fldrupalcamp for updates about Florida Drupal camps, meetups, and other events.
- Florida DrupalCamp on Facebook
- Florida Drupal on Facebook
- Florida Drupal on LinkedIn
- We're looking for someone to create and maintain a Google+ home for Florida Drupal...
August Tallahassee Meetup
Join the Tallahassee Drupal Users Group on Thursday August 28th, 7pm at Lofty Pursuits in Tallahassee, FL!
We'll be in the "Meeting Room" on the North Side of the shop.
Open Floor Discussion
Let's open the floor to discussing our current projects and potential blockers we're running into and help each other out by providing some knowledge sharing!
Details:
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Miami Drupal Meetup: "Headless Drupal" September 23, 2014
Hey Miami Drupalistas!
I'm trying to put together a meetup for 9/23/14 (Tuesday night). The topic will be Headless Drupal. Is anyone in the Miami area working on a headless Drupal project? Please comment if you are (and even if you're not!)
Also, please suggest a location (prefer a free, but secluded one).
Thanks,
JR
DrupalJax July Meetup (#30): Migrating content from raw DB tables into Drupal
Raymond Mbuyi has offered to present on Migrate module and how to do complex database source migrations into Drupal:
Using 'migrate' module, Raymond will show:
- How to get data out of a custom database table and create nodes
- How to use a separate database as the source of data
- How to migrate URL aliases correctly
- How to migrate attached files and images correctly
- How to migrate node-to-node or node-to-user relationships (foreign keys)
Call for volunteers for promote Drupal at FOSSETCON in Orlando Sept 11-13
Hey Florida Drupalers and Drupalistas!
We're looking for volunteers to man a Florida Drupal booth at http://fossetcon.org this Sept 11-13
From their website:
Fossetcon is an acronym for "Free and Open Source Expo and Technology Conference". Fossetcon is not JUST a GNU/Linux Conference, *nix Conference or *BSD Conference. It's for all things Free and Open Source!
The booth times will be on Friday and Saturday. They're expecting over 500 people. This is a great opportunity to learn more about the wider open source community in general in addition to spreading the word and helping to market Drupal.
More details can be found on their website at http://fossetcon.org. The conf will be held at the Rosen Plaza Hotel off of I-Drive.
If you're interested, post below!
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Broward Drupal Meeting Minutes - August 13, 2014
We held our Broward Drupal monthly meetup on Wednesday, August 13th from 7:00pm to 9:00pm.
Remote participant(via WebEx, Skype and Join.me):
Orlando - Deborah Wilson, Patricia Mathews
Minneapolis - Keri Poeppe (Gorton Studios)
In Person (Greater Fort Lauderdale, Broward County Florida):
Carlos Kosloff @asrealty, Jay Epstein @jeppy64 and me @hectoriribarne
Broward Drupal Meeting Minutes - August 13, 2014
We held our Broward Drupal monthly meetup on Wednesday, August 13th from 7:00pm to 9:00pm.
Remote participant(via WebEx, Skype and Join.me):
Orlando - Deborah Wilson, Patricia Mathews
Minneapolis - Keri Poeppe (Gorton Studios)
In Person (Greater Fort Lauderdale, Broward County Florida):
Carlos Kosloff @asrealty, Jay Epstein @jeppy64 and me @hectoriribarne
Brevard Co-Working @ Murdocks - Cocoa village
Here Ye - Here Ye
The Brevard Drupal Community will be holding a Co-Working session on August 20th for all to attend!!
Professionals, Hobbyists, Amateurs and others are welcome.
Work together with others willing to assist you and you in turn assist them!! Its a great way to share knowledge and experience with others in our community.
Murdocks is located in Historic Cocoa Village at:
600 Brevard Ave, Cocoa, FL., 32922
Bring your laptop and your appetite. WIFI is available. We will start to arrive at noon but please feel free to arrive depending upon your schedule.
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Serious Security Flaw in USB Devices
I just ran across an article regarding a new discovered security flaw in any USB devices. And yes Virginia, this could affect Mac's. Someone has discovered how to store viruses / malware in the firmware of a USB devices. Here is an excerpt from the article along with a link to the full article.
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Broward Meetup (second Wednesday of the month)
Wednesday, August 13th, 2014 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
We are back in the small conference room.
http://browarddrupal.org/gmaplocation
Broward Drupal meetup - August 13th, 2014
Broward Meetup (second Wednesday of the month)
Wednesday, August 13th, 2014 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
We are back in the small conference room.
http://browarddrupal.org/gmaplocation
Orlando Florida - Drupal Coworking Friday, July 25th
If you are a Drupal Professional and would like to work with other Drupal Professionals come out and cowork with us. We'll be at Downtown Credo on July 25th, 2014 in the back room all day long (The Credo back room cost will be covered by Mediacurrent.)
Credo does serve coffee and pastries (food, coffee and meals are the responsibility of the attendees.) We'll most likely be eating lunch within walking distance of Credo but you are welcome to bring your lunch if you wish.
Read moreBroward Drupal Meeting Minutes - July 9, 2014
We held our Broward Drupal monthly meetup on Wednesday, July 9th from 7:00pm to 9:00pm.
In Person (Greater Fort Lauderdale, Broward County Florida):
Brian Wagner, Jay Epstein @jeppy64, Phil Smith @SiliconValet, Dan Denysenko and me @hectoriribarne
This month Phil Smith @SiliconValet (http://www.siliconvalet.net/) presented "My Development Environments . . . and other neat practices". Phil covered the following topics:
- Local, Dev, Test, Live
- Options for Local environments (LAMP, MAMP, WAMP)
- Hosting options (Pantheon, Acquia, Dedicated, Shared)
- Migration Strategy
Drupal 7.29 sucks
I had a terrible time installing a raw Drupal 7.29 in my localhost.
Weird behaviors I never saw before, I tried several times, wasted several hours, and finally had to upgrade via Drush a Drupal 7.28 site.
Behaviors like immediately blocking access to install, chmod solved that.
The most annoying thing is that after setting a maintenance account (user 1 or uid = 1) with a correct password that I did not mistype, it was not letting me in to administrative functions.
Potential data loss when upgrading to Drupal 7.29
I just ran across this information and thought I would pass it on:
Issue Identified in Drupal 7.29 Security Upgrade
An issue with potential data loss when upgrading to Drupal 7.29 has been identified and posted on Drupal.org. For more information, please see "Regression: Files or images attached to taxonomy terms (and other entities?) are lost when the term is edited and saved.”
We urge customers to review the issue as posted, assess their Drupal configuration for related vulnerabilities, and test appropriately when upgrading to Drupal 7.29 to avoid unintended consequences.
DrupalJax July Meetup (#30): Topics Needed - Please post comments
(Cross-posting from http://www.meetup.com/Jacksonville-Drupal-User-Group/events/195247472/)
We have a few options:
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Raymond Mbuyi has offered to present on Migrate module and how to do complex database source migrations into Drupal
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Vitaly Muzichuk has offered to present on how to use webforms and other Drupal modules to do create a scheduling and appointment system
Please post comments at http://www.meetup.com/Jacksonville-Drupal-User-Group/events/195247472/ to show your preference or suggest other topics.
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July Meeting - Drupal Orlando
This month will be an overview about Migrate API - used to migrate Drupal 6 to 7, or using a legacy database, XML file or spreadsheet. Migrate from Wordpress to Drupal is one popular example.
Migrate will also be the official upgrade path from Drupal 6 or 7 to Drupal 8, so it's a good idea to become familiar with it now.
Orlando Public Library
101 E Central Blvd, Orlando, FL
2nd floor - Melrose Center
RSVP at Meetup.com: http://www.meetup.com/Orlando-Drupal/events/188398282/
Read moreJuly Tallahassee Meetup
Join the Tallahassee Drupal Users Group on Thursday July 31th, 7pm at Lofty Pursuits in Tallahassee, FL!
We'll be in the "Meeting Room" on the North Side of the shop.
Open Floor Discussion
Let's open the floor to discussing our current projects and potential blocker's we're running into and help each other out by providing some knowledge sharing!
Read moreGainesville Drupal Meetup Tonight!!!! 7PM!!
Join the Gainesville Drupal Users Group this Wednesday 7pm at the Alachua County Downtown Library in Gainesville!
SPECIAL NOTE: We'll be in the Foundation Room! This room is up the stairs and to the right.
Drupal Roundtable: Bring your problems
Have a Drupal issue that's nagging, bugging, or otherwise a problem? Bring it and let the group discuss!
In addition, we'll have
- A [free] 20 minute Drupal beginner session/training for any newbies that attend
- A rundown of the top X Drupal modules - this is always one of our favorites
- Roundtable discussion - What have you done or learned in the last month that's worth showing off?
- A happy-hour / social event afterwards - probably at Harry's or The Top (both are within walking distance)! This'll give us a chance to nerd-talk over a beer or three :)
Details:
- When: Wed July 9th 7pm-9pm EDT
- Where: the Alachua County Downtown Libary (401 East University Ave) Click for Map.
- Room: We'll be in the Foundation Room
- Afterwards: We'll be going out for food/beer/socializing at a restaurant/bar within walking distance.
- What to bring: Bring your laptop if you have one, if not, don't worry!
Broward Drupal meetup - July 9th, 2014
Broward Meetup (second Wednesday of the month)
Wednesday, July 9th, 2014 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
We are back in the small conference room.
http://browarddrupal.org/gmaplocation
This month we will be talking about Drupal dev environment and migration strategies.
If you want to participate virtually, send me a Skype connect request to hectoriribarne. I will initiate the Skype call shortly after 7pm.
Broward Drupal site: http://BrowardDrupal.org
Read moreopen uploaded PDF file in NEW Window
Looking for a work around to have my PDF files, which are uploaded through the attach file, to open in a New Window
I found this node
https://www.drupal.org/node/301234#comment-4764468
Using Drupal 7
27 seems to be the answer however I do not seem to be able to make it work
It says to edit this in the php code when you insert it.
function THEMENAME_file_link($variables)
THEMENAME I think should be the machine name of your theme.
How do I find this?
If a theme is based on another theme which template.php would I edit.
thanks in advance
Cheryl
