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...
Sarasota Drupal User Group Meeting -- makeup July 9th
Since we postponed our meeting last week due to July 4th activities ...
We will be meeting Jul 8th at 6:30
At the offices of Digital Frontiers Media @ 7317 Merchant Court Suite A Lakewood Ranch, Fl 34240
Added incentive to show up .... we have the fabled "Drupal Diver Pins" ... they are really nice. --- must be present to win ;-)
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Gainesville Drupal Meetup: TUESDAY, July 9th at 7pm
Join the Gainesville Drupal Users Group this TUESDAY, July 9th at the Alachua County Downtown Library in Gainesville!
Note!
This month we're meeting on Tuesday! Not Thursday! Got it??? :)
Another Note! Updated Meeting Room!!! We're going to be in Meeting Rm. B this month! Its a room set up with a nice new projector, tables, etc. Its all the way in the back right. Click here for a map of the library
1. Presentation: Panopoly and the future of Drupal's user interface
Panopoly is an awesome Drupal distribution that enables an amazing modern user interface. Through the magic that is panels (and its related modules), content editors can move content, reorganize blocks on individual pages, remove content from individual pages- and its all easy as pie. Many of these improvements are also making it into the Drupal 8 Blocks & Layouts initiative. Mike Herchel will be giving this presenation.
2. Presentation: Debugging with the witchcraft that is Xdebug!
In this presentation, Steve Clay will lay down the witchcraft that is Xdebug. X debug PHP extension for powerful debugging. It supports stack and function traces, profiling information and memory allocation and script execution analysis. Steve will explain how it can be used to fix general Drupal and performance issues.
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: Tuesday July 9th, 2013 7pm-9pm EDT
- Where: the Alachua County Downtown Libary (401 East University Ave) Click for Map.
- Room: We'll be in Meeting Rm B, which is all the way in the back right. Follow the right wall all the way back. Click here for a map of the library
- 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!
Proposal: Florida Drupal Trivia Night!
I'd like to propose a Florida Drupal Trivia night to be held at Ryan's Pub in Cocoa Village, Florida the evening of Friday, August 23, 2013.
This event would be open to all, and would utilize the Q&As from the DrupalCon Portland Trivia Night (if you attended the DrupalCon Portland Trivia Night, then congrats, you're one of the hosts!)
The idea is to provide a fun, easy-to-organize event for the Florida Drupal Community to get together and network and enjoy each other's company.
I have tentatively secured the venue with the following caveats:
Read moreProposed Brevard meetup summer schedule
Hey everybody,
At last night's Brevard meetup, after an outstanding project management presentation by Robert Lazlo, we discussed future topics at Brevard meetups. Based on that discussion, here is the proposed schedule for the next couple of months:
- Tuesday, July 9 - Responsive menus and navigation - Mike Anello
- Thursday, July 25 - Search API and Facets - Caroline Achee, Git-Flow for Daily Use - Kevin Basarab
- Monday, August 12 - Drupal 8 Preview - Robert Lazlo
- Friday, August 23 - Proposed Florida Drupal Trivia night - more info coming soon.
Florida Drupal Diver Pin Distribution
Hey everybody,
The bulk of the Florida Drupal Diver pins are in the process of being distributed to the local meetup organizers. If you'd like to get your hands on a pin, then get out to your local Drupal meetup!
- Brevard - I handed some out at last night's meetup and will have them at meetups going forward until we run out!
- Broward - Jay Epstein has pins to distribute at the next meetup.
- Orlando - Andrew Riley will have pins starting today to distribute at Orlando Drupal co-working and future Orlando meetups.
Migrate a site
Can anyone give me the steps needed to do the following?
I have a current Drupal 7 website located at a hosting service that an organization uses for about 40 websites on Windows, but the Drupal site is on a Linux server. The site in question is the Drupal 7 site on Linux.
I have picked up a GoDaddy account that I can have several subdomains and have used 1 domain name to set up that account. Please do not advise on the pros & cons of using GoDaddy. That is not my issue.
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Orlando Florida - Drupal Coworking Friday, June 28th
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 June 28th, 2013 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 moreFlorida Drupal Diver Pins are in!!
The Florida Drupal Diver pins are in and they look fantastic!
Thanks to everyone involved, especially Dustin Cooper for the fantastic design work.
Next, we need to figure out how to best distribute them. I have them right now, and I'm planning on giving 25 of them to Jay Epstein (I'll see him this weekend) for distribution at a future Broward and/or Palm Beach meetup. I think the best way would probably be to distribute them to the various state-wide meetup organizers.
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DrupalJax meetup #16 Report
REPORT:
Attendees:
Michael Frank
Corey Grusden
Brad O'Donnel
Rick Torzynski
Manish Jain
Sergey Cheban
Justin Witt
Priya Ganesan
Keith
Kunal Patel
Jitesh Doshi
Once again, Justin and Modis sponsored pizza and soft drinks (THANKS!)
LIGHTING TALKS:
Symfony framework intro: by Kunal Patel
Kunal spoke about and showed some sample code on the basics of Symfony framework, composer, twig and doctrine.
I18N and Mobile theming: by Rick Torzynski
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Palm Beach Drupal Meetup - June 18 @ 7:30pm in Lake Worth
Palm Beach Drupal Meetup June 18th @ 7:30pm at Rotelli's in downtown Lake Worth. We will be demoing how to setup the Storage_API module and the SoundManager2 Audio Player Module for serving audio files from Amazon S3.
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Drupal of Miami June 15 2013 at 12:00 Noon
Drupal of Miami Workshop June 15, 2013 at 12:00 Noon
This week we will be setting up and adding advertisements to a website. We will be discussing how to make money off of advertisements such as custom advertising, Google Advertisements, and more.
Last week we went over designing our websites. I would like to thank Alan Cassidy for his help on Saturday. Same as last Saturday we will be on Google Hangout and you can get the link here on Saturday just before we start at 12:00 Noon.
Location:
The Lab Miami
400 NW 26th Street
Miami, Florida 33127
Broward Drupal Meeting Minutes - Wednesday, June 12, 2013
We held our Broward Drupal monthly meetup on Wednesday, June 12th from 7:00pm to 9:00pm.
Remote participant(via Skype and Join.me):
Tampa - John Everett @Agile_dot_TV, Miami Beach - Dan Denysenko
In Person (Greater Fort Lauderdale, Broward County Florida):
Ben Groenevelt @dropfoundry, Phil Smith @SiliconValet, Teo Vitkauskas, Dovydas Vitkauskas and me @hectoriribarne
We started the meetup talking about DrupalCon Portland.
Read moreGainesville Drupal Users Group: Thurs, June 13th at 7pm
Join the Gainesville Drupal Users Group this Thursday, June 13th at the Alachua County Downtown Library in Gainesville!
Note! Updated Meeting Room!!! We're going to be in Meeting Rm. B this month! Its a room set up with a nice new projector, tables, etc. Its all the way in the back right. Click here for a map of the library
1. Presentation: Drupal 7 Render Arrays (of DOOM!)
In this presentation, Brandon Ratzloff will present on "Render Arrays" or "Renderable Arrays", which are the building blocks of a Drupal page. A render array is an associative array which conforms to the standards and data structures used in Drupal's theme rendering system.
*Image stolen from John Albin Wilkins
1. Presentation: Hook_future_alter(): A Preview of Drupal 8
Mike Herchel will give a presentation and demo of the future- specifically on Drupal. We'll talk about all the major initiatives including configuration management, web services, mobile, usability and more!
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: Thurs June 13th, 2013 7pm-9pm EDT
- Where: the Alachua County Downtown Libary (401 East University Ave) Click for Map.
- Room: We'll be in Meeting Rm B, which is all the way in the back right. Follow the right wall all the way back. Click here for a map of the library
- 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 - June 12, 2013
Broward Meetup (second Wednesday of the month)
Wednesday, June 12th, 2013 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
http://browarddrupal.org/gmaplocation
The topic this month will be "Site Migration Strategy".
After the presentation, we will leave time for the Drupal Showcase where people show everyone what projects they are working on.
If you want to participate virtually, send me a Skype connect request to hectoriribarne. I will initiate the Skype call shortly after 7pm.
Read moreBrevard Meetup - Thursday, July 25th, 2013 Cocoa Village
Join us on Thursday, July 25th, 2013, 6:30pm at Ryan's Village Pizza in Cocoa Village for another one of our bi-monthly meetups.
Speakers for the evening are:
- Git-Flow for Daily Use - Kevin Basarab (from Jacksonville, works for Mediacurrent)
Brevard Meetup - Tuesday, July 9th, 2013 Cocoa Village
Join us on Tuesday, July 9th, 2013, 6:30pm at Ryan's Village Pizza in Cocoa Village for another one of our bi-monthly meetups.
The presentation will be "Navigation and menus in responsive design" presented by Mike Anello.
Read moreBrevard Meetup - Thursday, June 27th, 2013 Cocoa Village
Join us on Thursday, June 27th, 2013, 6:30pm at Ryan's Village Pizza in Cocoa Village for another one of our bi-monthly meetups.
Speakers for the evening are:
- "Project Management for Software Developers" - by Robert Lazlo
Brevard Meetup - Tuesday, June 11th, 2013 Cocoa Village
Join us on Tuesday, June 11th, 2013, 6:30pm at Ryan's Village Pizza in Cocoa Village for another one of our bi-monthly meetups.
The two topics for the evening will be:
- Installing git and drush on GoDaddy and other shared hosting providers - Cielo
- Migrate module basics - Mike
Future topics include:
Read moreDrupal of Miami - June 8, 2013 Workshop - Join Us on Google Hangout
Drupal of Miami - June 8, 2013 Workshop
I am sorry that we had to cancel our last week meeting at the last minute. There a was mixup on the building scheduling that I did not know about until I got there. I tried to put it up on line with Google Hangout but was late getting started. Sorry about that. We will be ready for this week meeting.
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