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...
Brevard July Meeting Recap
We had seven attendees last night when Caroline generously opened her house up for our Brevard Drupal meetup. We enjoyed pizza and beer and good company.
Dorothy did a great job explaining Microformats and how they can be integrated right now in your Drupal site using the Microdata Module.
We also learned how the schema.org site can be used as a standard reference for these microformats. Thanks Dorothy!
I also started a Google Plus hangout, but no one attended remotely.
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What day should Orlando meetup?
DrupalEasy Workshops next week in South Florida
Hey everybody,
Just a quick reminder that I'll be teaching a 3-day introductory Drupal workshop next week in Plantation. Full details are available at http://drupaleasy.com/training/south-florida/2012/july/jump-start-days.
This is professional training at a greatly reduced price - only $395 for three full days of instruction (or $150/day if you can't attend all three days). Students will receive printed materials and hands-on intensive guidance in the fundamentals of building a Drupal site.
Thanks,
-mike
What modules do you start with?
When you start a new Drupal site, what modules do you start with that helps build the structure of your site?
Pathauto is one such module along with Token. Module Filter is one that help you with the Module Page. I believe Devel Module should be installed.
What other modules should be installed before designing the site to help build the structure or the site? I know that it depends on what you are doing but I am after the general modules. Can you help?
Thank You
Ronald Norman
Thoughts about using Ubercart 3 v. Drupal Commerce anyone?
Was wondering if anyone had any thoughts regarding pros/cons, anecdotes, or opinions about Ubercart 3 v. Drupal Commerce. I pretty much followed Ryan Szrama with his switch from Ubercart to Drupal Commerce. I've found Drupal Commerce to be powerful and simpler in some respects, but then crazy-wild more complicated in others. And unfortunately, some of those others are aspects that the client wants to have control over yet obviously can't be expected to know the details of how to do heavy Drupal Commerce administration.
Read moreDrupal of Miami Workshops this Saturday
Drupal of Miami
July 21, 2012 This Saturday at 12:00 Noon till 4:00pm
This week Drupal of Miami Workshop
This Saturday we will be working on Views and setting up a political site. This is no easy task so you will have a chance to see the problems that we will run into displaying content. We will work on solving the problems between "Fields" and "Taxonomy" for starters. Come and join us for the fun!!!
Special Notice
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Palm Beach County Drupal Meetup
Palm Beach Drupal Meetup @ 7:30pm, Tuesday 7/17 at Rotelli's Lake Worth.
Meetup Event details can be found here: http://www.meetup.com/Palm-Beach-Drupal/events/68714272/
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Brevard July's Meetup
Join us on Thursday evening, July 19th at 6:30pm for the latest installment of the Brevard Drupal Meetup Series, 2nd Edition. Topics for this meetup may include (but not be limited to):
• Drupal Ladder (http://learndrupal.org/) - the goal for this meetup is to see where you are on the ladder (http://learndrupal.org/ladder/ee503327-50be-1904-8d04-9499098cad64)
Directions to the house are (Please note that I have a long driveway):
August 2012 Gainesville Drupal Meetup - 8/9/12 - Learn e-commerce using Drupal Commerce!
Join the Gainesville, FL Drupal Users Group meetup the second Thurs of August (8/9/12) at the downtown Alachua County Libary at 7pm!
This month, the main session will be learning e-commerce the Drupal way via the Drupal Commerce suite of modules.
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: August 9th, 2012 7pm-9pm EDT
Where: the Alachua County Downtown Libary (401 East University Ave) Click for Map.
Room: We'll be in the Foundation Room, which is up the stairs and to the left (follow the wall until you see the sign. Ask for help if needed).
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!
What is the hardest part of Drupal to learn?
What is the hardest part of Drupal to learn when you decided to use Drupal as your platform?
Why?
What would you do differently to make it easier for someone just learning?
Read moreDrupal of Miami Workshop Tomorrow at 12 Noon
Drupal of Miami
This week Drupal of Miami Workshop
This Saturday we will be working on Views and setting up a political site. This is no easy task so you will have a chance to see the problems that we will run into displaying content. We will work on solving the problems between "Fields" and "Taxonomy" for starters. Come and join us for the fun!!!
Our Last Workshop Coral Gables
Read moreJuly 2012 Gainesville Drupal Meetup Wrapup
I just got back from a great meetup earlier this evening at the Alachua County Library Headquarters in downtown Gainesville.
We had a great turnout, and covered several topics including a presentation on responsive design in Drupal using both the Omega (http://drupal.org/project/omega/) and Zen (http://drupal.org/project/zen/) base-themes. We also covered rolling our own using CSS3 media queries in addition to data-driven mapping in Drupal, and growing the size of the group.
We talked a bit about our group reaching out and growing, and came to a couple changes:
1) New time for our meetup. This will now be at 7pm (same location)
2) We'll be doing a social happy hour afterwards - probably at Harrys or the Top (both within walking distance)
3) We're also going to be doing a bit of reach-out/networking with other users groups starting with the Gainesville Web Developers meetup (http://meetup.gnvwebdev.com/) this Monday. This is a great group of people, and I've attended this meetup several times and learned a bunch.
See everyone this Monday at the web dev meetup and then August 9th, 2012 back at our normal spot (7pm)!
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Meeting Minutes for Broward Drupal Meetup held on Wednesday, July 11th, 2012
We held our Broward Drupal monthly meetup on Wednesday, July 11th from 7:00pm to 9:00pm.
Remote participant(via Skype and Join.me):
Seattle - Chris Parsons @chillin411
Stuart - Dustin Cooper @dustinjcooper
In Person (Greater Fort Lauderdale, Broward County Florida):
Jay Epstein @jeppy64, Phil Smith @siliconvalet, Rob de Koter @Robdekoter, Jeff Locke, Elvis Svoboda @ElvisIsOnATrain, Teo Vitkaiskas, Jessica Rivera, Peter Davis, David Gueits, Ben Groenevelt and me @hectoriribarne
This month we had two presentations on Drupal theming, and on installing BOA for managing Drupal sites.
Read moreGainesville Drupal Users Group Meetup this Thurs!
The Gainesville Drupal Users Group will be meeting this Thursday 6pm at the downtown Alachua County Library. We'll be meeting in the Foundation Rm (ask a libarian if you need help locating it).
This week, we'll be talking about several topics including responsive design using various sub-themes. In addition, the illustrious Roland Riddell will be giving a quick demo of tinynav.js, which is a Jquery libary that facilitates responsive design. I'd also like to talk about several responsive design patterns and solutions- specifically formatting megamenus. If anyone has any solution, I'm all ears!
We'll also discuss current projects, blockers, Gators, and other things!
All newbies and ninjas are welcome!
How to get products showing in categories?
I have a site with a mobile capable theme loaded at www.promodeler.com. The purpose of the site isn't to act as a shopping cart, but to act as a catalog for the products.
However, I am having trouble figuring out how to get the products showing by category. I do not want to use Commerce since the products are sold by brick-and-mortar stores, e.g. this site is a reference of what ProModeler offers. Can I do this without Commerce? Simply put, the products need to be sorted.
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Brevard County Meetup
I've had a lot of questions about the Brevard Meetups and whether or not folks are getting the notifications so I thought I would put something up here and see if everyone concerned is getting the notifications. Also, Caroline suggested Parrish Medical Center 951 N. Washington Ave. Titusville, Florida 32796 as a venue for the meetups in the event we cannot use the Porcher House, which we can't do when Mike is unavailable. Parrish has meeting rooms with wi-fi and projectors.
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Broward Meetup (second Wednesday of the month)
Wednesday, July 11th, 2012 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
This month we will be having two presentations about Drupal theming and also about installing BOA on a Linux VPS.
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
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Jacksonville July Meetup (#5)
Please join us for our July Jacksonville Drupal User Group Meetup.
This month I'll be giving a presentation on beginning Drush. We'll go over downloading and setting up Drupal via Drush, downloading and enabling modules, backing up your database and some other fun features that make Drupal development easier with Drush.
Meeting Agenda
-Brief introductions for new members
-Drush presentation
-Q&A
-Networking/Social Time
We will be having our next meetup at CoWork Jax again this month. Please thank Nathan Edmunson for his sponsorship of our group at the meetup.
Location
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Drupal of Miami
Our Last Workshop
Last Saturday we talked about Categories: Taxonomy, Vocabulary and Terms. Taxonomy is the science of naming and classifying things. Inside of Drupal the term “Taxonomy” refers to any form of organization based on terms, the vocabularies they compose, and any hierarchical structuring of them.
This coming Saturday we will continue working with Taxonomy, Vocabulary and Terms since it is one of the bases for the structure of building a website using Drupal.
Please come and join us for the fun.
July 2012 Schedule
Miami Beach Schedule
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