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...
Relativity Best Practices - Broward Drupal Meeting Minutes - February 14, 2018
This month, we continued discussing implementations of Jay Epstein's (https://twitter.com/jeppy64 http://jay-epstein.com/) Relativity model (http://jay-epstein.com/relativity/overview). We discussed best practices for Relativity, including how to use the Field Group and Inline Entity Form modules.
The next step is for members of Broward Drupal to create their own site using Relativity, so we can discuss these sites at future meetups as a deeper dive into Relativity and how it can be used to create all kinds of applications.
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Drupal Camp Chattanooga 2018
The 2018 camp is June 16th 2018,
Chattanooga DrupalCamp is an annual conference that brings together web developers from all over the world to learn, network and discuss web development and the Drupal content management system. Registration starts 8.00am, runs until 5.00pm.
Session registration is open, and we'll always accept sponsors. We are a 501(c)3 this year.
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Broward Meetup (second Wednesday of the month)
Wednesday, Frebruary 14th, 2018 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
This month, Jay Epstein will be discussing "New Year - Relativity, Views and Theming Part 2"
In January 2018, Jay kicked off a slightly new direction of going back to Relativity basics and spinning up a new Drupal 8 site on Pantheon.
Here's what we accomplished in one hour:
1: Create a Pantheon account (or access if you already had one)
2: Navigate the UI
Relativity Views and Theming, Part 1 - Broward Drupal Meeting Minutes - January 10, 2018
This month, we continued discussing implementations of Jay Epstein's (https://twitter.com/jeppy64 http://jay-epstein.com/) Relativity model (http://jay-epstein.com/relativity/overview). Now we are focusing on applying what we learned so far to views, theming and maybe even some REST endpoints for headless.
A new group focus for anyone wishing to participate (Jay and Hector included). Here is what we did so far:
1: Created a Pantheon account (for those that didn't already have one)
2: Spun-up a vanilla D8 site
3: Loaded our module recipe
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Palm Beach Drupal January 2018 Meetup
We are excited to announce our first guest speaker at this month's meetup. Local Drupal guru Alex Aguilar of EaglePeak Consulting (https://www.eaglepeakweb.com/#team) will preview his DrupalCon Presentation on Drupal Hosting Platforms. Here is a synopsis of his presentation:
Drupal Hosting 2018: Platform as a Service (PaaS)
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Florida Drupalcamp 2018: February 16th, 17th, and 18th in beautiful Orlando, FL
Florida Drupalcamp 2018 is our 10th anniversary and we're going to make it extra special this year! We have three days (spread out over President's Day weekend):
| Fri, Feburary 16th | Full day of free trainings |
| Sat, February 17th | Full day of sessions (including Lightning Talks!) |
| Sun, Feburary 18th | Half day sessions / half day mentored code sprint |
This year we have three amazing featured speakers lined up:
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Angie "Webchick" Byron is a Drupal core committer, co-author of the O'Reilly book Using Drupal, Drupal Association Board Member, Acquian, and general Drupal community cat herder. |
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Sally "Justafish" Young is a Senior Technical Architect at Lullabot, and a Drupal 8 JavaScript Core Maintainer. |
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Adam "Nerdstein" Bergstein is the Associate Director of Engineering at Civic Actions. He has a masters in application security, and experience in higher education and consulting sectors. |
Session submissions are still open!
We need more sessions! We have tons of rooms to fill! The deadline to submit sessions is January 22nd. We love session submissions on topics other than Drupal including
- JavaScript frameworks (React, Vue, Angular, et al)
- Other CMS’s differences with Drupal (WP, Craft, etc)
- Integrations with Drupal
- Case studies on using Drupal
- General Web topics and technologies (free software, CSS, etc)
- Business related topics
- SysAdmin / DevOps (Containers, etc)
- Being Human (Imposter Syndrome, overcoming adversity, inclusion, etc)
If that doesn't convince you...
We also have beaches down here! And it's warm in February!
Event - Broward Drupal Meetup - Wed January 10th, 2018 - New Year - Relativity, Views and Theming Part 1
Broward Meetup (second Wednesday of the month)
Wednesday, January 10th, 2018 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
This month, Jay Epstein will be discussing "Relativity Views and Theming, Part1."
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Drupal Career Online
The DCO’s intensive online sessions, active learning community, and hands-on projects are designed to provide those who need to get skilled up in Drupal with the best possible start. This is not a bootcamp. It is integrated instruction, with an actively-engaged expert teacher focused on student learning, and comprehensive resource materials.
Read moreMastering Professional Drupal Developer Workflows with Pantheon
This 6-week course builds on Drupal 8 fundamentals to teach developers how to successfully work on multi-environment, team-based projects by effectively leveraging the Pantheon platform. The 64-hour live, online course is taught two times per week in 3.5-hour sessions, with a weekly 4-hour, instructor-mentored co-working lab to build knowledge, skills and confidence.
Read moreRelativity for Events - Florida DrupalCamp - Broward Drupal Meeting Minutes - December 13, 2017
This month, we continued discussing implementations of Jay Epstein's (https://twitter.com/jeppy64 http://jay-epstein.com/) Relativity model (http://jay-epstein.com/relativity/overview) and how it can be used for event sites, among other things.
We began the meetup discussing the Broward Drupal culture, and how it is shaped by every Broward Drupal member impacts it.
We went on to discuss questions about Relativity, including going around the room and defining what it is with everyone’s input. Jay also spent time defining Relativity to a new member of Broward Drupal.
Read moreRelativity for Event Management Group Project (Part 2) - Broward Drupal Meeting Minutes - November 8, 2017
This month, we continued discussing our implementation of Jay Epstein's (https://twitter.com/jeppy64 http://jay-epstein.com/) Relativity model (http://jay-epstein.com/relativity/overview) and working on the Relativity for Event Management Group Project.
Beau Heath ( https://twitter.com/beautheath ) started off the meeting reviewing our progress on our project this month and our plans for what we will be working on in the coming month.
Read morePalm Beach Drupal Meetup
We are excited to announce the relaunch of the Palm Beach Drupal Meetup. We will be holding our kickoff meeting on Nov 15, 2017 @ 7:00pm as a featured event as part of Entrepreneur Week Palm Beach (https://eweekpb.com/#landing-slider) at the Palm Beach Tech Space.
Our first meeting will be to get reacquainted and discuss our 2018 meeting content. Topic will include Drupal 8, Commerce 2, Composer, Themeing, Site building and DevOps.
If you know some Drupal folks in South Florida, please pass this invite along!
Location:
Palm Beach Tech Space
313 Datura Street, Suite 100,
Orlando Meetup dates and location
The Orlando Drupal Meetup takes place every month on the 4th Thursday of the month. Unfortunately, that means that in November we run headlong into Thanksgiving, and in December, we run afoul of all kinds of holidays, not to mention the general year-end lethargy and vacations.
Our solution for November and December this year is to simply move the meetup up by a week to the 3rd Thursday (that is to say, November 16 and December 21). I would like to propose that we make this a permanent change, in order to avoid this same problem cropping back up in the future.
Read moreOrlando Meetup - 2017-10-26 - Accessibility by Helena McCabe
Location: Code School
Speaker: Helena McCabe
Date: 10/26/2017
Topic: Accessibility
Parking is free in the GAI garage (accessible from South St. and Summerlin St.).
Read moreRelativity for Event Management Group Project (Kickoff) - Broward Drupal Meeting Minutes - October 11, 2017
This month Jay Epstein (https://twitter.com/jeppy64 http://jay-epstein.com/) kicked off the Relativity for Event Management Group Project. This project is a group effort from our Broward Drupal members to create an Event Management application using Jay's Relativity + Drupal 8: http://jay-epstein.com/relativity/overview
We covered the following topics:
- Review of project deliver-ables
- Time management review per assignee
- Road blocks and problems
Event - Broward Drupal Meetup - Wed October 11th, 2017 - Relativity for Event Management Group Project
Broward Meetup (second Wednesday of the month)
Wednesday, October 11th, 2017 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
This month, Jay Epstein will be spearheading the start of the Relativity for Event Management Group Project:
We'll split these project meetups into two separate parts:
Part 1:
Review of project deliver-ables
Time management review per assignee
Road blocks and problems
Overall sprint condition
P.M. recap
Part 2:
Read moreFlorida Drupalcamp 2018
Florida Drupalcamp will be held Friday February 16th, Saturday February 17th, and Sunday February 18th!
This is Presidents' Day weekend, so hopefully you'll have an extra day to stay and explore beautiful Orlando.
The event will be held at our awesome previous location, Florida Technical College in East Orlando. Friday will be a training day, Saturday will be sessions, and Sunday will be a mix of sessions and a code sprint.
We're looking for volunteers to help out. If you're interested post below!
Click the links below to add to your calendar!
Read moreDrupal 8 and Relativity: Building a Relativity Event Management Platform (Part 1) - Broward Drupal Meeting Minutes - September 13, 2017
This month, due to Hurricane Irma and DD not having power, we had our first all remote meetup. Jay Epstein (https://twitter.com/jeppy64 http://jay-epstein.com/) reviewed his Relativity Model and discussed our Relativity Event Management Platform that we will be building as a group. More details about this project will be discussed at future meetups.
We had seven remote users and none in person.
To keep up with the Broward Drupal meetup group, follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/browarddrupal
Read moreDrupal 8 and Relativity: Building a web ecosystem (Part 4) - Broward Drupal Meeting Minutes - August 9, 2017
This month Jay Epstein (https://twitter.com/jeppy64 http://jay-epstein.com/) covered the fourth part of "Drupal 8 and Relativity: Building a web ecosystem." With the new Drupal 8 offerings the game has changed for the better and continues to get more powerful with each major release. We need to explore the bigger picture. In Part 4 at our August 2017 meetup, Jay had discussed the following topics:
In Part 1, he discussed the following topics:
• The definitions of an ecosystem and the required DNA
• The two-sided logic of a main menu builder and master content type
Taste of Drupal (Drupal Career Online information session)
Hey everybody,
Just a quick note to let everyone know that I'll be doing a 1.5 hour "Taste of Drupal" information session on Wed, Sept 20 at 1:30pm EDT for those interested in our 12-week, 3x/week Drupal Career Online training program.
The Taste of Drupal is an information session for folks interested in learning more about the course. Attending the Taste of Drupal isn't required to take the course, but it is a good opportunity to learn more about it, and get all your questions answered.
For more info, check out https://www.drupaleasy.com/academy/dco/course-information
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