Florida

Good morning,

I just wanted to give everyone a quick status report on Florida DrupalCamp 2012 and to let everyone know of some areas where we're looking for some additional help. We have a great group of volunteers already (24 at my last count), but we need some more to make this not only the best DrupalCamp we've seen in Florida, but also one of the best in the world. We've got a great location partner (Rollins College Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership Center), a great fiscal partner (Central Florida Computer Society), now we just need a few more volunteers to help us pull it all off.

First, a quick update: Florida DrupalCamp 2012 will be held on Saturday, February 11, 2012 with Coding for a Cause the following day. Registration is now open - tickets are currently $20, but the price will slowly creep upward as we get closer to the event (so register today!). Session proposals will be open shortly - if you'd like to propose a session, you'll have until the end of December to do so. We've got a great group of sponsors, including our Platinum sponsor: Trellon, and our Gold sponsors: Big Couch Media Group, Software Quality Engineering, Mediacurrent, and DrupalEasy. Additional sponsorships are still available, contact me if you're interested.

We're still looking for some help in some key areas to make this the best DrupalCamp ever. The areas include:

We are offering a special discount for Drupal Group members. Members of Drupal Groups or other technology related groups qualify for our special group rate of $50. Simply register online and use the promo code: DRUPALGROUP2011. http://www.drupalonthebayou.com/register-bayou

Harrah's--New Orleans, LA
Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 9:00am until Friday, December 9, 2011 at 5:00pm..

Are you Drupal-curious or a die-hard Drupal fan? The best and brightest web developers, designers and those smart business owners, corporate and enterprise execs will gather to see how Drupal can bring the heat like Frank’s Louisiana Red Hot Sauce and enjoy the warm weather and charm of The Big Easy, New Orleans.

We held our Broward Drupal monthly meetup on Wednesday, November 9th from 7:00pm to 9:00pm.

Participants:
Remote:
Boca Raton - Jeff Locke (http://Adoptek.com)

In Person (Fort Lauderdale, Broward County Florida):
Jay Epstein @jeppy64
Joel Lukacher @LikeCatcher
Leonardo Vargas @leovarg
Pilar Montana @pilimontana
Me @hectoriribarne

We switched to using using Join.me for screen sharing and it worked out well. We used Skype for audio as usual.

I have a site where I need to add a doorway page - for lack of a better term. The site's new index will have to main links to other nodes on the site. The current index page is going to be one of those pages. The problem I am having is that the current index page has a distinct layout that it must maintain. I found a tutorial on Lulabot.com (I think) on how to create a custom index page. That worked fine. I added the following function to my template.php file:

function _phptemplate_variables($hook, $vars = array()) {
switch ($hook) {
case 'page':
global $user;