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...
Maintaining Dev & Production Sites
Does anyone out there have experience with maintaining a Drupal production site on a hosted Linux platform, but your internal development site is on WAMP? I'm trying to use the Backup and Migrate module (backup_migrate) to do backups from the production site (1&1 Hosting on Linux) to my local server (XAMPP on Windows 2003 Server). What I've run into is that if you are using images within a node using TinyMCE editor and WYSIWYG, are different paths on the different platforms.
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Mini-meetup and DrupalEasy Podcast
Join us for an almost-spur-of-the-moment social Central Florida Drupal meetup this Sunday, May 24 at 7PM at Icebar Orlando. We'll be recording a DrupalEasy podcast so we thought it would be a good time to try to get everybody together.
There won't be any presentations or planned topics - just a chance to hang out with your fellow Florida Drupalers.
-mike
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Using Arguments in a Block View with Views2 and Pathauto
Hey guys,
Im asking this here cuz you guys are the most knowledgeable drupalers i know! (and im getting no love on #drupal-support) And also, I found Ryan Price's article on DrupalEasy relating to this but not quite the same... http://drupaleasy.com/blogs/ryanprice/2008/06/using-views-2-drupal-6-create-related-pages-block
Read moreCentral Florida May, 2009 Meetup - Wrapup
The Florida Drupal Users Group (Central Florida edition) had their monthly meetup on Saturday May 16 with 16 people in attendance.
Andrew Riley (Drupal User ID: Andrew M Riley) talked about the creation of <a href=http://orcabayseafoods.com/">OrcaBaySeafoods.com, a Drupal 6 powered site built by his company Mind Comet.
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3 Day Drupal Training in South Florida
Michael Anello (ultimike) and Ryan Price (liberatr) of the Florida Drupal Group, DrupalCamp Florida, and the DrupalEasy Podcast have joined forces to provide Florida and the Southeastern US with an opportunity for high-quality Drupal Training. Our first 3-day workshop will be held in North Miami Florida less than 2 weeks from now. Here are some more details:
DrupalEasying into Drupal: 3-Day Block Set, Ft. Lauderdale, May 27 - May 29
Read moreMay Meetup
Join us for our monthly Central Florida Drupal meetup at MindComet's offices in Altamonte Springs for a 2-hour, 1 topic meetup.
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Central Florida Meetup Writeup - Saturday, April 25th, 2009
This past Saturday's meetup was relocated to the nearby Panera Bread due to the Mindcomet offices being closed. Only two attendees made the trek - caelon@drupal.org/Don and myself. We spent about an hour generally hacking on our individual projects - Don was working on a site which had some permissions issues with his custom module, and I added a feature to the WP2Drupal module I'm maintaining. While a pitifully small turnout, it still at least meant that FLDrupal has made its past its first year anniversary and is now onto Year 2.0!
Read moreNodeaccess vs Node_access
In researching modules for finer permission control, I found 2 modules with almost the same name. Anyone recommend one over the other?
http://drupal.org/project/node_access
or
http://drupal.org/project/nodeaccess
Read moreCentral Florida Meetup - Saturday, April 25th, 2009
It's a week late due to BarCamp Orlando, but the April edition of the (central) Florida Drupal User's Group is having our monthly meeting.
Join us at MindComet's offices in Altamonte Springs for a 2-hour, 1 topic meetup.
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module with multiple dates
I have been trying to shoehorn a specific form into drupal using cck and views, then date api with cck and views, and it just ain't working. :) What I am trying to do is track when issues of a magazine arrive. So I want fields for title and issue, and fields that can be filled in when the magazine arrives. I could do this with MySQL and PHP, but in this particular situation end user access would be easier if I could put it on a drupal site. Does anyone know of a module that might fill the bill?
Thanks,
Carol
Where to stick includes for modules?
I am in the process of moving a series of php pages over from another CMS to Drupal. The first page came over fairly easy as it was just a print out of a report. I have probably ten other pages to bring over begging this question...
Read moreMini Drupal hackfest at BarCamp Orlando
I'm trying to organize a mini Drupal hackfest for tomorrow's BarCamp Orlando, please let me know if you're interesting in joining in.
The tentative plan is to try to build at least a starting point for a site for a local user group, but if that falls through (or even if it doesn't) there's always lots of Q'n'A we can do, module hacking, docs writing, etc.
Thoughts? Flames?
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Represent the Drupal community at BarCamp! It's one week from today!
BarCampOrlando is back and is going to be bigger and better than ever. The Orlando Scene has quickly proven it can put on one of the premier BarCamp events in the US, and quite possibly the world.
BarCampOrlando is a 1 day 'unconference' offering all attendees the opportunity to share their knowledge by giving short talks on ANY subject. This year we will have 3 different rooms to showcase the participants and sessions of different lengths to accommodate more content then you can shake your marshmallow stick at.
BarCamp by it's nature has no schedule, no keynote speaker, and no main topic of conversation - the participants decide the who, what, how, why and when - we just pick the where!
Delay April Meetup By One Week to Avoid BarCamp Orlando?
Since BarCampOrlando is Saturday, April 18th (the day of our next schedule Florida Drupal meetup), how about we delay the meetup until Saturday, April 25th at 1PM?
I didn't want to just go ahead and make the call by myself, so please chime in and share your thoughts about this shift.
If you're not aware of BarCampOrlando - you should be. Check it out. You'll want to be there. DrupalEasy is a sponsor, so you know it's gonna be cool.
-mike
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Does it matter that the "Florida" group doesn't fit the g.d.o guidelines?
A call for action from the Drupal 7 UX team
I'm a n00b to Drupal but I have found it to be a very powerful tool over the past couple months and have dived in head first. The User Experience has been something I've run into problems with because it's intimidating to people who are not as Web/CMS savvy. The team working on the UX for Drupal 7 has asked the community to get involved now in the UX design so that it's not rejected later when it's too late. You can read/view more about it here and here.
Read moreMarch Central Florida Meetup Wrapup
Thanks to everyone for coming out to the March (central) Florida Drupal User's Group meetup yesterday at MindComet's offices in Altamonte Springs. We had about 10 people there, including 1 new person.
We started the meetup with a DrupalCon DC discussion. 5 of us at the meetup were at DrupalCon, so we decided to run through the DrupalCon schedule and give (very) quick summaries of the sessions we found most interesting and the top one or two things we learned. It was a fairly quick and informative way to cover things.
Read moreCentral Florida Meetup
Join us for our monthly meetup at MindComet's offices in Altamonte Springs for a 4-hour, 2 topic meetup.
We'll be talking about the recent DrupalCon DC, Andrew will be talking about the WYSIWYG module, and I'll (Mike) will be going more in depth with Ubercart with some add-on modules.
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I need a Drupal speaker for Sunday March 15
I attended Florida Drupal Camp was really impressed. I am on the Board of Directors of the Florida Association of Computer User Groups (FACUG) and program chair for our 16th annual conference March 13-15 in Zephyrhills, Florida. Cheryl Wilson, our web mistress http://www.facug.org also attended the Camp and is scheduled to do a presentation about Drupal at our confernce.
Read moreMeeting Topic Ideas
I thought I'd start a wiki page where we can discuss topic ideas for future meetings.
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Site Optimization - Damien McKenna
Various modules, patches and tricks to make your site run faster. -
Learning from the past - Open discussion
As many people as are willing present ways they would have developed previous project(s) differently, based on subsequent experience. -
Searching Drupal - Damien McKenna
My talk from FLDrupalCamp, covers my experience with search in Drupal 5, Drupal 6 and the way forward, including module recommendations and other tips.
