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Meetups focus on connecting people. The target audience is Drupal developers, users, and people who want to learn more about Drupal. We start the meetups with a round of very focused lightening talks that discuss real world solutions to existing problems and Drupal news. These presentations don’t discuss code – anyone with a technical background can understand them.
Meeting Schedule
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We're open to ways to improve these events and this group, so speak up if you have ideas!
Gainesville Drupal Users Group: Thurs, Feb 21st at 7pm
**Please note that this meeting is delayed one week due to Valentines Day**
1. Sass, Compass & Integration via the Zen & Omega base themes
Sass is an extension of CSS3, adding nested rules, variables,mixins, selector inheritance, and more. It’s translated to well-formatted, standard CSS using the command line tool or a web-framework plugin such as Compass. Mike Herchel will give a presentation on both SASS and Compass, and how they integrate into theming Drupal through either Zen, Omega, or a do-it-yourself theme!
2. Views Plugins Universe
The ubiquitous Views module has [seemingly] hundreds off plugin modules that extend it to the limits. Brandon Ratzloff will explain and demo various plugin modules and how to bend Views/Drupal to your every whim.
3. Sheetnode Presentation
Sheetnode integrates the JavaScript spreadsheet engine SocialCalc as a new node type in Drupal. Martin Boecken will walk our group thought the ins and outs of this module.
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 February 21st, 2013 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!
Florida DrupalCamp 2013
Florida DrupalCamp 2013 will be held Saturday, April 20 at the Orlando campus of Florida Technical College.
The organizers are hard at work making this the biggest and best DrupalCamp Florida has ever seen, check out all the latest details at: http://fldrupalcamp.org/
Interested in helping out? Leave a comment below!
Follow @fldrupalcamp for updates.
Read moreWeekly Gainesville Drupal Lunch?
Hey Everyone,
Who's onboard for having a semi-regular weekly webdev/Drupal lunch? Here's what I'm thinking:
- We can decide on what day fits everyone best.. this will be flexible
- We can alternate restaurants based on what everyone feels like
- Informal. No presentations or anything. We just sit and discuss whatever we feel like
- No attendance or anything like that. Friends and family are welcome to come!
- Not necessarily Drupal (or Drupal people) only... we can discuss whatever the hell we want :)
- If you miss the current week, no worries. Meet next week!
My reasoning is that I don't have anyone here at work that I can talk drupal/web/nerd to.
Plus, I made this freaking fantastic logo! :)
Thoughts?
Gainesville Drupal Users Group: Thurs, Jan 10th at 7pm
This is 2013's inaugural meetup! Come join the fun, learn Drupal and have a few beers!
1. Arbitrarily Sorting Content: NodeQueue vs. Draggable Views
Are you looking for a way to arbitrarily order your data? Do you need to do any of the following?
- Sort your slideshow pictures into an order that only makes sense to you
- Put your ecommerce products in a specfic order
- Organize your FAQs the way that you want them
Within the Drupalverse, there are two popular ways to do this: NodeQueue and Draggable Views. Both have different but similar feature-sets. In this presentation, Mike Herchel will walk you through the pros and cons, configurations and use-cases of each module.
2. Roundtable** Discussion
Have something new and cool that you've done? Need help with a particular topic? Stuck on a View? Bring it up at the roundtable**. This is your chance! Bring it up!
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 January 10th, 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!
**Disclaimer: The table is actually kind of rectangluar.
Read moreGainesville Drupal Meetup this Thurs (12/13) 7pm: Data, Feeds, Sublime and Git!
Gainesville Drupal Users Group This Thurs, Dec 13th at 7pm
For this December's meetup, the Gainesville Drupal Users Group have 2.5 presentations!
1. Data and Feeds to suit all your needs!
Tired of trying to store all your data as nodes? Need to migrate content into your Drupal site? Brandon Ratzloff will teach you how to create, manage and import database tables using Feeds and Data Module! The best part is, it all works with Views.
1.5 Sublime Text Editor
Brandon Ratzloff will also be giving a half-presentation on Sublime Text Editor, which is an extremely popular cross-platform text editor. From their website: Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose. You'll love the slick user interface, extraordinary features and amazing performance.
3. Followup on Version Control Systems (Git)
In addition, Dave Ingram will be discussing the principals and philosophies of Version Control Systems, and in particular, git, the Distributed Version Control System designed by the creator of Linux and used by the Drupal project. Topics discussed will be the ideas behind using a version control system and basic commands and tools to start using git in your own projects. Some specific considerations when using git with Drupal will also be discussed. Finally, hear Dave's thoughts on how git and Drupal truly can make the world a better place.
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 December 13th, 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!
Introduction to Drupal (Global Training Days)
Come for a free day of Drupal training in Gainesville, FL as a part of the Global Training Days initiative. Learn about the basics of Drupal and get hands on with site building.
If you're new to Drupal or know someone who is that can benefit from a free introduction, then go to the link and sign up today as our space is limited.
Read moreGainesville Drupal Meetup: This Thurs (11/8) 7pm; Sublime and Webform 4.x
Gainesville Drupal Users Group This Thurs, Nov 8th at 7pm
For this Thursday's November meetup, the Gainesville Drupal Users Group have two (not one.. but two!) main presentations!
1. Sublime Text Editor
Gainesville's own Brandon Ratzloff will be presenting on Sublime Text Editor, which is an extremely popular cross-platform text editor. From their website: Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose. You'll love the slick user interface, extraordinary features and amazing performance.
2. Webform 4.x Module
Mike Herchel will be going over Drupal's popular Webform module, and the new features in its 4.0 alpha version. This includes private fields and conditional fields. Also covered will be several related modules that extend Webform to even more greatness.
For those of you not-in-the-know, Webform is the defacto form and survey creation tool within Drupal. You can use it to create simple contact forms to advanced applications that populate PDF forms to everything in between.
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 November 8h, 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!
SHOUTOUT TO OUR OWN mhershel
Congratulations to our own mherchel (mike) on being accepted at Drupalcamp Atlanta !!! ^_^
The secrets to awesomizing.
Read moreReminder! Gainesville Drupal Meetup: This Thurs (10/11) 7pm; Learn Drush and Admin UX!
Reminder! Gainesville Drupal Users Group This Thurs, October 11th at 7pm
For this Thursday's October meetup, the Gainesville Drupal Users Group have two main AWESOME presentations:
1. Speeding up Drupal development with Drush
Mediacurrent's own Kevin Basarab will walk us through using Drush - the Drupal shell. Drush is the swiss army knife of Drupal Development. It can do almost anything you need but many new users of Drupal don't understand why or how it can help speed the development process. In this session we'll skip installation of Drush but we'll go into the basic commands of Drush to help you download Drupal, install, download and install contrib modules plus use aliases to sync between a local and development environment.
2. Secrets to Awesomizing® Your Editor’s Back-end Drupal Experience
In this session we’ll walk the intermediate site-builder through modules and techniques to dramatically simplify, declutter content management and creation within Drupal 7. Modules reviewed and demonstrated about include Field_Group, VBO, Rules, Dashboard, Workbench, the Spark Distribution, 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 October 11th, 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!
Gainesville Drupal Meetup: Thurs Oct 11th 7pm; Learn Drush and Admin UX!
Join the Gainesville Drupal Users Group Thursday, October 11th at 7pm at the Alachua Downtown Library (Click for Map.)
For the October meetup, the Gainesville Drupal Users Group have two main presentations:
1. Speeding up Drupal development with Drush
Mediacurrent's own Kevin Basarab will walk us through using Drush - the Drupal shell. Drush is the swiss army knife of Drupal Development. It can do almost anything you need but many new users of Drupal don't understand why or how it can help speed the development process. In this session we'll skip installation of Drush but we'll go into the basic commands of Drush to help you download Drupal, install, download and install contrib modules plus use aliases to sync between a local and development environment.
2. Secrets to Awesomizing® Your Editor’s Back-end Drupal Experience
In this session we’ll walk the intermediate site-builder through modules and techniques to dramatically simplify, declutter content management and creation within Drupal 7. Modules reviewed and demonstrated about include Field_Group, VBO, Rules, Dashboard, Workbench, the Spark Distribution, 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 October 11th, 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!
Drupal Camp Atlanta
Hello Everyone,
Just wanted to check about Drupal Camp Atlanta. I would like to go, but never went to an event before and wanted to check about costs etc. And since Mike is great at emails i decided to post this here. :P
Read moreReminder! Gainesville Drupal Meetup Thurs, September 13th at 7pm!
Reminder! Join the Gainesville Drupal Users Group Thursday, September 13th at 7pm at the Alachua Downtown Library (Click for Map.)
For the September meetup, we'll have two (yes, two!) main presentations:
Read moreGainesville Drupal Meetup: Thurs Sept 13th 7pm; Learn LESS and Workbench!
Join the Gainesville Drupal Users Group Thursday, September 13th at 7pm at the Alachua Downtown Library (Click for Map.)
For the September meetup, we'll have two (yes, two!) main presentations:
1. LESS CSS Preprocessor, which extends CSS with dynamic behavior such as variables, mixins, operations and functions.
2. An overview of simplifying your content creator's Drupal interface. This will include using inline editing in the Views module, an update on the Spark distribution, and an overview of the Workbench module.
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 September 13th, 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!
Reminder! Gainesville Meetup Tonight 7pm!
Join the Gainesville, FL Drupal Users Group meetup tonight (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
Read moreWe have a winner! Drupal Diver is the Florida Drupal User's Group official logo!
I've been slacking on this for a few weeks, but I think it is safe to say that the results of our poll make it clear that the new Florida Drupal User's Group logo is the Drupal Diver, designed by Dustin J. Cooper!
Reminder: We're going to the Gainesville Web Development Meetup tonight!
Reminder! A bunch of Gainesville Drupal people are going to the Gainesville Web Developers Meetup (http://meetup.gnvwebdev.com/) at the Santa Fe Center for Innovation (http://www.sfcollege.edu/cied/) tonight. The CIED is located at the NW corner of 6th St & University Ave. Meeting time is 7pm, and there'll be beer afterwards!
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!
July 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)!
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!
Florida Drupal Empire - Branding Poll, Round 2
