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Long Island Drupal Presentation Night - Northwell’s journey to Drupal 8
Very excited to announce our next presentation night happening in November!
Northwell’s journey to Drupal 8
Join Northwell’s digital team’s journey embracing atomic and component based design in order revitalize their digital experience.
Learn how those principles were translated into their new approach to UX, design, content, site building and how they, in partnership with Phase 2 Technology, created a PatternLab and Drupal 8 platform to support their enterprise digital standards.
Presenters:
Karly Cunningham
Manager of User Experience, Digital and Innovation Strategy
Long Island Drupal Co-Working Night- October 17th at Launch Pad Huntington
Join us for a Co-Working Night on October 17th!
Co-Working nights are geared toward working on projects and collaborating with other Drupalists on challenges we may be facing.
Whether its setting up a new environment, developing a custom module, or just looking for some opinions on a build we are all here to help!
We have an AWESOME co-working space at LaunchPad Hunting.
Pizza and refreshments will be provided :)
Location:
LaunchPad Huntington
315 Main Street, 2nd Floor, Huntington, NY
Best parking is in the back off of Gerard St.
Long Island Drupal Social - September 21st at Little Nook Cafe in W. Sayville
Hey Everyone,
Continuing with our new scheduling format we are excited to announce the next "Island Wide" Social Meet Up!
Our social meet ups are great for folks who are new to the group and are looking for an informal way to meet some of the regulars and get acquainted.
For September we are planning on meeting at Little Nook Cafe in W. Sayville.
Join us for coffee, tea, and some tasty baked goods (many vegan options!) as we kick back and chat about Drupal!
Location:
Little Nook Cafe
14 Washington Ave, West Sayville, NY 11796
Drupal for Project Managers
Thursday, September 7, 2017, 3 PM - 5 PM EDT
Drupal Development is a specialty, so is Drupal Project Management. Whether you are a seasoned PM new to Drupal or have just been volunteered to manage a project in your 'spare time'...what do you need to know about Drupal to help you manage projects more successfully?
In this class you’ll learn:
basic application concepts
open source community fundamentals
Drupal terminology
how to align your project plan with Drupal
development best practice, and more!
Meet your trainer
Read moreLong Island Drupal Presentation Night - A Look at Reservoir
Very excited to announce the presentation for our August meetup!
A Look at Reservoir - A backend content repository for headless Drupal.
Presented by: Nick Selvaggio
In this talk Nick will take us through the motivations and concepts behind Acquia's new Drupal 8 distribution named Reservoir.
We will go through installing and setting up a simple API for a content model and then look at how we consume our new API using a decoupled frontend.
Who is this talk for?
Read moreLong Island Drupal Sprint Night- July 18th at Launch Pad Huntington
Our July Sprint Night is on the calendar!!
Our sprint nights are geared toward working on projects and collaborating with other Drupalists on challenges we may be facing.
Whether its setting up a new environment, developing a custom module, or just looking for some opinions on a build we are all here to help!
We have an AWESOME co-working space so come on down and get some work in.
Pizza and refreshments will be provided :)
Location:
LaunchPad Huntington
315 Main Street, 2nd Floor, Huntington, NY
Best parking is in the back off of Gerard St.
Free Drupal 2 hour Anti-Crash Intro to Website Building
Drupal gives its users an incredibly powerful and flexible toolkit. These tools make it possible to build sites that are interactive, integrated, and infinitely customizable… all without writing a line of code.
Join us for this special 2 hour online Anti-Crash edition of our day long Site Building class to help you discover what you are capable of when you build with Drupal! In this introductory class you will learn the principles behind:
Best practices in Drupal project planning
Drupal's inherent tools and subsystems
Custom content types
Views
Taxonomy
Search tools
URL aliasing
Long Island Drupal Meetup - May 17th
Our May meetup is on the calendar!!
This month I am planning on a talk called "How to build a flexible front facing site in a night"
This talk stems from a recent project we have been working on that leverages a discrete set of modules that have allowed us to build a highly customizable front facing site in an incredibly fast turn around time.
The main components of the build consists of:
- Drupal 7
- Paragraphs
- Webforms
Long Island Drupal Meetup - April 19th
This Wednesday we will be hosting a sprint night! Come down with a problem or some work and we will all collaborate and discuss.
I'd like to explore migrations AND accessing a REST endpoint.
If you have a topic you would like to share please let us know!
LaunchPad Huntington
315 Main Street, 2nd Floor, Huntington, NY
Best parking is in the back off of Gerard St.
Date / Time:
April 19th 7pm - 9pm
We look forward to seeing everyone!!
Read moreLong Island Drupal Meetup - March 15th
Our March meetup is on the calendar. We are open for topics. A few come to mind:
• Explore BigPipe (https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/bigpipe-pipelining-w...)
• Explore the Outside-In initiative (https://www.drupal.org/news/turning-drupal-outside-in)
• Explore exposing our content via a REST API. (https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/api/restful-web-services-api/restful-web-s...)
If you have a problem or topic you would like to explore let us know!
Location:
LaunchPad Huntington
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