Welome to the Mid-Atlantic, USA Drupal group! Our goal is to bring together Drupallers who live and/or work in the areas between DC and NYC, including (but not limited to) Baltimore, Wilmington, Philadelphia, New Jersey, and surrounding communities. Members of this group should be people who would consider coming together in person with other drupallers in this region-- for fun, work, camps, etc.
Drupaldelphia (June 22nd) Session Ideas
We have the following sessions slated for Drupaldelphia, if you are interested in running any sessions, please submit a session, here(signup/sign in first)
If you just have suggestions for topics you want to learn about, comment below.
Semantic Site Building
Jody Hamilton
The usability of a CMS for its administrators and editors is closely tied to the semantic sense of the site build. Likewise, the maintainability (including ease of upgrade and feature addition) is...
Move Central NJ meetup to 2nd Thursday?
The Central NJ meetup has been meeting the 1st Thursday, but that leads to an ongoing conflict with the nearby LOPSA-NJ meeting and tends to be very close to the NYC meetup.
There seemed to be general support for moving to the 2nd Thursday, but would appreciate broader feedback on how that would affect people's schedules and any other potential conflicts.
Read moreCentral NJ Meetup, Thursday, May 3rd, 2012
Join our monthly Drupal meeting in Princeton. All community members interested in using Drupal as well as strengthening the Drupal community are invited. We'll discuss recent and exciting Drupal-related news, present interesting topics, and share knowledge. We'll start our meeting with three ten 10 to 15 minute sessions and/or one longer 30 to 40 minute presentation. Please propose a session or voice your support for a colleague's proposal using the comments section below.
DRAFT AGENDA
PRESENTATION
- 40 minute presentation by Peter Wolanin, Acquia
Remote access to meetups
Do you offer remote access to your Drupal Meetups?
I started a group in hopes of getting Meetups with remote access listed in one place and bringing people from all over the world to your local meetups.
http://groups.drupal.org/remote-meetups
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April Philly Drupal Meetup
We'll be talking Drupal, eating pizza, and drinking various beverages (some alcoholic, others not) from 6:30-9pm at Zivtech Headquarters in Old City. The pizza and drinks will be provided by the hosts (that's us!).
Location: 32 Strawberry St, Philadelphia, PA
Google Map: http://g.co/maps/aug3y
Apologies for getting this posting up late. For automatic reminders (and earlier postings), join us on our Meetup page:
http://www.meetup.com/drupaldelphia/events/56348992/
See you on Tuesday!
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Recruitment for Drupal online training project
We are preparing an English version of our Drupal training program and we are looking for people interested in reviewing and testing the materials, at the same time they get advanced Drupal training for free.
We are building a team of 5-10 people (english native speakers) to start on April 16th, 2012.
If you are interested or know somebody that could be, please fill in or share the form to contact us.
http://www.forcontu.com/training-recruitment
Read moreCentral NJ Meetup, Thursday, April 5th, 2012
Join our monthly Drupal meeting in Princeton. All community members interested in using Drupal as well as strengthening the Drupal community are invited. We'll discuss recent and exciting Drupal-related news, present interesting topics, and share knowledge. We'll start our meeting with three ten 10 to 15 minute sessions and/or one longer 30 to 40 minute presentation. Please propose a session or voice your support for a colleague's proposal using the comments section below.
DRAFT AGENDA
PRESENTATION
DrupalCamp NJ Follow-up Report
On Feb 4, 2012 the first DrupalCamp NJ was held on the campus of Princeton University. The camp received a community cultivation grant from the Drupal Association which was used as seed money. We had 4 sessions in parallel in 5 times slots - 19 sessions total (one was a double-length Hello Drupal training).
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Maryland Post-DrupalCon Meetup on Wednesday, March 28th @ 7pm
Come out to the monthly Drupal meetup at PMG's offices in Columbia (location details below). Drupal novices to experts are welcome to join us on Wednesday, March 28th at 7PM.
The meetup starts around 7PM and any presentations will begin at 7:30.
If you have something you would like to present, please contact Ron Williams (ron@lithicmedia.com or 410-726-7869).
Read moreCentral NJ Meetup, Thursday, March 1st, 2012
Join our monthly Drupal meeting in Princeton. All community members interested in using Drupal as well as strengthening the Drupal community are invited. We'll discuss recent and exciting Drupal-related news, present interesting topics, and share knowledge. We'll start our meeting with three ten 10 to 15 minute sessions and/or one longer 30 to 40 minute presentation. Please propose a session or voice your support for a colleague's proposal using the comments section below.
DRAFT AGENDA
PRESENTATION
Drupal Styling for Beginners (3-day course)
Xykon, the consulting firm I work for is offering a new 3-day long Drupal
course Drupal Styling for Beginners" at our offices in Dupont Circle on I street.
This 3-day long course: 'Drupal Styling for Beginners' will get
your theming journey started on the right foot. Accompanied by our
in-class workshops and take-home assignments, you'll get a great head-start
with Drupal, learning how to set up and style basic views, web forms, core
Final Capacity Stretch - 15 Extra Tickets Available for DrupalCamp NJ
While we have comfortable capacity in the session rooms, the available lunch seating is more restricted. However, with some creative re-arrangement of the lunch service, we think we can fit a few more people into the event.
Accordingly, a final 15 regular admission tickets have been made available. Once these are gone, there will be no more. If you have delayed purchasing your ticket, it's now or never! You can purchase at http://drupalcampnj2012.eventbrite.com/
Read moreCentral NJ Meetup, Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
Join our monthly Drupal meeting in Princeton. All community members interested in using Drupal as well as strengthening the Drupal community are invited. We'll discuss recent and exciting Drupal-related news, present interesting topics, and share knowledge. We'll start our meeting with three ten 10 to 15 minute sessions and/or one longer 30 to 40 minute presentation. Please propose a session or voice your support for a colleague's proposal using the comments section below.
DRAFT AGENDA
LIGHTNING TALKS
Code Sprint Following DrupalCamp NJ
Due to popular demand, we will have a code sprint on the day following the upcoming DrupalCamp NJ on Sunday, February 5th. The sprint will focus primarily around Drupal 8 core issues, but obviously other sprint groups can form as well.
The exact location is TBD, but will be on the Princeton University campus, near to where the camp is being held, from 10 am to 5 pm. Please "Sign up" here if you plan to attend so we have an estimate of how much space we will need.
Read moreDrupalCamp NJ Day-of Volunteers on Feb 4
For the upcoming DrupalCamp NJ on February 4th, we need volunteers to help the day run smoothly.
Volunteer tasks include:
- Pre-registration setup
- Registration/info desk
- Room monitor/AV assistant
- Lunch herder
- Cleanup
Most of these tasks require no special experience, but for room monitors, you need to be able to attend a training on February 3rd at 2:30 pm on using the University A/V systems in the Friend center room 101 so that you can assist speakers as needed.
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Drupal Training for Drupalcamp MD, Baltimore MD
Hey Folks,
Are you interested in getting Drupal training before Drupalcamp MD? If so, please reply and tell us what type of training you need.
Thx! JR
Would you like to improve your Drupal skills before Drupalcamp MD?
DrupalCamp NJ session submission cutoff Jan 18th
If you want to submit a session proposal for the upcoming Feb 4 DrupalCamp NJ please be sure to have it in by 5 pm New York time on January 18th (next Wednesday). http://www.drupalcampnj.org/content/submit-proposal
We have some great submissions already, but we'd love to see yours as well.
Thank you to everyone who has already submitted session proposals, and thanks to everyone who has registered. Tickets are going fast!
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January Drupaldelphia Meetup - 01/17/2012
Due to a conflict with our office schedule we need to move the meetups off of Thursday nights. I am proposing that we move the meetups to the Third Tuesday of every month, beginning in January. If there are no objections than here are the details for the next meetup:
January 2012 Drupaldelphia meetup
Location:
Zivtech
32 S. Strawberry St.
2nd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19106
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=zivtech
Call for Volunteers - DrupalCamp NJ program committee
For the upcoming DrupalCamp NJ on February 4th, we are looking for a few volunteers to constitute a program committee. This committee will be responsible for contacting and confirming a few additional featured speakers, helping promote the event to other potential speakers and encouraging them to submit session proposals, and for selecting and organizing the final camp program and schedule.
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