Welcome to the Milwaukee Wisconsin Drupal User Group!
We use Meetup.com to announce our meetings and track RSVPs:
http://www.meetup.com/Drupal414/
I invite you to also join the Wisconsin Users Group which is pretty active and includes people from all over the state.
Help is organize by filling out a survey!
In an effort to help organize events in our state, and bring the local community together, we've created a sure ey. It will help us understand how our community uses Drupal and try to provide relevant programming at events.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/23QBDMR
Thanks!
Read moreOrganizing WI based Drupalists
As we come off of MidCamp and DrupalCon, it seems fitting to try and organize the Wisconsin Drupal community to help plan some events. This is a bit difficult as we have various areas such as Fox Valley, Madison, Milwaukee, La Crosse / Eau Clair, Hodag Country, and more.
For those interested, I would like to invite you to the MidCamp Slack where we can chat and coordinate a bit easier. All you have to do is fill out the invite form at https://midcamp-slack.herokuapp.com/ and join the #wisconsin channel.
Or, comment here! We can still use groups.drupal.org and tools like Meetup.com.
Read more#drupal-wiscosnin in Drupal Slack!
There is a Drupal Slack which seems to have a bigger reach than IRC. I created a #drupal-wisconsin channel. If you're not in Drupal Slack yet you can get an invite via http://drupalslack.herokuapp.com/.
I think it would be a great way to get all the Drupalers in our state in communication to help organize meet-ups, find meet-ups, and even coordinate DrupalCamp WI.
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[Drupal414 meetup] Most common Drupal site building pitfalls and how to avoid them!
myDropWizard offers support and maintenance for Drupal sites that we didn't build initially. We've learned the hard way which site building mistakes have the greatest potential for creating issues later.
Before taking on a new client, we do an in-depth site audit looking for security issues and checking if the site follows best practices or has any problems that would make it harder to maintain the site going forward.
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Website Redesign Opportunity
The Baraboo Public Library is requesting submissions from website design professionals interested in redesigning the Baraboo Public Library website.
The purpose of this Request for Proposals is to employ a website design professional who can take new (see Objective 7) and existing content and implement the following:
- Give the website an overall modern look with a clean, clutter-free appearance
- Design a home page that requires little or no scrolling
- Optimize the user experience and discoverability of existing content
- Ensure seamless integration with mobile platforms
Anyone interested in helping me kick the tires on a D8 shared hosting environment?
So it's like this --
Read moreGlobal Sprint Weekend in Milwaukee, WI
On January 30th and 31st, Drupal users all over the world are going to get together to participate in "sprints" as part of Drupal Global Sprint Weekend. Drupal414 will join in the fun by hosting our own on Sunday, January 30th!
A "sprint" is an event where a group of people get together to work on something for a few hours. So, normally we have presentations, hang out and talk - but this would be actually doing something together as a group!
Read moreDrupal Developer Job Opportunity In Madison Area
Wisconsin Public Radio is seeking a skilled web developer to help lead WPR.org and our other digital properties to grow audience, increase engagement and adapt techniques that will place us on the cutting edge in New Media. The developer will be part of a team that develops and maintains our existing websites and spearheads the creation of new digital projects. This person will be involved at every level -- front-end and back-end -- and be an important voice as we move forward and fulfill our potential.
For more: http://www.wpr.org/Web-developer
Read moreGet a free Drupal site built by University of Michigan grad students
We am seeking clients for a class at the University of Michigan School of Information. Students in this class break into teams to build Drupal websites.
We have about 30 students in the class this winter, so we need 10 sites to create.
That’s where you come in.
Do you know anyone that needs a site (re)built that would be a good candidate for our students?
Read moreDrupal 8 Release Party - Milwaukee, WI
Huzzah! The planned release date for Drupal 8.0.0 is November 19th - the same day as our regular November meetup!
Join us to eat, drink and celebrate the future of Drupal! :-)
Of course, the real power of Drupal comes from all the available contributed modules. This means it's now time for developers to start porting their modules to Drupal 8! However, the APIs and conventions for Drupal 8 modules are dramatically different...
Which is why Elliot is going to walk us through the process of converting one of his simple Drupal 7 modules to Drupal 8!
If you're a developer and want to get started with Drupal 8, this is the presentation for you!
(But even for non-developers, this should be an interesting look at the new features and power of Drupal 8. And of course, it'll be a great time to celebrate and learn from other Druplistas!)
Read moreDrupal Camp Wisconsin Session Proposals are open!
Drupal Camp Wisconsin will take place on August 7 and 8 this year, and will take place in the beautiful new Madison, Wisconsin Public Library. Nice facilities, right downtown, and near great places for food, drinks, and entertainment.
Registration and Session Proposals are both open, so please come on over to http://drupalcampwi.org and propose a session. As always, Drupal Camp Wisconsin is free. To help keep it that way, you might want to consider having your company or organization be a sponsor.
Read more[Drupal 414 meetup] Content types, fields and content strategy
One of the main strengths in Drupal is the ability to create content types that represent something you want on your site (for example, "event", "article", etc) and put custom fields on them.
Whether its creating a blog, a Views-powered slideshow, or pretty much anything you could imagine... understanding how to create custom content types in Drupal is an essential skill to have!
In this presentation Jason Gordon will be discussing content types and fields in 3 parts:
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Read more[Drupal 414 meetup] Headless Drupal 7: RESTful + Backbone
Headless Drupal has been a hot topic lately, and if you're an advanced-level developer, you already know exactly what this is, and why it's useful.
On the other hand, if you're not part of this club, you're probably asking yourself WHAT IS THIS NEW THING AND WHY DO I WANT TO USE IT?
In this session (by Raphael), we'll start from a basic level, and find out exactly what a RESTful web service is, and why they've become so popular. Then, we’ll explore current solutions in the Drupal ecosystem, before focusing on the main topic, the RESTful module in Drupal 7. We’ll discover how, with only two files, we can create a powerful REST API that we can put to use immediately on any Drupal 7 site.
After a quick break for questions, we'll dive into the second half, where we’ll find out how to consume out new REST API using a variety of client-side technologies, from the lowly cURL to the mighty Backbone.js.
Virtual participation over Google Hangouts
If you want to participate in the meetup but can't make it down physically, no worries - you can participate over Google Hangouts!
We'll be starting the feed at 6:30pm - you can either use Google Hangouts to participate fully, ie. you can ask questions with your voice and interact (Google Hangouts link will be posted in comments on the Meetup.com page at 6pm), or watch passively on YouTube.
Read moreDrupal414 meetup: Bring your Drupal problems and 2015 planning!
Happy New Year, Everyone!
Unlike most of our monthly meetups, there isn't going to be a presentation this month. Instead, we're going to do an interactive session where we:
- Discuss the topics and plans for future Drupal414 meetups in 2015
- Solve specific Drupal problems that other members are having
So, think of some problems you're having on live or testing Drupal sites and bring them to the meetup for us to solve!
The best food at a Meetup!
Read moreDrupal414 meetup: Rendering HTML with Drupal - Past, Present and Future
In this presentation, Steve Persch will review the mental models used in Drupal theming (ie. customizing the way your site looks).
For years Drupal core has encouraged a mindset of altering and overriding its internal understanding of data structures. However, much of the front-end community wants to think of design components independent of their Drupal implementations.
We will discuss tools and workflows that can be used now to reconcile these attitudes including Panels, Display Suite, Sass, static prototypes and style guides. Then we will look ahead to some technologies like Web Components and Drupal 8 to see how these decision points will shift.
And the phrase "Headless Drupal" will come up at least a dozen times. :-)
Virtual participation over Google Hangouts
If you want to participate in the meetup but can't make it down physically, no worries - you can participate over Google Hangouts!
We'll be starting the feed at 6:30pm - you can either use Google Hangouts to participate fully (ie. you can ask questions with your voice and interact!) or watch passively on YouTube.
Read moreDrupal414 meetup: Let's explore Drupal 8 together!
On October 1st, Drupal 8.0.0-beta1 was released! This means it's now go time to start trying it out, porting modules or even building sites (if your project launch date is sufficiently in the future or you like to live dangerously).
We'll talk a little bit about some of the new things in Drupal 8, but mostly we're going to be digging in and trying it out!
Bring your computer and we'll get Drupal 8 installed so you can check out the new -beta1, and we'll explore together, seeing what we can find and how much trouble we can get ourselves into. :-)
(If you don't want to bring your computer down, that's fine too, you can pair with someone else or what the person connected to the projector.)
Since this is going to be an interactive jam session, we're not going to do virtual participation this time. Sorry! Next time we have a more traditional presentation we'll do it again.
Read moreSimplifying Drupal site development!
Note: We're back to 7PM this time!
We're going for another share-alike session! How do you simplify Drupal site development? There are many tips and tricks to cut down configuration and build times when a new client comes around.
Share your stories! Do you use a Drupal distribution? Have you created your own profile? Maybe you just have a collection of modules you always know you will use.
Location:
Boys & Girls Club of Kenosha
1330 52nd St, Kenosha, WI
Drupal414 meetup: Building a Drupal 8 theme with new fangled awesomeness!
The Drupal theme system is what controls the visual appearance of your site. This has always been a very powerful system, allowing frontend designers and developers to customize every aspect of the site.
In recent years, however, the tools and techniques used in frontend work have evolved significantly. And, so has the theme system itself in Drupal 8.
In this presentation, Marc Drummond will give an overview of theming in Drupal 8, using new fangled (and awesome!) frontend tools!
Marc is an active Drupal core contributor (maintainer of the core Breakpoint and Responsive Images modules in Drupal 8) and he's literally writing the book on theming in Drupal 8. :-)
Marc is from the Twin Cities and will be presenting virtually via Google Hangouts. This also means that it'll be possible (for the first time) to participate in the Meetup virtually! If you're interested, checkout the event on Google+.
Read moreVirtual Panopoly Sprint on September 6th - Help make Panopoly better!
Hi Everyone!
We're organizing a Panopoly sprint on Saturday, September 6th, from 10am to 4pm CDT (UTC-0500).
The sprint will be "officially virtual," meaning anyone can participate over the internet from anywhere in the world. (However, we're also going to have a physical location to meetup for people in Milwaukee, WI, USA - more details on that below)
A "sprint" is an event where a group of people get together to work on something for a few hours. Sprints aren't limited to technical people or coders - people of all skill sets can contribute. However, as a virtual sprint, it will be a little easier for more technical people to get involved.
Here is a documentation describing all the ways you can contribute:
Our primary goal for this sprint, is to try to reduce the number of issues in the issue queue. At the moment we have 277 open issues, including 111 bugs. I'd really love to get the open issues down to 200 and the bugs to 50. :-)
Anyway, that means we really need help with these things in particular:
- Confirming bugs, ie. trying to reproduce the problem and see if it's a real bug
- Testing patches and seeing if they do what the issue says they do
- Tagging and triaging issues, ie. organizing the issues so they're easier to manage
- Doing code review on patches to make sure they follow best practices (for coders)
- Writing patches to fix confirmed bugs (for coders)
But you're not limited to those things! You can also help by writing documentation, creating Behat tests, finding new bugs in Panopoly, etc.
Read more to learn how to participate, what you'll need, and info about the physical sprint room in Milwaukee!
Read moreModule Show and Tell
At the last meetup we decided it'd be great if everyone thought of a module that they discovered that solved a really specific solution. We're not talking about Views, Panels, Display Suite, or any of the big ones. Just anything that solved your problem and might be easily overlooked.
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