Milwaukee WI

We love Drupal! But is it possible to turn your passion for Drupal into a way to make a living? Absolutely!

In this presentation David Snopek will talk about how to get started as a freelance Drupal service provider, based on his experience freelancing full-time for the last 4 years or so.

We'll talk about:

• The pro's and con's of freelancing
• Types of work and how to find it
• Ways to charge and how much you should charge
• How to escape the hustle and find recurring revenue
• (only a briefly) Contracts, bookkeeping, accounting and taxes

This presentation will also provide insight to people who may be looking to hire a freelancer: we'll discuss the pro's/con's, talk about how to find someone good and give you insight into how freelancers come up with the rates they charge.

And if you're already an experienced freelancer, own or work at a Drupal shop or otherwise are involved in the Drupal business eco-system, come down and share your experience!

(BTW, we moved this meetup to the 4th Thursday this month, because DrupalCorn Camp - which several of our members are going to - is starting on the 3rd Thursday. Sorry for the late notice!

Learn how to debug and troubleshoot Drupal! We'll cover how to use simple debugging and troubleshooting methods to fix problems when building your Drupal site.

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Want to learn how to setup an online store without knowing code?

During this meetup we'll show how to sign up for Pantheon's platform and install Commerce Kickstart - without touching a single file!

Learn how to setup your store, add products, setup PayPal and more.

Have you tried Drupal Commerce before, hit a road block or have questions? After the initial demonstration there will be a Q&A session to answer as many Drupal Commerce questions as possible!

Do you have a server (or local development environment) with several Drupal sites on it? Or are you looking to set one up?

There's lots of tools for managing websites, ranging from the command line to web-based graphical tools like CPanel.

One AWESOME tool for Drupal is Aegir: it's a Drupal distribution for managing Drupal sites!

Want to launch a new site? Just create a new "Site" node. ;-) Aegir takes care of the server configuration and performs the install for you.

If you've ever built a website on a team (big or small), you know there are many more challenges than just the technical! You've got to deal with deadlines, budgets, acurately conveying requirements, keeping track of who's working on what, handling dependencies between different components of the project, tracking bugs, and keeping the stakeholders (ie. clients, bosses) up-to-date on progress, etc...

And if you've never worked on a team - well, learning about some of these things and common pitfalls will get you ready for when you do. :-)

This month, Steve Klebar is going to lead an informal conversation about managing the software development process for small teams. He will talk about his experiences using Agile and JIRA as tools and the benefits of capturing user stories, scenarios and Behavior-driven Development (BDD).

Please bring YOUR war stories as well! Hearing about what went wrong in real life can help demonstrate why these practices are necessary. (And it's super fun to talk about! ;-))

Introduction to Panopoly and Drupal distributions

When you first install Drupal, it's a blank slate - it doesn't really do anything yet. If you want a personal blog, company website, intranet portal or e-commerce store - you need to start installing modules and actually configuring your website into one of those things.

That's where Drupal distributions come in! A Drupal distribution is Drupal plus some modules, themes and configuration, so that when you first install it does something right out of the box.

Join us as we dive into Views! Views is an amazing module that allows you to build dynamic pages in Drupal. We'll demonstrate how to use Views to build a gallery of photo albums, an employee staff section, and more.

We meet in the multi-purpose room of the Boys & Girls Club of Kenosha at 1330 52nd Street, Kenosha, Wisconsin 53140

The real power of Drupal comes from the thousands of contrib modules on Drupal.org. However, what happens when a contrib module has a bug or is missing a feature that you need?

At this meetup David Snopek will cover the basics of collaboration on Drupal.org (for everyone) and getting started writing Drupal 7 contrib modules (for coders and the coder-curious).

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MIDCAMP
The Midwest Drupal Camp
March 28-30 2014
Training, Sessions, and Sprint
University Center Downtown Chicago, Illinois

• Awesome Trainings on Friday
• Lots of NEW Sessions
• Tremendous support from our Sponsors (more opportunities available)
• "Famous" or infamous Drupal Personalities will be there
• Wonderful opportunity to learn and have a great time
• Saturday evening outings
• Sunday Code Sprints
• THE CITY OF CHICAGO