Berkeley

This month at the Berkeley Drupal Users Group (BDUG), Luke McCormick will be presenting Backdrop, which is a new open-source CMS derived from Drupal. Currently based mostly on code originally developed for Drupal, Backdrop is intended to evolve in a way that maximizes compatibility with existing installations and ease of learning.

This session will cover the following:

Greetings everyone….

Join us at the 3rd Annual CiviDay where nonprofit staff and developers from around the world will be discussing CiviCRM* at meetups. Come and connect with other CiviCRM users and developers in the Bay Area. SF Bay Area based CiviCRM team members will also join us. This is a unique opportunity to meet current users and implementors as well as find out how using CiviCRM can help your organization.

Event details and registration are here:
https://civicrm.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=560

This month at the Berkeley Drupal Users Group (BDUG), we'll be discussing the Webform module, which is a module for making forms/surveys/questionnaires in Drupal. If you've never used the Webform module before, this session will provide an overview as well as a demonstration of how to put together a webform using the module.

Additionally, if you use the Webform module on your own Drupal website and have some ideas to share, please feel free to contribute during Monday's session!

Berkeley Drupal Users Group: Monday, November 24, 12-1:00pm (Note: Shorter time this month)

At the 9/22 BDUG meeting, Quinn Dombrowski will talk about automating various aspects of your Drupal site using the Rules module and ImageCache Actions module. Rules lets you specify sets of conditions that trigger actions (e.g. sending email, unpublishing a node, blocking a user), all through an administrative interface.

This month at the Berkeley Drupal Users Group (BDUG) we'll be talking about Behat, a behavior-driven-development (BDD) tool that lets you write human-readable stories that describe the behavior of your application and can be auto-tested against your application.

Why might you want this?

As a developer (or as a client engaging an external vendor), have you ever struggled to communicate across the divide? Have you wished for a common language that you could use to define not only functions, but interactions?

This month, the UC Berkeley Web Accessibility team will present on “Creating an accessible website with Drupal.”

Drupal users from UC Berkeley may have attended our Webnet presentation on June 10, in which we introduced the UC systemwide accessibility policy, our services, and our new website (http://webaccess.berkeley.edu/). This session will show you how to use Drupal to create a site that is more accessible and usable for everyone.

Topics will include:

• Themes: Choosing an accessible theme or base theme; theme development for accessibility

Calling all developers, designers, scientists, artists, educators, entrepreneurs, students and activists!

Join San Francisco Day of Civic Hacking (part of National Day of Civic Hacking) to collaboratively create, build, and invent new solutions using publicly-released data, code and technology to solve challenges relevant to our neighborhoods, our cities, our states and our country. San Francisco Day of Civic Hacking is a collaboration between Code for San Francisco (http://codeforsanfrancisco.org) and San Francisco State University (http://hackathon.sfsu.edu/).

Come to New Relic to hear Nica Lorber Chapter Three's creative director share her tips for maintaining the quality of your new site after launch.
Nothing is worse than delivering a sparkling new site full of promise and seeing it ruined with crappy content. The best designed sites can be wrecked with blurry imagery, TLDR* copy, and incorrect use of styles.

In this session, I’ll cover factors that contribute to crappy content implementation and the steps we can take to avoid them. I will share deliverables that close the gap between site launch and maintenance.

I will cover:

BDUG will be meeting on 3/24 from 12 - 1:30 in Dwinelle 3401.

Quinn Dombrowski will demo a number of "recipes" using the Views module, including:
- How to create a slideshow
- How to create an image gallery
- How to create a directory that users can search and filter
- How to improve taxonomy display pages by showing both nodes and users that share a particular term

If time permits, we'll also cover:
- Using Views Calc to provide a spreadsheet-like display
- Using Editable Views to edit node content

No previous Views experience necessary!