Silicon Valley DRUPAL Group (Previously known as South Bay Drupal) is an effort in building and strengthening the vibrant Silicon Valley Drupal Community.
Linked In Group: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=122306
Meetups for the group: http://www.meetup.com/DrupalGroup/
Training: Development best practices (Day 5)
Site building with Drupal - Day 5: Development best practices
Read moreTraining: Layouts & Templates (Day 4)
Site Building with Drupal - Day 4: Drupal Layouts & Templates
Read moreTraining: Custom content, fields & Lists (Days 2 & 3)
Site building with Drupal - Days 2 & 3: Custom content, fields & lists
Read moreTraining: Drupal in a Day (day 1)
Site building with Drupal - Day 1: Drupal in a day
This introductory one-day workshop touches on nearly every aspect of the core Drupal framework and covers many must-have modules. You'll learn best practices from industry professionals and create a sustainable framework for managing your content. By the end of the day, you'll have created a Drupal site that looks and functions much like any you’ll see on the web today.
What you will learn:
* Basic setup and configuration
Drupal in a Day training for Drupal 6 on May 2, 2011 in Downtown Los Angeles
Update: This is a Drupal 6-specific training that was previously scheduled for May 9th. The new date is May 2, 2011.
Drupal in a Day is a full day of training offered by the Drupal experts at Exaltation of Larks and Chapter Three for just $400.
| Sign up today at http://www.larks.la/training |
This introductory workshop will touch upon almost every aspect of the core Drupal framework:
- Discover how to add, edit, and moderate content.
- Learn how to create user accounts and understand Drupal's permissions system.
- See how to set-up menus, and position blocks on a page.
- Create human-readable URLs, and categorize your content using Drupal's taxonomy system.
At the end of this one-day class you'll have a completed Drupal site, which looks and functions a lot like many sites you'll see on the web today.
Read moreDrupal Camp @ Stanford
Please join us @ Drupal Camp at Stanford University
https://drupalcamp.stanford.edu/

Are there LOCAL Drupal Themers and Developers available in the Bay Area?
Hi there!
A few days ago, we posted two messages in the Bay Area, Berkeley and Silicon Valley Users Groups looking for Drupal Themers and Drupal Developers interested in working with a Drupal Shop of the Bay Area (Web + Mobile, Inc.). Since these are local groups, it was a surprise for us to find that 99% of the messages we have received came from abroad and that the number of local ones was really small.
Read morePalo Alto Green Energy and Compost Initiative
I am a proponent of the Palo Alto Green Energy and Compost Initiative. The effort is to show local leadership toward building environmentally sustainable waste and energy management. We have a grass roots campaign - I was hoping to tap some help from the Drupal community.
We need to migrate a website at www.pagreenenergy.org to a new Drupal site. I am boning up on Drupal, but my focus is on content. I have a Drupal install now complete at Dreamhost (staging.pagreenenergy.org), but is only a basic install.
Read moreDrupal Monitoring and Optimization
Drupal is growing extensively with features and plugins to achieve the enterprise level needs, monitoring techniques and increasing the search ability of your content of Drupal site are important factors while we transition from web 2.0 to web 3.0
Join us for our monthly Silicon Valley Drupal User Group gathering on Feb 18th, 2011
Session 1: Monitoring and management of Drupal Projects wit Plugins
Session will cover topics in range of:
Question 1: How can I monitor the health of al the Drupal sites my company and its clients have?
Read moreStart your new year off right, with Drupal Training!
We're about to start a two week long Drupal Training session here in San Francisco, and we still have seat or two left in a few of our classes. Come top off your Drupal knowledge and set 2011 off with a bang!
Drupal in a Day
Drupal for site builders
Drupal Panels for site builders
Drupal Theme Development
Drupal 7 Release Party, Silicon Valley!
Hi,
You are invited to the release party of Drupal 7 in Silicon Valley, please see the details on
http://www.meetup.com/DrupalGroup/calendar/15803396/
Drupal 7 is finally here and ready to make it mark stronger than ever before, join the celebration with rest of the Drupal community worldwide on Jan 7th.
When: Friday, January 7, 2011 3:30 PM
Agenda:
Welcome 2011
Presentation on highlights of Drupal 7
Open Discussion and record the message to be conveyed to Maintainers of Drupal7.
Registration is open for SW Drupal Summit
Registration is now OPEN!
We're expecting an incredible lineup of speakers here in Houston, and you do not want to miss this event. Please help spread the word to anyone you know in our area and beyond who is interested in web design and development, as this will be a fantastic opportunity to learn not only about Drupal, but web technology in general.
Join us in welcoming speakers like:
Angela Byron - Drupal 7 maintainer and Lullabot rockstar
Narayan Newton - noted scalability expert and Drupal.org system administrator
Read moreDrupal Workshop (I), Demo and Presentation on best practices.
Silicon Valley Drupal User is organizing next meetup on Nov 18th, 2010.
I am compiling the topics in line and form of Workshop this time which will be very useful to people who are in middle of Drupal project development in some or the other capacity,we will share the workshop details by next week but on a higher level focus will be on:
Guidelines and standard procedures to be followed before beginning the custom coding on any module of Drupal, we will hand pick few popular module but if anyone has a specific need please feel free to share before Nov 7th.
Read moreTraining: Drupal Modules Jan 12-14
Drupal Module Development
Academy X
601 Montgomery St
San Francisco, CA 94111
Class Description:
Read moreTraining: Drupal Themes Jan 17-18
Drupal Theme Development
Academy X
601 Montgomery St
San Francisco, CA 94111
Class Description:
This class starts by discussing the anatomy of a Drupal theme, and explaining the PHPtemplate system Drupal uses to render HTML. We'll guide you through creating a custom theme from scratch by overriding the template files provided by Drupal core, adding new style sheets, and defining your own theme and preprocess functions with a little PHP code.
Training: Panels, Jan 7th
Drupal Panels for site builders
Academy X
601 Montgomery St
San Francisco, CA 94111
Class Description:
Read moreTraining: Views & CCK, Jan 5-6
Drupal for site builders
Academy X
601 Montgomery St
San Francisco, CA 94111
Class Description:
Read moreTraining: Drupal in a Day, Jan 4th
Drupal in a day
Academy X
601 Montgomery St
San Francisco, CA 94111
Class Description:
Read moreBADcamp 2010 Registration now open!
Registration, Session submissions, and voting is now available at http://2010.badcamp.net!
Read moreSilicon Valley Drupal User Group Meet up Reminder
Hi Everyone ,
Just a final reminder for today's meet up on " Architect sites with Management of Communities, Events and Payment options "
The event starts at 5 pm .. please RSVP here http://www.meetup.com/DrupalGroup/calendar/14868271/
To know more about the event check http://groups.drupal.org/node/96724
See you guys soon.
Regards
Vish
On Behalf of SVDUG
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