Welcome to the Ann Arbor Drupal User Group
We are an open group of Drupal users in Ann Arbor, Michigan willing to freely share knowledge about Drupal.
We meet 7-9pm the last Monday of the month, generally at Bar Louie.
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Any Ubercart users here in Metro Detroit?
Are there any Drupal folks around here in SE Michigan who have implemented a live Ubercart site?
Please share your experiences, praises, and complaints.
Thanks.
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Support a Michigan humanitarian Drupal site
A website I have had the pleasure of working with, WillWorkForFood.org, is an international semifinalist in the Dell Social Innovation Competition with a grand price of $50,000. It is a great project that is working with Doctors Without Borders to feed malnourished children in places like Darfur. To win the competition, we need your help! Read on to find out how.
Read moreMonthly Meeting - a2drupal anniversary and druplicon roundup
This is your reminder that today, at 7pm, we are having our monthly drupal group get-together. This meeting just happens to be the second anniversary of the a2drupal group, and the first anniversary of Switchback. As such, Mike and I are bringing some cupcakes and drinks to snack on while we listen to vkareh present on the happenings at the DC druplicon earlier this month.
It should be great! Looking forward to seeing everyone there!
Read moreUpcoming meeting
Our February meetup is rapidly approaching, and I'm looking for topics or presenters. Does anyone have a cool thing they have been working on that they would like to demo? If not, do you have any topics that you would really like covered? Feel free to update this wiki page (http://groups.drupal.org/node/19315) with any topics you would love to see someone go over!
Read morePossible Topics
Last updated by steve.colson on Mon, 2010-07-26 19:09
This is a list of possible topics to cover at our monthly meetups. Please feel free to edit it.
Organic Groups- Selling Drupal
- Process Shortcuts
- SEO in Drupal
- "My First Module"
- Review of different image gallery modules
- A simple CRUD app within drupal - say emp table in MYSQL, a page to select / insert data and tie this page to a node / menu.
- Setup a small e-commerce site from scratch.
- Disaster planning - backups, migrations, restoration
- CCK/Views - what is it and why is it so awesome
- Project Management in Drupal
CMS Expo Learning & Business Conference
Register @ http://cmsexpo.net
Hotel Orrington Conference Center
Evanston, Illinois
April 30th - May 1st, 2009
Come for two packed days of training on top CMS solutions Joomla, Drupal and Alfresco. With over 45 CMS Training Sessions in six Training Tracks, you can focus on your favorite core CMS for both days or jump tracks to explore other avenues. Created for all members of the content management team - administrators, businesspeople, content creators and developers - CMS Expo has a lot to offer people in the professional content management arena.
Read moreDrupal HOA site quote - $1000 ?
I am just about to quote $1000 for a local Home Owners' Assn website using Drupal.
$50 / hr x 20 hours. I have been poking around Drupal for couple of weeks. I come from Oracle / Linux / ASP background.
Typical content: Member directory, Calendar of events, Board, News Letters ...
What do you think ? too high, too low ? this is my first freelance job. thanks.
Read moreReminder: a2Drupal Meeting tonight!
Hey folks! This is your reminder that our monthly meeting is tonight at 7pm. Daniel Zhou will be presenting on the pivots module that is in use on Drupal.org and soliciting feedback for the next version. It should be great!
Time: 7pm
Location: Spark Central, Downtown Ann Arbor
Southeast Michigan Theming Seminar
Bob Christenson (aka Rob Feature) from Mustardseed Media, Inc. will be teaching this seminar on "real world" Drupal theming. He will be talking more about the practical "how to theme" and will NOT be doing in depth detail on how the Drupal theme system works (although we'll cover the basics of course).
This event will cover the same material being presented at the NYC Theming Session on January 24.
Read moreNo December Meeting
Hey folks,
Just updating everyone that didn't hear from the last meeting. We will not be having a meeting this month because of the holidays. The next meeting is scheduled for January 26. See you then!
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Theming Seminar Trial Run?
Hey All....
Will there be a user group meeting on December 29? (wondering because of the holidays). I ask because (if there's nothing else planned) I'd like to do a shortened trial run of the theming seminar I'm scheduled to do in New York in January.
I'd like to give a 'quick' version to test out my approach and see what people might be looking for. Let me know if this is possible and/or if you're interested.
Thanks guys!
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ArbCamp 2008
Dug Song contacted us about ArbCamp 2008 this year and asked us to put the word out. Questions regarding this event should be directed to arbcamp08@a2geeks.org.
He writes:
Join us the evening of December 18, 2008 at SPARK Central for ArbCamp 2008!
http://a2geeks.org/display/geek/ArbCamp+08
ArbCamp is an unconference for Ann Arbor geeks of all stripes (tech,
art, music, science, biz, etc.), an informal meeting where the
schedule is built by its participants. All are invited for an evening
of intense knowledge-sharing and community - our goal is to introduce
A2Drupal Monthly Meeting - Giving Back!
As was discussed at the end of September, this month is the "giving back to the community" month. We will be be sitting down and watching IRC to help with any questions people have. If it is slow, we can certainly field any of our own questions too.
Show up today, (Monday the 24th) at 7pm at Spark Central, and help out!
Read moreMonthly Meeting - A la carte questions
7:00pm EST at Spark Central
This month we were planning on hearing all about Daniel's presentation on the pivots module, though unfortunately, it look like he may not be available after all. As I don't have a backup speaker and topic lined up for this month, I'm going to try something a bit different. Our last few meetings have morphed slightly in to widespread Q&A, so I think this will be an official Q&A day. Bring your questions and bring your answers and lets step through some of the things that have been troubling us!
See you there!
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Pivots module recommendation system for d.o. is live!
Hi there,
After Steve's kind help with the code review, we've finally got the pivots module recommendation system online (yah!!!). For example, you can take a look at http://drupal.org/project/i18n and notice the small "recommendations" block on the right side.
I have been writing blogs about it at http://mrzhou.cms.si.umich.edu/taxonomy/term/7 as well. It's also aggregated at http://planet.drupal.org.
Read moreDrupal Camp Chicago 2008
Who/Why:
For over 2 years Chicago Drupal has truly highlighted the benefits of an open source initiative. We have built resourceful bridges between many local Chicago establishments including non-profits, entrepreneurs, Drupal development companies, independent consultants, hobbyist, and others in the mid-west. Our goal for this Drupal Camp is to bring everyone together for open communication, education, fun, and industry networking.
What:
Read moreFree Drupal Theme Workshop
This event has now passed. Thanks for all who attended!
Come join us for a totally free Drupal 6 theming workshop. This casual training will walk through building a Drupal 6 theme from scratch, start to finish.
Your group leader will be building a basic theme for a company website based off a Photoshop mockup. He will build the theme and talk about what he's doing and why he's doing it. You can ask basic questions along the way but, due to the compressed timeline of the workshop, we won't stop the workflow to answer anything extremely complex (or go off in directions that don't pertain to the theme being built).
- Where?
St. Matthew Lutheran Church
2040 South Commerce
Walled Lake, MI
Room 304 (use rear entrance)
Google Map - Date: Saturday, October 11, 2008
- Time: 1pm-6pm
We aren't providing any food/snacks, etc so bring your own. We will have wireless assuming everything goes as planned. However, we cannot promise that the wireless will be functioning.
Hope to see you there!
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Local User Groups unite to give back support!!
The Iowa Drupal Users Group is declaring November "Drupal Hand-Up Month". Join Us!!
Read moreConfirming meeting today!
Hey guys,
Just your friendly reminder that we've got a meeting tonight at SPARK Central at 7pm. Drupal wasn't able to get the pivots patch put in to place (darn!). Instead, I can discuss Organic Groups--what it is, how you can use it, any questions you might have and I'l try my best to answer them. Secondarily, we can discuss how we all sell Drupal in our own orgs or whatever else you'd like to chat about!
Read moreOctober Detroit Drupal Group Meeting
Second group meeting for the Detroit Drupal User Group
We will again be meeting in the conference room on the second floor of the Rochester Hills Public Library on October 6th from 6PM to 9PM. This time any presentation will begin at 7PM to allow everyone time to get to the meeting from work. The room will be available to us from 6PM though if you want to come early and talk.
The Rochester Hills Public Library is located at 500 Olde Town, Rochester MI, 48307. Just east of Rochester Rd. Just north of University.
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