Boston Drupal Meetup - June 7th, 2016 @ 6:30pm

Join the Boston Drupal Group on June 7th 2016 for a night of Drupal focused conversations, presentations and talks.

Call for Lightning Talks

This month we are again putting out a call for themed lightning talks. Volunteers get between 5 to 10 minutes to present a talk. We are looking for talks on the following topics:

How do I find that? Search and Drupal

What good is content if your users cannot find it? This month we are looking for lightning talks centered around the topic of Search and Drupal 7 & 8. Possible questions we are looking to answer with lightning talks:

• Search API, Apache Solr, ElasticSearch
  • what's the difference?
  • How do you decide which to use?
  • What do you need to get setup?
• Walk us through configuring search in Drupal 7 or Drupal 8
• What design and UX decisions go into creating useful search bars, search pages and search results?
• How do you create your search results pages? Views, modules, Drupal core? What are the pros and cons of your approach.
• What's the deal with Faceted search?
• How do you get your site content indexed by Google or other search engines so that people can find it?
• How do you search for modules, themes or plugins to use when building a Drupal site?
• How do you search for answers when you are stuck on a site build?
• How do you approach searching for answers when buidling a drupal project, such as when you need to find a module, theme or solution?

If you have an idea for a lightning talk on the topic of search, sign up by leaving a comment below. Perhaps your idea will inspire others.

General Lightning Talks

Along with our themed presentations we will have a call for general lightning talks. This is an open floor to ask questions, present recent work or lead other Drupal discussions. No preparation is required.

Drupal Games

Based on the popularity last month, through out the night we will again be playing some Drupal themed games to inspire and prompt conversations.

Location

The June 2016 meetup will be hosted at Genuine, located at 500 Harrison Ave. 5R, Boston, MA 02118.

Parking and Transportation

The Genuine office is accessible by many means of public transportation.

• A 10 minute walk from the Broadway T stop on the Red Line.
• A 10 minute walk from Tufts Medical on the Orange Line.
• A 5 minute walk from the Silver Line (SL4 or SL5) Bus stop East Berkley st @ Washington st.

On-street parking (free & metered) may be available on many surrounding streets including Harrison Ave, Randolph Street and Washington Street. Parking lots are also available for $7 per car.

Dinner and Drinks

During the meetup, pizza, salad, and drinks will be generously sponsored by Genuine. ** Please RSVP via this posting's Sign up button below so we have a proper headcount for dinner order. **

Sponsors/Feature Guests Wanted

If you would like to sponsor future dinners or meet-up locations, please reach out to organizers. You will be recognized at the meeting, given the chance to do a featured talk for 15 min., and promoted to our Boston list of over 1500 subscribers.

Pencil in 1st Tuesdays!

The first Tuesdays are designated Boston Drupal Meetup nights unless noted. Look for future announcements and reminders!