Welcome to the North Carolina Drupal Users Group. Feel free to chat or post about your current projects you are working on to get feedback or help. There are many different groups and events you can get involved with in North Carolina.
Here are some important links for the major groups:
TriDUG - Raleigh, Durham, & RTP
Group Page - Meetup - Propose a Topic - Twitter
Charlotte User Group
Group Page - Meetup - Twitter
Asheville User Group
Meetup - Propose a Topic - Twitter
Boone/Appalachian State University
Twitter
triadDUG - Greensboro & Winston-Salem
Group Page
Getting data into Drupal using the Migrate module
Brent Dunn & Scott Deeter will talk through various aspects of the Migrate module. Among the topics they will discuss and demonstrate will be migrating images, migrating from files, migrating from Wordpress, and the differences between static and dynamic migrations.
If you are curious or concerned about how to use the Migrate module, this would be a great opportunity to learn more.
Bring $5 for pizza at 6:30, presentations start at 7.
For more info on the location of this event and to RSVP please see the meetup page.
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Drupal 7 Site Building and Layout Essentials in Raleigh! September 9th-13th
I'll be teaching the full five day Acquia Drupal 7 course - which includes Site Building, Layout & Theming plus a full-day Panels workshop in less than two weeks! I teach this material in multiple locations across the country, but this will be my first time in Raleigh. I hope you will check it out and let us know if you're interested in attending. We need a few more people registered before we confirm the class.
Also, if you're interested in developing module functionality for Drupal 7, I will be teaching a 2-day Drupal 7 Module Development class in Raleigh Monday September 23rd.
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New Drupal Dev in Greensboro
Hello from Greensboro!
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Help4Ok Challenge - National Day of Civic Hacking (NDoCH)
Join people from all over the world June 1 and 2, 2013 for a national Hack for Change event.
Click Here to signup for regular updates! http://bit.ly/help4ok_challenge
In conjunction with RHOK Boston - http://hackforchange.org/rhok-boston
and the National Day of Civic Hacking (NDoCH) http://hackforchange.org/, a team of passionate team members will come together and Hack for Good! Join us!
History and Goals
Connect people who need help with people who can give help.
CityCamp NC, May 30-31
I know some of the folks from this group attended last year, we've upgraded CityCamp Raleigh to CityCamp NC. See all the details below.
Jason
Read moreTwig Sprint in Charlotte, NC
Goal:
As feature freeze is rapidly approaching there is still a LOT to do in relation to converting the theme system to Twig. We will be sprinting to work on any Twig or theme engine related issues in the core issue queue. As the event draws closer we may a narrow down a set of tasks to work on. If you can create patches, test patches, review patches, improve documentation, please come out and help make the Drupal 8 theming system awesome!
Time and Location:
Classic Graphics
8335 Classic Drive
Charlotte, NC 28262
April 20th, 10pm-5pm EST
Cant make it to Charlotte? Feel free to join in with us online in #drupal-twig in irc.
Sprint Docs:
See the [Twig sandbox page] for Twig related doc's and important links - http://drupal.org/sandbox/pixelmord/1750250
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Building Rich Internet Apps with Drupal & HTML5
Register: http://www2.appnovation.com/l/16832/2013-03-18/515d1
During this webcast, our presenter will cover several key concepts related to building rich internet Apps with Drupal & HTML5. These include: Making a website cross-browser compatible; Making a website look and behave like a desktop application; Making the application work on Android iOS and Windows Phones; and, Updating and adding new features.
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Drupal sessions at NCTech4Good 2013
Hello NC Drupalers,
Following up on Judy's post from a few weeks ago, I wanted to let you all know that voting is open for session proposals at the NCTech4Good 2013 conference.
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Session proposals due Feb 28 for 2013 NCTech4Good Conference
Links are on the website, http://nctech4good.org/
We’d love to have you submit a proposal for a pre-selected session, due on Thursday, Feb. 28. You’ll need to create an account, and then submit a proposal at http://nctech4good.org/call-for-sessions. There will be pitches for additional sessions during the opening session of the conference.
We also invite you to become a sponsor. Beyond supporting the Conference, sponsorship provides sponsor exposure to our local nonprofit technology community throughout the year.
We hope to see you in Chapel Hill in June,
Judy Hallman
Read moreOpen source all the cities
I thought some of you would be interested in this...and I'll mention that TriDUG gets a shout-out in the book :)
I've got some exciting news for you today! I've pretty much finished
my book. Oh wait, you've been writing a book you ask? Yes. I decided
to write a book this past December about Raleigh being an open source city and a guide for other cities.
The book is in the final stages of editing and I'm raising money to
get the first 500 copies published. Here's where you can help.
I've launched an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign (think Kickstarter,
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Asheville Drupal Lunch Meetup
Drupal Drupal Drupal! The Drupal lunch meetup is an open discussion meetup about anything related to Drupal! Bring any questions you have!
We will also outline the overall plan for Drupal Camp Asheville 2013 planning.
Read moreWhy Drupal Development?
Last updated by Anonymous on Mon, 2013-01-07 13:51
Drupal is now become one of the most popular PHP based content management system. Drupal is gaining more interest now a day because it will adopt some of the Symfony Components for upcoming version 8. By adopting HttpKernel, Drupal and Symfony projects will become more inter-operable. It means that you will be able to easily integrate your custom Symfony applications with Drupal and vice-versa.
Today Drupal is used by celebrities, non-profit institutions, schools, Fortune 500 companies and Government websites.
CharDUG’s “Learn to Build a Website with Drupal” was a success!
The first CharDUG “Learn to Build a Website with Drupal” class was held last Saturday at Classic Graphics. The class led students through completely building a Drupal website with the following components:
- Home page
- About page
- Contact form
- Blog
- Survey form
Each student built was able to take their class website project with them for review and study after the class.
I believe the class was a a success for three reasons:
Read moreWhat's holding back mainstream Drupal adoption?
Hi TriDUG peeps,
I've got a new post up on opensource.com ... an interview with Doug Vann. I think you'll enjoy it:
What's holding back mainstream Drupal adoption?
http://opensource.com/business/12/10/whats-holding-back-mainstream-drupa...
Jason
Read moreDrupal Camp Asheville 2012
Drupal Camp Asheville 2012 is happening August 17th and 18th at AB Tech. We bring together developers, designers, business owners and anyone else that wants to find out more about Drupal. Register today to reserve your space to this camp.
Learn more and signup at:
https://2012.drupalcampasheville.com/
Drupal Lunch in Asheville
Come out and have lunch with some Drupal folk! To RSVP head to http://www.meetup.com/asheville-drupal-user-group/events/66313242/
We will be meeting at the Atlanta Bread Company at 484 Hendersonville Road, Asheville, NC
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Bilingual English/Spanish Volunteers for Drupal online training project
We are preparing an English version of our Drupal training program and we are looking for bilingual English/Spanish people interested in translating (from Spanish to English) part of the materials, at the same time they get advanced Drupal training for free.
If you are interested or know somebody that could be, please fill in or share the form to contact us. More information at this URL:
http://www.forcontu.com/bilingual-volunteers
Read moreDevelopers wanted for CityCamp Raleigh 2012
Hi TriDUG,
CityCamp Raleigh is right around the corner, June 1-3 - http://citycampral.org/. You can attend on either Friday, Saturday, or Sunday or make a weekend out of it. It's free! What is CityCamp? We gather citizens, developers, and city staff to figure out ways to improve our quality of life through technology. It's like a BarCamp with a civic twist.
And that means we need some smart technical folks like yourselves. You'll meet some awesome people and you could win $5000 for your idea/prototype. We are looking for people to pitch workshops at Saturday's unconference.
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Drupal 7 in a Day AND Intro to Git training@ SouthEast LinuxFest
Hopefully many of you are joining us for DrupalCamp Charlotte @ the SouthEast LinuxFest on June10th 2012.
What you may not know is that there are Training opportunities on Friday before the Camp. Of course, the LinuxFest itself encompasses all three days. See http://SouthEastLinuxFest.org
Friday June8th you have two training opportunities:
Synaptic Blue Inc. [ thats me ;-) ] is putting on Drupal 7 In a Day : More Info
Atlanta Drupal Business Summit 2012 (Oct. 26th)
Please hold the date - the Atlanta Drupal Business Summit date has been set for Friday, October 26th, 2012 at the Cobb Galleria Center.
Sign-up for updates, announcements, and sponsorships opportunities at www.drupalcampatlanta.com
Thank you!
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