Welcome to the North Texas Drupal User Group. This is the place to get involved with the Drupal community in the North Texas area.
We meet monthly to network and discuss and learn about a variety of Drupal topics. Our usual meeting day and time is the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 6:30 pm.
Our regular meeting place is:
Improving
5445 Legacy Dr #100,
Plano, TX 75024
Map: https://goo.gl/maps/HSU3Fg3pdsF2
For a complete schedule of events visit our Meetup site at:
https://www.meetup.com/North-Texas-Drupal/
Join the meetup group to get automated notifications of all events.
Drupal 8 in the Enterprise - Dallas - FREE AFTERNOON TRAINING
What's new in Drupal 8 and how does it compare to it's other Gartner Magic Quadrant competitors?
Join FFW Center of Excellence Director Ray Saltini as he walks you through Drupal 8's new features and what Drupal 8 can mean for your enterprise organization.
Whether your organization is shopping for a new platform or already invested in a particular technology, this class will help you understand the changes and features in Drupal 8 that are opening up new opportunities and creating new challenges. Learn how Drupal 8 can:
*scale web properties faster and with less risk
Read moreDrupal 8 in the Enterprise - Dallas - FREE ONE MORNING TRAINING
What's new in Drupal 8 and how does it compare to it's other Gartner Magic Quadrant competitiors?
Join FFW Center of Excellence Director Ray Saltini as he walks you through Drupal 8's new features and what Drupal 8 can mean for your enterprise organization.
Whether your organization is shopping for a new platform or already invested in a particular technology, this class will help you understand the changes and features in Drupal 8 that are opening up new opportunities and creating new challenges. Learn how Drupal 8 can:
scale web properties faster and with less risk
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North Texas Drupal February Meetup
Time to get this 2016 Drupal party started!
For February we'll be featuring a couple of special guests who will be discussing the design, development, marketing and challenges of bringing a recent, complex Drupal web application to market.
Our guests are Mary Dauteuil and Scott Jenkins, discussing the PaperWork Lockbox project, a Drupal website that enables secure storage and retrieval of important documents. As one of the founders, Mary has quite the story to tell on her journey. Scott worked on the Drupal development of the project.
Read moreTexasCamp 2016
We have announced the first ever Texascamp 2016! April 1st-2nd 2016. The location will be at the Fort Work in Dallas Texas!
For those of you new to Drupal or Drupal camps, there are many Camps around the country held throughout the year, but this year, we decided to put on the first TexasCamp. A DrupalCamp the Size of Texas.
Drupal is an open-source content management system that powers more and more of the web every year. The White House, Stanford, Yale, House of Representatives, Weather.com and many other high-performing traffic heavy websites are delivered through Drupal.
Read moreAll DFW Drupal Holiday Party
Come celebrate Drupal in North Texas at the all DFW Drupal Holiday Party at the Richardson Free Play Arcade.
Drupal, retro video and pinball games, craft beer and good food - what more do you want ??
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Forcontu is offering 10 x Drupal Training Scholarships
Forcontu is offering 10 x Training Scholarships for the Expert in Drupal 7 online course (valued at USD1350). If you want to apply, complete the form before April 15, 2015. On April 16 we will announce the 10 winners of a scholarship to join the course completely free. The course will be conducted from May 4 to December 4 (7 months).
More information and registration at:
http://www.forcontu.com/en/10-drupal-training-scholarships
Read moreNorth Texas Drupal April Meetup- Drupal 8 Extravaganza (rescheduled from March)
Rescheduled from March due to a speaker conflict.
For the now April Meetup, we're all about the Drupal 8.
With Drupal 8 in beta and approaching Release Candidate (RC) status, it's time to start learning what's new & improved, and when you can realistically start thinking about building a real site with it.
More info at the event link above.
The North Texas Drupal Users Group is organized by FireRoad Digital.
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Drupalcamp New Orleans: Final call for Sessions
We've already had plenty of great sessions proposed for Drupalcamp New Orleans, coming up fast on Saturday, March 28.
Only a few slots in the schedule remain, and the deadline for submitting your session to present at the camp is this Saturday, March 14. The camp's session schedule will be published on Monday, March 16.
For more information and a link to submit your session, visit: http://www.drupalcampnola.com/news/session-proposal-deadline-saturday-ma...
Read moreNorth Texas Drupal March Meetup- Drupal 8 Extravaganza
For the March Meetup, we're all about the Drupal 8.
With Drupal 8 in beta and approaching Release Candidate (RC) status, it's time to start learning what's new & improved, and when you can realistically start thinking about building a real site with it.
More info at the event link above.
The North Texas Drupal Users Group is organized by FireRoad Digital.
Read moreNorth Texas Drupal February Meetup
Hey there North Texas Drupalers, and welcome to Drupal in 2015!
We'll be kicking off the new year in February (why be like most people and do it in January??) with two great presentations.
Read moreDrupal Website Development 101 Course in Plano, Tuesday evenings in Jan-Feb 2015
Collin College is once again offering a 6 week, 18 hour evening course on Drupal Website Development 101. Held on 6 consecutive Tuesdays from Jan 20 to Feb 24, 2015 from 6:30 to 9:30 pm. Cost is $199.
Learning Objectives: Introductory Drupal website development concepts and building blocks.
Prerequisite: Basic Internet and web usage experience.
Campus: Collin College Courtyard Campus in Plano, near Ohio and Park
Computers are provided.
Read moreNorth Texas Drupal October Meetup
We have a couple of excellent talks and discussions for the October North Texas Drupal meetup, so come on out, learn and network.
Travis Tidwell (with over 1500 drupal.org commits) will be asking the question- When Should You *Not* Use Drupal? Believe it or not, Drupal is not always the best tool for the job. Travis will go through many different products and talk through when it is pragmatic to use Drupal, and when it really doesn't make much sense.
Read moreNorth Texas Drupal September Meetup
Summer is over so it's time to get back to our Drupal meetups. Please try to make it to this one, as we're going to use it as a gauge on the interest of keeping this meetup going, as well as discussing a fall/winter North Texas DrupalCamp. The Dallas Entrepreneur Center (DEC) has loaned us their new Addison TreeHouse facility - you really have to come check it out.
Read moreJune North Texas Drupal Meetup- DrupalCon Wrapup and Drupal 8
Hey there North Texas Drupalers! We'll be meeting at the new DFW Excellerator tech accelerator and coworking space in Richardson. Lots of ground-floor space, easy parking, and no locked doors!
We are planning a two-part meetup for June:
- DrupalCon Austin Wrapup and Discussion. Many of us will be back from DrupalCon this upcoming week and full of great new things we've learned and general Drupal excitement. Come share your thoughts and discoveries, and hear what others experienced.
North Texas Drupal Kickoff Happy Hour
Come join us for the relaunching of currently moribund Dallas Drupal group with a new community-centric meetup for the Dallas, Ft. Worth and Denton area.
We're having a Happy Hour at Vickery Park Bar in downtown Plano - head to the reserved back room. And join the Meetup group shown in the event URL.
Our goal is to actively connect local Drupal developers, themers, designers, sitebuilders and site owners, as well as those that wish to learn about Drupal, to explore and work together on Drupal projects and topics. This users group will not be connected to any one Drupal shop.
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Dallas: Drupal Explained Training
Hi Everyone,
We've been teaching our Drupal classes around the U.S. for several years now. We had a very successful class in Austin in February and we'll be there again doing training at DrupalCon. So, we though it was time to give Dallas a turn :)
Here are details of the May 12 and 13 class in Dallas:
DAY 1: BEGINNER
You'll learn how to build a Drupal website, from content and user organization, to working with modules and themes.
Part 1: Introduction to Drupal
Part 2: Installing Drupal
Part 3: Navigating the Drupal interface
Take the Dallas Drupal Users Group survey
As we plan for the Dallas Drupal Users Group going forward, we'd love your input. Please take this short (2 minute) survey and let your extremely insightful opinions be known!
Read moreDrupalcamp New Orleans
Hello Neighbors,
Please consider making a road trip in March to the first-ever Drupalcamp New Orleans. The event will be Saturday, March 29 with keynote address from Chris Shattuck of buildamodule.com. We will also have a free pre-camp training day on Friday, March 28 at the Audubon Zoo (space is limited).
Visit http://www.drupalcampnola.com for more information, to register and to submit a session. We look forward to seeing you in New Orleans!
Read moreBilingual English/Spanish Volunteers for Drupal online training project (2014)
We are preparing an English version of Forcontu's Drupal training program and we are looking for bilingual English/Spanish people interested in translating (from Spanish to English) part of the materials. In exchange you'll receive free online training (7 months & 420 certificated hours, valued at USD$ 1500) to become an Expert in Drupal 7. You can also give this training opportunity to another person of your choice (maybe a friend, employee or client).
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
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Free Global Training Days Webinar: Do I Need Drupal?
NxtTeam - the most active Acquia Drupal Training partner in the U.S. - is again participating in Global Training Days tomorrow, November 15, 2013.
Join us for a 90 minute free webinar entitled "Do I Need Drupal?" Our Sr. Drupal trainer, Margaret Plett, will cover the following subjects:
- What is Drupal
- How Does it Work
- Native Language
- Community
- Resources
- Where to Find More Information
