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Meetup!
The Cleveland Drupal User Group meets once-or-twice a month and is open to all. We use Meetup.com for scheduling, though we usually re-post events here.
Check it out and join us:
http://www.meetup.com/cleveland-drupal/!
IRC Discussion
Chat with us on IRC!
server: irc.freenode.net
channel:#drupal-neo.
Use the web-based http://webchat.freenode.net if you don't have an IRC client.
Recent Posts
PRELIMINARY INFO: Western NY State Drupal MINI-CAMP, 4/2013. . . .
The Western New York State Drupal User Group knows about your bogged down winter and soon to be dreary spring. . . .
How about a change of scenery?
Mark your calendars for Saturday, April 27, 2013 . . . our first MINI-CAMP.
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Drupal Sprint Weekend - Day 2
Drupal Sprint Weekend - Day 1
Drupal backup strategies
As I'm getting ready to launch a site of significant size, I want to come up with a solid backup plan. In the past, I've either have sysadmins taking care of this with server backups, or I've relied on the host plus backup & migrate module. I also have my local development copy and GitHub copies should all else fail.
What is your Drupal backup process?
Read moreDrupal deployment strategies
Hi everyone,
Last night at the Meetup, someone was interested in learning more about Drupal deployment strategies. I'm in the same boat. Although Pantheon looked interesting as it takes care of workflow / deployment for you, I found the cost of it to be quite prohibitive for the sites I typically build.
In the past I've made the mistake of using git as both version control & deployment tool, but now I'm becoming interested in Drush Deploy. Has anyone used Drush Deploy? Any thoughts on it? Or do you have a deployment strategy that isn't cost prohibitive yet quick to set up?
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The Cleveland Museum of Art's Migration to Drupal
Presented by Jeanne DeBonis.
Jeanne DeBonis is The Cleveland Museum of Art’s Web Developer hired in 2011 to bring the museum’s website development in-house. Her background includes client- and server-side programming in several languages as well as information design and content management.
Read moreDrupal 6=>7 Upgrade Workshop
We'll take the Drupal Cleveland site -- http://drupalcleveland.info -- and work through a complete upgrade from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7.
Depending who attends, we may tackle this differently -- splitting up responsibilities between teams or working together as a large group -- but we will strategize and implement the process collaboratively.
This will be a great chance to see what goes into a major version upgrade, and give you a process blueprint for upgrading your own D6 (or older) sites.
Read moreTheming Drupal - Cleveland Drupal Users Meetup
An overview of theming in Drupal 7, focusing on front end development. Presented by Ryan Thomas.
We'll take a comprehensive look at Drupal theming by building a simple custom theme -- to understand the files and code that make up the theme, and the overrides Drupal provides to change any markup on your site.
Once we have an understanding of how a theme is built we'll look at some of the more popular base themes and the head-starts they offer.
And we'll briefly discuss issues around designing for different device sizes and touch devices.
Read moreAkron Area Drupal User Group Meeting: Getting Started with the Drupal Ladder: Learn Sprint
The Drupal Ladder is a method of helping people learn Drupal - from installation to contributing code. The goal of the Drupal Ladder is to help Drupal users start to understand how to contribute to the Drupal project, regardless of the user's experience. This is a hands-on MeetUp, so please bring your laptop! This event is to help people get started or learn more about Drupal!
-> Bring a laptop
-> Create an account on drupalladder.org before the start of the MeetUp
If you have any projects to showcase before the learn sprint, please let me know.
Cleveland Drupal User Meetup - Mapping in Drupal
Want your site to handle postal addresses, locations, GPS traces, or other types of geospatial data? Need to display all of that onto a map? Want something more elegant or sophisticated than Google Maps?
Come learn all about making maps and handling geospatial data in Drupal.
Jeff Schuler will present strategies for storing and managing addresses in Drupal, automatically translating them to geospatial coordinates, and displaying them on custom-styled maps.
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