Northern VA Users Group

Once again php[architect] is hosting php[world] in the D.C. area this fall (in Tyson's Corner). This conference takes place November 14-18th and focuses on bringing various PHP communities, such as Drupal, WordPress, Symfony, and Laravel together to spend a week learning from each other!

We've announced our full schedule: https://world.phparch.com/schedule/

And we are excited by our Drupal Track this year, which focuses on new things in Drupal 8 and preparing Drupal Developers for it!:
https://world.phparch.com/session-track/drupal/

I am a Technical Architect working at Acquia, who has attained the Drupal Grand Master certification. I have assembled and taught a thorough curriculum which teaches all that you need to become a Drupal 7 developer, regardless of your background. A colleague from Acquia and former graduate of the class, Malik Kotob, and myself will both be available as teachers in the upcoming semester. The course is offered by Debug Academy and is held in the greater Washington D.C. area.

Please join us on April 19, 2016 at 7pm for the following presentation, pizza and drinks!

Chaz Chumley, Drupal Evangelist at Forum One, is bringing us Drupal 8 theming! This is one of the most commonly asked for presentations and we got the guy who wrote the book. Literally!

The presentation will cover:
· Working and understanding content and content types
· How to utilize custom blocks
· Dissecting a theme
· Creating custom themes and templates, using Twig with Views to display content
· Best practices for Drupal 8 theming

Oscar Merida will be doing a presentation on integration/UI testing with Behat.

Oscar Merida is the Editor-in-chief of php[architect] magazine. He's worked with Drupal since version 4.7 for various non-profits, D.C. United, and government agencies.

If you have a shorter topic you'd like to cover/share at this meetup, please reach out to Carla to coordinate .

Our regular meetup is the third Tuesday of every month — typically rotating between ICF and Bixal in Fairfax.

Please join us at BlackMesh in Ashburn for our monthly meetup with a presentation by Cathy Theys: Business Applications of Lessons Learned from Drupal Core Mentoring.

I am a Senior Software Engineer working at Acquia, who has attained the Drupal Grand Master certification. I teach a career-changing Drupal development course at Debug Academy in the greater Washington D.C. area. I wanted to share that our next ‪Drupal‬ ‪developer‬ class in ‪Fairfax, VA starts this February. The class is part time (twice a week - 1 weekday evening, 1 weekend morning), spans 3 months, and is in person. Apply at our student-built website http://DebugAcademy.com - the clear path to a new career.

Forum One is growing! We are looking for the best and the brightest to join our team of open source developers. Everyday, our team gets to build websites and applications with cutting edge open source tools – AngularJS, Drupal, WordPress, continuous integration and automated testing, a lot in between. What’s more, we work on projects that truly help move the world forward on important issues like education, poverty, the environment, and global health.

So what’s it’s like to be part of the Forum One team?

Please join us on November 5th from 5:30-7:00PM to:

Please join us on November 17th at 7pm for the following presentation, appetizers and drinks.

Prajwala Manchikatla from Azri Solutions will be doing a presentation on the soon to be released Drupal 8!