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SANDcamp 2018 is three days of Drupal community goodness running from Thursday March 22nd through Saturday March 24th.

When?
Thursday March 22 is training day
Friday and Saturday March 23-24 are camp sessions

Where?
On the water at Marina Village in San Diego

When can you register and/or submit sessions?
Very soon, stay tuned!

Website: SANDcamp.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/San-Diego-Drupal-User-Group-137638599623335
Drupal.org: https://groups.drupal.org/san-diego

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

Hello everyone! My name is Roger ... (why does this feel like an AA intro? ) .... and I've sporadically used Drupal over the course of 5ive years or so to assist a non-profit organization I belong to, as well as other side-interests not primary to my day-to-day job. By day I'm a database developer for a Fortune 500 company (not as glorious as it reads here), and I'm one of those people whose experiences are a mile wide and a foot deep. I have a theoretical understanding of programming and databases that far exceeds my coding skills, but I'm looking to change that a bit using Drupal.

Yes it is true! Drupal Camp Phoenix is just around the corner! Join us February 28-March 2, 2014.

Drupal Camp Phoenix is a conference organized by professional Drupal organizations to promote and advance the Drupal community in Arizona and the Southwest region. Drupal Camp Phoenix brings together Dru-Pals interested in learning about web content management and expanding his or her skills in web development.

Hello everyone,

My name is Silver. I am new to Drupal but hope to learn as much as possible from events, books, sites and others.

I have experience in the IT field in support, classroom, software development. I am trying to get more involved in web development so this is how I came to know and learn more about Drupal.

My hope is to be a student and then offer my experiences to all as I go down this new, winding path.

Session voting for SANDcamp 2013 is now open at session voting: https://www.sandcamp.org/program/sessions/proposed (must be logged in). Please choose your desired sessions and help us work out the schedule.

SANDcamp 2013 is happening Jan. 24 - Jan. 26 in sunny San Diego, CA. Join us for 3 days of Drupal fun! https://www.sandcamp.org/
Register: https://www.sandcamp.org/products/registration
Session proposals: https://www.sandcamp.org/node/add/session (must be logged in)

See you all at camp!

I'm considering relocating my family to the Phoenix area and am interested to know about Drupal opportunities in the area. I currently live in a rural area of Idaho and am sick of the cold winters. I have been working remotely as a freelancer and contractor for various companies around the U.S., but would love to settle down with a local employer in the Phoenix area.

I'd like to know what it's like to be a Drupal developer living in and around Phoenix. How prevalent is Drupal in Phoenix? Do opportunities abound, or are they far and few? Any insights would be greatly appreciated.

The slides from Ramu Ramakesavan's presentation are now available at http://www.slideshare.net/ramakesavan/drupal-themingbehindthescenes-rev6

This informative presentation describes the PHP control flow, starting from entering URL to browser displaying webpage. Covers Theme info file, regions, and Render Arrays.

If you're at the Desert Code Camp this Saturday, Nov. 5, swing by and say hi! The Phx DUG has a table at the lunch, 12:30-1 pm, where we'll be hanging out, passing out info on Drupal and answering questions.

Thanks to some great sponsors and some community help, Drupal Camp Phoenix registration is FREE this year. For more information on the camp, view the event here or at http://www.drupalcampphx.com.

Absolutely, and it's exciting! BADcamp 2011 had over 500 people register in the first week alone. Currently over 860 people have registered, we're six weeks away, and rumor has it there's enough space for many more.

I have registered an IRC channel for us to use. Join #drupal-phx or visit the Chat with the Drupal Community on IRC page for learning all about IRC and how to set it up.

Having a central spot to communicate in real time will be beneficial and will help our community grow.

Our group will be listed on the regional drupal channel page once the paperwork gets approved.

The Phoenix Metro is your Drupal user group! Get involved. Tell us what you want in a Drupal User Group.

Take the survey!

Kevin Wall and I have been discussing possible changes to the regularly scheduled Phoenix Drupal Users Group Meetup place and time, and we wanted to open it up for general discussion.

First, we're considering moving the Meetup location further South. I understand that the ASU Drupal Users Group hasn't been meeting regularly of late and they might like to drop in on ours, if it was a little more centrally located. There are also a number of us who would like to spend less time getting to and from the meeting. (For example, I spend 45 minutes coming up from Chandler to North Scottsdale.)

Registration is now OPEN!

We're expecting an incredible lineup of speakers here in Houston, and you do not want to miss this event. Please help spread the word to anyone you know in our area and beyond who is interested in web design and development, as this will be a fantastic opportunity to learn not only about Drupal, but web technology in general.

Join us in welcoming speakers like:

Angela Byron - Drupal 7 maintainer and Lullabot rockstar

Narayan Newton - noted scalability expert and Drupal.org system administrator

REMINDER: Drupal Camp Phoenix coming up November 6th. Check out www.drupalcampphx.com for sessions. We're finalizing some sessions and BOF's now.

I bet you're feeling that cold weather creeping in now... Come down and enjoy the sun!

After the discussion on KWALL's standard module set, I decided I wanted an easier way to get them in place. I mean, it's not really that hard to type drush dl module1 module2 module3 ad_nauseum..., but where am I going to keep a text file of a list of modules to paste into that command? I decided I'd (finally) build a Drush Make file to take care of all of it. I thought I'd share what I came up with.

Hi:

I am a relative newbie and have been reading up on the different types of search available to Drupal. I am most interested in faceted search for my particular needs. Solr seems great but,as a startup, I have a tight budget so I'm trying to decide between the Lucene API Module or the Faceted Search Module, both of which also seem great, but I have a few questions....

Hello, all. I lived in the East Valley for 7 years, but I've been back in Idaho for the past 6 months. However, I've finally figured out once-and-for-all that I don't like Idaho winters, and my family and I will be moving back at the end of January (2010).

I've been doing PHP development, mostly on LAMP, for the past 12 years, the past two-and-a-half of which have been almost exclusively Drupal. I love Drupal! I don't want to go back to general development, so I'm looking around for jobs that include Drupal, not just PHP. (So if you know of any...)

I look forward to any events or meet-ups happening in the near future.

Russell

I'm a newbie to the Drupal community. I have several programmer friends who love the community and work within. They all moved out of state and I never sat down with them when they were here to fully try to understand Drupal more. In fact I was just the designer not the programmer but now I want to be more the designer/programmer and I have questions about Drupal and would really like to pick a friend's brain. I need someone to talk to on phone or person to inspire and help me get into the Drupal world.

Hi everyone, My name is Maximo Mena; I live in Mesa and go to ASU Polytechnic. Inspired by my uncle, who built a web portal for his hometown, I decided to get really good at web design and development. With the help of w3schools.com and many other tutorials, I taught myself how to hand code PHP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Initially I used to create small web sites from scratch, but I found myself spending a great deal of time programming basic functionality such as user authentication. In other words I was reinventing the wheel.

Hello,

We just got back into town from Drupal Camp LA 2008. It was awesome and I learned SO much in all the sessions, check out the website to watch videos and read notes from the presenters. There's stuff for Beginners, Developers and Designers.

Looking around here it seems not much has happened in the past couple of months and the ASU crew has left us on our own! If anybody is interested in meeting up let me know. I wouldn't mind organizing!

Hey folks - I just released a new drupal site for di Stefano Landscaping. It is not a terribly complex site, but I needed the ability for the owner to be able to add content, and post news, specials, etc. di Stefano Landscaping is actually located in Vermont, but I am in Tempe and was hoping for some feedback from local Drupalers.

Hi, all - So, a quick introduction: I'm Ruth Kneale, systems librarian for the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope, a project of the National Solar Observatory. In answer to the inevitable "What's a systems librarian" questions, let me summarize: I'm one of the geeky librarians who lives in the server rooms and keeps the web sites and databases running :-) and if you'd like to know about ATST, visit http://atst.nso.edu/ (not Drupal-driven yet, but soon!).

Hi Everyone. My name is Justin Turner. I am a political consultant who specializes in helping build grassroots organizations for progressive ballot measures. I have lived in Arizona for most of my life, and call it home, although I have also worked in California, Washington, New Mexico, Florida and Ohio.