The Santa Cruz Drupal User's Group is looking to connect Drupal users in and around Santa Cruz, California.
We have a budding tech community in Santa Cruz. One factor in our tech growth is the use of Drupal at several local web shops, start-ups, and organizations. Drupal use at UC Santa Cruz is also growing and it's time we all got together to share knowledge and learn from each other.
We (almost always) meet on the first Tuesday of each month, at 7pm. Meetings are free and held at NextSpace at 101 Cooper Street in downtown Santa Cruz. All are welcome. Ring the buzzer to get let into the building.
Note - If the meeting day falls on a holiday or during the winter holidays (e.g. January), then we might reschedule or cancel the meeting but there will be a discussion or event here for it.
Nextspace address
101 Cooper St.
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
DrupalCon SF Ticket Contest
For those of you who haven't bought your tickets yet:
http://drupalmodules.com/articles/drupalcon-2010-ticket-contest
Good luck!
Kristen
New Featured Content Module
I have just released the Featured Content Module and am getting some good reviews so far.
In order to get into the "top modules" at drupalmodules.com, I need to have at least 5 reviews. If you have time to install, test out the module, and leave a review, that would be great:
http://drupalmodules.com/module/featured-content
More details about the module and screenshots are here: http://www.kristen.org/content/new-drupal-featured-content-module
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Santa Cruz Drupal Users Group February Meeting
The Santa Cruz Drupal Users Group meets the first Tuesday of each month at 7:00 in downtown Santa Cruz at NextSpace (http://nextspace.us).
Updated to reflect comments below:
Kristen Pol will be presenting her session on "Drupal Galleries Using Dynamic Display Block (DDBlock)" from the Stanford Design4Drupal camp.
Julia v. will add her solution for a simple gallery.
I'd also like to welcome all to help plan out the next 2 or 3 months: subjects for discussion, anyone we might like to invite to speak to us, etc.
Thanks, and I look forward to seeing everyone!
Read moreBelated January Drupal Meetup Recap
The Santa Cruz Drupal Users Group met on January 5 at NextSpace in downtown Santa Cruz. We had a packed house, and one guest came all the way from Fresno. Pizza was provided by Kristen Pol (thank you, Kristen!).
We started with our guest speaker, Avi Harsh from Halosys. Avi presented on Drupal support of mobile devices, with an emphasis on the iPhone. Afterwards, he fielded a number of questions from the group.
The meeting concluded after a wide-ranging discussion that included "I have Drupal installed, now what?" and the recurring "Improving Drupal Perofrmance" topic.
Read moreWhat Do You Want to Hear at DrupalCon SF?
I'd like to present at least one talk at DrupalCon SF in April (http://sf2010.drupal.org) and am bouncing around ideas, so I would love some community feedback. If anyone has any topics they'd like to learn more about, feel free to leave a comment here or at my site: http://www.kristen.org/content/what-drupal-tutorial-do-you-need
I've added a couple ideas there already:
- Intro to Drupal Hooks
- Form API + AHAH Forms
SCALE 8x (SoCal Linux Expo)
The 8th annual So Cal Linux Expo will be February 19-21, 2010. SCALE returns to the Westin LAX for the 8th year of the premier community Open Source show. See Conference Info for more information! http://www.socallinuxexpo.org
LA Drupal will be hosting a Drupal table, with volunteers, freebies, and info.
Emma Jane Hogbin will be presenting - http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale8x/presentations/looking-beautiful-print
The premier Open Source conference in the U.S., now in its 8th year, has content for everyone! If you're looking to learn, choose talks from a developer's track, a beginner track, or one of the three general interest tracks.
Read moreReminder: Santa Cruz Drupal User Group Meeting Tuesday (Drupal+iPhone)
Happy New Year!
Here are the details for the Tuesday SC DUG meeting: http://groups.drupal.org/node/37798
See you there...
Kristen
Design for Drupal and Drupal Camp at Stanford in January
Drupal Camp coming up at Stanford in January...
http://groups.drupal.org/node/40344
I will probably go...
Kristen
Translations in Drupal 6
Hi, folks!
Has anyone worked with Translations in Drupal 6? I'm looking for some pointers..
Thanks, Mary Edith
Read moreSanta Cruz Drupal User Group January Meeting - Drupal + iPhone
Since Gary had some trouble getting the last announcement up, I'll try this one.
At the Tuesday January 5th 2010 Santa Cruz Drupal User Group meeting at 7pm (Pacific Time), Avinash (Avi) Harsh will be presenting his Drupal & iPhone presentation that he gave at the Silicon Valley DUG in November. Spread the word... we are very excited to have Avi present this!! SC DUG meetings are the first Tuesday of each month at 7pm in downtown Santa Cruz at Nextspace (http://nextspace.us).
Here's the info from his last presentation:
http://www.meetup.com/DrupalGroup/calendar/11799866/
Read moreNovember Meeting - Sc Drupal Users Group
Meeting at NextSpace, 101 Cooper Street, Santa Cruz
We are hoping that Kristen will be well enough to share what she learned about performance at BADCamp. Others who attended, please bring stories or information to share.
Read moreLooking for more Drupal help for a client of mine (Santa Cruz or Bay Area)
One of my clients is looking to hire a Drupal person. I don't want to be an employee, so I don't want the job ;) I'm not sure if it would be on-site but they are in San Jose. I do all my work remote for them and have never been to their building.
If you are interested, send me your resume directly and I'll forward it on. And, let me know if you can work on-site or only remote.
Thanks,
Kristen
BADCamp registration is now open!
Registration for Bay Area Drupal Camp 2009 is now open at http://badcamp.net/register
BADCamp will be held with October 17th and 18th, in the brand new Sutardja Dai Hall at UC Berkeley. BADCamp is a free, community-powered gathering, where we come together to share our experience and enthusiasm about Drupal, an open-source content management system that is powering more and more of the web every year. BADCamp is open to everyone, at any skill level.
Read moreis there a way to save an exposed view created by a user?
I want him to set up a search to be executed every time he logs in against then-current data.
Thanks in advance,
maryedith
Santa Cruz Drupal Users - Tuesday, September 15th at 7pm @Nextspace
I hope you all had a great summer and are ready to jump back into the swing of things. Let’s get down to business:
- This month’s meeting will be 7-8:30pm on Tuesday, September 15th at Nextspace. The topic will be theming with 960.gs.
Drupal Training Santa Barbara
Three Days of Drupal Training in Santa Barbara Starting at $199!
October 6: Drupal Basics is a one day training session for new users of open source software Drupal. Participants will learn to install and configure Drupal software, community contributed modules, and Drupal themes. ($199)
Read moreBADCamp 2009 Dates - Oct 17th & 18th
The dates for BADCamp 2009 have been set. It will be on the weekend of October 17th and 18th, on the UC Berkeley campus, in the new Sutardja Dai Hall.
Registration will be coming soon.
Read moreDrupal.org Website Traffic Going Up and Up and Up
I've been getting tons of calls/emails about Drupal work in the last 6 months. I just did an alexa search today since I was curious what traffic has been like on drupal.org. It's gone through the roof over the last 6 months:
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/drupal.org
and based on this, drupal.org is now ranked in the top 1000 websites!
Note that joomla.org also saw the same pattern during that time period and has a higher rank that drupal.org.
It will be interesting how this plays out over the next year.
Go Drupal!
Kristen
