Welcome to the Southern Colorado User Group (SCUG). We work with other Drupal users and developers throughout southern Colorado to
- promote Drupal in southern Colorado and the Colorado Springs area
- educate local Drupal users in front-end and back-end design and development
- provide a common setting for general discussion and conferences regarding Drupal
March 2015 Southern Colorado Drupal Meetup
We have 2 presentations this month on tools to use in developing Drupal sites Docker and Grunt.
Docker. So, you're going to work on a Drupal site. You need to create a local version on your computer. Before you can even start doing productive work, you've got all this work to do: pull the code, grab the database, set up your environment, is it time for lunch yet? Let alone, will your client understand that this must be done before you can actually start addressing their issues? (Yes, clients have issues.)
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Migrating Taxonomy from D6 to D7
Hi there,
PPLD.org is upgrading from D6 to D7 using a clean D7 instance and migrating data either via Migrate module, or via Feeds somehow. Here’s what is stumping me:
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Web hosting infrastructure meets web development process with platform.sh. The goal of this new hosting platform, built by Commerce Guys, is to completely streamline and integrate the entire process of web development, from initial concept through deployment and beyond into maintenance and upgrades.
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New date. At our November meeting, we decided to skip our January meeting, so we're having our December meeting a little later in the month.
New location. I recently visited the 21st Century Library. It's a venue you all should become familiar with. It's fantastic. See photos.
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November 2014 Southern Colorado Drupal Meetup
Drupal Lightning Round!
This month, we open the floor to any and all. The evening will start off with a round of 5 to 10 minute mini-presentations. Any topic related to Drupal, Web Design, UX/UI will be welcome. There is no pressure to present, but there will be an opportunity for anyone who is interested to do so.
Next, we will try out something new. We will open the floor to discussion. Topics may include getting started with Drupal, best practices, troubleshooting a tricky problem, etc...
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Agenda: This month's meeting will consist of a presentation on using Behat for Drupal testing and quality assurance. Behat is a framework for automated testing that uses technologies like Mink and Gherkin to provide an incredibly quick and simple platform for writing tests. We'll start with an introduction into the various testing methodologies out there, what works with Drupal, and then demo Behat installation, configuration, and ultimately some tests. By the end of the presentation you'll be wondering why you haven't already been using Behat to test your websites!
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Let's talk about Drupal for Business
We recently started a new group on Linkedin for Drupal. It is still fairly new but the idea is to discuss how it applies for business, discussing high-level topics like User Experience, Content Strategy and open source. I started the group because I couldn't find a group that was actively discussing the non-technical side that people on the business side could relate to.
The group is open to join and I would love it if you guys went and checked it out!
https://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=6700170&trk=my_groups-tile-grp
Submit your session ideas for Drupalcamp Colorado August 1-3 2014
Today is the end of session submissions for Drupalcamp Colorado 2014 (which will be August 1-3 in Denver).
If you have an idea for a session you'd like to present, go propose it!
If you want to see something that's not currently on the list you could leave a comment here asking for it - perhaps someone else can give that talk but didn't know there was demand for it!
Read moreJuly 2014 Drupal Meetup
Great agenda this month:
• Submitting your first contributed module. Learn the tips and tricks to submit a module to the Drupal community... and get it approved.
• DrupalCamp Colorado dry run. Thinking of presenting at DrupalCamp Colorado on August 2 and 3? Do a dry run of your presentation in front of friends.
June 2014 Drupal Meetup
The best of DrupalCon Austin. A number of folks from our group are going to DrupalCon Austin. We're all bringing back the best of what we learned from the sessions, the BoF's and, well, the Austin scene. This is always one of our most popular meetings because so much cutting edge information is shared.
Are you going to DrupalCon Austin? We need you to compile your greatest learnings and come to share.
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Drupal 8. Want to learn what's in Drupal 8? Want a hands on experience? Want to get up to speed before going to DrupalCon Austin? (More on this later.)
We are all going to do a Drupal 8 installation and share our learnings. What's new? What's different? What's changed? How are we going to learn all of this?
No need to do anything before the meeting.
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This will be a hands on meeting to get you up and running with a local Drupal development environment.
- Do you need to quickly spin up local Drupal development environments?
- Are you tired of manually configuring the LAMP stack for local development?
- Do you struggle to remember all the best practices for local development?
Bring your laptop and your learning cap as we dig into vagrant, virtualbox, and chef.
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Panels, panels, panels! Panels are a powerful tool for content layout in a Drupal site and the guys from Oxbow will show tips and tricks they use to make the most of panels.
Wait. Panels alternatives, you say? What about Display Suite? Is Context really a layout function or is it really designed for something completely different?
We convene to eat and socialize starting at 5:45. The actual meeting will start sometime after 6:30. Oxbow Labs is providing the pizza. Monarch is providing the sodas.
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This month, we'll have lightning talks on a wide variety of subjects.
Bring your Drupal or technology problems, discoveries, accomplishments, or discussion topics. Each person will kick things off and we'll share, solve and discuss.
If he is in town, Jerad Bittner will talk about some recent project management experience with a large Lullabot client.
Winn Jewett has volunteered to give an overview of how Oxbox uses panels.
In contrast, we can demo Display Suite.
Perhaps David Csonka or some other Monarchian will demo using custom views plugins as validators.
Read moreJanuary 2014 Southern Colorado Drupal Meetup
This month, the Monarchians will present a wide variety of topics surrounding the development and implementation of a new, large, to-be-announced membership website. We will demo and share how-did-we-do-it's of various features of the site:
- Project acquisition, management, reports, scope management
- Competitive designer selection process, webifying print designs
- Data migration, Windows server to LAMP, dirty data, performance of 3+ million record cleansing and import process
December 2013 Southern Colorado Drupal Meetup
Hey all! With the release of a couple large Space Foundation Drupal projects, I've (Chris Stevens) been asked to co-organize the December Southern Colorado Drupal Meetup. My hopes are to provide some topic options, but leave the floor open to anything anyone wants to discuss (we could even skip Space Foundation stuff altogether if there are other great endeavors).
Potential topics (please check any that sound fun):
* Custom event website tour: www.spacesymposium.org (D7 - could use some tough love if you see anything confusing or strange)
November 2013 Southern Colorado Drupal Meetup
*** Slight Venue Change ***
Our office neighbors, BombBomb, have graciously offered up their meeting / hangout space for us to use. They are also providing some beer for the occasion. Stop by early for pizza, beer, and a game of fooseball
For this month's meeting, we have three short presentations on a variety of Drupal-related topics. Oxbow Labs will provide pizza and beverages at their office, starting at 5:45. At 6:30, we'll start the presentations.
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Fresh from DrupalCon Prague, Rick will share the greatest hits from the community summit, from technical, business and design tracks.
Unlike other meetups, this meetup will start promptly at 6:30. Rick will still be jet-lagged and will probably be falling asleep by 8:30!
If you find a session or a BoF online that you would have liked to attend, make a comment at our meetup page and Rick will try to give you a report back at our meeting.
Read moreSeptember 2013 - Southern Colorado Drupal User Group Meetup
Show and tell of new sites along with tips and tricks on neat features. Bring things you'd like to share.
On the agenda:
- The new State of Colorado Emergency Preparedness site
- The new Drupal 6 responsive theme for Arapahoe Community College
- A demo of a new student mentorship site
- Using customer video testimonials on your Drupal site
Watch our meetup page to find out where we'll be getting together to get some grub before the meeting.
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Looking for more sessions | Drupal Camp Utah 2013
Are you planning on going to Drupal Camp Utah? We are quickly approaching the event and want to hear more session ideas from the community. Why not propose a session on something you'd like to share?
Create and account submit your session here: http://2013.drupalutah.org/sessions
( PS: While you're there register for the event: http://2013.drupalutah.org/dcu-2013-registration )
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