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
August 2013 - Southern Colorado Drupal User Group Meetup
No meeting at the beginning of July. Instead, come to DrupalCamp Colorado 2013: http://2013.drupalcampcolorado.org.
Our next meeting will be on August 6 at the Old Colorado City Library meeting room.
Before our meeting, we'll have pizza right around the corner at Sandstone Media's new offices at 5:30: http://sandstonemedia.com/contact-us
Christopher Stephens of the Space Foundation will share his mobile development experience:
Cross-Platform Drupal-Powered Mobile Apps
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DrupalCamp Utah 2013
The 3rd annual DrupalCamp Utah is officially set for August 2, 2013.
The event will take place at Salt Lake Community College's Miller Campus located in Sandy, Utah, a short drive from Salt Lake City.
We are now accepting session proposals on the camp website as well as sponsorship opportunities.
Event registration will open soon and additional details will follow.
Read moreJune 2013 - Southern Colorado Drupal User Group Meetup
In June's meeting, we'll be meeting on Wednesday:
DrupalCon Portland. The greatest hits from those folks who were there.
Responsive Menu Design Patterns. Brian will walk us through some of the many different ways to build a mobile menu.
Working With Drupal's AJAX Framework. Kyle will show us how to leverage Drupal's built-in AJAX commands, including a custom AJAX shopping cart for Drupal Commerce.
Many thanks to Sandstone Media, who kindly provided Brian and Kyle the time to prepare and give these presentations. The Sandstone presentations are always excellent.
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DrupalCamp Colorado 2013 - Swing and Ballroom Dance Night?
It has been suggested that I gauge interest for a swing and ballroom dance at DCCO. We're thinking we'd even hire a teacher for folks who may need a little help getting started or a brush up on their steps.
What do folks think about this?
Read moreMay 2013 - Southern Colorado Drupal User Group Meetup
Responsive design tips and tricks. Demos of SASS/Compass tricks... Design choices... Fonts, images, resources and more.
Membership module. Watch this space. Perhaps Caleb will be ready to demo his new membership module.
Achievement module. Bryan has been working on an achievement module based on the X-Box model. We'll see how far he gets on it by the time of our meeting.
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I have a project that I've used Drupal 7, Ubercart 3 on and has already launched. After launch, client informs me of their specialized search needs for products.
The use case is all results matching a string of 3 or more consecutive characters, including a mix of upper case, lower case, numbers and punctuation ('tet' should return anything with tetanus, rgTet9-66, etc) from sku and title field.
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Drupal and Amazon Web Services. David Csonka and James Swainston, two community members who really love AWS, will talk about uses of AWS in context of Drupal development and hosting. Specifically:
Cloud storage and backups for Drupal
Full cloud hosting with EC2 + EBS, Cloudfront
As always: Bring your questions... Share your recent sites... Share what you've learned...
Read moreMarch 2013 - Southern Colorado Drupal Meetup
March meeting. Agenda and date change! This month, we are having our meeting on Tuesday, March 5, vs. Wednesday, March 6. (Jared, if you're bringing pizza, please let the group know so we don't eat first!)
We have a new Drupal user request help in getting her first site going. (Welcome Anna!) She needs our help in two areas:
- Drupal info:
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Incorporating a working community calendar
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Best practice in moving a site from local to online
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Knowing which files that I can safely touch in the theme
- Setting up a Drupal environment in a Windows environment
February 2013 - Southern Colorado Drupal Meetup
February meeting. Our February meeting will be all about testing and debugging. We'll start from the basics and share our experiences with more advanced testing and debugging techniques. If you ever have to debug a Drupal site, you'll want to be at this meetup.
WSOD (White Screen of Death) tips and tricks
Devel module
dpm (not dsm), dpq, kpr
Theme debugging tricks
Devel module
Interactive debugging
Selenium tests
saucelabs.com
and (probably) many other contributions
January 2013 Drupal Meetup
January meeting. Bring an interesting site, technical problem (that you've overcome or that you're still wrestling with), or general question.
Rick Nashleanas (along with the Monarch team) will present a case study of going from nowhere to production within 1 month for the Colorado Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.
Perhaps we can coerce Caleb Thorne to talk about and do demos on his series of blog posts on update hooks.
Read moreDecember 2012 - Southern Colorado Drupal Meetup
December meeting. Winn Jewett from Standstone Media will demo several new sites that they are releasing by our December meeting. Thanks, Winn.
Dinner. Watch the meetup comments if you might want to catch dinner before the meeting. We have been meeting at Thunder and Buttons, but we might switch it up. You never know.
Location. We are in the basement conference room of the Old Colorado City Library. We really appreciate their hospitality. Remember that if you come with a demo requiring command line access to a non-local host, you'll need to teather your phone.
Read moreNovember 2012 - Southern Colorado Drupal Meetup
November meeting. As always, you are welcome to bring your Drupal problems, things you'd like to learn and sites you'd like to demo. We have a couple of presentations for November:
- James Swainston will demo his recently approved po.st module that integrates Drupal sites with the social sharing service: http://www.po.st/ James will also share his experience at getting his first contributed module approved by the Drupal Community.
BADCamp Sessions from Drupal-Colorado Folks
Here are sessions submitted to BADCamp from our local #drupal-colorado community. Please take a moment to look through the list and vote. Let's represent Colorado in the Bay Area! Voting closes on October 15th.
Feel free to add sessions missing from this list:
Karyn Cassio (techgirlgeek)
The Drupal Ladder: Resources and activities for meetups to help members learn and contribute
Matthew Saunders (MatthewS)
Read moreOctober 2012 - Southern Colorado Drupal Meetup
October meeting. Our September "open topics" format worked so well, we'll do it again. Submit your questions and topics here.
- Work on something you'd like to demo?
- Encounter a problem that you solved or need help with?
- See a question you can answer?
- Have you just rolled out a new site? Will you soon be rolling out a new site?
- Discover a new tool or technique
You don't need much preparation. Just be prepared to come and share.
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SCUG Drupal Ladder Learn Sprint
This will be an introductory learn sprint based on the Drupal ladder (http://drupalladder.org/ladder/ee503327-50be-1904-8d04-9499098cad64). Our goal is for every attendee to begin or contiune learning how to contribute to the Drupal project. Even if you do not consider yourself a php developer there are still ways that you can contribute.
Visit the meetup page (http://www.meetup.com/Southern-Colorado-Drupal-Users-Group/events/77028452/) for more information and to RSVP.
Read moreSeptember Southern Colorado Drupal Users Meeting
September meeting. We are going to have you submit questions and topics here.
- Work on something you'd like to demo?
- Encounter a problem that you solved or need help with?
- See a question you can answer?
- Have you just rolled out a new site? Will you soon be rolling out a new site?
- Discover a new tool or technique
- You don't need much preparation. Just be prepared to come and share.
Suggested topics for SCUG Sept meetup
Is there something you've always wanted to know about Drupal? Now is your chance. List any topics that you'd like to hear about at our September meetup. Anything Drupal related or of interest to Drupal people (beer?) is fair game.
At August's meeting there was interest in hearing about Symphony (http://www.symfony-project.org/) as it will be the backbone of Drupal 8. This topic is extremely code heavy and mostly for developers. I would gladly learn as much as I can about Symphony (something I need to do anyway) and present my findings.
Read moreSouthern Colorado (SCUG) Drupal Ladder meetups
I'd like to start regular monthly meetups for anyone interested in contributing to the Drupal project. These meetups would be based on the content from http://drupalladder.org and separate from the current presentation style meetups at the beginning of each month. I'd like to schedule an introductory learn sprint (http://drupalladder.org/#learn-sprint) later this month. Location will likely be the Old Colorado City library (http://ppld.org/old-colorado-city-library).
I'm considering the following dates/times:
Tuesday, Aug 21st, 6:30pm - 8:00pm
or
Wednesday, Aug 22nd, 6:30pm - 8:00pm
August 2012 Southern Colorado Drupal Meetup
August's meeting. One or more Monarch folks are going to demo Drush from introduction to our use of Drush's aliases to speed productivity. If you develop sites in Drupal, Drush is a must-use tool. Anyone who regularly uses Drush knows that they are only scratching the surface. This presentation will be an introduction, show some neat tricks and then serve as a show and tell for everyone.
Read moreJuly 2012 Drupal Meetup
Last month. In June, Matt Kleve demonstrated the Relation Module and we discussed the Drupal 8 plans and timelines using Webchick's "One Drupal 8 Slide Deck to Rule Then All". Then, we did Q & A on various "I'm trying to..." issues.
June's meeting. First, Maida Carpio Scott will be presenting on how she learned Drupal on her own in order to launch the new and improved Pueblo City-County Library District website using drupal.org, IRC and meetups.
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