DUG meeting

America For Animals[1] is a San Diego based non-profit that connects people who care about animals to developers to create apps and online communities to help animals.

Join us on May 20th for food, fun, and hacking Drupal Commons for our latest project.

If you are familiar with Drupal, great! If not, please come to help us test and provide feedback for our alpha product: Hive For Animals[2], a social network for helping animals.

1. http://www.americaforanimals.org
2. http://hive.americaforanimals.org

The San Diego Drupal User Group meets at Co-merge coworking space [http://www.co-merge.com/] downtown, 330 A St, San Diego, CA 92101. Sage Tree will bring pizza to sustain us.

This month we have two topics:
- Best Practices: Hacking Core (yikes!), putting PHP into theme, when it is OK to make direct SQL calls, etc. We will make this a roundtable discussion led by Rich Yumul. We know some attendees have strong opinions and sparks will certainly fly.
- Going Retro with Social Sharing - moving social out of the frontend. Christoph Weber will show a few things BIZX has done lately to simplify social sharing.

This month we're happy to announce that we've got a great new venue for our meetings. The Co-merge coworking space [http://www.co-merge.com/] downtown has graciously offered to host us. Don't accidentally show up to the old venue, there won't be anyone there.

The address of the new place is 330 A St, San Diego, CA 92101. We can't wait to see you there!

And on tap for this month...
JSON-LD for SEO

For the November 12th meeting of the San Diego Drupal user group, Doug Rowe from Sagetree will present Semantic web, SEO, RDFa, Turtle, JSON-LD... Oh my! Making sense of structured data.

We'll survey the changing world of structured data formats and explore current strategies for SEO and data exchange in Drupal.

For the September 10th meeting of the San Diego Drupal user group we will do a freeform talk about whatever comes up. We can talk about the best sessions from Drupalcamp LA, and I have a little headless Drupal demo built with angular.

If anyone has lightning talks, we'll have some time to cover whatever topic you have to discuss. Ask a question, or tell us about something you've found recently and kick off a spirited discussion.

After that we will head down the street to the Prado for some drinks.

For the August meeting of the San Diego Drupal user group we will do an extended round of lightning talks. Tell us what interesting Drupal or other web items you've stumbled across lately and inspire your fellow group members to try it too, or kick off a spirited discussion of your findings.

After that we will head down the street to the Prado for some drinks.

Newcomers are always welcome, bring any of your friends that might be interested in learning about Drupal. We hope to see you on Wednesday at the Balboa Park Hall of Champions.

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For the June meeting of the San Diego Drupal user group we will share the latest news from DrupalCon Austin, incl. the exciting announcement that the 2015 DrupalCon will be just up the road in LA.

Then I hope to tell you a few war stories how we rebuilt wirefly.com in three weeks with a team of 5, provided I get clearance from our CEO. This will be mostly a talk about business strategy and team building, with a few technical items sprinkled in.

For the May meeting of the San Diego Drupal user group Bryan Jones, the author of CodeKit, is going to present his awesome front-end tool and show us how SASS, Javascript and Minifying ought to be done.
Join us Wednesday May 14th at 7:00pm at the Balboa Park Hall of Champions for some seriously cool front-end stuff.

The April meeting of the San Diego Drupal user group is happening Wednesday April 9th at 7:00pm at the Balboa Park Hall of Champions. We will kick off the meeting with informal introductions and a poll of desired subjects and talks so we can plan exciting meetings that serve your needs. Please be prepared to tell us what you want to hear about and how we could cover that. More importantly, what would you be able to tell us about?

The March meeting of the San Diego Drupal user group is happening Wednesday March 12th at 7:00pm at the Balboa Park Hall of Champions. We will kick off the meeting with informal introductions.

After that I'll show how we made everything in our Drupal server stack redundant, with DRBD, heartbeat and haproxy.

If anyone else has material for a 20 min talk/demo, give me a holler or comment below.

Finally, we'll do a round of lightning talks before heading down the street to the Prado for some drinks.