San Francisco

Rocking into June the San Francisco Drupal user group has great material on the schedule once again.

RSVP and Location Information: http://www.meetup.com/SFDUG-San-Francisco-Drupal-Users-group/

Commerce Guys is Sponsoring Beer and Food for this event!

The case study this month is brought to us by Omar Khan of ISL.

Okay DrupalCon has passed and we are back to great Drupal content at SFDUG, this month is no exception.

For the showcase site Commerce Guys will be showing an Open Atrium site built for the Social Entrepreneur Innovators Network at Santa Clara University. Open Atrium is a powerful Drupal install profile which is great for deploying groups. We deployed this site on EC2 using the mercury installation. This will be a super presenation for anyone who has thought about deploying an Atrium Powered web site.

Reasons for migration in Drupal needs attention and discussion on when its the right time to plan it and what to watch while performing migration.

Here we have planned a detailed & focused discussion on few KEY features of Drupal, presentation and discussion will revolve around the best practices, recommended versions and other aspects based on specific applications.

• Version control
• Blogging: Blogger API support
• Aggregator
• Platform: Apache or IIS, Unix / Linux / BSD / Solaris / Windows / Mac OS X support
• Database independence

In case this is of use to anyone, Chapter Three will be hosting another three Drupal training sessions this month (Feb 22-26). Jredding and JenLampton will be teaching an introductory course on the 22nd, a site-building course on the 23rd through the 25th, and a Panels course on the 26th.

February brings us another set of cutting edge Drupal presentations brought to to us by three local Drupal community members.

We are really lucky to have a bunch of great Drupal talent in our area. This month I am adding another showcase site to the roster, because its so cool we have to check it out. So two cool Drupal case studies to start with.

Kieran Lal from Acquia will come down and give us a showcase study on the new Opensource.com web site. This is a large community web site built for RedHat by Palantir.

Happy New Year!!

2010 is going to be great year for the San Francisco Drupal Users Group!!

First of all there has been a major upgrade to the Parisoma facility. We have reconfigured the space, painted and best of all we have gotten a professional AV system with killer projector, very large screen sound system, and more so be sure to come on down and check it out.

Drupalcon is coming to San Francisco April 19th to 21st we will go over what we are looking for and how you can help make this the best Drupalcon to date.

We have two great presentations to start the year off right.

Jen Lampton (Author of Total control) and I are working with Chapter Three to offer two Drupal training courses. The first two-day course is designed for new-to-Drupal site builders and the second three-day course is designed for still-kinda-new-but-want-to-rock-it Drupal developers or aspiring developers.

Last SFDUG of the year and we have a an awesome lineup of really cool Drupal Topics. For the Showcase site - Jon Luini from Chime Interactive is going to show off the brand new Ben Harper websitewhich has some really cool features, like a custom built ajax framework and great integration with Facebook using Dave Cohens Drupal / Facebook module. Dave Cohen will present with Jon to show off the integration of Facebook in a live site. Ben Harpers Facebook page has 844,432 fans.

I am back from Paris Drupalcon and ready for another AWESOME evening with the San Francisco Drupal Users group.

DrupalCon will be in San Francisco in April 2010!! [ http://drupalconsf2010.org ] This is just great news for the Drupal Community, we start off this month with a presentation about how we really want to engage the local Drupal community and come together to help with the sponsorship / planning of this event.

I just got back from LA Drupal Camp and am really happy that Jason Chin from Magic Spark is also going to help us out this month opening this SFDUG meetup with the presentation he gave today at LA Drupal Camp,

Ubercart 2.0, e-commerce with Drupal 6 A practical breakdown on what Übercart is and how to setup an e-commerce website.

Presentation Takeaway: What is required and how easy it is to set up an ecommerce site with Ubercart and Drupal.

This will be a great starter session for those who may have never setup a shop using Drupal and Ubercart.