Chicago's local community of various user groups focused on Drupal. Groups have meetings each month in/around Chicago. Please be sure to join our group if interested in posting or hearing about Drupal-related job opportunities in the Chicagoland area.
The Drupal Chicago Meetup Group holds meetups on various topics and networking opportunities. Presentations and speakers are aimed at a general audience, with site show-and-tells, module demonstrations, news and announcements, and question and answer sessions.
If you live or work in the suburbs, check out the Fox Valley Drupal Meetup group with topics for all users.
Volunteers in the Chicago Drupal Group also organize MidCamp - Midwest Drupal Camp. Drupal camps are multi-day events that can include training days, session days, code and documentation sprints, and social events. Held annually in March, MidCamp is quickly becoming one of the larger and prestigious Drupal camps due to its high level of speakers, content, accessibility, and attention to detail.
Did we mention, the Chicago Drupal community has active and ongoing community discussions going on can be found at https://midcamp.slack.com.
Forcontu is offering 10 x Drupal Training Scholarships
Forcontu is offering 10 x Training Scholarships for the Expert in Drupal 7 online course (valued at USD1350). If you want to apply, complete the form before April 15, 2015. On April 16 we will announce the 10 winners of a scholarship to join the course completely free. The course will be conducted from May 4 to December 4 (7 months).
More information and registration at:
http://www.forcontu.com/en/10-drupal-training-scholarships
Read moreMidCamp Training: Behavior Driven Development with Behat
BEHAVIOR DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT WITH BEHAT
C'MON, BABY DON'T YOU WANNA GO...
Join Promet Source in Sweet Home Chicago for MidCamp 2015!
Learn with us so you'll have no reason to sing the blues after this year's camp.
This workshop helps developers get started with behavior driven development (BDD) in PHP using the Behat toolkit with Drupal specific extensions. Learn how to align technical testing with business expectations when using Drupal as a development platform.
Read moreLeaflet Mapping in Drupal 7 - Fox Valley Drupal Users Group
Don't forget MidCamp March 19-22 Chicago IL http://2015.midcamp.org/ For those of you coming into town early, why not Join us for an evening of Leaflet Mapping in Drupal 7.
Chris Calip and the Start Interaction team have been working on a new suite of tools to make the Leaflet mapping experience approach the UI tools provided by the OpenLayers system in Drupal 7. He will talk about the team development, upcoming changes, and demonstrate some of the features.
- 6pm Meet and greet, drink and food orders
- 7pm Lightning talks, Site showcases, Introductions and Announcements
MidCamp Training Day, March 19th
The MidCamp organizers are pleased to announce that registration is now officially open for all of the trainings scheduled for Training Day, March 19th.
Read moreMidCamp Training Day, March 19th
The MidCamp organizers are pleased to announce that registration is now officially open for all of the trainings scheduled for Training Day, March 19th.
Read moreDrupal 7 Module Development Training at MidCamp
Are you ready to take your Drupal Development to the next level?
Do you want to start making Drupal modules on your own?
Do you want to know what is going on under the hood with Drupal Core
and Contributed modules?
Do you want to increase your rates for Drupal development
projects?
Drupal is a great tool for making websites but without knowing how to code
for Drupal you can only take it so far.
NW Suburban Meetup - The State of the Drupal Project: A Perspective
As you can guess this is an attempt to bring folks who may not be up to date with the State of the Drupal Project from the perspective of someone who works solely with the Drupal project and community. We will attempt to provide something of value and interest for anyone with an interest in the project, from novice to advanced professional.
6pm - Meet and Greet
7pm - The State of the Drupal Project: A perspective by Bob Snodgrass
- What is Drupal and a Brief History
- What's in a Version - 6, 7, 8
- What's in it for Site Managers
- What's in it for professionals
Fox Valley Meetup - Hands on with Drupal 8
Drupal 8 is out in beta now and lots of work was done during the Global Sprint Days last month.
Get your localhost setup with the latest Drupal 8 if you can BEFORE you arrive!
6pm drinks, dinner, meet and greet
7pm Lab:
We will team up and get our hands dirty playing around with various Drupal 8 features, "teams" will choose what types of functionality they want to check out.
8:30pm Recap:
We will recap various experiences toward the end of the evening.
By the Way, did you realize this February's meeting is the 6th anniversary of our first?
Read moreDrupal Site Building Workshop at Museums and the Web 2015
Join George DeMet, and Larry Garfield of Palantir.net in Chicago at the Palmer House as they give a workshop called: Drupal Site Building: The Big Picture as part of Museums and the Web 2015. Registration for the Workshop includes lunch and is separate from the conference registration.
This interactive workshop session is designed to help Web professionals more effectively leverage Drupal’s unique strengths as a content management platform.
Read moreMidWest Developers Summit
This is a place holder to get MWDS on the calendar.
Wednesday August 12 - Saturday August 15
All sprint days. No sessions.
Focus on getting Drupal 8 released (and some key contrib ports to Drupal 8).
Location:
UIC College of Medicine Research Building
909 S Wolcott Ave - https://goo.gl/maps/jlGgR
Chicago, IL
Wednesday/Thursday: Room 7175
Friday: Room 8175
Saturday Location:
1940 W Taylor St
Room 179
Transportation:
Blue line - Illinois Medical District stop (Damen exit)
Pink line - Polk stop
Seeking consultant to help Chicago non-proft West Town Bikes
West Town Bikes http://westtownbikes.org/ is looking for a consultant to help with our new site http://westtown.server288.com/ which is close to release. The site has CiviCRM integration. We are a non-profit youth and community program provider using the power of bicycles to strengthen and improve the city. Interested parties should contact Michael Young here or at 312-656-1953/
Read moreMidCamp
The Heartland. America’s Breadbasket. Middle America. No matter what you call it, the midwest is the heart of the United States — a cultural crossroads that connects the urban east coast with the free-spirited west coast. It’s this epicenter of innovation where great minds from both sides collide and amazing Drupal work is born. We know each other; we respect each other; we collaborate on Drupal sprint and Drupal Association work; we attend and support the events of our local meetups.
It’s time we convene as a superpower to celebrate our mutual passion: Drupal.
Read moreIntroduction to Panels and Drush
We will have a presentation and demonstration panels and drush. Then have questions and open networking.
Depending on attendance we will be drawing names from a hat for a chance to win a free months subscription to buildamodule.com
Read moreFox Valley Holiday Social Tech Mixer
December and the Holidays are upon us and it's time for our annual Holiday Social. We will be mixing with the Fox Valley Computing Professionals for a combined tech mixer at the net2Community, Inc. offices in St Charles, IL.
No program this month but we will hold Lightning Talks, everyone is encouraged to bring a quick topic and your ideas for the coming year. Co-working space is available all afternoon for anyone wishing to miss rush hour traffic.
Bring a guest and meet some new people. Food and Beverages will be served, donations gladly accepted.
Read moreCDMUG's 8th Annual Holiday Open Source Social Event - Dec 1st 2014
Monday December 1st 2014 7:00pm
RSVP @ http://drupal.meetup.com/1
MidCamp planning meeting
Hello,
There will be a MidCamp in person planning meeting tonight. Palantir.net has graciously volunteered to host our first meeting, so we will be there 6:30-8:00 pm. I can't wait to see everyone IRL again, but there will be a Hangout for people who can't make it in person as well.
If you are interested in volunteering please contact one of the organizers. There is a google group https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/midcamp that you may be interested in signing up.
Read moreOak Park Illinois Sprint (VOPDUG)
We have issues for all skill sets. Get involved and work together with others on drupal issues. Bring your laptop. All ages welcome.
Read moreChicago Illinois USA Drupal Global Sprint Weekend 2015
We have issues for all skill sets. Get involved and work together with others on drupal issues. Bring your laptop. All ages welcome.
Location: http://www.dbridgesolutions.com/
210 N Racine Ave | 2M | Chicago, IL 60607
Part of Global Sprint Weekend:
https://groups.drupal.org/node/447258
Twitter: #SprintWeekend
Oak Park Illinois Sprint (VOPDUG)
We have issues for all skill sets. Get involved and work together with others on drupal issues. Bring your laptop. All ages welcome.
Read moreFox Valley Drupal - Case Study: Implementing a Responsive Framework in Your Drupal Theme
Join us as we walk through a build of a custom theme implementing a responsive framework.
Responsive frameworks such as Bootstrap and Zurb Foundation have gained popularity by providing easy to implement responsive grid systems, navigation elements, and other basic components. Using frameworks such as these aren't for everyone so we'll cover the pros and cons and walk through the implementation details.
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