Welcome to the Florida Drupal Users Group! We have members from all over Florida and most meetups around the state are coordinated through this group. Whether you're from the panhandle, northeast Florida, the Gulf coast, central Florida, the Space Coast, or south Florida, you'll find other Drupal developers and themers here.
Currently, we have perodic meetups in the following areas:
- Brevard County (Cocoa Village)
- Broward County (Ft. Lauderdale): 2nd Wednesday of each month, 7pm - Meetup.com listing
- Orlando
- Gainesville
- Jacksonvill
- Miami Beach
- West Palm Beach (Jupiter-Boca Raton)
- Sarasota / SW Florida
- Tallahassee
- Tampa Bay: 1st Thursday of each month - Meetup.com listing
Keep an eye on this page for location and topic announcements for each meetup, as meeting days and times might change month-to-month.
Funds are available for local Florida meetup groups!
Keep connected with the Florida Drupal Users' Group:
- NEW! Slack: #florida Get your invite
- IRC: #drupal-florida on freenode
- @fldrupalcamp for updates about Florida Drupal camps, meetups, and other events.
- Florida DrupalCamp on Facebook
- Florida Drupal on Facebook
- Florida Drupal on LinkedIn
- We're looking for someone to create and maintain a Google+ home for Florida Drupal...
Event: Broward Drupal Meetup - Building Community Sites (Part 2) - Wed December 11th, 2019
This month, we will be talking about building community sites 2, as a follow up to last month's site that Jay Epstein ( https://jay-epstein.com/, https://twitter.com/jeppy64 ) created.
We welcome all new Drupal users, so feel free to join if you are new to Drupal or are just getting started.
Our Dunkin' Doughnuts location that we have been using since April 2010 is remodeling the next few months, so until we find a new location, we will have all remote meetups. In other words, this month will be 100% remote.
Read moreFlorida DrupalCamp 2020 - looking for more volunteers!
Florida DrupalCamp 2020 is coming in February! In order to make it another outstanding event, we need some additional volunteers!
Please check out our issue queue and find something that you can help with based on your interests and bandwidth.
We are currently looking for help with these tasks:
- Marketing: FLDC email newsletter: https://www.drupal.org/project/fldc2020/issues/3093506
- Badge production and delivery: https://www.drupal.org/project/fldc2020/issues/3093502
Building Community Sites - Broward Drupal Meeting Minutes - Wed November 13th, 2019
This month, we talked about two different methods for creating a community site. The first was using the Open Social Drupal distribution for creating site https://www.floridavoterrestoration.com/. We walked through how to create different content on the site, including how Open Social builds it. We also walked through the backend, showed pros/cons of using Open Social, and how to tweak some of the default settings to make the site more usable. For example, all events in Open Social are upcoming events. We showed how to display past events as well.
Read moreEvent: Broward Drupal Meetup - Building Community Sites - Wed November 13th, 2019
This month, we will be talking about building community sites. As an example, we will begin talking about how the site https://www.floridavoterrestoration.com/ was built for the Hackathon on September 21, 2019 for the National Day of Civic Hacking: https://www.meetup.com/Code-for-Miami/events/263929159/. We will also talk about other ways of building community sites.
Our Dunkin' Doughnuts location that we have been using since April 2010 is remodeling the next few months, so until we find a new location, we will have all remote meetups. In other words, this month will be 100% remote.
Read moreOpen Social Distribution, and Free SSL - Broward Drupal Meeting Minutes - Wed October 9th, 2019
This month, we talked about the Open Social Drupal distribution. This distro is currently the most popular way to create a community site in Drupal, so we dived in and looked at some of the features that come out of the box with Open Social. We also discussed another aspect that is important to creating a new sites: SSL certificates. We talked about using SSL certificates on the bare domain and on www, and on different types of hosting hosting as well.
Read moreEvent: Broward Drupal Meetup - Double Feature: Open Social Distribution, and Free SSL - Wed October 9th, 2019
BOA (Barracuda Octopus Aegir) - powerful for self-hosted Drupal - Broward Drupal Meeting Minutes - Wed September 11th, 2019
This month, Hector talked about self-hosting Drupal on a VPS. Specifically, he discussed BOA (Barracuda Octopus Aegir), which was a follow up to discussing this topic in the past ( i.e. http://browarddrupal.org/PastMeetings/july-2012 ). The latest changes to BOA 4.0.1 were discussed.
Read moreEvent: Broward Drupal Meetup - BOA (Barracuda Octopus Aegir) - Wed September 11th, 2019
This month, we will be talking about self-hosting Drupal on a VPS. Specifically, we will be discussing BOA (Barracuda Octopus Aegir). We have discussed this topic in the past ( i.e. http://browarddrupal.org/PastMeetings/july-2012 ), and we will be discussing the latest changes in BOA 4.0.1.
Our Dunkin' Doughnuts location that we have been using since April 2010 is remodeling the next few months, so until we find a new location, we will have all remote meetups. In other words, this month will be 100% remote.
Read moreGregg Shanefelt presented: Gatsby/static Site Generators- Broward Drupal Meeting Minutes - Wed August 14th, 2019
Gregg Shanefelt ( https://www.macchiatomarketing.com/ ) talked about GatbyJS/static site generators. Static site generators can play nicely with Drupal and make it easier to take advantage of the speed, security, and scalability of static sites. This is one approach many people are considering for making their sites faster.
We also spent some time talking about other topics.
We had seven remote users and zero in person.
To keep up with the Broward Drupal meetup group, follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/browarddrupal or go to our website: http://BrowardDrupal.org
Read moreFlorida Drupal Virtual Meetup #6 - "Composer Basics + Q&A" by Mike Anello
Welcome to the sixth Florida Drupal Virtual Meetup! This month, we are featuring a presentation by Mike Anello on Composer Basics, plus some Q&A.
EVENT INFO
Host: Brevard
Presenter: Mike Anello
Topic: Composer Basics
Florida Virtual Meetup: Gainesville Edition!
Gainesville will be representing Florida in this month's online virtual meetup! Meeting URL: https://zoom.us/j/428069424
Mike Herchel will be giving a super-sneak-peak at his upcoming DrupalCamp Atlanta presentation:
Useful tips, tricks, and techniques that will help you "front-end the Drupal" better
Over the course of my 13 long (and sometimes painful!) years of developing in Drupal, I’ve learned a number of tips, tricks, and strategies that will help one become a better Drupal front-end developer. Many of these are too short to merit their own session, but are too long to fit into a lightning-style talk.
In this session, I’m going to combine 3-4 unrelated topics that will leave you excited to go do more Drupal front-end work!
Topics may or may not include:
- Figuring out how to get the proper data you need into your Twig templates (using Xdebug)
- Proper JavaScript debugging with Drupal Behaviors
- How to properly componentize your… components
- Other useful tips and tidbits
To get the most out of this session, Drupal must have made you suffer at some point or another. It would also help if you have themed (or attempted to do so) Drupal 8.
Read moreEvent: Broward Drupal Meetup - Gregg Shanefelt presents: Gatsby/static Site Generators - Wed August 14th, 2019
This month, Gregg Shanefelt ( https://www.macchiatomarketing.com/ ) will be talking about GatbyJS/static site generators. Static site generators can play nicely with Drupal and make it easier to take advantage of the speed, security, and scalability of static sites. This is one approach many people are considering for making their sites faster.
Our Dunkin' Doughnuts location that we have been using since April 2010 is remodeling the next few months, so until we find a new location, we will have all remote meetups. In other words, this month will be 100% remote.
Read moreFlorida Drupal Virtual Meetup #4 - "Intro to Layout Builder" by Adam Varn
Welcome to the fourth Florida Drupal Virtual Meetup! This month, we are featuring a presentation by Adam Varn on using Layout Builder in Drupal 8. This will be an intro session, so if you are curious about this awesome new module, please attend
EVENT INFO
Host: Tampa
Presenter: Adam Varn
Topic: Intro to Layout Builder
Topic Summary: Discover what Layout Builder can do for your site and how it gives you much greater before over your content than Drupal has ever had before.
HOW TO ATTEND
Read moreFlorida Drupal Virtual Meetup - Relativity for DrupalCamps - Wed July 10th, 2019
This month, Jay Epstein (https://twitter.com/jeppy64 https://jay-epstein.com/) talked about "Relativity for DrupalCamps" at the Florida Drupal Virtual Meetup. This presentation is the most recent summary of Drupal Relativity. Jay discussed all of the key concepts of Relativity and gave several examples within the context of creating a website for DrupalCamps. This presentation is so good, that you will want to watch it again!
Here is the link to the presentation: https://youtu.be/uEugf-W-1lA
Read moreFlorida Drupal Virtual Meetup #3 - "Relativity for Drupal Camps" by Jay Epstein
Welcome to the third Florida Drupal Virtual Meetup! This month, we are featuring a presentation by Jay Epstein on tools to help organizers launch quick and easy Drupal sites. We hope everything goes smoothly but please bear with us as we work out the kinks!
EVENT INFO
Host: Broward
Presenter: Jay Epstein
Topic: Relativity for Drupal Camps (more info)
Topic Summary: A simple tool for camp organizers to rapidly spin up turn-key Drupal Camp websites.
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Bring your questions - Broward Drupal Meeting Minutes - Wed June 12th, 2019
We had a Q&A session for this meetup. We spent most of the meetup answering Ron's questions on his Politics site, including best practices on Pantheon (i.e. backups anyone?).
We also spent some time answering other questions.
We had three remote users and zero in person.
To keep up with the Broward Drupal meetup group, follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/browarddrupal or go to our website: http://BrowardDrupal.org
Read moreFlorida Drupal Virtual Meetup #2 - "Porting scanner module from D7 to D8" by Christian Crawford
Welcome to the second Florida Drupal Virtual Meetup! This month, we are featuring a presentation by Christian Crawford on porting a module from D7 to D8. We hope everything goes smoothly but please bear with us as we work out the kinks!
EVENT INFO
Host: Jacksonville
Presenter: Christian Crawford
Topic: Porting Scanner Module from D7 to D8 (<a href=https://www.meetup.com/Jacksonville-Drupal-User-Group/events/261045342/">more info)
Relativity for DrupalCamps (Part 1) - Broward Drupal Meeting Minutes - Wed May 8th, 2019
This month, Jay talked about using his Relativity (https://jay-epstein.com/relativity) methodology for building a DrupalCamp site. He started out by defining what the stakeholders want to build: "I am building a Drupal 8 website so that DrupalCamp organizers and their volunteers can promote their upcoming camp."
He went on to talk about how machine names allow you to define back-end identification and allow for label changes at any time. After that, he went on to talk about the data model, including how to make decisions about the components that make up the site:
Camp (one primary)
Read moreFlorida Drupal Virtual Meetups Video Archive
Below are links to all Florida Drupal Virtual Meetups, hosted on Youtube.
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Florida Drupal Virtual Meetup #1 - "11 Tips To Start Your Drupal Project Right" by Mike Anello
Welcome to the first Florida Drupal Virtual Meetup! We are kicking things off with a presentation by Mike Anello on a great topic for starting any Drupal project. We hope everything goes smoothly but please bear with us as we work out the kinks!
EVENT INFO
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