Welcome to the Nashville, Tennesse Drupal Group. Our primary goal is to support all things Drupal, in Nashville and surrounding areas. Our group is open to newbies, designers, seasoned developers, strategists, researchers, businesses… ANYONE who would like to learn more about Drupal; how to create Drupal sites and/or how to put them to work for you.
How to Join Us: We're currently working on reviving our monthly session schedule for focused topics, so feel free to jump in the conversation there.
Come join us, help us revive and expand this group, and tell us what you'd like to learn.
DrupalCamp Nashville Meeting (1 of 2 for October)
This is an extra meeting in which we'll meet with the logo designer to discuss his doing the design for the camp site.
Note that this was bumped a day, to Wednesday. Still at JJ's. Still at 6:00 PM.
Read moreRevisiting Drupal's Block System
For some time now I've had a sneaking suspicion that the reason so many developers prefer Context over Drupal's block system boils down to developers taking power away from the client's admin. There may be clumsy aspects to blocks, but client's can understand them. This is well illustrated in this excellent post by Randall Knutson.
Read moreThe Drupal Theme System - Part 1
For Fall we're getting back into some monthly meetings, and we're kicking things off with a three part series that will take an in-depth look at theme development with Drupal's theming system. We'll begin with more introductory concepts and then moved to a more advanced direction over the next two months.
Part One, for October, will introduce Drupal's theme system (in Drupal 7), the fundamental components, templates and variables; working with regions; and creating subthemes.
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Change of day for monthly meetups of the Chattanooga Users Group
We had a couple of members that where having trouble with the 2nd Tuesday of each month.
So in an effort to accommodate more people, we have moved to the 2nd Thursday of each month from now on.
Coming Soon (this Fall)
We had a good meetup at JJ's tonight, and sketched out a framework of three focused learning meetings for October, November and December.
More time, venue* and program details will follow in the next few weeks, but here's a quick topic overview:
Read moreDrupalCamp Nashville 2012 (April 28, 2012 - Nashville, TN)
This post will be updated as the event draws nearer. Please signup if you wish to receive updates.
Date is set
Once again, we've scheduled our DrupalCamp for the last Saturday in April. That date is certain, and we may again add supplemental learning sessions and group activities beginning the day before.
Venue: Nashville School of Law
We've booked the same venue we used in 2011. We enjoyed the facility and they've welcomed us back.
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Meetups in the group message
It might be nice to have regular Nashville meetups announced at the top of the group page, and then give reminders in the stream....also, I think the nashvilledrupalers website needs help or something. Is is still valid? I'm new here...
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September Drupal Meeting
Hey everyone,
Back from Drupal Camp Ashville, and ready to lay some Drupal on you. If you like Drupal and want to know more, attend the next meeting.
The next Tri-cities Drupal Meeting is coming up on September 2, 2011. That is the first Friday of September. Northeast State has granted us use of the same class room for the rest of the year. We will be starting at 7:00pm in the Faculty Building Room F106 again. Map links to Northeast State and a map of Northeast State are listed above in the header.
This meeting we will be talking about Views 3.X for Drupal 7.
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Context Daylight
Tonights meet up was a little light on people but we were able to get a module built and developed. Basically it provides a new condition for the Context module. The condition is whether or not the sun light is out for a particular location and time zone. As soon as it's bug tested a bit more I'll probably make a release for it. Here's the sandbox:
http://drupal.org/sandbox/fadeddata/1253806
Read moreDrupalCamp Nashville Planning Meeting - August
Our next planning meeting with be Tuesday, August 16th, at 6:00 PM, held at JJ's Market on Broadway, in Nashville.
We have our venue secured and branding is in progress. We'll begin preliminary discussion about the DrupalCamp Nashville site specifications, which we plan to have finalized by October.
Read moreDrupalCamp Nashville 2012 Now on Calendar
DrupalCamp Nashville 2012 will again be on the last Saturday of April (April 28, 2012), hosted at the Nashville School of Law.
If you're interested in participating on the organizing team and helping us make next year's camp better than ever, we meet on the third Tuesday of each month, generally at 6:00 pm. For meeting announcements, check g.d.o Nashville, g.d.o. Tennessee or Nashville Drupalers.
Read moreThursdays at JJ's
For those of you who may be interested and are not yet aware of this, Nashville Drupalers have been meeting casually on Thursday afternoons, around 5 PM, at JJ's Market, in Nashville.
Read moreNashville Drupalers July Meeting
Place: Music City Networks
209 10th Avenue South #400
Nashville TN 37203
Our July meeting will be a working meeting. That is, we're going to get started setting up what will be our new Drupal 7 site that will soon update and replace nashvilledrupalers.com. We may not get it up into full production mode that night, but we'll definitely have a working "beta" site up and running before we go out for the after-meeting meeting (I'm thinking Flying Saucer, because we can walk there from the meeting).
Read moreNashville Drupalers Reset/Reboot Meeting
Place: Teknetex
414 Union Street, Suite 1710
Nashville TN 37219
This is the meeting promised last week. It's a planning meeting and a precursor to getting our meetings back on a regular schedule.
We hope you'll sign up and join us. We'll start out with a general meet and greet to catch up with new members and those who we haven't seen in a long time.
Read moreIs Anybody There?
Nashville Drupalers is set to have a meeting on June 7, 2011. Venue to be announced, so stay tuned for an actual event post.
This will be a reboot and organizational meeting. What do I mean? I mean the purpose of the meeting is to get as much input as we can as to what it will take to kick some life back into y'all and turn you into active, engaged Nashville Drupalers. We'll ask a lot of questions, but the primary answer we're looking for is what it will take to see YOU there. (So you'll have to come and tell us)
Read moreWanted: Volunteers to attend next Chattanooga Meetup (May 10, 2011)
Lee Walker (a.k.a mr_scumbag) is presenting a session on "Building an eCommerce site in 2 hours" using Drupal Gardens (http://www.drupalgardens.com), and Cashie (http://www.cashie.biz).
Would like two or more volunteers to attend and participate and then show us what you learned at a Nashville Drupalers meeting in the not too distant future.
I'd go myself but we're having our DrupalCamp postmortem that same evening.
Read moreHope You Didn't Miss DrupalCamp Nashville 2011
DrupalCamp Nashville 2011 was a success. Worst ding we heard was that it should have been two days. If we keep working together, we can make that happen, too!
We got things started with an all day PHP class, taught by Cal Evans, then a Friday night baseball game, with the Nashville Sounds hosting the Albuquerque Isotopes. The Sounds lost, but the weather was fantastic and we had a great time.
Read more1st Ever Tri-Cities Tennessee Drupal Meeting
Northeast State has given us permission to have a meeting over at the library in room 226 on April 8, starting at 6:30pm. The meeting is a workshop on using the Drupal CMS.
I would like to extend an invitation to anyone that may want to know more about Drupal.
Things that will be discussed during the meetings:
- how to install Drupal
- how to use Drupal
- how to build themes
- how to add modules
- how to build modules
What this meeting is:
- a place to learn about Drupal
- 100% free
- a place to become part of the Drupal community
Drupal Camp Nashville 2011
Drupal Camp Nashville will kick-off on April 30, 2011 at 8am!
Due to a conflict with another local event, Drupal Camp Nashville 2011 has been moved out to April 30th.
We will have the camp site up within the next 2 weeks with more details. Cost is currently being determined but will be between $50-$75 dollars. We will possibly have a business focused day of training the day before the camp that will be available for those who are new to Drupal.
If you are interested in sponsoring please contact jlmeredith at http://britesparkz.com/contact
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DrupalCamp Boone Session Proposals open!
Hey all! Session proposals are now open for DrupalCamp Boone! Bear in mind these are different than session "suggestions," which are also still open. In essence, a suggestion is something you'd like to see SOMEONE ELSE present, whereas a proposals is something YOU ARE OFFERING to present.
Head on over to http://drupalcampboone.com - get registered for this free event and propose away!
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