New Haven

Learn to use the Migrate API to upgrade your Drupal 6/7 site to Drupal 8/9. Check how the automated upgrade procedure can help you get a head start in writing the migrations. You will have the opportunity to change your site’s information architecture as part of the upgrade process

With the maturity of Drupal 8 and version 9 already available, now is a great time to upgrade your site from Drupal 6 or 7. In this training, you will learn how to plan and execute successful upgrade projects.

Learn to move content into Drupal 8 and 9 using the Migrate API. An overview of the Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) pattern that migrate implements will be presented. Source, process, and destination plugins will be explained to learn how each affect the migration process. By the end of the workshop, you will have a better understanding on how the migrate ecosystem works and the thought process required to plan and perform migrations. All examples will use YAML files to configure migrations. No PHP coding required.

Date: 2020 July 21, Tuesday
Time: 9am–5pm Eastern
Cost: $500

During this introductory class you will learn just how much you can do by installing and configuring Drupal's contributed modules. In the process, you'll learn about: 

• best practices in Drupal project planning
• Drupal's inherent tools and subsystems
• custom content types
• Views
• taxonomy
• search tools
• URL aliasing
• module selection
• customized site administration
• …and more!

And you won't write a stitch of code.

Drupal 8 is the most powerful, flexible and easy to scale web experience platform ever built, how can you benefit from all it has to offer?

Join FFW Center of Excellence Director Ray Saltini as he walks you through what Drupal 8 means for your organization.

In this class you’ll learn how to:

The CT Drupal Meetup will be taking place tomorrow at ITBD @ CCSU in New Britain, time is from 6pm - 8pm.

For this meetup we will be covering a little bit of Drush and a little bit of non-Drupal.

Drush (By Mike Brooks): What is it? How to install it? Drush resources, Drush examples, when not to use it? Drush vs. Drupal Console

SSH Keys (By Matt Wetmore): What are SSH Keys all about? How to create keys? Moving files to my server, logging into my server, etc.

Bonus: What you can do with Drush once your SSH keys are established between your local computer and server.

Welcome Back! It's been a few months, so let's get together and talk about all things Drupal.

We'll talk about CT Drupal Camp and last weekends NED Camp, as well as the recently released Drupal 8 RC 1. Bring any topics you want to talk about or any issues that you are having and we can talk about it.

Hope to see you tomorrow!

Meetup.com : http://www.meetup.com/Central-CT-Drupal-Group/events/225933162/

October 14th, 6pm @ CCSU ITBD, 185 Main Street, New Britain, CT

-matt

The CT Drupal Group is proud to announce the 6th Annual Drupal Camp CT, on Saturday, August 22nd @ Yale University in New Haven, CT.

As usual, the CT Drupal Camp is a free event, highlighting Drupal and it's community, we offer a full day of sessions, BOFs and a wonderful keynote. We focus on providing attendees information about Drupal, help them get started with Drupal, answering their tough questions, and helping grow the connecticut Drupal community. We will also be providing breakfast and lunch for free to keep everyone focused.

For more information about Hartford Tech Week and the other great events being held visit: http://www.hartfordtechweek.com/2015/index.html

Drupal has been making a large push the last couple of years to become a solid Enterprise CMS. Some large organizations in CT have adopted Drupal as their standard CMS, organizations such as Yale, Voya Financial, O&G Industries, Webster Bank, GE, WWE, NBC Universal.

Join us to learn more about Drupal and these topics:
- How organizations are leveraging Drupal
- The state of Drupal and introducing Drupal 8
- Getting started with Drupal

Today (May 20th) we will be holding the monthly Central CT Drupal Meetup @ CCSU in New Britain.

Be sure to join us on Meetup.com for up-to-date information: http://www.meetup.com/Central-CT-Drupal-Group/

For this meetup we will be covering the following:

• Presentation: Seth Duke (Marketing Communications Manager @ O&G) will be presenting the recent build of the new ogind.com which is a Drupal site. He will discuss how the build went and some of the issues and challenges they had.

• Recap of Drupalcon LA, we have some giveaways (Pantheon Shirt, Stickers, Notebooks)

The next New Haven Drupal meetup is Monday, March 16th.
(sorry for the late notice, but the location was up in the air until today).

Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) is hosting. IPA is located on the second floor of 101 Whitney Ave, New Haven (http://www.poverty-action.org­).

If you're driving, street parking is available and meters need to be fed until 9PM. By 6PM, some of the local Yale lots may be free, but I'm not 100% sure.

Meeting lineup (approximate)

• 6:00 Meet and greet

• 6:15 Five minute intro to Drupal for newbies