This group is for everyone living in the DC metro area who's interested in Drupal. You can post here about anything relating to DC and Drupal, whether that's local job postings, events, or just a call out to talk shop over beers.
You can also find us in a couple of other places:
- Group on Meetup.com for events (they handle events better, with reminder emails and whatnot)
- Group on groups.drupal.org for discussions and job posts (that's here)
- #drupal-dc on freenode
- @DrupalDC on Twitter
We have a great meetup every month where we get together to connect in person. The target audience is Drupal developers, users, and people who want to learn more about Drupal. We start the meetups with a round of very focused lightning talks that discuss real world solutions to existing problems, new work people have done, and Drupal news. Some of these talks are about code, and some are not. We do ask that all presenters talk on a level that everyone - including non-developers - can follow. After the talks, we chat over beer, and maybe play a few games of foosball.
We're open to ways to improve the meetups and this group, so speak up if you have ideas!
Alfresco Meetup, Washington DC, Oct 20th
Alfresco is an open source content management system that integrates with Drupal. You can read more on the Drupal site, http://drupal.org/project/cmis_alfresco.
We are having a free meetup in D.C. on October 20th and would love to have Drupal community members join us. We'll talk about our recent DoD 5015.2 certification for records management, our CMIS implementation, our cloud developer kit and more. We'll also be happy to show you a demo of the Alfresco/Drupal integration.
You can register here, http://www.alfresco.com/about/events/2009/10/meetups.
Nancy Garrity
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September Drupal Meetup on Monday, 9/14
The September Drupal meetup will take place this coming Monday (9/14) at 7:00 pm at Stetson's Bar and Grill. As usual, we'll meet at the upstairs bar at 7:00 pm and officially kick things off at 7:30 pm with introductions and a round of five minute lightning talks. These talks are your opportunity to take the floor to talk about the latest Drupal module you're building, show off a site that you built, or talk about anything else Drupal related - and learn from everyone else, of course. So far, we have two lightning talks on the schedule:
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Matt Tucker, in town from Colorado, will talk about building a feature server to easily share features (like a blog, resource library, etc.) in Drupal. He built one for PingVision and wrote about it here.
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News from DrupalCon Paris - we'll rope some people who attended the conference into talking about the highlights from it.
If you'd like to present, post about it in the comments or just speak up at the meetup. You'll have access to a flat screen if you want to show something off, but the internet connection is shaky so come prepared to present offline.
Hope to see you there!
Meetup Details
7:00 to 9:00 pm
Stetson's Bar and Restaurant
1610 U Street, NW
Map
Metros: Short walk from U Street metro on the green line and Dupont on the red line
Bus: Right off of the S1, S2, and S4 routes that run up 16th Street, plus the 90 buses that run up U street
Drupal Video Tutorials
Hi all,
i have created a group called Drupal Video Tutorials, anyone can post videos and other learning materials. The aim of this group is to spread the drupal gospel.
you are all welcome
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NOVA Drupal Meetup
About the Group: Meet with others locals interested in building and strengthening the Northern Virginian Drupal Community. Discuss new and exciting Drupal-related news - or just socialize with like-minded people!
What?: Did you go to Drupalcon Paris? If so, please come on out to the meetup and share what you learned! Or, talk about what you would have liked to have learned...We'll also have time to talk about anything you are working on, so please bring questions or projects to share.
See you tomorrow!
Where?:
Irelands Four Courts
2051 Wilson Boulevard
Anyone Headed to GOV 2.0 Conference?
Hey DC Drupalers,
I am headed down to the Gov 2.0 conference from Philly.
Any other Drupalers from the area going? It would be cool to meetup or have a drupal BOF. Hit me up or reply to this thread if you will be there!
best,
-Aaron
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New Drupal Book : Drupal 6 Site Blueprints
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blockquote>Bad news is always good news for the press. And so Vaughan Pyre has decided to take advantage of this and create a web site that will aggregate bad news and weird happenings from all over the world. The content of the site will be entirely derived from RSS feeds from several sources; each feed being automatically fetched and its items displayed as individual articles on the web site. Vaughan's intention is to create a lot of self-updating web sites which he intends to populate with Google ads for site users to click and click so that he can make a lot of money.
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Drupalcon IRC Backchannel Bookmarklet
In the interest of creating an even richer environment for the exchange of ideas at Drupalcon Paris, I've written a "DrupalconParis IRC Backchannel Bookmarklet" for your favorite browser/IRC-client combination and made it available for free at www.chataboutthis.com/drupalcon-paris.html.
Read moreDrupalCon DC inspires new unconference, we'd love your support
Hi there DC (and NoVA) Drupalers!
Back in March at Drupalcon -- there were at least a couple of BoF's where public media folks got together to talk about open source's place in public and civic media. There were representatives in those BoF's from PBS, NPR, Universities, and some local PBS/NPR stations.
Read moreAugust Drupal Meetup on Monday, 8/10
The August DC Drupal meetup will take place on Monday, August 10th at 7:00 pm at Stetson's. We'll get things going officially around 7:30, starting with a round of introductions so we can all get to know each other, followed by a round of 5 minute lightning talks.
Lightning talks are your chance to discuss a Drupal module, ask a question you have about Drupal to the group, show off a new site that you built, or talk about anything else Drupal related. The only rules are that you have to keep it short - 5 minutes or less - and keep it so that everyone can follow along no matter how often they code with Drupal. If you'd like to give a talk, post it in the comments and/or speak up at the meetup.
Don't be shy if you're just starting or thinking about starting with Drupal. The meetups are a great way to learn and meet people who've been in your place before.
Hope to see you there!
Meetup Details
7:00 to 9:00 pm
Stetson's Bar and Restaurant
1610 U Street, NW
Map
Metros: Short walk from U Street metro on the green line and Dupont on the red line
Bus: Right off of the S1, S2, and S4 routes that run up 16th Street, plus the 90 buses that run up U street
August Northern Virginia Drupal Meetup - featuring Chuck D'Antonio from Acquia
Come join us for a presentation and discussion of Solr. We will talk about why its better than core Drupal search, how it improves the user experience and see it in action.
And, we're very excited that Chuck D'Antonio, Acquia's Senior Director of Professional Services will discuss Acquia Search.
Location:
RHODESIDE GRILL - downstairs
1836 Wilson Blvd
Arlington, VA 22201
(703) 243-0145
August and September DC CiviCRM Meetups
Hi folks,
I am planning a couple special sessions for the August and September DC CiviCRM Meetups. The topics will be:
August 19th @ 6:30pm - Planning to Deploy CiviCRM in your Organization (http://www.meetup.com/dc-civicrm-meetup/calendar/10968614/)
September 16th @ 6:30pm - Migrating from Convio to CiviCRM (http://www.meetup.com/dc-civicrm-meetup/calendar/10968938/)
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CodeWorks 09 - Washington DC/Northern VA
We'd like to invite you to CodeWorks 2009 (http://cw.mtacon.com), a series of two-day conferences for PHP developers and IT managers organized and run by the publishers of php|architect Magazine.
Each two-day event includes a day of in-depth tutorials and a day of conference talks arranged across three different tracks, all presented by the best experts in the business.
If PHP is your work, your passion or your hobby, CodeWorks is a great way to learn and connect with the greatest community of professionals in the world—and with prices as low as $99 and a generous discount program, a uniquely affordable opportunity for everyone.
Remember, each event is limited to 300 attendees and prices increase the closer we get to each event. Get your tickets today before we run out or the price goes up! Early bird pricing will end July 31, 2009.
For more information, visit http://cw.mtacon.com. Hope to see you there!
Read moreDrupal Meetup Monday, July 13
The July Drupal meetup is on for this coming Monday, July 13. We'll meet at Stetson's at the upstairs bar at 7:00 pm and will kick off with a round of introductions followed by a round of five minute lightening presentations at 7:30 pm.
No lightening talks are on the schedule yet, so consider talking about something that you're working on that would be of interest to the group (like a module, a new website/tool you built, a question you have, etc.). To get on the schedule, just post it to the comments or speak up at the meetup.
DC Drupal meetups are for people of all skills/knowledge levels, and all levels of presentations are welcome. Don't be shy if you're just starting or thinking about starting with Drupal - the meetups are a great way to learn and meet people who've been in your place before.
Hope to see you there!
Meetup Details
7:00 to 9:00 pm
Stetson's Bar and Restaurant
1610 U Street, NW
Map
Metros: Short walk from U Street metro on the green line and Dupont on the red line
Bus: Right off of the S1, S2, and S4 routes that run up 16th Street, plus the 90 buses that run up U street
Philly DrupalCamp Summer 2009
Join us on July 31 at Drexel University in Philadelphia — visit drupaldelphia.com for the latest info!
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Quick question. Do anyone know if there's a training class on Drupal in the Washington, DC area? Thanks in advance. Joe
Read moreJune DC CiviCRM Meetup
Hi Folks,
Wanted to send out a reminder that the DC CiviCRM Meetup will be meeting tomorrow, June 24th at 6:00pm. A very special thanks to the folks over at HacDC for sponsoring this meetup and providing the meeting space. The meetup will be at the general HacDC meetup location:
HacDC
1525 Newton St NW
Washington, DC 20010
We are going to have two presentations:
1) I will do a demo of CiviCRM and Ubercart integration Trellon has done for a recent project
2) Andrew Hunt of AGH Strategies will demo Joomla integration with CiviCRM
Read moreAccordion Blocks module released for Drupal
Folks, we're happy to roll out yet another module for Drupal. It's called “Accordion Blocks”. As the name says, this module provides an accordion effect to all your blocks. You can also apply jQuery UI themes through the configuration settings of the module.
This block is for those of you who deploy apps with a lot of blocks on either side bars, and are looking for newer usability enhancements with regards to visibility of the blocks. It not only minimizes all blocks on a Drupal page, but provides a cool accordion effect to help your user to concentrate on a single block at a time.
Read moreCancelled - June 2009 Meetup
Due to the lack of response, this event has been cancelled!
Hello Maryland Drupal Group members! I noticed how long it has been since we had our last Drupal meetup (I think last September) and decided it was definitely time for another one.
The next Maryland meetup is scheduled for June 17 at 6:30PM at the following location:
Panera Bread
12285 Tech Road
Silver Spring, Maryland 20904
(301) 680-7940
Agenda:
- 6:30 - 7:00 - Introductions
- 7:00 - 7:45 - Theme development presentation by Ron Williams
June Drupal Meetup: Monday June 8 at Stetson's
Get your 3D glasses ready... We'll be meeting in 3D (yes, I mean in person) next Monday, June 8th at Stetson's. We'll meet at the upstairs bar around 7:00 pm, and will get started with introductions followed by a round of five minute lightening presentations at 7:30 pm.
So far, a few people have volunteered to lead lightning talks.
- Adrian Rossouw, in town from South Africa, will talk about Aegir, a set of modules that helps you easily deploy and maintain many Drupal sites. He'll talk about what you can do with Aegir, where the project is, and where it's going.
The floor is open for anyone to give a five minute lightening talk, so if you'd like to talk about something you're working on in Drupal - like a module, a new website/tool, a question you have, etc. - post your topic in the comments and come ready to talk.
DC Drupal meetups are for people of all skills/knowledge levels, and all levels of presentations are welcome. Don't be shy if you're just starting or thinking about starting with Drupal - the meetups are a great way to learn and meet people who've been in your shoes before.
More details on the venue are below. See you there!
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