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!
Vote for a Drupal Site to Win Apps for Democracy Contest!
We thought the Apps for Democracy contest was a great way to show the DC government that Drupal is the leading open source platform for government project and a great chance to get them familiar with the platform. So we built a Drupal site and entered it in the contest. You can vote for it here. You don't need to log in so it only takes three seconds to vote, but voting closes tonight at midnight, so vote soon!
The site we built is called DC Bikes and you can check it out here. It's a guide to biking in DC and puts mostly city data on a map so people find detailed bike routes in DC, monitor bike theft in real time, and buy bike equipment on Craigslist. This site is built on Drupal and is the only submission that is 100% open source - we used open source Mapnik for our maps rather than Google Maps. Specifically we used <a href="http://drupal.org/project/feedapi>FeedAPI and Feed Element Mapper for the site's aggregation, and the spaces module allowed us to build it pretty quickly.
Read moreDC Drupal Meetup November 17 at Stetson's
The next Drupal meetup will take place Monday, November 17, at 7:00 pm at Stetson's. This event is for anyone interested in Drupal and everyone is welcome - newbies, hard core developers, users, and other Drupal fans.
The meetup will follow our standard format with 5-minute lightening rounds presentations starting at 7:30 pm. This is your chance to present what you're working on - whether it's a site built on Drupal, a new module, or a problem you can't seem to solve on your own. We'll have a projector you can use and there will internet access. Anyone is welcome to speak but it's not required. If you would like to present, please post your topic in the comments.
And if you don't want to wait two weeks to get together with other Drupalers, go to the documentation sprint this Saturday at MLK library!
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
Documentation Sprint: DC Doc Love
Let's get together and whip up some Doc Love. We'll meet for 3 hours at the DC Public Library to work on Drupal and then, if folks are interested, we can go out for food and drinks after. We have a medium meeting room (A-9) reserved from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sat. November 8. (For directions to the room, see below in the Where? section.)
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Northern VA Users Group November Meet-Up
Please mark your calendar and tell your friends - Northern Virginia Drupal Meetup is next Wednesday at Baileys Pub and Grill at 6:30 PM.
This month's fabulous topic is
"Ready to launch? Rules of a Great Rollout"
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DrupalCamp Philly - Nov 19
The first (of many!) Philadelphia Area DrupalCamp will be held November 19 at The Hub in Cira Center, 2929 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104. The building is directly adjacent to Philly's 30th Street Station, ultra-convenient to local and regional public transportation.
Details and agenda at http://groups.drupal.org/node/1757/phillydrupalcampfall08
To RSVP, you must be logged in to this site. Just hit the Signup button below.
Read moreNice Job DC Drupalers! Over 200 People Registered for DrupalCon in Just Two Hours!
Great job DC! DrupalCon DC registration opened today and the first 100 tickets sold within ten minutes! We are already well into our second batch of tickets. It's amazing to see how many people are excited about DrupalCon (and excited about the half price tickets that were available to the early birds). If you haven't gotten your ticket yet, about 150 tickets are left at the $175 rate so move fast. Once those are gone, prices will increase to $200.
DrupalCon Coming to Washington, DC, and Tickets are Only $125 for the First 100 Developers
As many of you know, the next DrupalCon - THE conference for Drupal developers - will be in Washington, DC, March 4-7, 2009. Hooray! For those new to DrupalCons, this is a huge unconference for developers. It's a time for us to get together, learn from each other, trade ideas, make decisions, and build a stronger community.
There will be an early bird special in which the first 100 people to register can come for just $125. Tickets won't go on sale until next week, but we wanted to give everyone here a heads up so you can be on the lookout. We'll announce when DrupalCon DC registration opens up via Twitter, and will let followers get a two-hour head start before we get the word out elsewhere. So, follow us!
We'll talk more about DrupalCon at the meetup on Monday, so come out!
Read moreDC Drupal Meetup October 20th
The monthly DC Drupal Meetup will take place on Monday, October 20, at 7:00 pm at Stetson's Bar and Restaurant, which is right by the intersection of 16th and U streets, NW. We'll meet at the upstairs bar at Stetson's at 7:00 and will start presentations at 7:30 pm.
This is a community-run event, so please come ready to talk : ) We'll have the usual round of 5-minute lightening talks starting at 7:30 pm. This is your chance to demo a site, talk about a module you're working on, and bring up anything else Drupal-related. They tell us the wireless is working and we'll have a projector, so come ready to show your stuff off. Remember, these meetups are for Drupal developers of all levels, Drupal users, and people just interested in learning more about Drupal, so be sure not to include too much Drupalese. If you want to talk or would like to suggest a topic, please post it in the comments.
Meetup Details
7:15 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
Hope to see you there!
Read moreDC Doc sprint
As some of you may know, I've been neck-deep in Drupal's Doc team work. The doc sprints that we have had at the last two Drupalcons have been a ton of fun and very productive. I'd like to run a local sprint down in DC sometime before the end of the year. The basic idea that I am thinking right now is to find a location that will let us camp out with wifi for about 4-6 hours on a weekend. I'd be there the entire time but others could just drop by as they had time. I'd be there to help folks get situated, find docs tasks that they find interesting and generally answer questions.
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Drupaltherapy, Washington DC - Second Class Added
Pleased to announce that I've added a second class date to the Drupaltherapy session in Washington DC and now offer two classes that weekend.
New class:
Saturday Oct 25, 2008 - 9:30AM - 6:00PM
Both classes are identical, offering 8 hours of well developed entry level training in Drupal. The classes are priced to be affordable for individuals, non-profits and small businesses. To learn more visit: http://www.drupaltherapy.com/washingtondc
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October Drupal Lab
There will be a Washington DC Drupal Lab on October 8th from 7 to 9pm at Affinity Lab in Adams Morgan. The lab is located at 2451 18th St NW in Adams Morgan, and the entrance is to the right of The Diner.
Changes to the venue, format, and topics of future NOVA meet-ups
Hi All, I wanted to share the results of the feedback we've received from the group about changes to the venue, format, and topics of future NOVA meet-ups.
After collecting a lot of feedback and having several discussions with our friends at WorthPoint, who organized our first meet-ups and have provided us with most of our topics and leadership to date, we have decided to try some new things. Going forward, we are entertaining the creation of two co-operating groups:
Read moreDC Drupal Meetup, September 22nd at Stetson's
Our monthly Drupal meetup will take place on Monday, September 22nd at 7:15 pm at Stetson's (1610 U Street, NW), and it will be an exciting one. People who were able to attend DrupalCon in Szeged last month will share what they learned and the latest news from the community. We'll also give an update on the Drupal Association's feedback and reaction to our proposal to bring the next DrupalCon to our city and talk about where we are in the process. We'll have time for the standard 5-minute lightening presentations, so if you've been working on something interesting and want to share it with the group, please post about it in the comments and come prepared to talk at the meetup.
We'll meet at the upstairs bar at Stetson's at 7:15 and will start presentations at 7:30 pm. The DC Drupal Meetups are for all levels of Drupalers and users, so if you're new to Drupal or are just interested in learning more about the platform, please come out.
See you soon!
Meetup Details
7:15 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
Washington DC Drupaltherapy: Oct 24, 2008
This class is FULL! There is so much demand for this class that we are trying to put together a second training day on Oct 25 to meet the need. If you want to put yourself on the interested list, follow the link below and tell us.
Coming back to our nation's capital on October 24, 2008, this Drupaltherapy training session will be located at the Echoditto's downtown digs.
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Drupal shared hosting
Any recommendations on shared hosting vendors? Any things to look out for? I'm looking at a small site that is moving from a static web site.
Thanks, RickG
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No Drupal Lab this month
Hey everyone,
Sorry for not explicitly stating this earlier, but there is not going to be a Drupal Lab this month. Since many DC Drupalers out of town and over in Szeged for the usually scheduled day, it seemed best to skip this event.
Luckily, it looks like the Silver Spring drupalers are stepping up to the plate and hosting a meetup tomorrow at Mayorga In Silver Spring (is this confirmed?). Everyone should check it out if they can.
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Best Day For An August Meetup At Mayorga In Silver Spring, MD
Meetup at Mayorga in Silver Spring
Thoughts on having a meetup at Mayorga in Silver Spring? I've been meaning to make it downtown for the last three meetings but every time work interferes so it's either quit work or try to do something closer to home.
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