Groups - Events

Okay, this is going to be our get-together at ALA's Convention in Chicago! It'll be a chance to talk about what we're doing and to exchange ideas.

Part of our discussion will be about Drupal 7x and what to expect. Part of our discussion will be about the projects we're doing or would like to do. You're all invited to present!

All levels of experience are welcome. If you're a librarian and interested in Drupal, please come.

Date:
Sunday, July 12 (3:30p-5:00p)

Location:
McCormick Place
West Building, Level 1
Conference Center Rm #11b
Chicago, IL.

EQUIPMENT: First, we've got wireless thanks to ALA. Then I will be bringing my laptop and projector (which hopefully works this year) for people to show their sites and other web pages.

IN CONCLUSION: Okay, we've got a time and we've got a place. Looking forward to seeing all of you!

For more information or if you have a question or suggestion, feel free to email me through the Contact Form...

Main Entrance to McCormick Place West

Entry Way to Conference Center Rm #11b

Dies ist das reguläre monatliche User Group Meeting Zürich / Schweiz.
Jeder mit Interesse an Drupal ist zur Teilnahme eingeladen. Bitte anmelden.

Ort: Previon, Zofingen: http://www.previon.ch/section73/Standort.cfm

Zeit: 18:00-20:00 Uhr

Themen und Ablauf:

Die Inhaltsproduktion aus dem Woodwing Redaktionssystem (Dauer 30‘)

Das konfigurierbare Node-Importer-Modul (Dauer 15‘)

Das Season-Modul, eine Website, zwei Jahreszeiten (Dauer 15‘)

Q&A (Dauer 30‘)

Es werden Pizza und Getränke organisiert.

Bitte meldet Euch unten an, damit der Bedarf geschätzt werden kann ('Sign-Up' Button clicken....)

Sydney June Meetup - Socialized!

Keeping with our schedule of the 3rd thursday of each month, we'll be having our regular meetup on this Thursday, June 18th. This meetup will have a change of venue and will be an experiment for more social events for the community. (Next month is July 16th)

The last monthly meetup went really well as usual. We experimented with a barcamp style session which got good feedback. The turn out was a bit smaller than usual (probably do to a late announcement on my part) but we had another really great support session. Thanks again to the people who stepped up barcamp style.

This month we'll be at the Royal Exhibition Hotel and we'll be aiming for a social pub experience. I'm still working to see if we can get a projector setup. If so, look for us upstairs otherwise we'll position ourselves in the back area where we can pool some tables together. Look for laptops, drupal schwag, and lots of talking! We'll also be running the support sessions again, since that seems to be a popular segment so bring your laptop!

Sign Up!
When: Thursday, June 18th
Time: 6:45pm - 9:30pm
Venue: Royal Exhibition Hotel
86 Chalmers St, Surry Hills, NSW 2010, Australia
(02) 9698 2607 ( Map)

This is the same pub that we used to meet at over a year ago. I don't remember the parking situation, but its so close to central station you could likely use the same parking from the ABC centre and walk over if really necessary.

• Greetings and Welcome new people + Announcements
• Community News by: Ryan Cross
  A regular addition to the agenda, this will cover monthly news in the community and around Drupal. We can also have another presentation if the projector situation works out well
• Session: Live Support
  We will be delivering a live support session for all levels of Drupal experience. Remember when you first got started? - Everyone has been there and can help someone else climb the Drupal learning curve, wherever your current experience provides. Please come prepared with questions or answers, laptops and your Drupal experience! Unfortunately, we can't guarantee internet access.
• No need to move! - stay till late at the pub with Drinks/food

Remember to sign up, this will also help us plan numbers/audience.

Next Month (July 16th):
- Image Cache and handling by James Gollan
- Best practices for upgrading by Ryan Cross
Future Presentations:
- See http://groups.drupal.org/node/15140
- What can you present on?

Post below if you can talk about something (anything is ok, everyone has something to share) or if you're are interested in other topics for discussion.

Resources:
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/group/sydney-drupal-users-group
Photos: http://www.flickr.com/groups/drupal-au/
Chat: #drupal-au on freenode : Connect

In honor of the Drupal 7 feature freeze in September we're focusing the theme for this meetup on D7 patches.

I'm hoping that everyone will come with a laptop with the CVS version of D7 installed locally. Now most of us don't work from this version of Drupal, so I've posted a screencast:
http://blip.tv/file/187741/

The links to the main CVS page in the handbook (the navigation has changed since the video):
http://drupal.org/handbook/cvs

A link to another text install about how to do this:
http://awebfactory.com.ar/node/369

As well as the main guide for installing from the CVS:
http://drupal.org/node/320

Would be good to have us all with this level of install so that we can start looking at the thousands of issues that are outstanding in Drupal.org that we can begin to look at & hopefully get into core.

If please post questions here if you've got problems and take some time in July to help work through the installation so we'll be ready for August.

As of June 13th there are:
- 320 Pending bugs (D7)
- 293 Critical issues (D7)
- 1515 Patch queue (D7)
- 94 Patches to review (D7)

There are also lists of Performance issues, Usability issues, Fields in Core issues and Accessibility issues to look at.

The issues have been tagged so it is possible to review them. You can even see ones tagged as Dries' Favourites

This is evening will hopefully get more developers in Ottawa familiar with using Drupal 7, contributing code suggestions to issues that affect us all and help us all have better tools to work with in 2010.

Wirespeak has again offered up their office in the ByWard Market (78 George St, Suite 2) and hopefully the weather will be nice enough to head out to a patio afterward. If a lot of people sign up for this meet up we may need to look at moving to a larger venue, so keep watching this space!

Please sign up for this event.

Hope to see you there.

Just wanted to post this event that I found out about through the Triangle LINUX Users Group

Sean Watson, netCorps, Technology Consultant, will provide a general overview of several of the popular content management systems and will lead a discussion of the pros/cons of each. Participants will:

1. Gain an understanding of when a CMS is better than a custom built/custom programmed static website and when it's not.

2. Gain an understanding of why a proprietary hosted CMS solution is not usually a good idea.

3. Gain an understanding of the issues regarding hosting user-owned CMSs such as Plone and Drupal.

4. Gain an understanding of what is involved in choosing an effective system for their specific needs.

5. Participate in activities to help you begin identifying specific needs/requirements.

Pizza (sponsored by NTEN & RTPNet) and socializing starting at 6:30, program at 7:00. Donations are welcome but not required.

United Way of the Greater Triangle is now located at 2400 Perimeter Park Drive.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Location
United Way of the Greater Triangle

2400 Perimeter Park Drive,
Suite 150
Morrisville, NC 27560
919-460-8687

It's time for another Austin Drupal Users Group Meetup! This month, Lauren Roth has invited us to join forces with the Austin Drupal Meetup Group from meetup.com and try a new venue, the UT ACT Lab.

From the meetup.com announcement:

Elegant Functionality Requires More Than Hacking Bluemarine

One of the greatest benefits of a Content Management System like Drupal, is the ability to separate the visual presentation (Theme) layer from the site logic. This is accomplished by placing your theme files in site/all/themes. The rest is up to your abilities to write & edit PHP template files, use hooks, and customize CSS for use in customizing the presentation of your site. The callbacks may seem a bit labyrinthine, but by making a sub-theme you can get well on your way.

Sound tough? It is not.

Come out next Month to learn how to get started! Lauren N. Roth will be giving short presentation to get you going and recommends bringing a Localhost installation on your own computer. Even if you are an experienced Drupal developer, write modules, and have been pimping out sites for years, let's get together, discuss best practices and demystify the design process. If you write modules, some themer needs to handle your output after they enable your module, so it would be fantastic to build a little elegance into the module itself!

Come out, ask questions, share your experiences and help others make some amazing Drupal sites!

Wednesday, June 24, 7:00 pm

UT ACT Lab
Guadalupe and Dean Keeton
Austin, TX 78705

Calling all Central Texas Drupalers! Meetups are very informal and Drupal users of all levels - new users to expert users - are encouraged to attend and participate.

The Austin DUG wants YOUR participation and your fellow Drupalers want to meet you, make new friends/professional contacts, and learn about how you're using Drupal.

De DrupalJams zijn vanuit het verleden door een kleine groep mensen geïnitieerd en georganiseerd. Nu DrupalJam even groot is als DrupalCon een aantal jaren geleden, is het zaak de toekomst van DrupalJam zeker te stellen; een voor en door de Nederlands(talige) Drupal gemeenschap periodieke unconference.

Voor en door betekent niet vrij van commercie (zoals GPL ook niet gratis betekent :-) maar wel dat de organisatie gedekt wordt door de gemeenschap en niet geclaimed wordt door het bedrijfsleven. En ook dat de organisatie budgetneutraal dient te zijn, met transparantie is is kosten en opbrengsten.

Op dit moment denk ik -als een van de founding papas van DrupalJam- dat de richting die de organisatie heeft gekozen niet meer strookt met deze initiële doelstellingen, hoe zeer ik ze ook dankbaar ben voor hun inzet en werk. En daarom wil ik de organisatie terug het publieke domein is. Maar wellicht heeft u hele andere idee-en; alla joomladagen, richting het DrupalCon concept, met bewaking van een NL Drupal stichting? Roept u maar gedurende deze unconference sessie op de DrupalJam.

Gedurende dit uur wil ik met personen die hier een mening over hebben en willen bijdragen in welke vorm dan ook discussiëren over mogelijke scenario's om de hoofddoelstelling te bewerkstelligen; een periodieke unconference voor en door de Nederlandse Drupal gemeenschap!

We are excited to announce our June Drupal Fresno Meet-up. We will be continuing our intro to Drupal sessions with plenty of Question and Answer time. This is the perfect opportunity to check out Drupal and what it can do for your web site.

Come sip coffee and talk about Drupal. Whether you're a Drupal newbie or a long time user, anyone is welcome. If you have questions or need help with Drupal, you are welcome to come and pick the brains of Fresno's Drupal community. We will also be sharing our experiences from the Bay Area Drupal Camp earlier this month.

We now have a new location for our monthly meet-ups. State Center Consortium has generously offered to host our meet-ups. SCC's facilities will allow us to utilize projectors as well as a nice conference room with room to grow this group. Don't fear, coffee and snacks will still be available, and it will be free!

State Center Consortium is located on the State Center Community College, Clovis Center Campus in Building B Suite 300. We will be in the one story building on the left. Signs will be posted. If you can't find us call the number below for directions.

State Center Consortium
http://statecenter.com
390 W Fir Ave
Building B, Suite 300
Clovis, Ca 93611
[559] 324-6410

Map to State Center

Please sign-up if you plan on attending. This gives the event organizers an idea about the number of attendees and allows them to notify attendees about any last minute venue changes.

Announcing our next Boston area Drupal training on Saturday, July 25, 2009, from 8:30AM to 6:00PM, in sunny Davis Square. If you've enjoyed the Drupaltherapy screencasts, then this is your chance to spend a day with the same level of high quality instruction in a supportive learning environment.

Check out the workshop annoucement for information on availability and registration.

Our next meeting will be held at ACTV in Amherst, MA: http://www.actvamherst.com on Thursday, June 25 at 6pm

Google Map: http://tinyurl.com/mr5dxn

Folks from the Denver Open Media Project will be out to tell us what they are up to. Denver is part of the Drupal Open Media Project (http://groups.drupal.org/open-media-project) and they are working finding the ideal Drupal setup for community television stations, like ACTV.

Thanks to Craig Sinclair of ACTV (synchlayer) for organizing this.

AGENDA

6:00-7:00
Regular meeting - perhaps two topics of discussion:

• Comments from those who attended Drupal 4 Design camp http://boston.design4drupal.org/
• Drupal and media - recommended methods of doing video, audio, images.

7:00 - 8:30
Presentation from the Denver Open Media Project folks.

See you then!

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
• 7:45 - 8:30 - Questions regarding presentation, general discussion, possible presentation of interest work being completed by Maryland Developers.

Reply if you're interested in attending.

Die DUG Heidelberg und Mannheim trifft sich jeden 1. Mittwoch um 20 Uhr im Zapata am Bahnhof in Heidelberg.

Zapata - http://www.zapata-hd.de/
http://maps.google.de/maps?f=q&hl=de&geocode=&q=heidelberg,+Willy-Brandt...

Damit ich einen entsprechenden Tisch reservieren kann, bitte ich um entsprechende Rückmeldung.
Danke euch!

Stefan, Fabian und Frank dürfen nach den Regeln von CAcert andere Personen entsprechend assuren. Daher nutzt die Möglichkeit und lasst euch entsprechend zertifizieren. Bitte aber im Vorfeld dazu anmelden und die nötigen Dokumente mitbringen!

DUG Rhein-Neckar - wie geht es weiter
Ich würde gerne ein paar Überlegungen angehen, wie sich die DUG entwickeln kann. Gibt es zB. Bedarf an Vorträge, gibt es Potential für Vorträge (sprich wer trägt mal vor) und wo könnte man die Vorträge halten?

The VVC's Web Design & Development Association (VVCWDDA) is an organization devoted towards the advancement of knowledge, skill, and expertise of web technologies in the High Desert community. Our focus is to introduce and discuss practical concepts and techniques in the development of websites, provide a platform to network and share knowledge with other web enthusiasts, impart consultation onto local businesses, and present opportunity for work experience to those interested. We meet on the second and last Wednesday of each month discussing both aspects of web design and web development, respectively. Meetings are generally held in the Student Activity Center, Floor 2 at the Victor Valley College.

Free Food!

Consumption: Yes, it is the end of VVC's Spring semester, and we're pretty much all burned out and struggling through finals. So instead of a formal discussion we're just gonna get together and indulge ourselves with pizza or whatever. Free food, free wifi, what more can you ask for??

Our meetings start at 6:00PM and are generally held at Victor Valley College in the Student Activity Center, Floor 2. This week our group will meet in the Quiet Room. There is a small $2.00 parking fee for non-student attendees, so make sure you bring extra quarters!
The address is:
Victor Valley College
18422 Bear Valley Road
Victorville CA, 92395

Gabe Treuhaft (an ASB Officer) has generously provided a map of the nearest parking lots along with where you can purchase daily-parking passes.
Lot 8, 20, or 21 are the closest to the Student Activities Center (building 44). If you're in lot 20 or 21 you must take the elevator to get to the upper campus

Cross post from the Alberta group as I know there were some attendees from Vancouver last year. (and Seattle isn't that much further of journey)

Drupal Camp Alberta 2009 will be held July 10th and 11th at the University of Lethbridge.

Check out http://www.drupalcampalberta.org for full details and to sign-up.

(please don't use the g.d.o sign-up feature; sign up at the web site instead)

L.A. Drupal - Los Angeles' Professional Drupal Network & User Group

*** NOTE: NEW ADDRESS!!! ***

When? Tuesday, June 30th, 7:30PM-9:30PM
Where? 1558 10th St. - Unit D, Santa Monica, CA 90401 (Venue Sponsor: CauseCast.org) (map)

Whats an LA Drupal meetup like? Fun & Interesting!

LA Drupal meetups are free and open to anyone interested in Drupal from beginner to guru, but you have to bring a fun attitude and be willing to share or learn.

We have areas for networking, general topics, and more advanced learning and sharing. Presentations and a big breakout session at the end to chat and network.

We like to highlight and encourage folks with cool local projects to present at upcoming meetings. In the past year we've had presenters from Warner Brothers Records; hosting over a hundred artist sites on Drupal, StandUp2Cancer.org - over a million hits in one day during the airing of the show, and local shops such as www.ThisByThem.com, www.openChimp.com, www.chillco.com, www.exaltations.net, www.IJHANA.com, www.WorkHabit.com, www.AchieveInternet.com, and others. Topics have included How to build your first Drupal Module, Using Views 1 & Views 2, Panels module, Drush module, Theming, and Scaling Drupal & Cloud computing among others.

Have a topic you'd like to see? Add it here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/9220

Agenda
Free Beer & Pizza provided by our host: www.causecast.org

Book Raffles sponsored by Apress and Wrox publishing.

DrupalCampLA 2009 Details: August 8-9 @ UC Irvine!

Main Presentation Area
Main presentation area holds up to 80 people and is geared towards general interest topics, especially geared towards people who are new to Drupal or the Topic(s) being presented. It is also a forum for sharing, asking questions.

Lightning Talks - come prepared to talk for 5 min. about something you'd like to share with the Drupal group. Finished a new Drupal site? Find a cool new module? Keep it succinct - you get stopped at five minutes - but we'll be nice about it.

Q & A followed by Job Announcements.

And...
In addition to our presentation(s) of the night we have open-mic opportunities for those who have general Drupal questions or need help during our wonderful meeting segment, "Ask the LA Drupal Community." Need to just ask another human a Drupal question? Then this is that chance.

We have raffle prizes for attendees, and as always, the end of the meeting is our networking session with the fun and knowledgeable LA Drupal crowd.

Those wishing to make announcements for Drupal jobs/work, please contact Chris Charlton (chris @ chrischarlton .us) and we can provide time for you to speak to the audience.

Tags for the night:
Post photos on Flickr.com with the tag "ladrupal" and "drupal".

More upcoming L.A. Drupal events & training: http://groups.drupal.org/node/3002/events

Get a Drupal job or post your own: http://groups.drupal.org/node/3002/jobs

Members can vote on our polls: http://groups.drupal.org/node/3002/polls

Chat with other LA Drupal members online now: http://ladrupal.org/chat

Join in on LA Drupal discussions: http://groups.drupal.org/node/3002/recent

http://info.smallerindiana.com/bigger-ideas/index.html

Hey Gang,
There is a rather interesting event coming up in a few weeks that I wanted to make you aware of.
Smaller Indiana is a group I belong to at www.smallerindiana.com It is put together by Pat Coyle and runs on the NING platform. By the way. The Ning social publishing platform is quite nice. What Pat has done with it is truly amazing.

Smaller Indiana had the idea some time ago to do an event titled, "Smaller Indiana, Bigger Ideas." The event is taking place Wednesday June24th from 1pm to 5pm in The Athenæum Theatre 401 E Michigan [where I used to be the audio engineer] A number of the attendees and speakers will be heading downstairs to the Rathskeller afterward to socialize.

Why am I going?
Those of you who know me know that I am not one to attend the Ra Ra Ra events where we're told to Go Out & Get Your Dream Realized, etc. I have been to those and while they are interesting they are not practical. Nor do I necessarily want to hear how someone go on and on about ho w they worked hard all there life and went from poverty to being a PhD in Astro Physics.
What I do like about the Smaller Indiana, Bigger Ideas event is that:
a] You can name your own price to attend. http://smallerindiana.com/profiles/blogs/set-your-own-ticket-price-for
b] Across the 4 hours I will hear many different kinds of speakers from different backgrounds with different messages. These people have something to say about BIG IDEAS and the role those ideas have had in their lives.
c] I expect to meet some fascinating people there. The "Guest List" published on the site, has some heavy hitters on it. While this is NOT the typical Networking Event, there will be opportunities for networking and if you know me, you know that I make time for networking!
d] IDEAS IDEAS IDEAS. I am full of ideas right now. I have spoken with many of you and I hear your ideas as well. I want to listen to the speakers and the attendees and the guests and hear what happened to their ideas. Look at the speaker list and tell me if you would listen to this guy or gal if you were standing in a long line at the bank. I know I would. I especially like the wrap-up at the end where John Ketzenberger: Business Columnists, Indianapolis Star will moderate a panel discussion among many of the speakers talking about what all was said. Check out the speaker list at http://info.smallerindiana.com/bigger-ideas/speakers.html

As mentioned. Smaller Indiana knows that times are tough and rather than have a 1/2 filled hall they have opened up seats for "Name Your Own Price." That's pretty cool actually. I may have to use that one some day for an event that I produce!

I am going, please register as attending to this event post even if you think you are going. I'd LOVE to see a discussion about some the speakers.
2008 ROCKED for me and my livelihood, my skill sets, my family etc. I am looking forward to getting OUT of my own bubble and listening to others talk about their ideas and experiences. Seriously. I am anxious to gain some new perspectives on what people are doing or have done.

Will you join me?

• Doug Vann - http://www.smallerindiana.com/profile/DougVannn

• www.dougvann.com

• www.twitter.com/dougvann
• http://www.facebook.com/people/Doug-Vann/561894870
• http://www.linkedin.com/in/dougvann

FISL 10 - Fórum Internacional de Software Livre
http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/10/www/

Título: CMS não é somente BLOG e Notícias. O Diferencial do uso de Drupal no Desenvolvimento do Portal da Secretaria Estadual de Saúde de Alagoas
Nível: Avançado
Palestrante: André Lins
Dia: 24 de Junho
Horário: 14h
Link: http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/10/papers/pub/programacao/196

Título: Instant Syndicating Standards
Nível: Avançado
Palestrantes: Nick Vidal, Bruna Griebeler, Tiago Rosa
Dia: 25 de Junho
Horário: 9h
Link: http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/10/papers/pub/programacao/317

Título: Drupal para Redes Sociais
Nível: Avançado
Palestrante: Leonardo Luiz e Silva
Dia: 26 de Junho
Horário: 17h
Link: http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/10/papers/pub/programacao/298

CMS BRASIL 2009 - São Paulo
http://cmsbrasil2009.com/

Addison Berry (add1sun) - Construindo com Drupal 7;
Addison Berry, Paulino Michelazzo e Leonardo Silva: Mesa Redonda (Drupal BR);
Leonardo Silva – Drupal para Redes Sociais;
Pedro Faria - Drupal: um site com sua cara;
Rafael Silva – Drupal: Com quantos módulos se faz um portal?

Drupal has been chosen to present in the open source pavilion at Open Source World. The spaces were limited so we are really excited to have been granted a booth. We have a strong community in the Bay Area, and would appreciate having people staff the booth to answer questions. We often need upwards of 6 people at the booth to answer questions during the rushes.

You can volunteer for different time slots, but we should have more people at the opening of the show and during the busy periods.

OK, so we are overdue for another meetup. To make up for this, we have two great community presentations lined up. Two people have so far volunteered to present so that this week we'll have Nesta's talk on how to do theme overrides in Drupal and next week Yannick (axle_foley00) has offered to present on multisites.

So this week Nesta will lead us through theme overrides with "Overriding HTML output in Drupal" (extremely useful stuff). Here's an outline of the talk:

Aim: Should be able to:
1. Locate overridable output
2. Override HTML using
* Functions - template.php
* Template files - *.tpl.php
3. Understanding rendering hierarchy

Intro:
* Structure of a Drupal theme
* Info files?
* template.php
* Theme registrty

Body:
* Finding themeable output
- theme functions (theme_)
- preprocess functions (template_preprocess_)
- theme file (.tpl.php)
- or just use the devel module's theme developer functionality
* Overriding theme or template preprocess function
* Overriding a theme file
* Converting from functions to templates
- getting the correct file name
- variables
* Forms?
* CSS Only themes?

Examples.
Tips.
Summary.

So overall the Agenda for the event is as follows:

1. First 15 min to half hour: introductions
   * Who are you?
   * What brings you here?
   * What do you do?
   * How do you use Drupal?
   * What are your websites, what companies do you work for?
   * Generally catching up.

2. Presentation: "Overriding HTML output in Drupal"
   * Use cases and examples
   * Q and A on the presentation

3. Group discussion
   * Anyone want to show off their multisite install?
   * Any projects or problems people have found and need help on?
   * Working on any interesting projects?
   * Want to share best practices when building Drupal sites?

So I hope to see you all on Saturday at UWI. 2pm sharp I will post further details of the venue later this week.