Drupal Florida Group

Thanks for a great event this year.

Some attendees were asking if the slides from my Drupal Government Day presentation were available, so here they are:

https://one.ubuntu.com/files/shareoffer/5dfe3e10-0053-4bfa-ae0c-8c705ff3...

• Drupal4Gov

Start:  2012-05-22 18:30 - 20:30 America/New_York User group meeting Organizers:  ultimike

Join us on Tuesday evening, May 22th at 6:30pm for the latest installment of the Brevard Drupal Meetup Series, 2nd Edition. Topics for this meetup may include (but not be limited to):

• Drupal Ladder (http://learndrupal.org/) - the goal for this meetup is to make sure everyone has completed at least the first 2 rungs of the ladder (http://learndrupal.org/ladder/ee503327-50be-1904-8d04-9499098cad64)
• Tinkertoy Git, part 2 (working with remote repositories)

As always, we'll also leave some time for some free-form discussion about any Drupal-related topic.

The meetup will take place at The Porcher House in Cocoa Village. You're welcome to bring food and drink to the meetup, but please be respectful and leave the venue cleaner than we found it.

Please use the signup functionality below so we have an idea about how many people to expect.

• Central Florida

Thanks to everyone who attended the third Jacksonville Drupal Meetup. (Original event: http://groups.drupal.org/node/228133)

In attendance:
Kevin Basarab
Kelly Devlin
Erik Hendrick
Ramesh Marikanti
Jitesh Doshi
Ovi Dimulescu
Ritika Oswal
Pramod Jain
Priya Ganesan
Mirek Chowaniok
Kevin Basarab
Tad Kellermann
Max Bodruch

We started off the meeting with some introductions before starting up a Google Hangout and starting a presentation on Drupal Storm by Ramesh. Unfortunately we ran into issues with the Hangout. We had made it public which caused lots and lots of people showing up but not actually there for the presentation. Thinking next time we may need to make it invite only and get email addresses via IRC for invites into the hangout or have the Hangout only running on one computer as a moderator.

After Ramesh's presentation Jonathan took the stage for some Drupal 7 theming. We'll be doing another presentation by Jonathan on this as well soon.

Our next meeting will be June 19th. If you have any suggestions for a meetup topic please post them in the discussion below. Look forward to seeing everybody then.

• Duval County (Florida)

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• Broward Drupal (Broward County, Florida)

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• Broward Drupal (Broward County, Florida)

Start:  2012-05-19 12:00 - 16:00 America/New_York Training (free or commercial) Organizers:  rnorman

Drupal of Miami Workshops

This week we will going over Jay Callicott's Top 50 Drupal 7 Modules.

What Jay has done is trimmed his list down to the top 50-ish modules that he is most likely to use on any given project. Most of these modules he has used on real projects, many of them have been carried over from Drupal 6. Several of these are new Drupal 7 modules that didn’t exist in Drupal 6 and some others are Drupal 7 replacements for Drupal 6 modules.

I hope that you will come and join us for the fun.

May 2012 Dates

May 19, 2012
Saturday Drupal of Miami Workshop starting at 12:00 noon until 4pm

May 23, 2012
Drupal of Miami Monthly Meeting Wednesday evening starting at 6pm

May 26, 2012
Saturday Drupal of Miami Workshop starting at 12:00 noon until 4pm

We hope that you will join us for the fun.

Location Address:
Telephone Number Needed: 786-286-0773
Terranova Building
801 Arthur Godfrey Road 402A
Miami Beach, Florida 33140

This is located NW corner of Arthur Godfrey Road and Meridian Avenue. 801 41st Street is the same as 801 Arthur Godfrey Road - one block east of Alton Road.

Free Parking is located one block North of the Terranova Building. Coming across the causeway from Miami, go to the third traffic light which is Meridian Avenue, turn left

(North) go one block, turn left and there will be parking in front of the school.

Entrance to the Terranova Building will be in the rear of the building. You will not be able to enter from the front doors at night or on the weekends.
Walk South across the parking lot and go to the backside of the Terranova Building and up the car ramp to the back door.

You will have to call me at 786-286-0773 so I can let you in.

Thank You
Ronald Norman

• Miami, Florida

Start:  2012-05-25 09:00 - 17:00 America/New_York User group meeting Organizers:  Andrew M Riley caelon

If you are a Drupal Professional and would like to work along side other Drupal Professionals come out and cowork with us. We'll be at UrbanReThink on May 25th 2012 in the "Garage" all day long (The UrbanReThink cost will be covered by Mediacurrent.)

There are plenty of good restaurants around Urban ReThink so we'll probably do lunch "out". (Meals will be the responsibility of the attendees.) I will most likely be bringing baked goods for the morning.

Please comment or signup for this event on groups.drupal.org so I can get a better picture of the number of people that will be attending the Orlando event.

Date: May 25th 2012
Address: Urban ReThink, 625 E Central Blvd, Orlando, FL, 32801
Hours: 9am - 5pm (EST)
Cost: Free (Sponsored by Mediacurrent)

About Drupal Coworking Friday:
- Date: Last Friday of each month
- Focused on Drupal Professionals (freelance, fulltime, part time, in office, home, etc.)
- This is not a meetup, code-sprint, BoF or presentation
- Attendees would still do their regular work/calls/etc
- Other Drupal folks would be there to talk to, collaborate, advise (and likewise for the attendee)
- Ideally, an entire section of the space will be dedicated for Drupal professionals

See http://groups.drupal.org/node/195983 for the Drupal Coworking Friday FAQ and the Coworking group at http://groups.drupal.org/coworking for general information about coworking. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coworking for writeup from Wikipedia about what coworking is.

• Drupal Coworking

Start:  2012-05-19 13:00 - 15:00 America/New_York User group meeting Organizers:  Andrew M Riley liberatr

Orlando Drupal Meetup (Jay's Top 50 D7 Modules), May 19th 1pm

This month we'll be reviewing Jay's Top 50 Drupal 7 modules (http://www.mediacurrent.com/blog/jays-top-50-drupal-7-modules). We'll discuss what modules are on the list, what they do, why they are there and if there are any "must have" modules that aren't on the list that should be.

Please remember that there is a suggested donation of $5 or more at Urban Rethink. Its not required but it is appreciated :)

Parking map of Urban ReThink - I don't recommend the garage (unless there is a massive event at Lake Eola)

P.S. Don't forget that there will be a FREE Drupal Coworking event at Urban Rethink on May 25th!

P.P.S. If you are interested in attending remotely, please let me know so I can setup a Google+ Hangout.

• Remote Meetups

Location: Orlando, Florida
Position Summary:
The Lead Drupal Developer position requires a senior developer with proven experience delivering Drupal based web sites through hands on development and leading a team of less experienced developers. It requires a deep understanding of the Drupal platform and using various modules and custom PHP coding to meet the business requirements communicated through Product Requirements Document (PRD), Wireframes, and HTML prototypes. The Lead Drupal Developer serves the as the technical point of contact for the implementation of the Drupal based solution and is responsible for establishing methods and procedures for the rest of the development team.

Required skills:
•3+ Years developing Drupal based sites including custom PHP development
•Experience using various Drupal add-on modules and customizing those modules
•PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript
•Experience integrating Drupal based sites to other backend systems through web services
•Development team leadership experience
•Knowledge of proven source control processes and reliable deployment procedures
•Fluent in English with strong written and verbal communication skills

Responsiblities:

•Review site requirements provided in various formats such as PRDs, Wireframes, HTML prototypes, etc. and create a project schedule with high level tasks and assignments across the development team
•Provide input to the project plan managed by a project manager
•Provide weekly status reports on tasks to the project manager
•Establish best practices and oversee the end-to-end development process to ensure high quality and future maintainability
•Manage a team of 3-10 developers to deliver a particular release comprised of local and offshore resources
•Customize existing Drupal modules or develop new custom modules to meet site requirements
•Consult with product managers to give feedback on site design and future functionality
•Administer the Drupal servers during development and conduct handoff to offshore teams for ongoing support

• Florida

For those of you that know Rachel - she has joined the Peace Corps and is now in Masatepe Nicaragua and will be teaching small business development. You can follow her blog at http://mytravelepic.com/ - she hopes to connect will some Central American Drupal folks.

• Florida

We held our Broward Drupal monthly meetup on Wednesday, May 9th from 7:00pm to 9:00pm.

Remote participant(via Skype):
Seattle - Chris Parsons @chillin411

In Person (Greater Fort Lauderdale, Broward County Florida):
Jay Epstein @jeppy64
Rob de Koter @Robdekoter
John Everett @Agile_dot_TV
John Dennison @JohnDennison
Jeff Locke (adoptek.com)
Tony Webb
Elvis Svoboda
Samantha Jackson
Shevlin Pierce
Me @hectoriribarne

We started the meetup talking about Git. Chris Parsons (@chillin411 http://chris-parsons.com) gave a presentation using Git for source control. Chris covered the following topics:
- What version control is and why it should be used
- Why Git?
- Getting started with Git and Drupal
- Examples of most popular Git commands ( git add, git status, git commit, etc.)
- Merging, Branching, and Reverting
- Pushing code out to the world

Jay Epstein (@jeppy64 http://jay-epstein.com) gave a demo of Views slideshow. He focused the demo on using CSS to customize each slideshow. Jay showed how to use multiple views slideshows on the same page. He also talked about image cache and using libraries in Drupal.

We had one remote participant via Skype and ten in the meeting room. The rest of the meetup was spent answering questions from our participants.

Below is a link to the slides of the Git presentation:
http://browarddrupal.org/PastMeetings/may-2012

To keep up with the Broward Drupal meetup group, follow us on Twitter: @BrowardDrupal
You can also follow our members at http://twitter.com/BrowardDrupal/broward-drupal-members

--Hector

• Broward Drupal (Broward County, Florida)

Start:  2012-05-12 12:00 - 16:00 America/New_York User group meeting Organizers:  rnorman

Drupal of Miami Workshops

Planning a website take time. What is the correct way to plan a website? What do you need? I will be going over these questions and more this week at the workshop. Come and bring your skills on planning a Drupal Website. Let's discuss the best Drupal ideas for developing the best Drupal Websites possible.

I hope that you will come and join us for the fun.

May 2012 Dates

May 12, 2012
Saturday Drupal of Miami Workshop starting at 12:00 noon until 4pm

May 19, 2012
Wednesday evening Drupal of Miami monthly meeting starting at 6PM

May 23, 2012
Drupal of Miami Monthly Meeting Wednesday evening starting at 6pm

May 26, 2012
Saturday Drupal of Miami Workshop starting at 12:00 noon until 4pm

We hope that you will join us for the fun.

Location Address:
Telephone Number Needed: 786-286-0773
Terranova Building
801 Arthur Godfrey Road 402A
Miami Beach, Florida 33140

This is located NW corner of Arthur Godfrey Road and Meridian Avenue. 801 41st Street is the same as 801 Arthur Godfrey Road - one block east of Alton Road.

Free Parking is located one block North of the Terranova Building. Coming across the causeway from Miami, go to the third traffic light which is Meridian Avenue, turn left

(North) go one block, turn left and there will be parking in front of the school.

Entrance to the Terranova Building will be in the rear of the building. You will not be able to enter from the front doors at night or on the weekends.
Walk South across the parking lot and go to the backside of the Terranova Building and up the car ramp to the back door.

You will have to call me at 786-286-0773 so I can let you in.

Thank You
Ronald Norman

• Miami, Florida

Start:  2012-05-10 17:00 - 20:00 America/New_York User group meeting Organizers:  bhosmer

The second Brevard County Drupal Meetup will be held at the Cocoa Library in Meeting Room #4.

Dorothy will discuss Vagrant, but feel free to propose any other topics as well.

• Central Florida

Start:  2012-05-16 18:00 - 20:00 America/New_York User group meeting Organizers:  mherchel jenlong brandonratz

Due to scheduling conflicts, our monthly Gainesville Drupal meetup is postponed till next Wednesday, May 16th. It'll be at the same place and time - Alachua County Library HQ (in the Foundation Rm Storybook Room on the first floor) at 6pm.

We'll be discussing some beginning to intermediate Views techniques, in addition to having a module Q & A round-table!

• Gainesville

Start:  2012-05-09 19:00 - 21:00 America/New_York User group meeting Organizers:  chillin411 jeppy64 iribarne

Broward Meetup (second Wednesday of the month)

Wednesday, May 9th, 2012 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Dunkin' Donuts - 9170 State Road 84 (south side of I-595 between Nob Hill and Pine Island) Davie, FL 33324 USA
http://browarddrupal.org/gmaplocation

This month we will be talking about Git and also about Context

If you want to participate virtually, send me a Skype connect request to hectoriribarne. I will initiate the Skype call with the people that signed up for the event but are not present at the meetup shortly after 7pm. We will be using http://Join.me to share our desktop with remote participants. We have used Join.me for the last few meetups and things are going pretty well.

Broward Drupal site: http://BrowardDrupal.org
Broward Drupal twitter: @BrowardDrupal

--Hector

• Broward Drupal (Broward County, Florida)

Start:  2012-05-05 12:00 America/New_York User group meeting Organizers:  rnorman

Drupal of Miami Workshops

This week we will be setting up a new Drupal Website, "Drupal of Miami". We hope that you will join us creating our new Website for Drupal of Miami. We would like your input. Now is the time to give us your input on creating the best Drupal Website ever made, or least I would think so. Think about what you would like in a local Drupal Website and what you would like us to do for future workshops.

I hope that you will come and join us for the fun.

May 2012 Dates

May 5, 2012
Saturday Drupal of Miami Workshop starting at 12:00 noon until 4pm
May 12, 2012
Saturday Drupal of Miami Workshop starting at 12:00 noon until 4pm
May 19, 2012
Saturday Drupal of Miami Workshop starting at 12:00 noon until 4pm
May 26, 2012
Saturday Drupal of Miami Workshop starting at 12:00 noon until 4pm
May 30, 2012
Drupal of Miami Monthly Meeting Wednesday evening starting at 6pm

We hope that you will join us for the fun.

Location Address:
Telephone Number Needed: 786-286-0773
Terranova Building
801 Arthur Godfrey Road 402A
Miami Beach, Florida 33140

This is located NW corner of Arthur Godfrey Road and Meridian Avenue. 801 41st Street is the same as 801 Arthur Godfrey Road - one block east of Alton Road.

Free Parking is located one block North of the Terranova Building. Coming across the causeway from Miami, go to the third traffic light which is Meridian Avenue, turn left

(North) go one block, turn left and there will be parking in front of the school.

Entrance to the Terranova Building will be in the rear of the building. You will not be able to enter from the front doors at night or on the weekends.
Walk South across the parking lot and go to the backside of the Terranova Building and up the car ramp to the back door.

You will have to call me at 786-286-0773 so I can let you in.

Thank You
Ronald Norman

• Miami, Florida

Start:  2012-05-15 18:00 - 20:00 America/New_York User group meeting Organizers:  kbasarab Jitesh Doshi

The Jacksonville user groups May meetup will be happening on the third tuesday of the monday (May 15) from 6-8.

We are going to strive for two presentations per meeting - one focusing on more beginner/intermediate and one on more advanced Drupal to keep all parties interested.

For May we are excited to have Ramesh Marikanti speaking about Project management with Drupal Storm. This presentation will not only benefit Drupal developers but also those in the business community around Jacksonville.

For our second presentation we will be looking at some Drupal theming with Jonathan Riley and Jitesh Doshi.

The location will stay the same with FloSTEM generously allowing us to use their offices.

Remote participation will be done via Google Plus. Kevin Basarab will setup a hangout on + for remote participants. Once I start it I will add the invite here as a comment on day of the event.

We look forward to seeing everyone on May 15th.

FloSTEM
9551 Baymeadows Rd, Suite 18
Jacksonville, FL 32256
(Shopping center behind Tires Plus)

• Remote Meetups

User group meeting Organizers:  mew_fla chrisbudy

The 21st meetup for the Tampa Bay Drupal Users Group is this Thursday, May 3rd @ 6pm.

This meetup, we do not seem to have a planned topic, so please bring your Drupal questions and knowledge and we can use this meetup to plan ahead for future meetings. If you have a proposed topic for this meetup, please feel free to post it here. All ideas are welcome!

The meeting is scheduled for 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, at the usual location — Panera on Ulmerton Road:
2285 Ulmerton Rd.
Clearwater, FL 3376
Google Maps Link

There is a $50 charge to use their meeting room, but any food purchases are deducted from this cost, so come hungry (for food as well as Drupal knowledge)!

Look forward to seeing everyone there.

• Florida

Hi,

I'm working on this site: http://oma.wcltech.com

I've got a site with a Content Type of newsletter with a select list called seasons.
The idea is to build a view that sorts the items in the order:
Seasons should be in Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn order.

Any idea on how to accomplish this?

• Florida

Start:  2012-10-26 08:00 UTC Drupalcamp or Regional Summit Organizers:  Mediacurrent

Please hold the date - the Atlanta Drupal Business Summit date has been set for Friday, October 26th, 2012 at the Cobb Galleria Center.

Sign-up for updates, announcements, and sponsorships opportunities at www.drupalcampatlanta.com

Thank you!

• triDUG