Providence Drupal Meetup

next meetup: Practical Performance Wednesday, 5/23 @ Lullabot's place

jpamental — Mon, 21 May 2012 12:39:12 +0000

Our next Providence Drupal Meetup will be this Wednesday, May 23rd at 6:00pm at Lullabot's Activity Center (150 Chestnut St, 3rd Floor, Providence, RI). We’ll be kicking back with food and drink in their swanky work space. Parking is free on and off street (starts at 5 pm).

Due to a scheduling conflict we're shuffling sessions a bit: RDI Studio will be presenting later this season and in their place I'll be hosting what I hope to be a good round-table style talk on Practical Performance - tips and tricks to speed up your Drupal sites from the basics of CSS/JS aggregation to Views Caching, the Boost module and some server tricks like MySQL tuning and setting up APC (it's not as hard as you think!). While we will certainly cover some very nerdy bits, please don't be shy! Good performance starts with good design decisions: we'll talk about some choices you can make in the design process that can greatly help increase the snappiness of your finished site.

Doors open at 6 pm; we ask that you try to arrive by 6:30 pm for networking. The program starts promptly at 7 pm. The program includes introductions, some quick presentations, and a chance to pick the brains of your fellow attendees.

next meetup: DrupalCon Debrief! Thursday, 3/29 @ Lullabot's place

jpamental — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 21:43:22 +0000

Our next Providence Drupal Meetup will be on Thursday, March 29th at 6:00pm at Lullabot's Activity Center (150 Chestnut St, 3rd Floor, Providence, RI). We’ll be kicking back with food and drink in their swanky work space. Parking is free on and off street (starts at 5 pm).

This month we're going to give a run-down of some of our highlights from DrupalCon Denver. I know I'll have some favorites, but if you're heading out to Denver, keep some notes and share some of your own 'most memorable bits' - from training to design techniques to new modules. The best way to get the most out of a session is to retell it, so be warned: you WILL be put on the spot!

#DrupalCon ho! On the way to Denver

jpamental — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 21:38:14 +0000

On my way to Denver for DrupalCon, and am really looking forward to seeing some familiar faces and meeting new ones. I'll be checking out the 'Education Unconference' tomorrow to talk about Drupal in K-12 and responsive design, and hoping to get a few people together to talk about web fonts during the week as well. I know there are a bunch of DrupalPVD friends and loads of Lullabots there or en route. It's shaping up to be another great event - and next week (Thursday the 29th) we'll give a run-down of some of the highlights at the next DrupalPVD meetup. (that post is next!)

Cheers all-

Jason

next meetup: Leap Day! Wednesday, 2/29 @ Lullabot's place

jpamental — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:48:56 +0000

Our next Providence Drupal Meetup will be on Leap Day - Wednesday, February 29th at 6:00pm at Lullabot's Activity Center (150 Chestnut St, 3rd Floor, Providence, RI). We’ll be kicking back with food and drink in their swanky work space. Parking is free on and off street (starts at 5 pm).

This month we're going to show off some of the things we've been doing at Schoolyard to build up some complex functionality with some simple building blocks and creative use of Features, Views Attach and a couple of other modules that will let you do some pretty nifty things, put more control in the hands of the site administrator and reduce the need for developer/site builder intervention on an ongoing basis.

next meetup: Tuesday, 1/17 @ Lullabot's place - co-sponsored with Providence Web App Security Group

jpamental — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:58:40 +0000

Our next Providence Drupal Meetup will be on Tuesday, January 17th at 7:00pm at Lullabot's Activity Center (150 Chestnut St, 3rd Floor, Providence, RI). We’ll be kicking back with food and drink in their swanky cool space. Parking is free on and off street (starts at 5 pm). Drinks and mingling starts at 6, so come early!

We're playing co-host with our friends the Providence Web Application Security Group and Greg Knaddison, Acquia's Director of Security Services (aka Head of Drupal Security) will be giving a talk 'live via sattelite' (ok, Skype). The title of the presentation is "Drupal as a Security Vendor". He will show the methodology that is used in Drupal for handling security issues and comparing/contrasting with how other similar projects do it. Greg has said that this presentation will be more "OWASPy" than "Drupaly".

Greg won't actually be in attendance, we'll be trying out a "virtual" presentation where Greg will present live from Denver over a Skype connection.

Don't let the techy topic fool you - this is a great conversation about just how much is done in Drupal to counteract the 'Open Source means insecure' FUDdle that is so often thrown about when suggesting Drupal as a platform on client projects.

A huge thank you also to our hosts at Lullabot and especially to our speaker, Greg Knaddison.

Please forward this on to anyone who might be interested and please bring a friend or colleague along!

Acquia: http://www.acquia.com
Lullabot: http://www.lullabot.com
Providence Web App Security Group: http://www.provwebappsec.com/

next meetup: Thursday, 10/27 @ Lullabot's place - sponsored by 38 Studios!

jpamental — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:40:03 +0000

Our next Providence Drupal Meetup will be on Thursday, October 27th at 6:00pm at Lullabot's Activity Center (150 Chestnut St, 3rd Floor, Providence, RI). We’ll be kicking back with food and drink in their swanky new space. Parking is free on and off street (starts at 5 pm).

This month the folks from 38 Studios are sponsoring, and coming by to tell us a bit about how they're Doing It With Drupal (oh, and we might have a little chat about DIWD - Lullabot's amazing conference they held last week in NYC). All bad puns aside - it's going to be great to hear about how a high-profile game company is leveraging Drupal in a bunch of interesting ways. Don't miss it!

next meetup: Thurs, 9/22 @ Lullabot's place!

jpicozzi — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 17:03:29 +0000

Our next Providence Drupal Meetup will be on Thursday, September 22nd at 6:00pm at Lullabot's Activity Center (150 Chestnut St, 3rd Floor, Providence, RI). We’ll be kicking back with food and drink in their swanky new space. Parking is free on and off street (starts at 5 pm).

This month's meetup is going to be great for designers from every walk of life. Matt Dutra from Rubic Design + Interactive will be talking about the design challenges of translating design language from print to web systems like Drupal - Today's web is always changing and designing for all those variables can be hard. Matt will cover some approaches to designing for long/short content, text heavy/image heavy pages, different devices and screens (color, type, scale). Be sure to stop in, Matt is sure to entertain.

Please RSVP via the comments below, and please pass it along. Have no fear - we will have free appetizers and drinks and lots of good times talking and learning Drupal.

See you soon!

next meetup: Tue, 7/26 @ Lullabot's place!

jpamental — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:13:02 +0000

We've set the date for the next Providence Drupal Meetup. It'll be on Tuesday, July 26th at 6:00pm a Lullabot's new Activity Center (150 Chestnut St, 3rd Floor, Providence, RI). We’ll be in their swanky new space; food and drinks will be served. Parking is free on and off street (starts at 5 pm).

This one's going to be great for designers and front-end developers. The topic is going to be about theming with LESS.css - you'll be amazed at how much this will speed up your process when combined with a 'starterkit' Zen theme. Heck, we might even get to talk about how this plays into putting the principles of Responsive Design into play.

Please RSVP via the comments below, and please pass it along. Have no fear - we will have free appetizers and some free drinks and lots of good times and Drupal learning.

See you soon!

whoa! next meetup's @ Lullabot's Activity Center! Wed. 6/15

jpamental — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:53:18 +0000

Check it out! We've set the date for the next Providence Drupal Meetup. It'll be on Wednesday, June 15th at 6:00pm a Lullabot's new Activity Center. We’ll be in their swanky new space; food and drinks will be served. Parking is free on and off street (starts at 5 pm).

This one's pretty special. It's in the middle of Lullabot's Deep Dive workshops in module development, so there's going to be some really big, smart brains to pick in addition to a bunch of smart Drupalers there for the workshop. (What?! You aren't going to their workshop?! Still a few seats left - go get 'em! http://lb.cm/Zvo )

Please RSVP via the comments below, and please pass it along. Have no fear - we will have free appetizers and some free drinks and lots of good times and Drupal learning.

See you next week!

The Third Annual Drupal Design Camp Boston - June 25-26, 2011

jpamental — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 17:26:03 +0000

The Third Annual Drupal Design Camp Boston - June 25-26, 2011

The third annual Drupal Design Camp Boston, the Drupal community's first camp dedicated to design, will take place again at the MIT Stata Center on June 25-26. Each year, 315+ Drupalists gather in Cambridge to discuss ideas and take part in interactive sessions on the future of Drupal, focusing on everything from usability to technology from a design perspective. Dries Buytaert and Joshua Porter to keynote.

Website:

http://boston2011.design4drupal.org

Location:

MIT Stata Center
32 Vassar Street
Cambridge, MA 02139

Please join us:

Register
Propose a session-proposals are due June 12
Promote by adding camp badge to your website, email signature, or blog.
Contribute to the design of the site by submitting their own original artwork to rotate as the background of the site. When you register, go ahead and add an image to this growing rotation of stunning photos, drawings, and graphics!
Book your hotel at the locally owned (by college design graduates!), The Kendall, and ask for "Drupal Design" $169 rates or book on website by typing in DRU http://kendallhotel.com.

We're very excited about the great keynotes and sessions we're going to have this year. Visit http://boston2011.design4drupal.org to register, propose a session, and get your badge. And see you June 25.

More:

To connect with Drupal Design Camp, learn about conference registration availability and session proposals, use:

Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/D4DBoston

Twitter:
http://twitter.com/D4DBoston

Design 4 Drupal groups page:
http://groups.drupal.org/design-drupal

IRC:
#drupal-design

For more information on the history of Drupal Design Camp, visit: http://drupal.org/node/480322

Help us promote! Tweets you can copy and paste:

Registration is now open for Drupal Design Camp Boston, MIT Stata Center, June 25-26: http://ow.ly/54A2m
The #D4DBoston website is officially up! You can now register, propose a session & get your attendee badge: http://ow.ly/54A2m
Session proposals for #D4DBoston due June 12- submit yours soon: http://ow.ly/54A2m
Attending or sponsoring #D4DBoston? Get your badge for your website & show your #Drupal pride: http://ow.ly/54Af1