Berkeley

BADCamp is back

The world’s largest free Drupal event is back! BADCamp, The Bay Area Drupal Camp will be held October 24 and 25 at Oakstop, 1721 Broadway, Oakland CA USA. With two days of sessions, summits, after-hours socials, and all sorts of other goodies, this is your chance to plug in to the most existing things happening in the Drupal world.

I’m hiring a new position: "...Web Specialist is a member of University Communications and Marketing (UCM) Web Team and provides expertise in the use of Drupal and the Enterprise Web design system to users and content creators throughout the university. The candidate will also serve part time as Scrum Master for the UCM Web Team."

https://jobs.calpoly.edu/en-us/job/535958/web-specialist

Drupal Diversity & Inclusion advocates through SFDUG are hosting a Speaker Diversity Workshop to help speakers from underrepresented groups prepare to speak at conferences. This will in turn help local meetups, Drupal Camps, and even DrupalCons develop a more diverse speaker roster. The workshop helps folks bust through their impostor syndrome and develop a topic, title, pitch, bio, and outline. #DrupalSpeakerDiversity

The workshop covers:
- Impostor syndrome
- Finding a topic
- Better speaker tips
- Writing a great pitch
- Creating an outline
- Creating great slides

A small, on-campus unit needs help developing an e-commerce solution to sell scientific samples. The requirements and design of the project are not fully executed - we need help with that, too.

The site is Pantheon hosted on a berkeley.edu domain. We would prefer to work with a student or on-campus contractor.

Contact defreece@berkeley.edu for more information

Brooks Digital is a growing digital agency that helps nonprofits build and continuously improve their websites. We work with clients to determine how their website helps them achieve their mission, and then create and execute a data-driven plan to increase the impact of their website. We are looking for a Tech Lead to provide technical oversight and leadership for our one-time and ongoing projects based on Drupal 7 and 8.

As a Tech Lead, you are accountable for understanding and guiding technical architecture, making and communicating tradeoff decisions during project implementation, advocating for code quality and project sustainability, performing technical analysis and breakdown of features, managing releases (including the project release pipeline), reviewing and testing work to meet project/company standards, and mentoring other engineers on the team. Your work ensures the long-term success of our nonprofit clients, and helps them create positive change in the world.

This is an hourly contract / remote opportunity, with the potential for full-time hire (if desired) for the right candidate as the company grows.

Hello,

I am part of a small UC Berkeley organized research unit, and our IT person is currently out of town. We need a small update (adding an event to a list of events, formatting a short description of the event, adding an image and linking to 2 pages) for our website. Does anyone know a contractor who could do this sort of job? How much does this usually cost?

Also, are there resources on the UC campus? Any particular names you recommend?

Thank you,
Julia

Mike Gifford of OpenConcept is visiting the Bay Area. He has spearheaded accessibility improvements in Drupal since 2008.

We would like to extend an invitation to everyone for a meetup.

This is an opportunity to for us to talk with Mike and Community leaders about Drupal and accessibility. This can be about business development, but also a chance to talk and collaborate about contributing back to open-source communities and finding ways to make accessibility easier to implement for everyone.

Snacks will be provided.

Thursday June 15th, 5:30 - 8:00 PM at the

Our non-profit horse association has a Drupal 5.0 website that has a couple of bugs. It needs to be upgraded to Drupal 8.0 or at least 7.0, but the bugs (and perhaps just standard upgrade complications) have prevented me from being able to do this. Does anyone we could hire to help still know Drupal 5.0, or should we just start over? The new person managing the website wants to use Wordpress, so unless I can find a cost-effective way to upgrade it, that is what they will do.

Thanks for any ideas!
Allison
abloodworth@gmail.com

Hello BDUG members,

Due to time constraints and competing priorities, we will not schedule BDUG meetings in 2017 unless anyone volunteers to present.

BDUG remains open to the non-UC Berkeley Drupal community. Feel free to post to this board, and if anyone is interested in presenting, please let us know, and we may be able to help coordinate and schedule.

Best,
Anna

The Summit

The 2-day conference will feature sessions covering a range of Drupal topics from site building, development and code, design and theming, to business and project management. Most sessions will be intermediate or advanced with some suitable for beginners too! Aside from planned presentations, we'll also have space for breakout sessions, and of course there will be lots of time to catch up with your Pacific Northwest Drupal friends. Register today for only 55ドル!

Welcome to the Devops World of Tomorrow, today! Self-driving browsers, automation of menial tasks like testing, rocket-like scalability: DevOps technology can give us access to a brighter future for developers and business owners alike. In this summit, we’ll discuss topics like automated testing, Docker, and continuous integration.

We’ll also explore how these technologies can benefit organizations like yours, and why you should invest in them. Anyone who is looking to save time, money, and work - with happier development teams - should attend, to enter the DevOps future.

BDUG 8/16: Thinking about Drupal 8: A Facilitated Discussion
TIME: 12:00-1:30pm
LOCATION: 2111 Bancroft Way (the "Banway" building)

Do you manage a custom Drupal website? Are you ready for a site upgrade and don’t know whether to choose Drupal 7 or Drupal 8? Or do you have a Drupal 6 site (Drupal 6 reached its official end-of-life on 2/28/16) that you’d like to migrate to a newer Drupal version and you don’t know where to begin?

In this session, we will facilitate a discussion about Drupal 8. Topics will include:

Dear Friends,
This course is suitable for anyone who want to use and manage Drupal 8 in their organisation. NO programming skills is required. For more information, visit
http://drupalsite.me/

It took me over 6 months of hard work to create this Drupal 8 tutorial series. 'Das Equity' enrolment is available. Pass it on to your friends and collegues who may benefit from learning Drupal 8. An intermediate level course is now in progress and expected to be released on Aug 20, 2016.

Get course updates through youtube channel

BDUG 3/22: What can Drupal.org do for you?
TIME: 12:00-1:00pm
LOCATION: 2111 Bancroft Way (the "Banway" building)

In the course of working with Drupal, whether as a site builder, a developer, or even as someone just evaluating it, you may have questions about how things work - or why they don't. So you may turn to Drupal.org, and find that getting to the information you need on a site with (at last count) 2,687,205 pages can be difficult.

BDUG in 2016

A new year is upon us and we’ve done some reflection on the past year of BDUG, which has inspired us to implement some changes.

• We are planning to host fewer BDUG sessions in 2016. Tentatively the following dates are scheduled: 1/26, 3/22, 6/21, 8/16
• Time: 12pm - 1pm
• New Location: We are moving the sessions to the Banway Building, 2111 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94720, 4th floor conference room 441B

Hello everyone -

There will be no Berkeley Drupal Users Group (BDUG) meeting this month. We'll resume BDUG sessions in 2016. Happy holidays!

Thanks,
Anna

There will be no Berkeley Drupal Users Group (BDUG) this month; however, we invite you to attend the following Bay Area Drupal event:

Bay Area Drupal Camp 2015

October is BADCamp 2015 (http://2015.badcamp.net/):

WHAT: 4 days of training, summits, sprints, sessions, BoFs, Jobs, Networking and more!
WHEN: October 22 - 25, 2015
WHERE: UC Berkeley campus

Berkeley Drupal Users Group: September 21, 12-1:30pm
WHERE: UC Berkeley Campus: D-Lab (356 Barrows)
MAP: http://groups.drupal.org/berkeley/map

NOTE: BDUG will take place at the D-Lab Convening Room (356 Barrows Hall).

** This session is applicable beyond just Drupal users - any designer or developer who works with CSS could benefit from the techniques we'll be discussing. **

Don't Break your Site when you Change your CSS!

Berkeley Drupal Users Group: August 17, 12-1:30pm

WHERE: UC Berkeley Campus: D-Lab (356 Barrows)

MAP: http://groups.drupal.org/berkeley/map

NOTE: BDUG will take place at the D-Lab Convening Room (356 Barrows Hall).

Introduction to Git

Interested in learning about version control (and you know you should be doing it if you write or edit any code — including HTML/CSS) but never had the time to get started?

• Always wondered what Git and Github are for?
• Tired of saving lots of copies of your code and losing track of the state of each saved copy?

We will not be holding a Berkeley Drupal Users Group this month; DrupalCon 2015 in Los Angeles is next week!

WHAT: DrupalCon 2015
WHEN: May 11 - 15, 2015
WHERE: Los Angeles Convention Center

The North American DrupalCon is the most widely attended Drupal event in the world. Taking place in sunny Los Angeles, California this year, DrupalCon Los Angeles will feature a full schedule of educational, networking, and contribution opportunities.

Visit https://events.drupal.org/losangeles2015 for the latest on this year’s DrupalCon!