Drupal NYC Meetup @ 30 Rock - March 2nd

Welcome to Drupal NYC!

Please join us on Wednesday, March 2nd for our monthly meetup meetup at 30 Rock!

We have an exciting lineup this month just for beginners! If you just started or are thinking about using Drupal, we're here to show you how it's done!

You must enter your real name on the RSVP question or your RSVP will be removed. Check-in opens at 6pm sharp, see you on March 2nd!

Agenda
• 6:00 - Check-in opens, socializing + pizza sponsored by NBCUniversal
• 6:30 - Announcements
• 6:45 - Who's hiring, who's looking?
• 6:50 - Presentations begin!
• 8:20 - Closing Remarks, socializing + leftover pizza
• 8:45 - After party sponsored by Fastly @ Bill’s Bar & Burger (1 block north, 16 W. 51st St., accessible via Rockefeller Concourse) https://goo.gl/maps/Eghs2

Presentations

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A Beginner's View of Views with Views in Your View by Alexander Ross (http://www.drupal.org/u/bleen)

This talk will go through how you can use views to dynamically create lists of content. I’ll explain the ins and out of one of the most complicated UIs in all of Drupal-dom and inso doing, I’ll unlock the power of views to make your site filled with awesome. This talk is ideal for beginners however I will touch on a few more intermediate concepts and pro-tips.

Bio:
Alexander Ross is the Director of Software Engineering for CMS at NBCUniversal. This fall his Drupal.org profile turns 10 years old. With the exception of writing cover letters, Alex hates writing bios more than anything else in the world.

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Pro Drupal Development Crash Course by Jon Pugh (http://www.drupal.org/u/jon-pugh)

Take a wild ride through the day of your typical professional Drupal developer. Learn basic concepts like “modules”, “git”, and “tarballs”, tools of the trade, and overviews of blocks, node types, and more. You will walk away with an idea of what it takes to build any drupal site.

Bio:
Jon Pugh is the President & Cofounder of OpenDevShop Inc: a new company providing tools and support to make web development, testing, and hosting easier. Their flagship product, OpenDevShop, is an open source Platform-as-a-Service for Drupal. For more information please visit GetDevShop.com. You can find him at drupal.org/u/jon-pugh (https://www.drupal.org/u/jon-pugh) and @jonpugh (https://twitter.com/jonpugh).

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Drupal 8: New, Different, Better and Why You Should Care by Ray Saltini

Find out why everyone’s talking about Drupal 8 and how it can improve everything you do on the web. Drupal 8 may not look that different on the surface but fundamental changes in it’s design promise tremendous advantages for marketeers and IT professionals alike. We’ll review the status of contributed modules and how you can figure out if Drupal 8 is right for you.

Bio:
Ray Saltini is an active member of the Drupal community since 2005 as a developer, business owner and more recently as Director of the FFW Center of Excellence.

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Want to present at Drupal NYC?!
We are always looking for new talks and speakers from all skill levels. If you are interested in presenting at Drupal NYC please message Ben Jeavons, our Speaker Organizer, @ https://www.meetup.com/drupalnyc/members/6722489