Southern Colorado Drupal (and more) Meetup

Three great talks this meeting.

Caleb has already submitted this first talk for DrupalCamp Colorado: https://goo.gl/rgj2Xx David will be submitting his presentation soon. (If you like these talks, please comment to recommend that the committee accept them for the camp.)

Register for DrupalCamp CO (https://2016.drupalcampcolorado.org/) (It's free!) Submit a session. Meet people. August 13 and 14.

Learning to Learn Drupal

Drupal is a great content framework but it can be daunting for new developers or content managers to master it's various intricacies. Some have likened this to a "learning cliff". The toughest part of learning open source software is how to teach yourself in what is probably a DIY education.

This presentation will show you how to "learn about learning Drupal" so you can bootstrap your way to open source success.

Migration Season: Moving your Stuff to Drupal 8.

We are entering the Drupal migratory season following the release of Drupal 8.0 last November. Business owners and managers are scrambling to upgrade their out-dated and unsupported Drupal 6 websites. The North American Web Developer (drupal americae) must be prepared to create custom Drupal 8 migrations in order to meet this migration onslaught head-on.

In this presentation we will start with an overview of the core migration modules (still considered experimental in 8.1) followed by a discussion of available contrib modules such as Migrate Tools ( https://www.drupal.org/project/migrate_tools ) and Migrate Plus ( https://www.drupal.org/project/migrate_plus ). Then, for advanced use cases, we will explore implementing custom source, destination, and process plugins.

Space Symposium. The technology behind the Space Symposium is fun and amazing. The Space Foundation's technical support was innovative, and the vendors' displays contained VR, robotics and much more. Chris Stevens will give us the inside track.

And... if we have time...

DrupalCon NOLA. Learn the latest technology coming out of DrupalCon New Orleans. From those of us who were there, we will share trends and the inside track on what people are doing with Drupal.

We're at the great 21C Library. Find us in room B6.