Austin Drupal Meetup & Central Timezone Meetup (October 2025)

Join ~15 Drupalers and the Drupal-curious for an Austin Drupal Users Group meetup.

We're meeting in a conference room at Apple Parmer Lane, Building 4 ( 5505 W Parmer Ln, 78727 ). The 7-8pm hour will feature a presentation via Zoom that we'll join to watch as a group. Remote participants are welcome to join the Zoom too!

We're very grateful for our sponsors and venue hosts! Please contact an organizer if your company is interested in investing in the Drupal Austin community as a sponsor of this or a future meetup.

Whether you're an experienced Drupaler or are interested in learning more, this event is perfect for you!

Come meet someone new in our friendly, informal, inclusive, and welcoming community; you never know where it might lead.

Attendees are required to follow the Drupal Code of Conduct.

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Agenda:

Times are subject to change once the venue is confirmed.

5:45pm - Gathering time

Exact timing subject to change.

Food and drinks (details TBC based on venue policies) courtesy of Big Tuna Interactive.

Try to arrive by 6, but we welcome late arrivals.

6:15pm - Introductions, discussion, and Q&A

Meet your fellow Austin Drupalers. Ask a Drupal question. Talk about Drupal.

7:00pm - Central Timezone Zoom Meetup

Austin DUG is collaborating with other Drupal meetups in the Central Timezone on a quarterly Zoom-based meetup for one hour in the middle of our respective in-person meetups.

After some introductions, we'll hear from Matt Glaman (mglaman): "Update Day 2 at DrupalCon Vienna: Drupal Canvas and AI news".

Then our main feature "A Most Accommodating Module: How the Charts Module is a Microcosm of Drupal" will be presented by Daniel Cothran (andileco), from JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc. The presentation will reflect on Drupal's flexibility to accommodate a wide range of possible workflows and use-cases, using the Charts module as an example. He will demonstrate at least seven ways to generate the same chart and discuss the benefits and drawbacks of the various approaches. He'll also zoom out to discuss some of the wider implications of this flexibility, including the challenges to document, maintain, and promote Drupal's features. Daniel is among the top 60 Drupal contributors and maintains many important contributed modules on Drupal.org.

Along with other in-person meetups in our timezone, we'll join the Zoom to watch as a group. The Zoom will also be available for remote attendees to join. Then, after the presentation, we'll go back offline to discuss.

For those joining remotely, details to join the Zoom will be shared with those who RSVP here on Meetup.com.

You can participate in the planning of this quarterly collaboration in #us-central-timezone.

Let's get you on the agenda! Please post a message in #austin-texas with your lightning talk, longer talk, demo, etc. for a future meetup.

8:00pm - In-person debrief

Discuss the presentation/topic further in-person.

8:30pm - Event concludes

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Stay in Touch

Please join our announcements email list so we can let you know about future Drupal events in Austin and Texas.

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Drupal Slack

The Austin Drupal community communicates using Drupal Slack (join). Please find us in #austin-texas before the event. It's also how you get in the building!

Interested in helping to organize the meetups? Join #austin-organizers.

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Arriving, parking & getting in

After parking in the "Apple Office Parking G2" garage, find the nearby front entrance of Building 4. We won't be far away.

Additional details to come.